Idìlios Rubini 2025

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7.7 / 10 24 Ratings

A new perfume by Rubini for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is creamy-fruity.

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Main accords

Creamy

Fruity

Smoky

Floral

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mandarin orange

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Osmanthus

Peach

Champaca flower

Green tea

Base Notes

Coconut

Musk

Vanilla

Perfumer

Cristiano Canali

Ratings

Scent

7.724 Ratings

Longevity

7.922 Ratings

Sillage

7.221 Ratings

Bottle

7.821 Ratings

Value for money

7.112 Ratings

Submitted by MartialScent, last update on 07/27/2025.

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07/02/2025

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

ElAttarine
71 Reviews

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ElAttarine

Top Review 43

Memory flashbacks on the beach

It's beautiful here on the beach. What are these people doing here? They are rubbing themselves with fragrant oils, the smell of coconut, sun cream and their salty skin mingling pleasantly in the mild breeze... I am so tired. I've been on the road for so long. I can finally rest here. When I close my eyes, I see shimmering green-orange tart mandarins flying towards me from outer space, somehow emerging from plastic astronaut helmets... In my dreams, I drift off to Central Asia and China, where the scent of fruity, leathery osmanthus blossoms mingles with the smoky aroma from large containers of gunpowder tea, drifting past me in shifting threads. I just want to rest, but with my eyes closed I can see fleshy, leathery smoked peaches flickering behind the people with the sunscreen, and the smell of smoke from the places burnt in the war hasn't gone either, it still hangs in my nose and my nerves. All the memories of the journeys I survived. Where am I here? Who am I? Hyperion? Marco Polo? Odysseus?
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I wouldn't have been particularly interested in some of the notes (coconut! tea, osmanthus) in this fragrance, but it's by Rubini and therefore worth testing, and now it just sneaks deep into my heart and my thoughts. The Rubini/Canali team manages to evoke the stereotype of the beach idyll (beach/ sun cream/ resting/ relaxing) just enough to make the image work, only to enrich it with subtle crossovers in the background.
The beautifully tart, fruity green-orange mandarins in the opening soon take on a slight plastic smell typical of the house, mandarins in a space suit, which for me makes them the link to space travel and Rubini's "Hyperion". And as the fragrance develops, there are several layers that overlap again and again: there is the layer that belongs to the beach fragrance cliché: sunscreen and coconut. This is definitely present, but is countered by the other aspects: firstly, fruity, leathery osmanthus, which (presumably together with the musk) gives the peach notes something particularly physical; then the smoky notes of green tea, for me clearly gunpowder - that's what it smells like when I open my gunpowder tin - but which, together with Champaka, remain light and sweet. With these aspects, the fragrance tells me about Marco Polo's travels in Asia and, via the smoky notes, also leads me to Odysseus, who is set ashore on the beach of Ithaca, deep asleep and exhausted, having carried his post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experiences with him on all his journeys. Idyllic yes, but with lots of flashbacks.

In this respect, the text on the homepage that the fragrance honors the harmony after weathering a storm or surviving a journey is also a little disingenuous, because in this harmony (or "idyll"), at least the remnants of Hyperion's space travel or Odysseus' sea voyages with smoking battlefields are still noticeably present.

06/25/2025

8
Longevity 9
Scent

Profumo
61 Reviews

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Profumo

Top Review 29

Multi-layered idyll

After the flight through the fragrant darkness, we now arrive in an olfactory idyll. Brightness, calm and harmony instead of all kinds of sharp spice and conflicting contrasts. Even the Rubini-typical hard shells that enclose the bottle promise hand-smoothing smoothness in white-pink and light blue pastel after the scratchiness of 'Hyperion'.

But be careful, even more careful: what escapes from this spray head is still Rubini! In other words, this house, or rather the responsible duo Andrea Rubini/Cristiano Canali, cannot launch a trivial, run-of-the-mill fragrance that simply wants to smell good, balanced, round, soulful and soft. No, this fragrance, idyllic or not, is also a Rubini fragrance, a typical one, through and through.

