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Obscurus by Profumo di Firenze
I came across this fragrance when I was binge watching the channel The niche Fragrance Collector, and one particular video that impressed me the most was the one that was shot in Florence in the BOIS 1920 boutique with Simone Giovanini, a representative of the brand. I loved their discussion about the Dante collection from this brand, more precisely this one for the incense core of this perfume, Peccatum, which represents the purgatory and Fior di Pane for the amazing gimmick of creating from different notes the scent of bread. I made an order in the first part of January of this year with these three decants, plus the Buontalenti 50 ml bottle and another 2 ml of the same perfume. Alongside that order came Niveus from the same brand, which represents the paradise, and another bigger bundle with 8-10 other samples from the spanish house of Label, but I will write about the subject in a future review.
Until then I will describe this one, which on first try impressed me the most from that small selection of decants. This is a solid and accurate incense fragrance. In the opening I’m getting the same beautiful incense used by orthodox priests in the church and other occasions. I am in this religion after all, I am not a frequent practitioner but I follow the doctrine when it comes to morality. In the opening aside the incense I’m getting only the pine but just slightly, the core is too strong and it doesn’t allow the other notes to be more easily detectable. In the drydown I didn’t notice the sandalwood and the cedar, only recently I came more familiar with the scent of the late drydown, my clearest experience being with Niveus, which has a complex incense late drydown.
Edit: I applied it around 6 hours ago and now I can clearly detect the two notes from the base and to be honest they try to replicate the frankincence and they do a pretty good job. The scent is green, woody and sweet and I love it. Again, not that impressive in comparison with niveus but still a nice drydown.
With this one I’m getting a medium projection, my classmates commented about my scent once when I first tried it. It was detectable from two to three meters.
For about 4 hours is the opening and the heart part then the drydown it last on skin for about 5 hours, even more.
From the interviews from the channel that I mentioned, from what I understood in their conversations, the Gallardi family is responsible for the BOIS 1920, Profumo di Firenze and the Olfatology collections within their brand. And Mauro I think was responsible for the Dante collections, although I’m afraid I might be really inaccurate about this fact, the same member who came with the creative initiative of making cannabis heavy fragrances, to be more precise Cannabis, Cannabis Frutatta and Cannabis Salata by BOIS 1920. This kind of creativity I find really impressive and relatable from this brand activity and I’m really happy with what they’ve achieved so far.
I’m really impressed with this fragrance even though it’s not complex but more reliable on the core note and the learning the brand behind it and their activity I felt that I have a genuine connection with the brand. I love to be connected to people that I know more than the product sometimes and that in the current day the case is more often the other way around.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I got better at writing reviews and my vocabulary in the last two months got more technical, because I realized that when I know a lot about a subject I become more confident. In the last few months that was a problem that I resolved and I’m grateful for that. Next, I will write about Peccatum, which is an earthy aromatic type of a fragrance and I mentioned what it is about in this review.
Until then I will describe this one, which on first try impressed me the most from that small selection of decants. This is a solid and accurate incense fragrance. In the opening I’m getting the same beautiful incense used by orthodox priests in the church and other occasions. I am in this religion after all, I am not a frequent practitioner but I follow the doctrine when it comes to morality. In the opening aside the incense I’m getting only the pine but just slightly, the core is too strong and it doesn’t allow the other notes to be more easily detectable. In the drydown I didn’t notice the sandalwood and the cedar, only recently I came more familiar with the scent of the late drydown, my clearest experience being with Niveus, which has a complex incense late drydown.
Edit: I applied it around 6 hours ago and now I can clearly detect the two notes from the base and to be honest they try to replicate the frankincence and they do a pretty good job. The scent is green, woody and sweet and I love it. Again, not that impressive in comparison with niveus but still a nice drydown.
With this one I’m getting a medium projection, my classmates commented about my scent once when I first tried it. It was detectable from two to three meters.
For about 4 hours is the opening and the heart part then the drydown it last on skin for about 5 hours, even more.
