Uomo Born in Roma Ruby

Uomo Born in Roma Ruby is the edition Valentino has set aside for the 2026 year-end holidays in its men’s Born in Roma line. It is a limited-edition Eau de Toilette presented in a red collector’s bottle; its US release is announced for mid-October 2026.

A line born in 2019

Born in Roma appeared in 2019 with two fragrances, Donna and Uomo. The house places the line under the sign of Rome, where past and present coexist, and sums it up with a phrase from Pierpaolo Piccioli: you do not need to be born in Rome to feel Roman.

The original Uomo, which the house describes as an aromatic woody vetiver, played on a contrast: a mineral salt and a bright ginger set on sage and smoky vetiver. Its bottle bears the Rockstud, a pyramid-shaped stud that Valentino links to Roman architecture.

The Rendez-Vous, a limited edition every year

In 2023, Valentino launched the Rendez-Vous, a yearly capsule of limited Born in Roma editions, sold for a limited time and in restricted quantities. The first paired Pink PP, for her, with Rockstud Noir, for him, in monochrome bottles in the house’s signature colors.

In 2025, Ivory, presented as the third edition, drew on New York’s Studio 54, with ivory bottles and gold details. Ruby revives the series for the 2026 holidays: the house sees it as a reinterpretation of Born in Roma through Valentino Rosso red, as a collector’s edition.

The line’s other editions

The men’s line has also been released in color editions, Yellow Dream in 2021, Coral Fantasy in 2022, Green Stravaganza in 2024, Purple Melancholia in 2026, and in two more concentrated versions: Intense, an Eau de Parfum, in 2023, and Extradose in 2025. Ruby remains an Eau de Toilette.