The selection of notes alone made me shudder at first: Coconut, champaca, mandarin, musk, vanilla...brrrrrrrr. Not that I think these notes are terrible - I also like the smell of sun cream from time to time, which reminds me of sunny, hot childhood days at the lake. But what the fuck has got into Rubini that they're backing this worn-out horse?
Well, they're not the only ones. Sunscreen fragrances, or those inspired by lido scenarios in general, are pretty 'in' right now. Miguel Matos has already explored this theme several times, as has Arquiste, more recently Marlou and now Rubini.
But first of all: there is nothing aquatic about this fragrance, nothing at all. And yet the aforementioned notes convey the image of a sunny Caribbean beach, albeit not as strikingly as one might think. Something disturbs this stale idyll: leathery, light-smoky, tart-fruity and green aromas waft across, and no, it's not a group of bikers smoking a joint and butchering a pineapple. This is where we leave the idyllic Caribbean and head east, to Asian climes and a teahouse surrounded by osmanthus bushes in full bloom.

The complex fragrance profile of this flower forms something like the key note in 'Idilios': in addition to the floral, leathery, fruity and smoky nuances characterize this profile, but not in the way we are used to here in Europe, but somehow modulated. Just as a lychee does not taste like a plum, but somehow still has similarities, the osmanthus blossom only smells remotely like a peach, not quite as juicy, comparably sweet, but with less fruit acids, and the leathery facets that the peach skin also brings with it are given a strangely physical, almost fleshy impression here, slightly smoky to boot - a somewhat bizarre mixture, but one that smells damn good, in my opinion anyway!
Looking at the staging of the osmanthus blossom alone, 'Idilios' reminds me of 'Cuir de Chine' by Les Indémodables, where this leathery physicality was wonderfully emphasized. Here, however, it is not quite so obvious, but it is still present and gives the idyllic fragrance scenario exactly the spin it needs to avoid becoming sleepy.

Green tea with its straw-dry, also subtly smoky nuances is another important player on this fragrance stage, contrasting the floral and fruity sweetness and keeping it largely in check, so that 'Idilios' comes with a certain basic sweetness, but does not appear particularly sweet at all in perception - at least not to me.

A hint of vanilla and the finest light musk round the whole thing off at the bottom, without getting too oriental or animalic. Throughout the course of the fragrance, the action remains focused on the center. Osmanthus and green tea form the axis around which everything is grouped: the Caribbean intro as well as the cozy, semi-oriental finish.

What also characterizes this fragrance is a slightly synthetic impression reminiscent of lacquer paint, which somehow seems to permeate everything. It doesn't bother me, quite the opposite. Similar to the physicality of the Osamanthus flower, it gives the fragrance exactly the tension it needs to remain exciting, to make the wearer sniff at themselves again and again, to get to the bottom of what is developing in such a multi-layered and contradictory way. And it is this lacquer note in combination with osmanthus that reminds me of one of my favorite fragrances, 'Flesh' by Pekji, which, however, manages without the Caribbean intro and also develops in a much more animalistic way as it progresses.

All in all, I think that Andrea Rubini and Cristiano Canali have once again created an extremely successful and interesting fragrance that fits wonderfully into the extraordinary range of Rubini fragrances. All of them have a strong character, but are nevertheless linked by a family bond. A bond that is characterized by a certain stylish originality, a consistently high level and brilliant craftsmanship.

Bravo, keep it up!!!

And please don't fall into the breathlessness of other houses that once started so promisingly only to flounder to death in arbitrariness.

Per favore, signor Canali e signor Rubini, continuate cosi!

06/20/2025

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

peterbourbon
13 Reviews

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peterbourbon

12

Embryonic position after crash landing

There are quite a few people who find the new Rubini extremely pleasing. On my skin, it develops a very special vibe that is somewhat difficult to put into words.

Indeed, the journey begins with a tangy tangerine, but then blurs throughout into a creamy, milky essence that has nothing to do with Weihenstephan, but rather squirts straight from the goat's udder. I'm not sure whether the combination of relatively animalic musk and green tea leads to this experience, but in between I had to make sure several times that there was no oud in there. Bizarre.

You can still smell something "warm-technical" in the background: clear spacesuit associations.

In general, the consistency and conceptual storytelling is once again at the highest level:
While Hyperion was still the return to Earth including entry into the atmosphere, here the story is told after the crash landing, as a kind of continuation.

For me, the question is rather whether it's a black hole and the protagonist has been rejuvenated - and wakes up on an alien planet as an embryo, greased with a skin cream made from wild tallow.

The milky-primary course goes back to the original, which was never part of one's own history, since one does not recognize oneself and was born in an alien body. The second chance. Everything is possible.

Absolutely fascinating - and far more exciting than a first glance at the fragrance notes would suggest.

I no longer believe that Rubini can disappoint in this lifetime.
Another great release.