From the interviews from the channel that I mentioned, from what I understood in their conversations, the Gallardi family is responsible for the BOIS 1920, Profumo di Firenze and the Olfatology collections within their brand. And Mauro I think was responsible for the Dante collections, although I’m afraid I might be really inaccurate about this fact, the same member who came with the creative initiative of making cannabis heavy fragrances, to be more precise Cannabis, Cannabis Frutatta and Cannabis Salata by BOIS 1920. This kind of creativity I find really impressive and relatable from this brand activity and I’m really happy with what they’ve achieved so far.
I’m really impressed with this fragrance even though it’s not complex but more reliable on the core note and the learning the brand behind it and their activity I felt that I have a genuine connection with the brand. I love to be connected to people that I know more than the product sometimes and that in the current day the case is more often the other way around.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I got better at writing reviews and my vocabulary in the last two months got more technical, because I realized that when I know a lot about a subject I become more confident. In the last few months that was a problem that I resolved and I’m grateful for that. Next, I will write about Peccatum, which is an earthy aromatic type of a fragrance and I mentioned what it is about in this review.
Energetic and Joyful
The Context
This fragrance I found in an old plastic case somewhere in the back of my family’s bathroom alongside a lot of other female Avon fragrances and a few that were masculine leaning and unisex. Now, from my first sight of the bottle I expected this one to be a boyish scent that has either a spicy woody type of scent, fresh aquatic or fresh sweet, like many other fragrances directed for this demographic, that I think that this general practice makes most of these kind of creations more dumbed down and strips each one its potential for something more then that. But it is what it is.
The Scent
This is a spicy, sweet and fresh fragrance that gives me constantly the sensation that it starts off every time with a sharp animalic but synthetic musk but even till this day I don’t know for sure. In the opening it is the sharp musk with the sweet fruity apple, mint, with its cool and fresh gimmick, and a bit of pepper. As it settles down I detect the lavender and a bit of the nutmeg, but still the nuclear part of the scent is that apple. In the late drydown I can get only the ambergris and the moss, but less so the gaiac wood.
The Projection
With this one I get around a medium for about the first hour or so and for the next three is a skin scent. So, at this chapter it does not perform that well.
The Longevity
In total there are four hours but it has a sneaky comeback from time to time and I really like that. I noticed that this is the case with the majority of the fragrances that ar spicy, sweet and a bit fruity, Torino22 being a similar case for me. Now in winter this is not very much the case but I’m still happy with that spicy fruity sweet and musky component of this fragrance that satisfies me every time.
The Bottle
This is a simple and easygoing type of presentation that focuses on simplicity. The shape is uniform, the cap is pretty big, not heavy, the plastic that it’s made of it’s not that good and often I get the impression that this is a fragrance from Wish or Temu or any other market like that, in other words, it doesn’t feel right. One last thing, the size of the bottle it’s not that big and I don’t have problems with the handling of it, unlike Essential by Lacoste, which I think most often gives me discomfort because of the shape and the size.
Conclusion
This is the scent of an early teenage boy that has very few ideas about the fragrance market, let alone the designer and the niche spectrums. But, I enjoy this one very often because I don’t have this type of concentration and I use this one more often because of how different it is from the other fragrances from my collection.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I had more focused energy this time and I was really happy that I was able to show my words about this one and not just ramble or have little energy while writing this review. Maybe this is another quality of this fragrance, it has a smell that shows an energetic and joyful attitude (I put the title after the wrote the review). The next review will be about my biggest fragrance acquisition so far, which is Le Vaiqueur by Rance 1795. From now on, I will have to write about only niche fragrances, which will be about this one and a lot of Xerjoff fragrances. And my run it’s not over, next week I will get 3 decants of 12 ml bottles of Naxos, which I have a review in my database, and the two other ones from the same collection: Renaissance and Decas.
