Riflesso Blue Vibe
An opening of rum is a statement of intent, and Trussardi Riflesso Blue Vibe Eau de Toilette does not hide what it is after. Véronique Nyberg composed it.
The rum is boozy and dark and slightly sticky, the smell of the bottle rather than of the cocktail, and it is cut immediately by yuzu, a citrus with an unusual flowery lift and a tartness all of its own. Davana joins them with its odd fermented character, jammy and faintly herbal, closer to dried fruit on some skins and to something winey on others. It is an unusual trio and it works precisely because each one of the three is doing a different job.
The heart is drier. Hazelnut brings a toasted warmth, geranium a green and slightly metallic crispness, and artemisia the bitter herbal bite of wormwood. That bitterness matters: without it the rum and the nut would collapse into something too sweet to wear out of the house. The close is dark. Leather is the dominant material, smoky and a little tarry, tobacco adds its dried leaf sweetness, and amberwood underneath gives the modern mineral warmth that holds the other two in place. Nine materials and a clear arc from boozy to smoky. Eau de toilette concentration keeps it manageable, which a fragrance this rich needs, and it still carries well into an evening. It is a men's scent for autumn and winter, for bars and dinners rather than for the office, and a good choice if you like fragrance with some swagger in it.
The Trussardi name goes back to a Bergamo glove workshop founded by Dante Trussardi in 1911, and the house moved into international fashion under Nicola Trussardi. Angelini Beauty makes its fragrances under licence.
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