Gritti
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bright orange blossom surges forward with an almost bristling citrus energy, immediately complicated by an ozonic marine undertone that creates an unexpected tension—sweet floral against salt spray. The galbanum pierces through almost simultaneously, adding a green vegetality that feels like crushed stems rather than delicate herbs.
The marine notes recede as the composition settles into a more conventional (though never predictable) white floral-and-wood territory, with musk providing a subtle creamy undertone that prevents the galbanum's sharpness from hardening further. This is when Neroli Extreme becomes genuinely wearable rather than merely arresting—still fresh and green, but now with a whisper of skin-like warmth beneath.
Vetiver, amber and vanilla emerge with remarkable subtlety, creating a soft woody base that suggests natural decay rather than amber's typical resinous sweetness. The overall effect becomes increasingly whisper-like, eventually fading to a barely-there skin scent that smells less like perfume and more like a memory of something you wore hours ago.
Neroli Extreme announces itself as something altogether bracing—a fragrance that treats citrus and white florals not as gentle companions but as competing forces in constant negotiation. Luca Gritti has crafted a composition where orange blossom doesn't whisper; it demands attention, its honeyed sweetness immediately tempered by a saline marine quality that feels almost aquatic in its mineral coolness. The galbanum enters early, adding a green snap that prevents the neroli from ever becoming cloying, while beneath this sparring trio sits a woody framework that suggests driftwood rather than forest floor.
This is a fragrance for the morning swimmer, mentally and metaphorically—someone who approaches beauty through briskness rather than seduction. It's unabashedly fresh without resorting to laundry-aisle triteness; the fruity undertones (likely from the citrus themselves) keep it dimensional enough to wear beyond summer. The musk in the heart provides a subtle skin-scent quality that prevents Neroli Extreme from reading as purely soapy, though it never strays toward warmth or depth. Those accords—88% fresh, 76% green—tell the story: this is transparency as philosophy, a fragrance that privileges clarity over complexity.
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