Romeo Gigli per Uomo (After Shave) by Romeo Gigli

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Romeo Gigli per Uomo Romeo Gigli 1995 After Shave

8.2 / 10 183 Ratings

A popular perfume by Romeo Gigli for women, released in 1995. The scent is floral-oriental. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Oriental

Sweet

Fruity

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lilac

Hyacinth

Peach

Pear

Plum

Bergamot

Blackcurrant Cassia

Cassia

Grapefruit

Mandarin orange

Cucumber

Heart Notes

Heliotrope Jasmine

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Wisteria

Black locust Coconut

Coconut

Rose

Base Notes

Sandalwood Musk

Musk

Vanilla

Amber

Caramel

Glycyrrhiza glabra

Tonka bean

Reinforced Toothpaste

Perfumer

Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud

Ratings

Scent

8.2183 Ratings

Longevity

8.0132 Ratings

Sillage

7.3127 Ratings

Bottle

8.3142 Ratings

Value for money

7.531 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet · last update on 12/20/2025.

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Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/26/2013

10Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Zora
133 Reviews

Zora

Helpful Review 5

Like a Ruby from Burma ... precious and rare

What my nose smells here resembles what my eyes see when they look at a precious Burma Ruby. The eyes begin to shine and a longing is stirring, "I must have you, no matter what!" All those good intentions not to buy any more perfumes are melting away along with the will to even try to resist. Reason is now placed on the back burner.

If I associate this scent with a gem, it would be a Burma Ruby. Velvety, pidgeon blood red color, precious and noble.

This is a very complex, well-balanced fragrance which I cannot easily classify. A floriental, a gourmand, where fruits artfully mingle with flowers, where vanilla mixes with woods ... gently this scent transports me into a dream state.

Not too weak and not too strong. Sweet, but not too sweet.

Most women covet diamonds and only very few know that a pidgeon blood red ruby from Burma is far more valuable. So it is sometimes with fragrances. Many have been underestimated and still are.

Admittedly, this perfume has escaped me until today. Was it the marketing? Was it the choice of name?

I don't know. I will never own a ruby from Burma, I just cannot afford it. But I will trace and find, and own, this rare jewel among fragrances ... at no matter what the cost.
(Translation: Pipette)

11/08/2025

10Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

MrsGuerlain
629 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

1

Sweet pumpkin

Ancient Egypt believed it. Old China did as well. And through the Middle Ages in Europe it was pure science. Mankind wanted to make gold. And the alchemists knew the way. Or said they did. Some even believed it. Today a lot of people think, that an alchemist was a person, whose only purpose was to make gold by mixing other lesser materials such as copper, sulphur, mercury and stone. We also know that with our contemporary technology this is not possible, since gold is an element. Alchemist did not have the same knowledge about atoms as we do today. But who knows? Maybe one day we will succeed in making gold anyway due to some not yet invented technology. Science is not as fundamental as we think.
Actually an alchemist was so much more than a gold maker. Making gold was just one of his tasks along with mixing the potion for eternal life. Most alchemists were driven by finding a way to gain spiritual fulfillment. The way to get the financial resources was to work for a king, who wanted more gold - or eternal life. But making gold was not the alchemist’s higher goal.
Alchemy is, among many other beliefs and schools, a step to modern science. We can laugh at alchemy today, because we know more. As people in a hundred years’ time can laugh at us and at how little we knew ‘back then’. Personally, I have huge respect for everyone, who dares to experiment and try out new things, so I see alchemy as an interesting part of history.
Now back to our little world of fragrances. In 1998 something really great happened. Mr. Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud came up with a really good idea as a lot of other ‘scientists’ have done before him. The idea consisted of a mix of loads of notes such as a major fruit basket, a minor garden filled with flowers and a lot of other edible ingredients such as licorice, caramel, tonka bean and coconut. The result was Alchimie. Luckily.
In contrast to a lot of other really complex fragrances from both the 80s and 90s, I can actually smell a lot of these many notes. I smell the licorice loud and clear and it is so good! I smell the caramel, sweet and alluring. I smell the black currant and the plum, juicy and sweet. I sense the hyacinth and the wisteria. And I could go on… the conclusion is that Alchimie is both beautiful and interesting - and wearable.
The bottle has an inventive design. Shaped and coloured like a pumpkin with a jewel on top. Not your usual vessel for a fragrance. But definitely something I love to own and look at.
I know that Alchimie divides the masses - I stand on the ‘yes please’ side. I will go so far as to say that Cavallier-Belletrud succeeded in what so many others before him failed to do. Not only did he make a beautiful fragrance - he made gold.
Year 2, 178/365

Updated on 11/08/2025

12/16/2020

9Scent 8Longevity 9Sillage

Pollita
387 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 49

Ms. Polly and the Discontinued. Today: Alchimie

My Outlook calendar tells me that today is my former colleague's birthday. The thing is, I don't even have her contact details anymore. I never noted them down. Still, Outlook hasn't forgotten that she gets to celebrate her special day today. And I haven't forgotten how she used to cling to me when I wore Alchimie by Rochas. The perfect incentive to dedicate a comment to this sadly discontinued fragrance today.

