Smeriglio
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The deal gone wrong
Will this fragrance be a good deal? Let's go and find out.
It starts with a powerful lime note, well reproduced, which slowly fades away in a minute. At this point the pink pepper, the main note of the entire fragrance, manifests itself in a crescendo, during which it is contrasted, immediately and for a good part of the development of the perfume, by the moderate (artificial) sweetness of the blackcurrant, to to which a slightly dusty lavender and a touch of geranium are added over time, in soft mode. It is a contrast that exemplifies the possible successful deal and the failed one. It goes on like this, with pink pepper in the foreground, immersed in a sweet aura until about 3 and a half hours after spraying it, after which the projection undergoes a decline and the sweetness fades. At this point the best phase begins (but it's late now, the deal has failed) in which the notes of guaiac wood and cedar emerge and mix with a weakened pink pepper.
This composition is an attempt to give an old school tone to a mainstream perfume, which did not succeed well.