Trussardi
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Pink grapefruit snaps against your skin with immediate brightness, green apple sharpening the attack into something almost prickly. Bergamot slides beneath, offering classical citrus refinement, but the overall effect feels restless rather than serene—three competing citrus notes jockeying for position rather than harmonising.
Geranium's peppery green bite emerges around the 45-minute mark, violet leaf absolute turning distinctly herbaceous and almost savory-leaning. Lavender threads through as a stabilising force, but the geranium's spice creates an unexpected warmth that transforms the fragrance from fresh into something far more aromatic and unexpectedly comforting despite its prickly character.
Italian leather and vetiver gradually anchor the composition into earthier territory, tonka bean adding vanilla sweetness that wrestles with the woody, almost smoky vetiver base. By the fourth hour, the fragrance settles into a soft, leather-tinged embrace—closer to skin than air, intimate rather than projecting, with only the faintest ghost of the initial citrus brightness remaining.
Riflesso arrives as a study in purposeful contradiction—a fragrance that refuses the comfort of easy categorisation. Véronique Nyberg has constructed something that occupies the peculiar middle ground between crisp aromatic freshness and gourmand warmth, a tension that keeps the wearer perpetually intrigued rather than entirely satisfied.
The opening bristles with citrus vitality: pink grapefruit and bergamot establish clean, almost Nordic coordinates, whilst green apple injects a sharp, almost tart insistence that prevents this from becoming merely another bright opener. But this is where Riflesso reveals its true character—the heart refuses to follow conventional fresh fragrance protocol. Instead of diffusing into wispy florals, geranium and lavender arrive with unexpected spice, the geranium's peppery green edge merging with a violet leaf absolute that feels almost savoury, herbaceous rather than powdery. This is not a floral interlude; it's a deliberate collision of aromatic intensity.
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