Giorgio Armani
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The initial spray is a cold shock—bracing marine ozone cut through with tart, almost unripe green mandarin and bergamot's petitgrain-like bitterness. There's an immediate mineral quality, chalky and saline, as if you've licked a seaside rock formation. The aquatic notes feel genuinely watery rather than synthetic and melon-like, though there's no escaping their Calone ancestry.
Rosemary surges forward with camphorous intensity, its pine-like sharpness tempered by lavender's softer, more powdery aromatics. Cypress weaves through with its dark, resinous character—think crushed juniper berries and gin botanicals—whilst mastic adds an almost chewed, vegetal quality that borders on medicinal. The marine notes recede but never disappear entirely, leaving a salty undercurrent beneath the herbal assault.
What remains is surprisingly soft—a musky, ambered skin scent with patchouli providing earthy, slightly sweet depth. The mineral accord persists as a ghost of the opening, a faint chalkiness that prevents this from becoming too warm or cosy. It's intimate now, clinging close to the skin with that particular salty-sweet smell of dried seawater on sun-warmed flesh.
Profondo plunges deeper than its predecessors in the Acqua di Giò lineage, trading sun-bleached driftwood for the colder, more austere beauty of the ocean's depths. That signature aquatic DNA remains—ozonic, mineral-laden air that evokes spray hitting volcanic rock—but Alberto Morillas has darkened the palette considerably with a brooding aromatic heart that borders on medicinal. The opening delivers a sharp citric slap of bergamot and green mandarin against synthetic marine notes that smell genuinely saline, almost kelp-like in their iodine tang. This isn't a tropical beach; it's the Ligurian coast in November.
Where Profondo truly distinguishes itself is in the heart's herbaceous intensity. Rosemary and lavender crash together with an almost fougère-like vigour, whilst cypress adds its resinous, gin-botanical sharpness and mastic contributes a subtle, masticated greenness that feels faintly medicinal. This aromatic core has real tenacity, refusing to yield quickly to the base. When it does, patchouli and amber create a musky, skin-close foundation that retains a whisper of that initial minerality—imagine sun-warmed skin after a cold swim, salt crystals drying in arm hair.
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