Omnia Profumi
Omnia Profumi
111 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Vanilla and caramel bloom with apparent innocence, only to be immediately ambushed by nutmeg's peppery bite and a subtle nuttiness that feels almost savoury. The opening is warm yet unsettling—like discovering heat beneath something you expected to be cool.
Clove assertion gains prominence, sharpening the composition considerably, whilst frankincense weaves through like incense smoke filtering through spiced honey. The fragrance becomes genuinely spicy here, the white musk underneath offering skin-like intimacy rather than projection. This phase feels deliberately constructed, almost austere in its refusal to placate.
Tobacco flower's papery dryness emerges as the sweeter elements recede, anchored by earthy vetiver and creamy musk. The finale is surprisingly restrained—a faint sweetness persists, but the fragrance has transformed into something almost herbal, almost medicinal, lingering as a gentle warmth against skin rather than a declaration.
Cristallo di Rocca announces itself as a fragrance caught between seduction and interrogation—a gourmand composition that refuses the expected sweetness of its opening. Fabrizio Tagliacarne has constructed something genuinely peculiar here: vanilla and caramel arrive with all the warmth you'd anticipate, yet nutmeg immediately disrupts the comfort, introducing a peppery astringency that prevents this from becoming another bland amber sweet. This is the fragrance's central tension, and it's far more compelling than straightforward indulgence.
The heart reveals the architect's hand most clearly. Clove emerges not as a whisper but as a deliberate structural choice, its anaesthetic bite tempering the sweetness beneath whilst frankincense adds an ecclesiastical restraint—almost as though someone's placed a handful of church incense atop warm toffee. The spice accord (88%) runs hot here, creating genuine friction against the gourmand base.
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