Annone
Pantheon Roma (2018)

Annone is a taking the world by storm (at moment super hyped in italy indeed), tropical/oudish/saffrony "trendy" concoction from the italian top perfurmer Arturetto Landi (Profumi del Forte, Profumi di Polignano, Adjiumi, Morph, Pantheon Roma and many others). Mr. Arturetto Landi is a poetic perfume creative and a visionary guru of the contemporary wordwide perfumery (due to its classic background with a great glance to future and the new exploration fields) and Annone is one of his new (actually not properly recent in inception but more recently under the spotlights) "moonshiny" modern unions of opposites (spicy-fruity sweet elements and soapy/dusty woodsyness). As usual for several Pantheon Roma's "olfactory pieces" Annone is super poweful, polarizing, "dusty-molecular", cloudy-encompassing, simil-aldehydic, and "widely cool-forest". Actually a powerful and wide projecting fragrance combining fruity exotic spicy notes with a "gaseous" woody/dusty (just a tad resinous) substance quite massive and bold. Annone definitely annouces its presence from afar. Opening is a fresh dusty inebriating punch in your face with this super cloudy hypnotic saffron. This phase is kind of juicy, somewhat kind of exotic-cocktail conjuring, with this sour tropical fruitiness and the mediterranean bergamot's lemony-medicinal sparkling tartness. Iris is kind of cloudy as well, contributing to enhance che general fresh dustiness of the aroma while on the other side a lymphatic rose is perfectly laced to fruity tartness. Gradually the oudish presence gets rising up from the bottom and it is like a volatile soapy kind of "woody gassiness" enhancing the general airiness of the fruitiness. On this stage the sweet fruitiness slightly recedes, a drier sort of rougher (kind of piquant, more restrained, rootier, boisè and vaguely ambery) mossy-woodiness takes the stage with its boisè kind of oiliness (cypriol oil is quite dominant along this stage) and (at this point) I appreciate a lot the contrasts between scaled down but still present mild fruitiness and a wonderful woodsy undergrowth-mossiness. The final woody restraint is mostly provided by Nagarmotha (cypriol oil), with its kind of rooty-incensey, stoney, burnt woody, leathery-camphoraceous and spicy-exotic virility. The very long olfactory tail is quite original, mondane and wildly silvan at same time. Nuclear projection and immense durability on my skin.

Quite an impressive smell this one, the opening my hit some folk the wrong way but once you get past it, its quite enjoyable.

Its also an excellent performer on my skin, hints of Mancera - Instant Crush & faint connections to Baccarat Rouge 540...

Gale-force disinfected hospital corridor ‘oud' (a near cousin of Piguet's Oud) with some screechy citrus up top and fruit gum sweetness beneath. Full spectrum and full on for sure but to little obvious reward. Later on a touch of pepperiness creeps in – not an improvement.