This fragrance I found in an old plastic case somewhere in the back of my family’s bathroom alongside a lot of other female Avon fragrances and a few that were masculine leaning and unisex. Now, from my first sight of the bottle I expected this one to be a boyish scent that has either a spicy woody type of scent, fresh aquatic or fresh sweet, like many other fragrances directed for this demographic, that I think that this general practice makes most of these kind of creations more dumbed down and strips each one its potential for something more then that. But it is what it is.
The Scent
This is a spicy, sweet and fresh fragrance that gives me constantly the sensation that it starts off every time with a sharp animalic but synthetic musk but even till this day I don’t know for sure. In the opening it is the sharp musk with the sweet fruity apple, mint, with its cool and fresh gimmick, and a bit of pepper. As it settles down I detect the lavender and a bit of the nutmeg, but still the nuclear part of the scent is that apple. In the late drydown I can get only the ambergris and the moss, but less so the gaiac wood.
The Projection
With this one I get around a medium for about the first hour or so and for the next three is a skin scent. So, at this chapter it does not perform that well.
The Longevity
In total there are four hours but it has a sneaky comeback from time to time and I really like that. I noticed that this is the case with the majority of the fragrances that ar spicy, sweet and a bit fruity, Torino22 being a similar case for me. Now in winter this is not very much the case but I’m still happy with that spicy fruity sweet and musky component of this fragrance that satisfies me every time.
The Bottle
This is a simple and easygoing type of presentation that focuses on simplicity. The shape is uniform, the cap is pretty big, not heavy, the plastic that it’s made of it’s not that good and often I get the impression that this is a fragrance from Wish or Temu or any other market like that, in other words, it doesn’t feel right. One last thing, the size of the bottle it’s not that big and I don’t have problems with the handling of it, unlike Essential by Lacoste, which I think most often gives me discomfort because of the shape and the size.
Conclusion
This is the scent of an early teenage boy that has very few ideas about the fragrance market, let alone the designer and the niche spectrums. But, I enjoy this one very often because I don’t have this type of concentration and I use this one more often because of how different it is from the other fragrances from my collection.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I had more focused energy this time and I was really happy that I was able to show my words about this one and not just ramble or have little energy while writing this review. Maybe this is another quality of this fragrance, it has a smell that shows an energetic and joyful attitude (I put the title after the wrote the review). The next review will be about my biggest fragrance acquisition so far, which is Le Vaiqueur by Rance 1795. From now on, I will have to write about only niche fragrances, which will be about this one and a lot of Xerjoff fragrances. And my run it’s not over, next week I will get 3 decants of 12 ml bottles of Naxos, which I have a review in my database, and the two other ones from the same collection: Renaissance and Decas.
Aquatic and synthetic
The Context
Prior to receiving this decant I was aware of the Paco Rubanne brand and the Invictus line and I was not that interested into getting anything in the near future from the brand, and then I received this sample for my birthday alongside the other samples that I’ve wrote about. Among all of them this one I used the most because I wanted to understand the notes that make the scent profile of this one. Then I purchased another fragrances and I moved on. I wear this sample at the moment when I write this review in order to refresh my memories of the scent profile and catch other notes that in the past I was not that familiar with.
The Scent
This is a synthetic aquatic fragrance that has a sharp smell from start to finish. I have the version from 2017 according to the flier and its similarities with the note breakdown. In the opening I get a strong citrus synthetic push that stays for a half of a minute, then it settles down into an aquatic, sweet but still synthetic scent. Towards the late drydown the aquatic part it
Is still present but really faint and it plays with the light woods. Overall, it’s better than I expected from these kinds of releases and flakers.
The Projection
This is a medium to a high but only in summer. For the other seasons, it is medium to weak. I find this one only working in high heat in summer, a dry one.