I bought this sweet-spicy oriental, composed by Belletrud in 1998, like so many others on vacation in Ibiza. I suspect it was in 2004 or 2005, as I had that job at the time. Looking at the fragrance pyramid today, I really wonder what I liked about it back then. Coconut? Yuck! Cucumber? Oh dear! And then there's lily of the valley? Not exactly my favorite notes. But when I take a second look at the notes, I can see right away why this little Rochas in its adorable bottle captured my heart. Peach and plum are also found in the top notes alongside that silly cucumber. A glance at my collection is enough to see that I was on the right track with Alchimie. In the heart, we have, besides the lily of the valley, which I actually tolerate in quite a few fragrances, the now much-appreciated jasmine and heliotrope. Roses are also occasionally welcome, as long as they are skillfully woven and we don't have a floral bomb par excellence. And we certainly don't have that with Alchimie.

In the base, we find pretty much everything that Ms. Pollita likes anyway. Musk, vanilla, and tonka are usually welcome with me, although tonka always has to hold back a bit. The sandalwood makes me a little suspicious, but with a 90s fragrance, I assume that cashmeran wasn't used here, but something of higher quality. That might also be the reason why I have parted ways with all the fragrances similar to my then-beloved Alchimie. Everywhere we had cashmeran. And it always started to annoy me at some point, at least once the initial enthusiasm had faded.

Alchimie, on the other hand, never annoyed me. Even though I sometimes found my colleague's constant sniffing and melting a little bit bothersome. Still, I secretly enjoyed that my perfume appealed to her (and the hen probably too ;))

Yes, that was definitely one of the really good ones. Maybe it can move back in with me someday? I'm currently on a vintage trip anyway.

Updated on 12/16/2020

01/24/2023

9Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Medusa00
846 Reviews

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Medusa00

Top Review 38

A True Story!

I enjoy exchanging samples and decants with dear Pollita. Since I trust her and she promised me not to send any niche stinkers, I am quite cheerful about the fragrance letter and its contents.
When I pulled out Alchimi, I was pretty sure that nothing was being slipped to me that still contained old cheese rinds. Nevertheless, I initially eyed the TZ with suspicion. With glasses on, it’s easier to scrutinize. Up until then, nothing had rung a bell for me, as the name meant nothing to me.
I sprayed cautiously, waited a while, and sniffed. I know YOU! A floral-fruity-vegetable orgy par excellence hit my nose. No, you don’t find stuff like that anymore today. I stared at the pyramid. All clear! Nose Jaques Cavallier-Belletrud mixed in everything he could catch with the machete in the garden and on the fruit farm. I am thrilled! Despite the abundance, this wonderful piece is not intrusive or suffocating with sugary sweetness.
Earlier, I was out walking with an acquaintance. Well, I was out with an acquaintance and her dog and my dog, not just with her alone.
My acquaintance is small and very delicate, and she has a small, very delicate, flesh-colored dachshund that comes up to my Akemi (my Akita girl) knees. I kept sniffing my wrist. She looked at me as if I had been stung or something, until I shoved my wrist under her nose. “Here, smell this!” She asked what it was. “This is my wrist with perfume on it!” I could only squeeze out a “Smells good” from her. What was I thinking? She only has one single perfume from Bananen Bruno.
Finally back home, it hit me, the déjà-vu (I lost the accents that go over the E and A)! Just the fact that it felt like 100 flowers were pouring over me. Hooray! I had this one 100 years ago, in the last century.
When the penny finally dropped and an amber-creamed, musk-laden, vanilla-saturated base wafted in, I had the brilliant idea to check my “Had it” list, and bingo, it has been on there for years. Well, sometimes a woman is just a nightgown.
Thank you dear Polly for this beautiful fragrance memory. Sometimes life itself writes the best stories.

12/17/2014

9Scent

pudelbonzo
2404 Reviews

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pudelbonzo

Top Review 20

Gem

Today, the perfume shelves were dusted off.

But since I couldn't reach the upper shelves despite a wobbly "cushion on stool construction," my tall husband had to step in.
He always has the ladder with him.

Suddenly, he handed me a golden box with a reproachful expression, still completely wrapped in foil.
How could it have escaped my attention?
I had once bought it with my mom, and then "kept it safe."

Alchemy.

Finally, it was released from its hiding place, and I felt as if I had unearthed a treasure.

Even the first spray is like the much-quoted "fragrances of Arabia" - so full, so warm, so lavish!

This alchemist created a golden scent instead of pure gold.

Pear, peach, lilac, cassia, and hyacinth swirl around me, making me feel as if I'm drifting on a flying carpet.
Along with the noble wisteria and the shimmering heliotrope - the entire scent profile is shiny and sparkling.
How astonished Aladdin must have blinked at the sesame.

The soft base of tonka and vanilla gently lands the flying carpet - right in the land of fairy tales.

I rub my eyes in disbelief and gaze in wonder at the beautiful bottle.

Alchemy is undoubtedly a gem among fragrances - and for me, today already feels like a bit of Christmas.

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Statements

24 short views on the fragrance

Xavica

1 year ago

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

2

Powdery vanilla, caramel and plum. It was simply beautiful. The bottle was also superb, I miss that time when the bottles were original.

Gold

3 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

17

12

So rich and unmistakable.
Fruity, floral, soft. Different from the usual contenders. Rochas was ahead of its time. Wonderful!

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Amadea70

3 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity

16

17

A fruity lilac breeze surrounds me
pear coconut musk fluff clouds follow
elixir from the most beautiful bottle is served here

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Rieke2021

3 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

12

6

Not gold, but a soft fruity-floral from the 90s with lots of vintage charm. Powdery flowers, ripe fruits, light sweetness. Warm + cozy

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Stulle

2 months ago

11

19

Vintagemini: KN & HN have tipped over and are unfortunately completely unrecognizable, but the base is very dense with amber and lots of caramel musk. Also a bit of coconut°°

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