Launched in 1998, Pi is Givenchy’s men’s eau de toilette composed by Alberto Morillas, in a pyramid bottle by Serge Mansau that won a FiFi Award in 1999. The house now describes it as woody amber: mandarin and pine needles at the top, an accord called Infinium at the heart, ironwood and benzoin crystals at the base.
Undina (Undina’s Looking Glass) remembers a masculine scent she bought herself out of a taste for daring; she recalls that Luca Turin judged it harshly.
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Undina’s Looking Glass: a first daring move
On March 14, 2012, Undina recounts discovering Pi in the 1990s at the men’s counter, trying it again and again, and buying a bottle for herself, her first foray beyond feminine fragrances.
She wore it, she writes, savoring her own daring more than the fragrance itself, before drifting away from it without disliking it. She notes that Luca Turin dismissed it with a disparaging comment in his guide, and that she found no critic to contradict him.
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