Year: 2012
Notes: aldehydes, raspberry, basil, pink pepper, cardamom, celery seed, angelica root, galbanum, lavender, osmanthus, iris, frankincense, vanilla, patchouli, cedar, musk
Comment: Vici is part of the Édition Rare: Yellow Gold Trilogy
"After having been crowned for a triumphant military conquest, Julius Caesar stood before the Roman senate and declared his victorious phrase "Veni, Vidi, Vici"."
As the final instalment in the extremely underwhelming Yellow Gold Trilogy, Vici is practically the love child of Montale's Aoud Flowers and John Galliano's eponymous fragrance release.
The raspberry-infused aldehydic opening is pungent and sharp, with a dark floral-aromatic leaning, which soon heads towards a spicy woody-musk denouement. Sadly, once again, there's too much reliance on synthetics, such as ambroxan, and the composition lacks some much needed structural clarity – resulting in a very murky (albeit warm) aroma. Exhibiting an unusual mossy fruitiness, towards the drydown, Vici brings this trilogy to a close with a muffled whimper.
Performance-wise, while it doesn't project much, it could have been a lot more tenacious.
As the final instalment in the extremely underwhelming Yellow Gold Trilogy, Vici is practically the love child of Montale's Aoud Flowers and John Galliano's eponymous fragrance release.
The raspberry-infused aldehydic opening is pungent and sharp, with a dark floral-aromatic leaning, which soon heads towards a spicy woody-musk denouement. Sadly, once again, there's too much reliance on synthetics, such as ambroxan, and the composition lacks some much needed structural clarity – resulting in a very murky (albeit warm) aroma. Exhibiting an unusual mossy fruitiness, towards the drydown, Vici brings this trilogy to a close with a muffled whimper.
Performance-wise, while it doesn't project much, it could have been a lot more tenacious.
