Roma Uomo Nero Estremo

I ordered a bottle directly from the LB website This has some of the classic Roma Uomo DNA (tangy citrus, green resins, sweetness) but it mostly focuses on a very smooth, fougere-like lavender/anise/mint/vanilla accord. This minty vanilla reminds me of something like JPG Eau fraiche, but with ostensibly a good amount of natural essential oils and fragrance compounds, at least according to the ingredients list on the box. I don't see many designer fragrance companies listing over half a dozen different individual resin terpenes and variations of citrus peel oil, but Laura Biaggioti does it, and it makes sense because this stuff smells damn good and high quality. For this reason, the aforementioned JPG-like sweetness turns out more like a Caron Pour Homme or high quality Skin Bracer. I need some more time with this but so far it is a definite thumbs up.

My bottle is about five years old now and it is one of my favorite scents. When I use it, I feel like transported to an warm evening in Italy. If it just had better performance, Roma Oumo could be my signature summer scent. To me. it rapidly becomes a skin scent and it lasts for four to five more hours. But I just adore the creamy orange smell of Roma Oumo and that is more or less what you get from start to finish. It is perfectly blended and the only thing I want to see changed would be better performance and longivety. Other than that, I find the smell of clementine orange over the base of cearmy sandalwood truly hypnotic. Now I just long for the coming warm summer evenings when I think Roma Oumo truly shines. I give this fragrance a 9/10 rating (and I haven't found any 10/10 yet).

This is a very, very good designer release. It starts herbal with a lots of sage, some lavender, then heart gets a bit more citrusy and creamy ( gives me some Allure or Allure Homme Sport vibes ), the drydown has some fougère elements attached to a sweeter more modern profile, with some vanilla and tonka, giving a bit of a soft powdery coumarin or anise impression. You can tell it is a Annick Menardo creation as it is simple, but with some small little complex details here and there that make it always intriguing to wear. On top of that, it is super versatile, day and night, has enough legs and sweetness for the cold, while remaining airy enough to be worn in warmer days.

This fragrance profile, with absolutely good quality and at this price point makes me think a lot about how marketing can be effective and how the perceived value can be far from a reasonable price regarding the so called "niche" fragrances. That being said, I love it, easily a signature fragrance with his own personality. This Belanis gives a real star anise vibe and blands perfectly with the original composition.

The Biagiotti website wants 80 Euros just to ship one bottle to the US. Um, no thanks. No one else appears to be shipping this to the US.