roger pellegrino
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Macassar
Gem Eau de Toilette Van Cleef & Arpels
Plum and peach open with ripe, almost jammy fruitiness — the cardamom adding warm spice that elevates the fruit above simple sweetness.
Gem Eau de Toilette
Plum and peach open with ripe, almost jammy fruitiness — the cardamom adding warm spice that elevates the fruit above simple sweetness.
Armani Eau Pour Homme
Armani Eau Pour Homme is an 80s Italian masculine done with the same precision that defined the house's tailoring — basil and bergamot leading a clean, citrus-herbal opening before lavender and cinnamon carry the composition into fougère territory, joined by jasmine and a soft rose that keep it from going purely barbershop.
Versace l'Homme
The opening is a sharp citrus blast—lemon and bergamot cut with herbal basil and green petitgrain—that feels more bracing than polite.
One Man Show
One Man Show opens with a bracing slap of galbanum and basil over citrus, green and almost medicinal before the real architecture emerges.