Il Profvmo
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The peach arrives first, almost immediately softened by mandarin's citrus acidity. Within moments, you're aware this isn't a traditional fruity opening—it's already yielding to the florals beneath, like watercolour bleeding into fresh paper.
Iris and lily of the valley emerge as the lead voices, their powdery interaction creating an almost dusty, slightly aldehyde-tinged quality that recalls 1980s skincare fragrances but with considerably more restraint. Freesia adds a crucial verdant thread, preventing the composition from becoming purely cosmetic.
The musk appears almost gratefully, anchoring what's left into a soft, intimate skin scent—barely detectable beyond an inch from the body. The powdery accord becomes the dominant sensory memory, gentle and largely transparent by hour six.
Il Profvmo's Amour is a fragrance that whispers rather than shouts—a delicate negotiation between fruit and florals that feels almost reluctant to announce itself. Silvana Casoli has constructed something genuinely unusual here: the peach and mandarin don't arrive as bright, juicy top notes but rather as softening agents, lending a subtle fuzz to what could otherwise be a stark floral composition. The real architecture emerges in the heart, where iris and lily of the valley perform an intricate dance with freesia. That iris-lily combination is crucial; the iris brings a subtle powder—almost talc-like—that prevents the white florals from becoming sickly sweet, whilst the freesia's greenish brightness keeps everything tethered to earth rather than diffusing into pure abstraction.
This is a fragrance for someone who finds conventional floral perfumes either too cloying or too stern. The 52% gourmand accord suggests there's a vanillic warmth lurking beneath the florals, creating an almost paradoxical effect: both austere and comforting simultaneously. The musk base is clearly restrained, functioning as an anchor rather than a projection device. Amour reads as distinctly unisex precisely because it refuses the gendered theatricality that defines so many fragrances—there's no excessive sweetness, no aggressive animalic sensuality, just an understated powdery-floral that feels more like a skin scent than a statement. This is fragrance for morning applications or professional environments where olfactory restraint is both aesthetic and practical virtue.
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3.6/5 (95)