Brunello Cucinelli - anyone who knows a little about the fashion industry has at least come across the name once. And you may know that a cashmere sweater can cost 2,000 euros, a cardigan 3,500 euros, and a coat up to 8,000 euros, if the noble piece is to change hands. Regardless of this, there is of course always the question of whether a suit is worth 5,000 euros, but that is always in the eye of the beholder and his financial possibilities. What is clear with these price tags, however, is that it will probably remain window shopping for many of us with this brand.
I became all the more clairaudient when I ultimately saw a flacon. Should it suddenly be possible for me to have at least a minimal part of the designer at home? And if so, at what price point and how would the quality?
Brunello Cucinelli stands for extremes in every respect. The processed fabrics are of the highest quality, the processing itself at the very highest level, the price point unfortunately also. In this respect, I was not shocked by the estimated 130 stones for 50ml. Of course, however, the expectation of each Cucinelli product, according to the whole brand nonsense, maximum high. Because who announces in life, must also deliver, otherwise it does not go well for long.
You can consider a blind purchase in this price segment completely disturbed, I did it anyway. On the one hand, because there are only a few ml in a whole series of my flacons, on the other hand, because I wanted to treat myself once again to a new fragrance, one that is not worn on every corner and finally also, because in view of the yet excellent name of the brand, the risk of a bad purchase seemed justifiable to me.
As I said, the expectation was immense. Rightly?
The yellow shipping service provider reliably delivered the package. Unboxing. A taupe-colored cardboard box encloses a visually and haptically very high-quality flacon. This is full and heavy in the hand, compared to many other 50ml vessels. Presumably, they at Brunello Cucinelli have incorporated some steel into the base to make the part heavy. Nice grooves run around the square vial with rounded corners. A real hand candy, this is very well done in my opinion. Hopefully my spice tester's nerves will feel as flattered as my hands. Pull off the cap (with the brand emblem) and - wait, even on the spray button is the brand emblem applied to the top. Lots of attention to detail, then, which is pleasing. The spray head itself discharges the contents with sustainability, that is, a decent pressure. I had expected a fine atomization here as usual with the Roja flacons. Bad that is nevertheless not, because all the more accurately placeable.
Sodann them nose to the sprayed place led. And compared to most perfumes no sharp prelude, which must first lay down, but from the beginning, yes, a nose flatterer. First impulse: fits perfectly with the brand. Because no screamer and no speaker, but a representative of the quieter tones, completely gentleman-like. In a time where often an Ambroxan bomb thunders you into the next corner, soothing restraint.
I smell bergamot and, what I later take from the fragrance pyramid, but so would not have recognized directly, cypress. In addition, a fine spiciness, although I do not like to distinguish whether this is due to the pepper or the ginger. A very noble arrangement, that much is clear. Definitely in the green corner, but if I put my much loved Bottega Veneta Parco Palladiano V Lauro next to it, the latter, while similarly fantastically made per se, is downright crudely green, to be fair, but also a bit woodier. Yes longer, the better Brunello Cucinelli develops with me, the freshness minimally present at the beginning withdraws and gives more space to the green elements. Juniper joins the cypress, while the bergamot slowly but surely fades into the background. According to the fragrance pyramid, the ambrox elements are only marginally noticeable, but the not so often used clearwood, which gives the fragrance a certain lightness and "cleanliness". And in this constellation, the fragrance then eventually runs out of steam.
Let's move on to the rating.
Fragrance: I have nothing to complain about. Expectations fully met, the perfect fragrance to business and smart casual outfits, a very good office fragrance, a compliment catcher, m.E. from 30+, but rather nix for the generations Y and Z, sorry. Due to the price point, the distribution will be within manageable limits, the probability that the colleague tomorrow smells the same, is rather low. Do I want to smell like this? A resounding YES. I see the fragrance mainly in autumn and spring perform, in winter too little strong and for the summer too little fresh.
Flacon: Since I have me appropriately to omitted, very lovingly and wertig made.
Sillage: For me disappointing. At the beginning still good, just as but well decreasing. After two hours, there is no longer much sillage. I had mentioned above, the fragrance is not a speaker, but a better performance should already be in there.
Durability: at a decent level. Brings you on skin level through an 8-hour day.
Price-performance: Goes in view of the offered (especially with regard to the sillage) just okay. The Parco Palladiano series of Bottega Veneta is once again aggressively priced above, perhaps Cucinelli wanted to consciously sort a tick below.
Conclusion: a more than just considerable new release. If one stands out, then only positive, because he is a flatterer for nose and senses. He is perceived without provoking. That alone is an art. Clear test recommendation.
Top Notes 
Black pepper
Ginger
Bergamot
Heart Notes 
Cypress
Angelica
Juniper
Clary sage
Base Notes 
Ambrox Super
Clearwood™
SantinoJo
Lccorso
KingPin
