Vintage Blumarine (2002)
by Blumarine

With my first testing of Vintage Blumarine it opened harsh and aggressive and didn’t do much to improve itself for the rest of its run. I got a citrus opening clouded a little by an inferior peach note. The florals of the middle primarily formed some sort of rose / lily combination that comes off neither enjoyably nor strongly from my skin, but I didn’t actually dislike the combination… it was more boring than cloying. The base was a generic wood / amber. With my next testings the harshness of the opening didn’t show up – in fact it was pleasant in an uninteresting sort of way. The rose / lily dominance of the middle level changed to a generic mixed bouquet that allowed me to retain my initial ambivalence. And the base disappeared into something more powdery / musky than woody. In whatever guise Blumarine Vintage presents itself, it is not a very interesting fragrance.

22nd June, 2011.