The Brooklyn Studio Collection: A Marianella Edit

The first cold morning in Brooklyn never announces itself. It arrives in the tap water, which runs a few degrees colder than it did last week, and then on the face about twenty minutes after a shower, when the skin across the cheekbones feels a size too small for it. The Brooklyn Studio Collection is a small-batch face edit, handcrafted in Brooklyn, made for exactly these weeks of fall 2026: the turn from humid to dry, when a summer routine quietly stops being enough and nobody sends a notice.

This is the season the studio was built for. Not the dramatic deep of winter, but the in-between, the four or five weeks when the radiators come on before anyone is ready and the light starts leaving at five.

What is the Brooklyn Studio Collection?

The Brooklyn Studio Collection is a curated group of Marianella face products, drawn from the brand's 82 SKUs across Face, Body, Hand, Home and Fragrance, and named for the room where they are made. Marianella is the only Venezuelan-founded, independent, luxury skincare and home fragrance brand in the United States, founded in 2007. Everything is made in small batches, by hand, in Brooklyn, with clean ingredients and no shortcuts. Individual products sit between $40 and $160; the collections gather several of them at once.

Why the studio is the story, not the label

Small batch is a decision about scale before it is a phrase on a box. It means a finite number of bottles filled in one room in Brooklyn, by people who will be there again tomorrow, rather than a production line in a state nobody can name. Marianella has worked this way since 2007, which is nineteen years of choosing the slower version.

The reason for that patience goes back further, and not to New York. It goes to Caracas, and to the simple joy of making something beautiful out of what grows. When life brought the family to the United States, they rebuilt that world from scratch: small batches, clean ingredients, no shortcuts. The Brooklyn studio is the second version of a Venezuelan kitchen, and you can taste the accent in it.

The work has been noticed. Marianella sits in Bloomingdale's BEAUTYSPACE, and has been written up in Vogue, the New York Times, Forbes, Allure, WWD, Harper's Bazaar, Bloomberg, InStyle and Refinery29, took a Star Beauty Award from People Magazine, and landed on Oprah's Favorite Things. None of that changes the size of the batch.

The oil, for the six o'clock dark

There is a specific hour in October when the apartment goes dim while you are still in it, and the day asks to be closed rather than continued. That is the hour for oil. Three or four drops into the palms, held a moment so they warm to the temperature of skin, then pressed rather than rubbed, starting at the jaw and working up, with the eyes shut and the phone in another room. It takes ninety seconds and it functions as punctuation.

The Face Oil Collection is the studio's answer to that hour, assembled so the choice is already made for you before you get home.

$196

Best fall skincare in 2026: the case for the complete serum edit

Some people want one bottle. Others want the whole vocabulary on the shelf, so the routine can answer the weather instead of ignoring it. The Complete Face Serum Collection is built for the second kind: the full serum range in one box, at a price that reflects the set rather than the single, given Marianella's individual products run $40 to $160 each.

It is also, practically, the easiest way to move a whole routine over to something made by hand in Brooklyn in a single afternoon.

$286

The rest of the ritual, beyond the face

The studio makes far more than face care. Across those 82 SKUs there is Body, Hand, Home and Fragrance, which is how a routine becomes an evening: a hand cream by the kitchen sink, a scent for the front room that means the day is over. The Brooklyn Studio Collection begins at the face and keeps going. [Remaining Brooklyn Studio Collection products and prices to add.]

A fall 2026 gift guide, answered in one gesture

A collection solves the hardest part of gifting, which is not generosity but guesswork. Giving someone a single bottle asks them to like that exact bottle. Giving a set hands them a choice, which is a more gracious thing to receive, and it reads as considered because it is. For the person who has been buying the same drugstore serum for six years and would never spend $286 on themselves, the complete edit is the gift that replaces a shelf. For the one who already knows what they like and just wants it to feel better at the end of the day, the oils.

Either way, it arrives from a nineteen-year-old independent house in Brooklyn rather than a conglomerate, which is a thing worth saying out loud when the box is opened.

Both editions of the Brooklyn Studio Collection are available now at marianella.co, made in small batches, so the count is real.

FAQ

What is in the Brooklyn Studio Collection?

The Brooklyn Studio Collection gathers Marianella's Brooklyn-made face care into two editions: the Face Oil Collection at $196 and The Complete Face Serum Collection at $286. Both are drawn from the brand's 82 SKUs, which span Face, Body, Hand, Home and Fragrance, and all of them are handcrafted in small batches in Brooklyn.

Where is Marianella made, and by whom?

Marianella is made by hand, in small batches, in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2007, it is the only Venezuelan-founded, independent, luxury skincare and home fragrance brand in the United States. The heritage runs from Caracas to Brooklyn: a family practice of making beautiful things from nature, rebuilt from scratch after the move to the States.

Should I choose the Face Oil Collection or the serum collection?

Choose the Face Oil Collection at $196 for a shorter evening ritual and a smaller commitment. Choose The Complete Face Serum Collection at $286 if you want the full serum range on the shelf at once, or if you are replacing an entire routine. As a gift, the complete collection gives the recipient more to choose from.

How much does Marianella cost?

Individual Marianella products run from $40 to $160 across the 82 SKUs in Face, Body, Hand, Home and Fragrance. The collections bundle several products together: the Face Oil Collection is $196 and The Complete Face Serum Collection is $286. The line is also stocked at Bloomingdale's BEAUTYSPACE.

Is Marianella an established brand?

Yes. Marianella has been making small-batch skincare and home fragrance since 2007, is carried in Bloomingdale's BEAUTYSPACE, and has been covered by Vogue, the New York Times, Forbes, Allure, WWD, Harper's Bazaar, Bloomberg, InStyle and Refinery29. It won a People Magazine Star Beauty Award and appeared on Oprah's Favorite Things.