Rosso Pompei

Another Terenzi blind buy success! This opens with the fuzzy grapefruit amber found in Tygar but a little bit brighter and more citric. You can detect the grapes too. They provide a nice fruity fresh supporting note, without being syrupy or overbearing. This is not a super complex fragrance and it doesn’t evolve a lot over its lifespan. A couple hours in, it becomes more centered on the ambergris and woods, mixed with some white florals in the background. I could see how some people may perceive the dry down as metallic, but off my skin i don’t really pick it up. Nowhere near as metallic as some other ambergris centric fragrances (looking at you sauvage). Despite being called Rosso Pompei (translates to Pompeii red), I would categorize this more or less as a blue scent. A fresh citrus opening with an ambergris woody dry down. Performance is great too, I get about 5-6 hours of longevity before it’s a skin scent. Is it worth retail price? Hell no, but if you do your research and buy from the right place, you can get a fair bit of this brands catalog for less than what you would pay for most designer scents from macys or Nordstrom nowadays. Got this one for $120 and I am very happy with my purchase. I love Terenzi bottles because the caps can double as a nice paperweight too. 9/10

I’ve been wearing this for almost a year and it smells different on different days, humidity levels, seasons etc. Right now in 70 degrees it smells like an elevated Lime soda or sprite with a dusty/fizzy ambroxan, ambergris wood type base and I can’t detect any sweetness. However In the fall I wasn’t getting the sharpness of the citruses but instead a fruity, juicy fruit and floral I couldn’t pinpoint. This is a compliment monster even at the times I wasn’t enjoying it. It projects and it Lasts. This would be a good gift for someone who doesn’t obsess over what fragrance to wear... if you stand in front of a tower of fragrances for 5 minutes deciding what to wear then you would probably skip this for something that you perceive as more striking but trust me this is one of your best players.

Tygar is made from Ginger Grapefruit Ambroxan and Wood. Rosso Pompei, on the other hand, made from several grapefruit varieties, lemon, many flowers and several wood varieties, including maple, ginger and ambroxan, is missing here, which plays a major role in Tygar. so apart from grapefruit, the two perfumes have nothing in common, the grapefruit doesn't smell the same. Rosso Pompei is a much more complex fragrance, in the drydown maple has an important role that together with a powerful grape and the various citrus fruits results in an amazing fragrance. Durability 24 hours and the sillage goes miles against the wind, Tygar is a wimp folks. Buy Rosso Pompei if you want a strong fresh fruity scent and Tygar if you have the money and want to re-spray the scent every few hours

Definitely heavily inspired by Tygar..I’ll go through the differences.. the grapefruit in this is more sour and bitter and not really candy like..you could say more realistic but not necessarily more enjoyable,it’s a bit similar to the grapefruit accord in D&G light blue forever/italian love. It lasts long into the dry down..Rosso Pompei has more complexity..it’s darker,woodier,I even get some hints of oud,along with the animalic and salty facets of ambergris (which i truly feel like it contains). Tygar is greater in its simplicity,it’s smoother,it’s fizzier,and overall more enjoyable for me but try this one too,if you get it for a good price I’d say it’s worth it. Performance is excellent for both,12h+

Rosso Pompei is honestly a fantastic fragrance. The opening is juicy grape with citrusy grapefruit that smells really good. After a few minutes, it settles into a beautiful woody scent that’s smooth, rich, and very addictive. I own Afnan Turathi and Panorama from The Woods Collection, and to me, Rosso Pompei is on a completely different level. The quality and performance are easily ten times better. Going back to Turathi after smelling Rosso Pompei, it just feels syntactic and cheap😒. I’m genuinely happy to have this scent profile in my collection now. The quality is excellent, the performance is amazing, and it finally gives me the experience I was hoping for.

For the people saying side by side this doesn't smell like Tygar put an asterisk by their name. It smells exactly like Tygar/Vibrato, etc. The difference is in the opening Pompei ads some spice to the grapefruit. In the dry down they smell very similar but once again Pompei deviates a little with giving off a ginger ale/soda vibe. If you love the Tyga grapefruit genre but want something that has a little more excitement, this is it. Just an amazing smell so really not sure why this is getting the rating it has but other Tygar related fragrances are scoring much higher lol

I understand that this is a women’s fragrance, but I honestly think a guy should not be afraid to use it. There’s nothing too feminine about this orange soda fragrance 😂 should be sold as a unisex fragrance. It smells fresh and uplifting though it’s a rather linear orange soda from opening to drydown with somewhat stellar longevity (6 sprays easily lasts 12 hours). It works really well in tropical climate like Jakarta. You can also share this fragrance with your wife/husband. What I don’t like about this fragrance is the price.

