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Dylan Blue
Fig leaf is the material that makes Versace Dylan Blue Eau de Toilette what it is, and Alberto Morillas used it in 2016 to give a mainstream men's fragrance an unusually green, slightly bitter opening. It arrives with bergamot and grapefruit, so the first impression is citrus with a stalk cut through it: sharp, clean, with the milky green bitterness fig leaf brings when it is used without the fruit beside it. That stage is bracing and it sets up everything after it.
The middle is dry and mineral. Violet leaf adds a cool green sharpness, papyrus a dry papery quality, patchouli earth, black pepper a biting spice, and ambroxan the modern salt and mineral glow that gives so many contemporary men's scents their polish. It is not a conventional heart and it is the reason the fragrance reads as modern rather than classic.
Saffron and frankincense sit in the base, the first leathery and faintly medicinal, the second smoky and resinous, with tonka bean adding a powdery sweetness and musk the skin warmth that ties it together. The drydown is considerably warmer than the top, and most people who like this fragrance like it for the last four hours of the wear rather than for the first. As an eau de toilette it projects well for the first couple of hours and then stays close for most of a day. It reads masculine, it is comfortable in any season, and it suits work as easily as a night out.
An Italian house, Milan based, founded in 1978 and led by Donatella Versace since her brother's death, with interests in fashion, interiors, fragrance and hospitality that extend well past the clothes it is named for.
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