The Longevity
I get for this one around six hours and the first half the projection is strong on my skin. The synthetic keeps it that long. I spray this and after those six hours I still can detect that synthetic component and the woods. So, this one would be all present for a work day in an office. It is noticeable but not annoying and I imagine this would fit really well with a suit. That reminds me of a video by Kenvin Samuels about this fragrance. From what I recall he had the same comment, that this would fit really well with a suit on an office day. So, I totally agree with mr. Samuels, this is the type of the utility for this one. From the experience that I have up until this point I would say that a fougere, a leather or a chypre applied correctly would make a great office fragrance. Also, I imagine applying this one for more than 3 sprays overall and suffocating the office, but anyway.
The Perfumers
There are two noses for this creation. Anne Flipo and Nicolas Beaulieu. While I did not had high expectations for their career I was a bit surprised of mrs. Flipo catalog and vast experience. She has a lot of creations under her name for L’Artisan Parfumeur, YSL and Givenchy. Some of the most well known fragrances in the community for men and women are made by her, so she is really impressive. On the other hand, Nicolas does not have a lot of creations and no significant ones from any house, or ones that I’m not that familiar with. For this one I think they had a lot of experience on how to make a simple straight forward intense aquatic fragrance and be mass appealing, but not obnoxious like the original one, from what I know.
Conclusions
If you want a fragrance that makes impressions and has an interesting scent profile and evolution, but not that weird, I would say that this is for you. I use this fragrance as reference for aquatic type of scents but till this day I prefer Glacier Rock, from my collection. And there is also another fragrance that I purchased late that month but only the opening is aquatic, the rest of its evolution is more fougere-like. I’m not totally sure if this is the case, I am not that familiar with fougere but I know that they are supposed to represent the atmosphere of the forest and what ivy, the plant, would smell like. But anyway, solid release and good projector and good performance.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I got a little caught up on my writing, but I had more pleasure in showing my thoughts then in the last review, so I’m pretty happy with this one. I think I need more experience with aquatic fragrances. I will try in the future to find samples for 40 knots by Xerjoff, Pacific Oak Moss by Goldfield and Banks or Virgin Island Water by Creed and I will try to compare them side by side. Next review will be about Oriflame’s Blue wonders. For that one I have a good context on how I discovered this one and how my thoughts changed with just a short period of time on its actual quality.
Prior to receiving this decant I was aware of the Paco Rubanne brand and the Invictus line and I was not that interested into getting anything in the near future from the brand, and then I received this sample for my birthday alongside the other samples that I’ve wrote about. Among all of them this one I used the most because I wanted to understand the notes that make the scent profile of this one. Then I purchased another fragrances and I moved on. I wear this sample at the moment when I write this review in order to refresh my memories of the scent profile and catch other notes that in the past I was not that familiar with.
The Scent
This is a synthetic aquatic fragrance that has a sharp smell from start to finish. I have the version from 2017 according to the flier and its similarities with the note breakdown. In the opening I get a strong citrus synthetic push that stays for a half of a minute, then it settles down into an aquatic, sweet but still synthetic scent. Towards the late drydown the aquatic part it
Is still present but really faint and it plays with the light woods. Overall, it’s better than I expected from these kinds of releases and flakers.
The Projection
This is a medium to a high but only in summer. For the other seasons, it is medium to weak. I find this one only working in high heat in summer, a dry one.
The Longevity
I get for this one around six hours and the first half the projection is strong on my skin. The synthetic keeps it that long. I spray this and after those six hours I still can detect that synthetic component and the woods. So, this one would be all present for a work day in an office. It is noticeable but not annoying and I imagine this would fit really well with a suit. That reminds me of a video by Kenvin Samuels about this fragrance. From what I recall he had the same comment, that this would fit really well with a suit on an office day. So, I totally agree with mr. Samuels, this is the type of the utility for this one. From the experience that I have up until this point I would say that a fougere, a leather or a chypre applied correctly would make a great office fragrance. Also, I imagine applying this one for more than 3 sprays overall and suffocating the office, but anyway.
