Rossa Bohème
Onyrico (2015)

Rossa Boheme is my first approach with Onyrico, namely a new italian niche brand grounding its creativity over an ideal olfactory journey across colours, routes, artists, aromas, perfumes, landscapes and food of Bel Paese Italia. The talented Luca Maffei is the nose behind Rossa Boheme, namely a conventional cedarwood/hay-like based aromatic concoction with a "molecular" dry "papery-cedary" approach vaguely conjuring severely dry-dusty (slightly piquant) Andrea Maack's minimalistic experiments. Angelica root, stormy-fresh coriander and pink pepper provide a general dry-spicy-minty atmosphere influenced by lemony dry woods (probably an accord of simil hay/papyrus, lime and cedarwood, imprinting an almost harsh citric/woody dryness) and hidden floral notes (seemingly not listed violet leaves, vaguely conjuring the Canali Man's violet implementation). Actually floral notes are kind of ghostly and probably apparent while I detect something vaguely balmish-leatherish yet ( but far more bombastically) experienced in scents like Monello Vagabondo and One Million (and all its uninspired derivatives). Musk is never smooth but drained away by a widespread harshness and finally influenced by minimal hints of simil leather. Dry down seems kind of indefinite and vague, a lighter airy whiff of gassy woodiness and kind of minty-lemony-woody piquancy, overall slightly tamed down (a touch of balsams?) and finally musky. I'm unable to discern in particular a sweetly seasoned "tobacco touch" while I suppose that the final apparent presence of soothing balsams is elicited by a combination of amber and white (kind of balmish) tobacco (anyway the aroma is on my skin basically dry and cedary till the end). The aroma is di per se pleasant but frankly nowadays yet experienced many times around (waving over dozens niche or mainstream designers experiments) and finally pale and shortly projecting. More than decent but kind of uninspired fragrance.