Acqua di Giò Profondo Parfum Giorgio Armani 2024
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On paper strip: Wow - on (my) skin: Ew
Initially worn on the skin and I did not believe my nose - then I tested on a paper strip, it was like two different scents to me. Original review is now expanded...
On the paper strip:
Fresh aquatic with light citrus and herbaceous-floral notes with green violet leaf and a pronounced patchouli base. Scent: 8/10
On the skin (original review):
Reminds me a lot of the recently released not-so-great "Invictus Parfum | Paco Rabanne" - just a bit more mature with a bit less sweetness, but still with that "aquatic" syntheticness (which just doesn't work as well as with citrusy/fresh scents).
I'm really not a fan of the violet leaf-lavender combo (as with Invictus Perfume), for me it just smells like sweet, rotten leaves and flowers and overshadows everything else. I find that really unfortunate - I grew up in a place with lots of immortelle and rockrose flowers and thought I would totally love the scent, but the violet leaf-lavender wall blocks out almost everything for me. In the drydown after about 2 hours, it gets better, the wall starts to crumble slightly, you get a faint hint of the lovely immortelle... Otherwise moderate bergamot-citrus and that's about it for me... Slightly better than the Invictus Perfume, but yeah... I expected a lot more from Armani.
After some research in various perfume forums, it seems to be quite a widespread problem that violet leaf develops strangely on the skin for many people. It's apparently a matter of "skin chemistry"... As sorry as I am, my rating is based on how the scent smells on the skin, and for me, it's a hard pass...
On the paper strip:
Fresh aquatic with light citrus and herbaceous-floral notes with green violet leaf and a pronounced patchouli base. Scent: 8/10
On the skin (original review):
Reminds me a lot of the recently released not-so-great "Invictus Parfum | Paco Rabanne" - just a bit more mature with a bit less sweetness, but still with that "aquatic" syntheticness (which just doesn't work as well as with citrusy/fresh scents).
I'm really not a fan of the violet leaf-lavender combo (as with Invictus Perfume), for me it just smells like sweet, rotten leaves and flowers and overshadows everything else. I find that really unfortunate - I grew up in a place with lots of immortelle and rockrose flowers and thought I would totally love the scent, but the violet leaf-lavender wall blocks out almost everything for me. In the drydown after about 2 hours, it gets better, the wall starts to crumble slightly, you get a faint hint of the lovely immortelle... Otherwise moderate bergamot-citrus and that's about it for me... Slightly better than the Invictus Perfume, but yeah... I expected a lot more from Armani.
After some research in various perfume forums, it seems to be quite a widespread problem that violet leaf develops strangely on the skin for many people. It's apparently a matter of "skin chemistry"... As sorry as I am, my rating is based on how the scent smells on the skin, and for me, it's a hard pass...