Tuscan Creations - Rinascimento Salvatore Ferragamo 2018

Wood in the base, green in the top, no vanilla and also unisex, what could possibly go wrong, thought my naive self. However, the fragrance no longer seems to exist, but thanks to the Souk and the lovely SebastianM, I managed to get my hands on a sample of this pretty green water in no time at all.

I'm on the hunt for a long-lasting (!) woody basil herb WITHOUT smelling like a men's salon. Not easy at all. High expectations of Rinascimento (I'll just have to work with copy, no one can write it correctly without accidents) the Renaissance was the transition from the dark Middle Ages to a time characterized by cultural diversity and the pursuit of knowledge. My art teacher would hopefully be proud of me at this point...

A really subtle spray on my wrist and my little green spray mutates into a herbal hulk! Wow, this stuff has power. Very, very tasty basil, Basil Smash sends its regards, and something indefinably herbal waft into my olfactory organ like a truckload of Ricola. If the top note is still the sly Bruce Banner, then the white flowers of the heart note tear the white jersey in two and unleash the Hulk, including collateral damage in the immediate vicinity.
Quick digression - I like hyacinths. I like to buy a small bulb like this in spring, which then blooms at room temperature and smells wonderful. And because I then think "Oh look, 3 on sale at once" when I see the next DIY gardening offer, my poor husband can't breathe at home the next week when the three monsters pop up at once. Back to the Hulk. In the meantime, Hulk aka Rinascimento has decided to imitate the most brutal hyacinth on earth. Does tuberose smell like hyacinth? Bissle or? I really like lilies and irises and other white floral stuff but this hammering white massiveness threatens to overwhelm me. Stay brave! It's a lot, almost too much, but somehow it's not bad at all, but maybe only 2 white lilies would have done instead of 15.

We've now reached 3 hours on the skin and Hulk er the white monster flower is still smashing windows. I still hope that at some point it will hit wood in the truest sense of the word and then reduce the number of blows.

5 hours. The storm has run its course and is slowly subsiding. And now my resistance to the temptation to wash off these killer flowers is paying off - it's getting nice! Moderate, harmonious, you can work with that. Yes, kids, I've overshot the mark, haven't I? I can't always spend 5 hours in the fresh air first... but I could use Rinascimento excellently as a green kryptonite against my not-so-favorite colleague... unimagined possibilities...

Rinascimento is like a will-o'-the-wisp in the forest, you never know whether it wants to show you the way back to the light and save you or lure you even deeper into the darkness and into ruin...

Durability is impressive for me, silage was already close to the limit of tolerability at a minimal dose (at least for the first 2 hours) - I definitely won't try this little monster close to my head.
The lost treasure is not to be hunted down, but I will probably use up the sachet sparingly.