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kalekse111 – :
Very luxurious fruity smell, I absolutely love it. I can’t compare it with Pomegranate Noir but it’s reminds me of Fath Pour Homme, it’s just lighter and easier to wear.
parashuk – :
STRONG incense and cloves is so overwhelming that I can’t begin to experience any other notes. Eventually I do get a bit of the pomegranate hiding in the background but not much else. I love the listed notes and unisex scents and it really is not a “bad” fragrance but this is just too intense and aromatic for my nose and tastes. I have not smelled JM Pomegranate Noir so I cant compare but it might be interesting to see what JM recommends as a complimentary layering scent and test it with this to see what blooms.
Typepreept – :
Even if this could perfectly be used by women, I see it as the male counterpart to Pomegranate noir, less shocking and more wearable. This would never tire your nose as the other does for me. I also bought it from an online retailer and the quality of the juice is truly surprising, very long lasting for these sort of cologne-like scents.
I am not crazy about this but I recommend it to those who want a different take on a cologne without smelling weird. These Gandini scents are sold at 20usd… it is a crime not to get a few of them and check which one works best on you. In my case, surprisingly it hasn’t been this but Lime and basil… but I must be honest and say this is by far more original.
On a side note, it is true that the first alcohol blast can damage your nose for its strength, but it is just a matter of not smelling close right away, it’s only 10 seconds, which anyway is a tip I’d give to everyone, let the alcohol evaporate before you go for it.
александр костяев – :
It doesn’t smell much like Pomegranate Noir in the opening (for me) but does smell similar in the dry down, especially a couple of hours later but I actually like this a lot better than Jo Malone. Opens with a strong incense and clove like smell as others have mentioned. It almost has a minty quality to it. It is slightly peppery and has a strong dose of cedar and it is almost like sniffing peppery pomegranate wine from a cedar chest. I am not getting a “juicy” fruit smell at all and I am completely missing the grapefruit. The fruit smell is more dried or fermented than juicy for me (but in a good way). It doesn’t smell at all floral to me either. I am not getting any lily of the valley. Smells more fall/winter than spring/summer.
This is well worth trying at this price. These Gandini colognes can also be layered. I sprayed Pomegranate and Incense on one arm and Muschio Blu on the other arm and they do not clash at all, they blend nicely. I expected to have to wash off one arm but I am actually enjoying the cross that they create together. But I like Pomegranate and Incense on its own. I think it smells great!
svbaron777 – :
AMAZING! smells very similar to Jo Malone’s Pomegranate Noir, just a little bit more peppery.
Silliage is amazing, however it does disappear after few hours for me! Nevertheless good cologne over all!
badzysh – :
Pomegranate & Incense opens with a mouth-puckering mixture of syrupy pomegranate, fresh mint and cherries… Now imagine you are camping on a cool night in spring, with bonfire, crackling burning woods and mist from the forest in the background. Your loved one is probably making a rum-based cocktail for you, there is a subtle hint of dark booziness floating in the air.
The comments I get are “earthy”, “sexy” and “alluring”. The sillage and longevity is amazing. It is certainly unisex, I would love to smell this on a man. I imagine the wearer to be very confident, a bright character who doesn’t need reassurance from others. For example, I can see Samantha from sexy & the city wearing this.
I love layering GANDINI P&I with a vanilla based fragrance to add warmth and femininity.
I cannot praise it enough, this is an affordable niche perfume with personality and quality. Highly recommend it.
callofduty1990 – :
Sorry please could someone tell me where I would get this in the UK ?? thanks in advance 🙂 x
valek-podsvir – :
This was a nice surprise.I blind bought it because of all the positive reviews and because i love incense.And this combo Incense&Pomegranate,sounds amazing.And it is amazing,”niche” quality for sure.I`m not good with breaking down notes and doing a reviews,so i`m not gona go there.All i want to say is,that the longevity is 7+ hours,which is awesome for EDC and best of all you can get it cheap.I think this house is very underrated.Highly recommended.
gafson4ik – :
Got it in today and wearing. The first spray (make it tiny please) is stunning, like being in Temple. Very intoxicating. No pomegranate in the opening notes at all. Opening it is all cedar, incense and pepper spices !!!
