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Giorgio Armani has offered fragrances since 1982, but his greatest success and bestseller remains Acqua di Gio, composed by Alberto Morillas in 1996. Acqua di Gio would upend masculine perfumery by offering men purity and freshness paired with virile, powerful notes. From then on, Acqua di Gio would come in beautiful flankers, surprising us more with each passing year. In 2018 we had the pleasure of discovering a sensual, fresh ode to nature with Acqua di Gio Absolu…
Armani Acqua di Gio Absolu, or the meeting of the forces of the sea and the warmth of wood
Giorgio Armani represents, in both haute couture and perfumery, Italian luxury and elegance, the charm of a virile man who remains close to his essential values. Thus Acqua di Gio embodies in a single fragrance all the important values distilled in Giorgio Armani's haute couture lines: strength, virility, charm and nature. The fragrance designed by Alberto Morillas in 1996 quickly won over men's hearts, never to leave them, so perfectly did it match their desires of the moment.
A rare thing in perfumery, despite the immense success of Acqua di Gio and the passing years, Alberto Morillas continued to write the new fragrant chapters of Acqua di Gio, inspired by the original multifaceted bottle. Thus in 2018 we had the pleasure of discovering Acqua di Gio Absolu, composed by the same Spanish perfumer with the aim of paying tribute to the forces of nature that are water, of course, but also wood.
More than ever, Acqua di Gio Absolu highlights the extraordinary warm-cold contrast of its fragrant forefather Acqua di Gio, through the striking encounter between intense marine and fruity freshness and the burning warmth of a Guatemalan patchouli.
The new woody sensuality of aquatic freshness for Acqua di Gio Absolu
With each new composition of Acqua di Gio, the collection's emblematic perfumer, Alberto Morillas, claims to forget the original notes of the 1996 bottle in order to offer new ones. This might explain why, despite the fine succession of Acqua di Gio flankers, each variation is a new olfactory discovery.
Yes, in our day-to-day work we are often influenced by thinking that the latest modification is always the best. […] Forgetting allows one to be much more critical of oneself, and perhaps, out of selfishness, I like rediscovering a scent I could no longer smell because of those anxieties. Alberto Morillas on Acqua di Gio Profumo, for Marie Claire.
Thus for Acqua di Gio Absolu, the perfumer did not hesitate to overdose the warm, woody notes to compose a fragrance more sensual than ever. Even though he had already moved away from the original 1996 freshness with Acqua di Gio Profumo, Alberto Morillas persists and signs, offering with Acqua di Gio Absolu a bath of powerful modernity for its bottle.
Thus Acqua di Gio Absolu retains, of course, the fruity, marine and aquatic notes of its fine predecessors. However, Guatemalan patchouli (appearing in the heart) and a natural ash wood note bring to Acqua di Gio Absolu a burning sensuality which, set against the floral or aquatic freshness, reveals the full power of its virility.