The Perfumers
There are two noses for this creation. Anne Flipo and Nicolas Beaulieu. While I did not had high expectations for their career I was a bit surprised of mrs. Flipo catalog and vast experience. She has a lot of creations under her name for L’Artisan Parfumeur, YSL and Givenchy. Some of the most well known fragrances in the community for men and women are made by her, so she is really impressive. On the other hand, Nicolas does not have a lot of creations and no significant ones from any house, or ones that I’m not that familiar with. For this one I think they had a lot of experience on how to make a simple straight forward intense aquatic fragrance and be mass appealing, but not obnoxious like the original one, from what I know.
Conclusions
If you want a fragrance that makes impressions and has an interesting scent profile and evolution, but not that weird, I would say that this is for you. I use this fragrance as reference for aquatic type of scents but till this day I prefer Glacier Rock, from my collection. And there is also another fragrance that I purchased late that month but only the opening is aquatic, the rest of its evolution is more fougere-like. I’m not totally sure if this is the case, I am not that familiar with fougere but I know that they are supposed to represent the atmosphere of the forest and what ivy, the plant, would smell like. But anyway, solid release and good projector and good performance.
Thank you so much for reading my review! I got a little caught up on my writing, but I had more pleasure in showing my thoughts then in the last review, so I’m pretty happy with this one. I think I need more experience with aquatic fragrances. I will try in the future to find samples for 40 knots by Xerjoff, Pacific Oak Moss by Goldfield and Banks or Virgin Island Water by Creed and I will try to compare them side by side. Next review will be about Oriflame’s Blue wonders. For that one I have a good context on how I discovered this one and how my thoughts changed with just a short period of time on its actual quality.
Sweet Amber
A little disclaimer before everything, I ran out of this fragrance around 3 months ago, so when it comes to scent I will try to describe what I’ve remembered when I used to test this one out.
The Context
This is another sample that I received for my birthday alongside the other Oriflame samples that I’ve written about and this one when I got it was in a little plastic capsule inside the flier paper. I opened it and I was surprised that this was a 1 ml sample. Now, when it comes down to decants I think that making decants so small it’s a bit of a waste of time and plastic for distributing a fragrance quantity that is too small to be experienced in a proper way. No atomizer whatsoever and also the fragrance itself is not expensive. I could order a 50 ml or 100 ml bottle any day of the week without a problem. But, anyway, I had an idea about this one the feminine version a month prior while doing research for the fragrance house and I opened at one point the big hitters page for Avon and I often saw that weird shaped bottle. Then when I received it I thought to myself that this fragrance could be something great, at least for the Avons standards. In the evening I tried this and It did not impress me that much.
The Scent
This is an ambery. Sweet and synthetic type of creation that portrays a refined sweet man that it’s trying to be as appealing as possible. This is in my vision the type of person who would fit him the best. In the opening I get a synthetic amber with some sweet component and that is, according to the notes listed, supposed to be the mandarin orange. I do not get the citrus part of the fragrance but the sweet part comes hand in hand with the amber. In the drydown the amber is in the center and the other notes surround it. One interesting note is the canella winterana, which is just wild cinnamon. I can’t tell where it sits in the drydown. I do not know how this one should smell like. The other herbs are just light, nothing is overtaking the amber. Also, I do not detect tha patchouli, and with that note I am more familiar now than 5 months ago.
The Projection
This is a moderate projection. Walking in a room this one is pretty easy to detect. The synthetic part of this fragrance is the one that helps with that.
The Longevity
I get around four to five hours with this one. The first two are with good projection then it becomes a body scent.
The Perfumers
The noses behind this creation are Caroline Sabas and Jacques Huclier, both french. Caroline worked for most of her career on celebrity fragrances but she made a flaker for Fragrance du Bois, which is a luxury brand that I’m really familiar with. And Jacques is a senior perfumer who worked for Tierry Mugler and made a fragrance for Ex-Nihilo, another brand that is on my radar. They both work for similar companies to Avon, meaning less artistic expression and more mass appealing, but it is what it is, as long as the compositions are well made I can’t comment on that.