Its closer to sospiro vibrato than tygar , or it sits between them also its more complex and changing with time giving very non linear fragrance with less price than both i think its very elegant and handsome perfume performance is in the way of making a smooth and nice cloud around the body and leave a very good trail for 2.5 to 3 hours strongly , then tend to close to the skin . longevity is also good its a perfume that make NOSEBLOCK to the person wearing it. Sillage : 8.5/10 Longevity : 8/10 Scent : 8.5/10

On initial spray you get the citrus and fruity scents . But as it dries down you're hit with the amber, woody notes, patchouli. This is so good . This is a 11/10. A little goes a long way. The longevity is 24hrs or more (for me), sillage is moderate to strong. Most fragrances from the house of Tiziana Terenzi are amazing when it comes to performance. If you dont have it, go grab it!! You will thank me later!!

This smells like a fruity and more sweet Version of Tygar by Bvlgari. It also has some Roja Burlington Vibes going on. Very upflifting, sweet, fruity, juicy fragrance. I like it a lot! The grape note in here is also very prominent. I don’t like Terenzi fragrances, but this is awesome. Performance is good, not exceptional but it gets the job done. 8h longevity and good sillage.

It was my next blind buy but I am happy of that !!! Can be worn as a unisex with excellent performance. Never chooke anybody even if you will overspray this nice and delicius perfume. I have also Kirke from this house but Rosso is way more versitale. Waiting for hot summer to check once again performance. This is masterpiece performance and silage

I cannot understand the people who don’t smell the sweetness in this. It is bubbly, effervescent— like a Roman wine jumped out of a fresco in a Pompeian villa. The people I demonstrate this to in-store compare it to a ginger ale smell. Did any of you have Covid and lose your sense of sweetness?

Hate it or love it, this is damn good. Explosive woods and citruses that just encompass you in this beautiful radiant shiny bubble that will last a long time. Definitely getting those sweet grapes. This is fantastic. 🍋🍊🍇

This makes tygar and vibrato basic mass appealing designers 😅 This is tygar DNA done in a very powerful luxurious way

This is by far one if the best perfumes I’ve had!! It’s dynamic and works throughout seasons - day/night!

great fragrance it smells like fruit juice.

My wife called this a "Dark Vibrato" so let me explain. Resemblance? Very small, with just the citrus/ambroxan appeal in the opening, followed by white flowers and some woody notes. Similar vibe? I disagree but can see why some may think that, though much more in a Tygar was than Vibrato even, just not as bright and definitely with more nuance. Rosso Pompei is a much darker scent, meant to be the clashing of two words: heavy and light, light and dark. This to me smells like a darker/night-hunting cousin to Vibrato/Tygar. The citrus is bitter and not refreshing-invigorating, and the flowers just give it somewhat of a softer approach. This is dark though, with the woods lending it this masculine vibe that I would very much dislike on any woman. In closing, GRAPES. Man, interesting addition to this, lending it no juiciness nor fruity (typical daily wear) vibe, just sweetness from a slightly unripe grape. This is a citrus fragrance that, of course can be worn in the heat, but I'd much rather wear it in the colder months - perhaps even spring and summer nights, and surely fall and winter days. Performance is great. I got over 9h on skin in every wear. Projects more than a typical extrait and lingers quite well in the air, so pretty good sillage. Chokes me out in closed quarters for the first 2h. Definitely leans more masculine and, for about what I paid ~US$90 on my tester, this is quite the buy.

I was really interested in this one because of the notes and couldn’t find a review of it on YouTube, so I almost blind bought it. Luckily I was able to get a free sample and smell it and it’s a really nice fragrance. This is basically Terenzi’s rendition of the Bvlgari Tygar DNA. I really really like this but glad I didn’t blind buy it because I already own Turathi Blue, another Bvlgari Tygar clone I love, and this smells extremely similar to it. So if you like Tygar but want a more affordable niche option if you don’t already own it, this is a nice choice. But if you already have a clone like me with Turathi Blue (A damn good clone at that) this is really redundant. Still as it’s own scent it’s very pleasant and easy to wear. Mostly a fizzy/sparkling fresh grapefruit that’s not too sour or sweet. With some woods giving it some backbone. Really easy to wear and I could see men or woman wearing this in the warmer months. 8/10

There's an opening hit of orange, before the scent settles into something that's hard to describe as anything else than "perfume". It's a little dry-woody, ambroxan, citrus, spicy. But nothing in the mix sticks out as a smell I recognize from the real world. It's like a hodge-podge of man-made smells blended into one blob without anything sticking out or making a clear impression. It's neither unpleasant nor exciting. So for anyone thinking this fragrance somehow managed to capture eternal-lasting orange soda, it didn't. There is a somewhat citric tone that extends into the dry-down, but mostly this smells like a nondescript synthetic-ambroxan-superamber bomb.

vibrato/tygar opening with sparkling grape soda. Projection is a little insane, keep it to 2 sprays maximum. Scent lasts very long for me. The only thing I wish was a little better was the dry down. Dry down is very masculine, and woody. I wish it was a bit less woody, less bitter and retain the sweetness. Overall solid 8/10