Roma

1988 Vintage Amber-Spicy MYRRH-GRAPEFRUIT-MINT with Sandalwood & Civet. In the first minute or two, before the spray dries I can feel the warm-spicy, aromatic myrrh with its sweet licorice-anise and faint-rubber facets. Once the spray dries and the sillage starts to open up I get the citrus-mint top notes led by pink-grapefruit accented by fresh-spicy & green tones, but the myrrh & amber are already swelling through. As the citrus-mint fades, it transitions to the heart and more floral notes emerge with carnation in front. Rose here shows up more in a rosewood effect, as it mixes with the myrrh & sandalwood. As it's drying down, myrrh & amber deepen with vanilla & sandalwood. Civet & oakmoss pass through the background and add a vintage twist. The overall effect is a vintage amber-myrrh with near-rosewood tones and citrus-mint in the top notes. Reviewers have got it right with the top five rated notes imho: myrrh, grapefruit, amber, mint vanilla. This has excellent performance for year-round wear, but the profile is most appropriate in cooler months. This just gets better with time, both in the bottle and on the skin. Contrast to Dune Dior: These are different, and Roma came out 3 year prior to Dune, but there are striking similarities with citrus, amber, sandalwood, oakmoss & vanilla, although Roma doesn't evoke sand in the way that Dune does. Dune had the woody accord more forward, with the addition of aldehydes in the opening & near-cinnamon in the drydown that give a dry, sandy feel. Roma has the citrus and amber accords more forward, but the combination of myrrh-rose-sandalwood in the drydown Roma has some parallels to the Brazilian Rosewood in Dune Both have above average performance that becomes excellent with dark storage after first sprays. Contrast to Obsession Calvin Klein: These are different, but there is a similar vintage spicy-amber vibe. Obsession and has a more forward cinnamon-spice, while the citruses in Roma are more forward and the myrrh-rose-sandalwood gives a rosewood illusion. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to Shalimar EDP Guerlain: These are different, but again there are similarities with a vintage spicy-amber vibe. Shalimar has more forward vanilla & leather accords, while fresh-spicy green notes are more forward in the top notes of Roma, as well as the rosewood illusion from myrrh-rose-sandalwood. Overall: gorgeous amber-myrrh with citrus-mint & a rosewood illusion, that has excellent performance. This is a longtime love for me. 10/10. Enjoy!

Pleasant, fresh and easy wearing. I picked up this sample seeing the notes as fairly similar to L'interdit - in terms of old-school style, that could be argued but this has a rather different journey. Opens with morish bright citrus, backed by a light pepperiness and fresh green hyacinth. It's very cooling and light - despite being somewhat punchy on first spray. As it dries down it becomes more classic, not necessarily quite what I'm looking for but it's a recognisable scent profile. It's super floral, fairly jasmine and chamomile forward with soap, light spice, light sweetness and rose layered in the back. There is a touch of that citrus remaining, making it feel more clean. Some warmth introduced to the mix by the vague amber and wood allowing the florals to shine. Fully dry, amber, vanilla, patchouli, powder, dust and soft spice. There is some lightly animalic ideas but it's surprisingly warm and homely at this point with much less floral and citrus. Performance wise it's fine, sillage is low (though strong on opening) but may be a touch stronger in the warm months. Longevity is fine, 3-4 hours on my albeit dry tester wrist, and it is a super affordable fragrance - so no harm in needing to respray. To me it reads as very all season suitable - with a very summery opening and more neutral dry down. It is also more unisex that I thought thanks to the dry down! Pleasantly surprised with the journey, and would absolutely pick up a bottom for the days I want something more clean. 9/10 - may not be absolutely outstanding or a truly unique fragrance, but it is a well crafted scent at a good price, that will appeal to those that like the older style of feminine perfumes. Try it out.