Conclusions
I ramble for good length in this review, so I will keep it short to bring my points to the front. This fragrance is well made, it has a sweet amber design, but it is pretty synthetic, and all that potential is locked up in a box. It lasts for a good amount of time and performs well. It’s a shame really. But if this was the initial design and direction, then I say that they made a pretty good job in the end.
Thank you so much for reading my review. In the last few days I was too lazy to write another review because I got too comfortable and stubborn. On the other hand it is almost Christmas, so nobody is coming home to read my reviews on this platform, they have a lot of things to do at this time. You can imagine that. The next review will be on my last sample from that time period when I received all of those at the same time. It will be Invictus Aqua, the one that I used the most from that batch.
The Context
This is another sample that I received for my birthday alongside the other Oriflame samples that I’ve written about and this one when I got it was in a little plastic capsule inside the flier paper. I opened it and I was surprised that this was a 1 ml sample. Now, when it comes down to decants I think that making decants so small it’s a bit of a waste of time and plastic for distributing a fragrance quantity that is too small to be experienced in a proper way. No atomizer whatsoever and also the fragrance itself is not expensive. I could order a 50 ml or 100 ml bottle any day of the week without a problem. But, anyway, I had an idea about this one the feminine version a month prior while doing research for the fragrance house and I opened at one point the big hitters page for Avon and I often saw that weird shaped bottle. Then when I received it I thought to myself that this fragrance could be something great, at least for the Avons standards. In the evening I tried this and It did not impress me that much.
The Scent
This is an ambery. Sweet and synthetic type of creation that portrays a refined sweet man that it’s trying to be as appealing as possible. This is in my vision the type of person who would fit him the best. In the opening I get a synthetic amber with some sweet component and that is, according to the notes listed, supposed to be the mandarin orange. I do not get the citrus part of the fragrance but the sweet part comes hand in hand with the amber. In the drydown the amber is in the center and the other notes surround it. One interesting note is the canella winterana, which is just wild cinnamon. I can’t tell where it sits in the drydown. I do not know how this one should smell like. The other herbs are just light, nothing is overtaking the amber. Also, I do not detect tha patchouli, and with that note I am more familiar now than 5 months ago.
The Projection
This is a moderate projection. Walking in a room this one is pretty easy to detect. The synthetic part of this fragrance is the one that helps with that.
The Longevity
I get around four to five hours with this one. The first two are with good projection then it becomes a body scent.
The Perfumers
The noses behind this creation are Caroline Sabas and Jacques Huclier, both french. Caroline worked for most of her career on celebrity fragrances but she made a flaker for Fragrance du Bois, which is a luxury brand that I’m really familiar with. And Jacques is a senior perfumer who worked for Tierry Mugler and made a fragrance for Ex-Nihilo, another brand that is on my radar. They both work for similar companies to Avon, meaning less artistic expression and more mass appealing, but it is what it is, as long as the compositions are well made I can’t comment on that.
Conclusions
I ramble for good length in this review, so I will keep it short to bring my points to the front. This fragrance is well made, it has a sweet amber design, but it is pretty synthetic, and all that potential is locked up in a box. It lasts for a good amount of time and performs well. It’s a shame really. But if this was the initial design and direction, then I say that they made a pretty good job in the end.
Thank you so much for reading my review. In the last few days I was too lazy to write another review because I got too comfortable and stubborn. On the other hand it is almost Christmas, so nobody is coming home to read my reviews on this platform, they have a lot of things to do at this time. You can imagine that. The next review will be on my last sample from that time period when I received all of those at the same time. It will be Invictus Aqua, the one that I used the most from that batch.
Simple, strong, beautiful but synthetic
The Context
This is another sample that I got as a gift from my birthday and it was one of the samples that I wore the most for reference on my skin in order to compare other fragrances and understand the vetiver and geranium notes. Then I moved on. This one with Possess the secret Man by oriflame and Attraction Rush by Avon were really similar and just one accord made the difference from one to another. This one is more floral, the second one in the drydown becomes a bit peppery and the third one more sweet.
