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02/05/2024
OvidiuPop
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OvidiuPop
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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.