„A Roman tribute” Let me be honest: I'm a bottlomaniac. I love flacons that are inventive, interesting, creative, beautiful or just feel great in my hand ... And let me continue - Roma by Biagiotti takes the price... or at least it is to find in my top 5. A well-designed bottle to me is a bottle you remember, that feels right in your hand, and that captures both the fragrance and the symbolic value of the scent and name. Roma has it all. I've been so lucky to have visited Rome and the spirit of the city is definitely in this bottle. Walking among the ruins of what once was The City on Earth craves a certain amount of respect and awe toward the founders of such a place. Roma sums it all up. The scent itself is a marvellous creation, starting out as a citrus-woody-spicy scent. I don't get any mint but the bergamot is lovely combined with the rose, which is actually from the heart notes. For several hours I can enjoy the changing mixture of the heart ingredients and when finally I hit the base (the longevity is more than 8 hours on my skin!), it is just yet one more wonder of a well-composed scent, releasing amber, myrrh and vanilla in a wonderful combination. My husband bought this for me, the first perfume he has ever bought for me... He tells me that when he senses it in a room, he turns his head to look for me. That fact does not make me love it any less. You have to be in your twenties to wear this, in my opinion. This oriental fruity beauty is a mature scent, and you will be noticed when wearing it, since it can be detected from up to 5 feet away, and make sure that this is the signal you like to send, namely: sexy and warm. If not - wear something else

I had a bottle of this when l was a young woman someone must have given if to me as l dont remember buying it. I loved it so much l remember a sweet creamy heavenly smell. I wore it all the time until it ran out and tried finding another bottle and couldn't it disappeared from production in.the UK. I always remembered the name of it and thought about its beautiful fragrance in my youth and missed my roma romance. Now almost 30 years later I'm ahem, cough, cough, much older and with the wonders of the Internet where you can get anything if you look hard enough l took a chance and put it into Ebay and a few bottles popped up l yelped with excitement and got myself a 100ml bottle. These days it smells different to what l remember. I perhaps have long forgotten the spicy citrus grapefruit fresh mint leaves with bergamot blast which honestly l am not a fan of as I'm not a fruity perfume lover but when the middle notes flowers started pushing through the fruity phase l started to like it and then the dry down!!! Now that's the Roma l know and love the friend l missed all these years. The gorgeous vanilla and amber, civet and musk with sandlewood its just beautiful. That's my Roma, a beautiful perfume that starts off zesty and so fresh and spicy it will will take your breath away like it's been bubbling and waiting to burst out of the bottle onto your skin and shouts loud about its presence, but it's all about the dry down with this one. But l I'm pretty sure this modern formulation is much more zest and less creamy vanilla sweet than l remember it, but l can still smell my old Roma in the dry down. I give this a 8/10

When it comes to perfumes I either wear the heavy, dirty, musky animalics or pure florals and when I saw that this one contained a virtual zoo of animalics I knew I had to give it a try. I did find that it was pleasantly sweet, rich and balmy with lots of vanilla and resins like myrrh and amber, but the currant, mint, bergamot and geranium gave it a very unique spicy flair that caught me a bit by surprise, but it is a pleasant sort of surprise. As it dries down the bergamot, mint and currant yield to the more floral heart of lily of the valley, rose, carnation, and jasmine yet effects of the black currant still leave their imprint on the floral heart and the floral heart is also relatively transparent to the woody, musky, amber-vanilla base notes that provide great depth and warmth to the floral heart. Then quite a few hours later the remaining base notes smolder as warm amber, vanilla with the woody tones of sandalwood, but at this point it is to be smelled only quite close to the skin. This is a very nice oriental that really is quite suitable for men or women. I wear it since Roma for men is completely different and I do not like it at all. During the first 5 hours or so on the skin it has good sillage but then draws in closer to the skin as the heart retreats and it lasts long enough as not to require it to be reapplied unless you are going out in the evening and want to refresh it. Although it contains I zoo of animalic notes there is nothing to fear, they all are quite tame. Only the black currant is the scent that some could find a bit unusual.