As it softens you pick up an under tone of pomegranates – it mellows down to a soft incense – peppery and spicy – lingers. It’s quite well mixed. I am now a huge fan and eager to try other Gandini fragrances.
Been hunting for a real incense fragrance for a long time. THIS IS IT :)) If my Man would wear this I’d be on top of him sniffing away. Glad it’s mine.
antankepe – :
I feel a lot of incense and cloves- many many many dried cloves. Due to this the smell comes strongly of strong medical tonality to me.
Incense starts to take presence- more and more so. It smells as if someone has just burned paper- quiet, meditative, gris-like quality.
It is such silent, meditative, cool and austere scent- in a budist zen way. It creates a feel which is taken more for part of a person wearing it, not necessarily separately distinguished as perfume
tqGzLskn – :
It’s more pomegranate on me than JM’s Pome Noir, and less woody.
Gandini is more fresher and juicier. JM’s often has a wine and oakwood smell on me, reminds me of those aged dry wine， while gandini tastes like a more cheerful Beaujolais
It has good lasting power, and the price is much lower than JM. If you like a juicy fruity/fresher version of JM’s Pome Noir, Gandini could be a very nice choice.
kk-64 – :
Well I got this to see just how much it compared to Jo Malone Pom. Noir, && have to say I deff. pick up the similarity. I also got it for way cheap on ammyz…In hoping it would replace Pom. Noir, however I deff. like Pom Noir better Idk…I’m thinking Jo Malone’s is just a lil more smoother of a Pom. smell or should I say sweeter??…As with this its a lil more spicier && I deff. pick up the pepper on my skin which I don’t care for, That doesn’t stay for long..but I like Pom. Noir’s smell from start to finish. This is still a fairly nice scent though esp. the price && size of the bottle I got it for, but I still want my Pom. Noir. 🙂
segasmola – :
THIS ISN’T A REVIEW:
Hi, I was j/w how much is this like Jo Malone’s Pom. Noir b/c I really love that stuff && was thinking of getting it soon but….now I discovered this && seen how much cheaper it is under 30 on amazon for 3.4oz compared to the $55 price tag for a 1.0oz of Jo…so the other one makes sense. So is it really similar or just up the alley of pom. noir to wear yeah I’ll like it, but it prob. just won’t be the same? please let me know, thanks! 🙂
LINDERMAN – :
I love these Gandini colognes. First, they are not really colognes. Nearly all of them have the longevity and sillage of at least an eau de toilette, which is a pleasant reversal of the becoming all-too-frequent scenario where one applies an eau de parfum and wonders why it disappears completely from the skin within two hours. These really do include a substantive base to which the higher-level notes are able to cling, with the result that I tend to smell them for many hours after application.
At the same time, the Gandini fragrances do not build up and overwhelm with reapplication, say, if one wishes to re-spritz on a hot day. This is no doubt in part because they are very natural-smelling, the farthest thing from a chemical soup. There are no unforeseen and unwanted science experiments going on between the various components. These fragrances also smell very “niche”, if I may use that term approbatively. Although they appear to be produced by Eurocosmesi, a conglomerate which also covers Byblos, the quality of these creations is beyond dispute. My impression is that this old Italian house (1896) has some say in how its perfumes are made, even under the yoke of their corporate master.
On top of those virtues, all of the names of the fragrances I’ve tried have been perfectly accurate, which is something of a rarity, in my experience. I don’t think that perfume houses need to–or even should–name their wares literally, but if they do, I don’t think that I’m alone in expecting to smell what they indicate that I’m supposed to smell. In the case of Gandini, there seems to me to be zero chance of disappointment. They say that this fragrance contains pomegranate and incense notes, and it really does. Although other notes are listed on the bottle (mine is a tester), pomegranate and incense are the dominant scents, and they both smell how pomegranate and incense actually smell, which, in my estimation, is swell.
