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Pink Grapefruit
Omnia Amethyste
Four materials make up Bvlgari Omnia Amethyste Eau de Toilette, and the whole of its appeal lies in how well three of them get along. Pink grapefruit handles the opening by itself, tart and slightly bitter with that faintly sulphurous edge real grapefruit has, and it is the only sharp thing in the bottle. Underneath it, iris and Bulgarian rose do the work. Iris is cool, dry and powdered, closer to the smell of an ironed sheet than to a flower, while Bulgarian rose is the warmer and fuller reading of rose, a little jammy and more honeyed than fresh. The two balance each other almost exactly, the rose keeping the iris from turning austere and the iris keeping the rose from turning sweet.
Heliotrope closes it and is the reason people remember it. It has an unmistakable soft powderiness with an almond edge to it, something like the smell of a cosmetics drawer, and it blurs the rose and the iris into one quiet haze. It is a short composition and behaves like one. There is no long development and no late surprise, so what you get in the first ten minutes is what the afternoon will hold, and plenty of people prefer a fragrance that stays put. The eau de toilette strength keeps it gentle. Four to five hours is realistic and reapplication is part of the deal, which suits something this soft. It reads feminine, works best in daylight and in mild weather, and is the discreet member of the Omnia family rather than the dramatic one. Alberto Morillas composed it back in 2006.
Bvlgari is a Roman jewellery house, started in 1884 by Sotirio Bulgari, a silversmith who had come to Italy from Greece, and known for coloured stone pieces, the Serpenti motif and its own watches. Fragrance became part of the business in 1992. It is owned by LVMH.
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