Top Notes 
Bergamot
Mandarin orange
Yuzu
Heart Notes 
Japanese cherry blossom
Jasmine
Leather
Rose
Base Notes 
Amber
Hinoki cypress
Musk
RomanaFrangi
4 Reviews
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RomanaFrangi
Japanese Boring Eau de Cologne
The tube contains 6 grams of fragrant paste with the consistency of translucent waxy petroleum jelly. I couldn't find the ingredients - given our European hysteria about ingredients, it's somewhat unusual for a product not to have an INCI listed. I suspect it's pure petroleum jelly, maybe stearin. It spreads easily but is a bit sticky. The website claims it's "very beneficial for the skin," so I believe it.
This fragrance has a very rich composition, appearance: bergamot, mandarin, yuzu/sakura, jasmine, leather, rose/amber, hinoki cypress, musk. Well, what can I say: It's like drinking orange juice and buying mineral water with orange flavor. I'm fine with that; I expected it.
What I don't like is that the scent is fundamentally uninteresting. I can smell a single note, a quite nice citrus note, but completely generic juice + peel ... and when I really concentrate hard to get the best out of it, I recognize a faint gray suede and some kind of masculine green. Extremely simple, like a universal perfume for cosmetics, where the scent doesn't play such a big role - a few hotel cosmetic products, a simple Eau de Cologne (I know what! It's 4711 Cologne Classic).
And I'm still waiting for it to take off. And it never does, that's all.
The plus point is the - and in some ways surprising - intensity: I rubbed 5 mm of the paste on my wrist and for an hour I can feel it quite distinctly (for Japanese standards). It really fits with a spritz of EdP and actually corresponds exactly to longevity mechanisms - as the wax gradually warms up, it releases the fragrance molecules. Okay, that's good.
This fragrance has a very rich composition, appearance: bergamot, mandarin, yuzu/sakura, jasmine, leather, rose/amber, hinoki cypress, musk. Well, what can I say: It's like drinking orange juice and buying mineral water with orange flavor. I'm fine with that; I expected it.
What I don't like is that the scent is fundamentally uninteresting. I can smell a single note, a quite nice citrus note, but completely generic juice + peel ... and when I really concentrate hard to get the best out of it, I recognize a faint gray suede and some kind of masculine green. Extremely simple, like a universal perfume for cosmetics, where the scent doesn't play such a big role - a few hotel cosmetic products, a simple Eau de Cologne (I know what! It's 4711 Cologne Classic).
And I'm still waiting for it to take off. And it never does, that's all.
The plus point is the - and in some ways surprising - intensity: I rubbed 5 mm of the paste on my wrist and for an hour I can feel it quite distinctly (for Japanese standards). It really fits with a spritz of EdP and actually corresponds exactly to longevity mechanisms - as the wax gradually warms up, it releases the fragrance molecules. Okay, that's good.
