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Roma Uomo
Per spray, Laura Biagiotti Roma Uomo Eau de Toilette 200ml is the cheapest way to own this scent, and it is the bottle to choose once you know for certain that you get on with it.
What you are buying a great deal of is a dry, green, resinous fragrance from 1992 that has never been reformulated into something modern and sweet. Grapefruit and bergamot give it a bitter citrus opening, basil and laurel push it towards the herbal and the savoury, and juniper berry follows with a cool, gin like resin. Heliotrope is the quiet counterweight in the middle, powdery and soft, while fir balsam adds evergreen stickiness, geranium a sharp rosy green, and jasmine a little floral smoothness.
The drydown is the part that justifies a big bottle, because it is where most of the wear happens. Oakmoss and patchouli give damp earth, cedarwood and sandalwood keep it upright, massoia wood lends a creamy edge, benzoin sweetens in a balsamic way, and amber and musk settle it against the skin. Annick Menardo's composition stays dry throughout, which is why it still smells distinctive next to current releases.
Expect five or six hours and moderate reach, and treat it as autumn and winter wear for men who like their fragrance serious rather than friendly. A bottle this size will see out several seasons without any sense of rationing, and it is the sort of scent that rewards being worn often enough to become yours.
The house is Roman, founded in 1965 by Delia Biagiotti and still in family hands, and it moved into fragrance in 1982 with Fiori Bianchi, six years before the Roma name appeared on a bottle at all.
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