Prince Matchabelli is a perfume house that was founded in 1926 by Georges i Norina Matchabelli. The owner of the brand since 1987 is Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Prince Matchabelli is a Georgian prince, and before the Russian Revolution he had been an ambassador to Italy. In 1916, he married Norina Gilli, an Italian actress who became famous after her work in 1911, in a pantomime spectacle play called "The Miracle." They emigrated to the US in 1926 and opened the perfume house of Prince Matchabelli. Georges Matchabelli died in 1935, and in 1936, the house was sold to perfume manufacturer Saul