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Elegantly Cool
Sesame is the material almost nobody uses, and Trussardi Elegantly Cool Eau de Parfum is built around it. Margherita Carini composed it.
The opening pairs that sesame with neroli and white grapefruit, which sounds unlikely and works. Sesame smells toasted and faintly oily, warm in a savoury way rather than a sweet one, and it gives the first minutes a texture that citrus alone never has. Neroli is clean and green with a soapy brightness and a bitter edge behind it, and white grapefruit adds a sharper, more astringent sparkle above both.
The heart goes soft without going sugary. Mimosa is powdery and dry rather than rich, with a faintly dusty edge to it, ylang ylang brings a heady creaminess with a ripe, slightly overblown edge, and jasmine rounds the two into something recognisably perfumed. It is a short heart, three flowers, balanced so that none of them dominates. White musk, tonka bean and sandalwood then close it: the white musk clean and skin like, sandalwood lending a soft creaminess, and tonka bean a sweet, dusty warmth with a faint bitterness at the edge, the smell of an old wooden drawer. Nine materials, carefully chosen rather than piled up. At eau de parfum strength it holds for a long stretch without projecting hard, so it works in offices and at close quarters. It reads as feminine and modern, suits autumn and spring better than high summer, and will appeal to anyone tired of fruit led releases.
Trussardi began in Bergamo in 1911 as Dante Trussardi's glove making workshop, and it was his descendant Nicola who turned a small artisan business into an international fashion house. Its fragrances are made under licence by Angelini Beauty.
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