Bruno Banani
Bruno Banani
94 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Blackberry and green tea create a momentary brightness, a fleeting suggestion of freshness that feels almost deceptive in its promise. Within minutes, however, synthetic sweetness begins creeping in, and the green tea retreats entirely, replaced by an insistent fruitiness.
The composition settles into a one-dimensional fruity-floral sweetness dominated by peach and red fruit accords that blur together indistinguishably. Violet and iris flicker beneath the surface like fading background singers, unable to gain traction against the overpowering sugar-forward base that's already establishing itself.
Raspberry and amber create a sticky, sweet embrace that clings without evolving, the aquatic notes arriving as a last-minute attempt to lighten the load. What remains is largely forgettable—sweet, vaguely fruity, and increasingly fatiguing on the skin.
Bruno Banani's Made for Women arrives as a study in synthetic sweetness dressed up in fruit-forward clothing. The opening gesture—blackberry and green tea—suggests sophistication, but what follows is a relentless assault of red fruit accords that quickly overwhelm any pretence of subtlety. The peach and violet in the heart attempt to add dimensionality, but they're subsumed into a cloying sweetness that dominates the composition with an almost artificial sheen.
This is a fragrance that doesn't trust its structural elements. Rather than allowing the notes to interact meaningfully, they're blended into a homogenised fruity-floral blur where individual components lose definition. The iris, which could have provided a powdery counterbalance, instead becomes another whisper beneath the relentless raspberry-and-amber sweetness that anchors the base. That synthetic accord reading of 76% isn't hidden elegantly—it's palpable, a chemical gloss that prevents the composition from feeling authentic or grounded.
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