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Omnia Crystalline
Few fragrances are as easy to wear in an office as Bvlgari Omnia Crystalline Eau de Toilette 100ml, and that is a real quality rather than a backhanded compliment.
The whole composition is pitched low and clear. Pear opens it with a pale juiciness, bamboo beside it green and watery with a cool stem like quality, and neither of them has any sweetness to speak of. Tea is the material that gives the middle its restraint, dry and a little tannic, while lotus softens everything around it and cassia threads a faint warm spice through the centre so the fragrance is not simply cold.
At the bottom, musk, guaiac wood and oakmoss. The musk is clean rather than animal, the guaiac wood dry with a trace of smokiness, the oakmoss earthy and damp, and all three are used sparingly. Eight materials in total, by Alberto Morillas, dating from 2005, and no one of them is allowed to become the point.
Toilette strength keeps it polite. It will not survive a full working day without help, but it also will not trouble anyone sitting next to you, and in a shared office or a lecture theatre that matters more than longevity. Spring and summer are its seasons, and it comes across as clean more than feminine, which widens who can wear it considerably. Two or three sprays after a shower is the right way to use it, and a light fragrance like this rewards being applied generously rather than saved.
The house behind it is Roman. Sotirio Bulgari, a silversmith from Greece, started the business in 1884, and it made its name in high jewellery worked with coloured stones before expanding across Europe and into America in the early 1970s. Fragrance followed in 1992, and the company belongs to LVMH.
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