The Scent
This is a sweet, floral and synthetic fragrance. Right from the start I’m getting these accords and it’s all made by these three accords, geranium grapefruit and vetiver. As it dries down it becomes more spicy and cool, like somewhere there is a mint accord, but not really. The sourness and fruity component of the grapefruit remains in the drydown, so it does not play the role of a fresh citrus. The scent does not evolve into another phase from this point, just swings around from the grapefruit to the geranium, to the vetiver. Overall a solid creation and
The Projection
This is a moderate to an extended reach. I only have the sample and it extends from my harm pretty easily and often I catch the scent.
The Longevity
From my experience I’m smelling this one at maximum 4 hours, but again, with just the sample. I imagine this being even more powerful with a wider spray.
The Perfumer
Mister Giordani is made by Nathalie Lorson, who is a senior perfumer with a vast catalog and a wide range of different types of fragrances that are both in the niche and designer markets. Well known creations from her are: Gentleman (2017) by Givanchy, Encre Noir by Lalique and K by Dolce & Gabbana.
Conclusions
A strong and slick fragrance by a senior perfumer that has a simple formula with a synthetic component in the opening and good projection and longevity. Sometimes in perfumery I’m a bit too used to complex compositions and multiple layers and different evolutions that sometimes I need a simple formula that either it will swing from its different notes or it will just be a linear scent, with no other phases. Mister Giordani is one of the fragrances that I like the most for having that simplicity and ease to apply.
Thank you so much for reading my review. I’m not that enthusiastic about these samples, but the perfumers. Maybe when I get the full bottles I will appreciate these fragrances more, plus, they are not expensive at all. The next review will be on Attraction Rush Men and at the point of me writing this I have run out of this sample because it was the one that I reached for the most and also it was just 1 ml decant, so not that much volume I had at my disposal.
This is another sample that I got as a gift from my birthday and it was one of the samples that I wore the most for reference on my skin in order to compare other fragrances and understand the vetiver and geranium notes. Then I moved on. This one with Possess the secret Man by oriflame and Attraction Rush by Avon were really similar and just one accord made the difference from one to another. This one is more floral, the second one in the drydown becomes a bit peppery and the third one more sweet.
The Scent
This is a sweet, floral and synthetic fragrance. Right from the start I’m getting these accords and it’s all made by these three accords, geranium grapefruit and vetiver. As it dries down it becomes more spicy and cool, like somewhere there is a mint accord, but not really. The sourness and fruity component of the grapefruit remains in the drydown, so it does not play the role of a fresh citrus. The scent does not evolve into another phase from this point, just swings around from the grapefruit to the geranium, to the vetiver. Overall a solid creation and
The Projection
This is a moderate to an extended reach. I only have the sample and it extends from my harm pretty easily and often I catch the scent.
The Longevity
From my experience I’m smelling this one at maximum 4 hours, but again, with just the sample. I imagine this being even more powerful with a wider spray.
The Perfumer
Mister Giordani is made by Nathalie Lorson, who is a senior perfumer with a vast catalog and a wide range of different types of fragrances that are both in the niche and designer markets. Well known creations from her are: Gentleman (2017) by Givanchy, Encre Noir by Lalique and K by Dolce & Gabbana.
Conclusions
A strong and slick fragrance by a senior perfumer that has a simple formula with a synthetic component in the opening and good projection and longevity. Sometimes in perfumery I’m a bit too used to complex compositions and multiple layers and different evolutions that sometimes I need a simple formula that either it will swing from its different notes or it will just be a linear scent, with no other phases. Mister Giordani is one of the fragrances that I like the most for having that simplicity and ease to apply.
Thank you so much for reading my review. I’m not that enthusiastic about these samples, but the perfumers. Maybe when I get the full bottles I will appreciate these fragrances more, plus, they are not expensive at all. The next review will be on Attraction Rush Men and at the point of me writing this I have run out of this sample because it was the one that I reached for the most and also it was just 1 ml decant, so not that much volume I had at my disposal.
