Giorgio

The house describes Giorgio as a rich, feminine floral and publishes its notes in three tiers: orange blossom and bergamot, a bouquet of white flowers, a base of moss and woods. Its French description adds green notes and orchid.

Top

Orange blossom and bergamot open the fragrance with a fresh, zesty entrance. Richard Goller, at Fragroom, smells a sweet orange blossom lifted by peach; Miguel Matos hears a green thread he attributes to galbanum, which is absent from the official notes.

Heart

Tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang and gardenia form the bouquet. Goller sees tuberose, gardenia and jasmine leading the charge of opulent white flowers; for Matos, tuberose and gardenia show all their facets here.

Base

Moss, patchouli, sandalwood, cedar and vanilla sign the trail. Goller picks out oakmoss; Matos reads in the accord of patchouli, moss and bergamot a chypre framework, softened by a chamomile with herbal-tea overtones.

What stays out

Many retail listings still attribute apricot, rose, amber and musk to the fragrance, which the house does not name. Peach, mandarin, aldehydes, galbanum and white musks, long attributed to Giorgio, therefore leave its notes.

What the label declares

The ingredient list distributed in the European Union carries, after alcohol, fragrance and water, eighteen declared allergens, including linalool, limonene, geraniol, eugenol, isoeugenol and hydroxycitronellal. It contains neither UV filter nor colorant.

It also carries several cinnamic derivatives, amyl cinnamal, amylcinnamyl alcohol, cinnamal and cinnamyl alcohol, as well as farnesol, citral, benzyl salicylate and benzyl benzoate, all subject to declaration.