MELOGRANO ED INCENSO is tart and fruity, but also dark and woody, and the two dominant notes blend together in a unique and enticing way. Of the entire Gandini “cologne” line-up, this is to my nose the strongest, and I think that it is best suited for wintertime, given the rather heavy incense. But it really smells very nice, and I’m happy to have a bottle of this. I recommend MELOGRANO ED INCENSO to everyone who likes incense perfumes. This one adds a unique twist of pomegranate and is equally suitable for men or women.
soja – :
Wonderful, deep and rich composition that uses very natural ingredients and, as karazzmatic put it so poetically, really sets your mood once applied.
The slightly tart note of pomegranate is perfect – querelle’s comment of it being “juicy and crisp” is spot on! I get the warmed raspberry note just behind it and a very light citrus. Cloves radiate wonderfully from the heart into both the top notes (opening) and segue into the spices and wood with the incense. A great note used very well here.
The heart is where the magic happens – the olibanum (incense) is simply beautiful. It really opens up and breathes after this has been on your skin for a while. So real as it captures your attention and doesn’t let go! Accompanied by a faint lily-of-the-valley along with a nice pinch of white pepper that sparkles in the heart. The pomegranate note stays for a while, but fades out into the middle-to-end of the heart.
The base is brilliantly composed of patchouli and cedar with a hint of musk (as a fixative – this lasts very well for an Eau de Cologne). Querelle’s comment on the patchouli and pepper mixed with the juicy pomegranate “turn it into a dark and wet cologne that dries out smelling like wet woods after rain” is very fascinating and an olfactory adventure one needs to behold. I get a moist feeling on top and the patchouli and cedar and guaiac wood base combined with the prominent incense note seem to dry it out some, but never all the way as well. There is a lot going on here. I love how it layers (or blends – not directly applied over one another)…with Gandini 1896’s bottling, Teak Wood. Stunning combination! However, each is fantastic unto themselves.
This is truly niche perfumery with fantastic ingredients and a very articulate and deft touch that has made this composition what it is – pure indulgence and aromatherapy! Harmonious and so wonderfully balanced. This could be worn year-round…including balmy summer evenings. It is not heavy, but so aromatic and balanced!
I burn incense for meditative purposes. It is so wonderful to have this scent in my collection as it brings compliments galore and is truly unisex. It is amazing on my wife as well.
The entire line of 1896 from Gandini is of amazing quality and while they are all Eau de Colognes, I feel they have more aromatic compounds in them than a lot of EdT’s on the market! Grazie Gandini!!! Superb and magnificent work here.
Very highly recommended! True niche quality that is composed of natural ingredients. I could not be more impressed – as I had never heard of the Gandini house prior to this line. I am thankful and blessed to have found it.
**UPDATE** – next to Jo Malone’s Pomegranate Noir, there are very clear similarities…longevity for both is exceptional for an EdC as well. While Jo Malone’s Pom Noir opens with a nice fruitiness and goes to cloves and woody notes, the Gandini juice is more smoky and has more peppery wood in the blend. One would have to decide for themselves as to which they like better, but I would go with Gandini based on both quality-to-price as well as how it evolves on my skin. Jo Malone’s Pom Noir is good – and both show development, but Gandini seems to have more ‘movement’…it is less linear in its stages. Kudos to Gandini for creating such a great scent that compares so well to a very nice ‘niche’ bottling.
IIK – :
The Gandini Pomegranate & Incense fragrance is simply scrumptous. When it starts, I get a complete sense of Christmas trees and warmth as the air imside is permeated by the smell of holiday spirit. Then, it settles into a quiet mood of falling rain and the wet earth beneath as you sit by an open window relaxing with a warm cup of tea. I get different sensatiions as this cologne dries down, and it is truly special. The notes aren’t as important as the feelings this fragrance evokes; this cologne is a moodring!
matery – :
One day I was in a blue mood, and my beloved once painted a scenario for me through his words; he told me to close my eyes and imagine I was sitting on the top of mountain surrounded by other mountains, and I am sitting underneath a beautiful large green tree. All around me were rain clouds but underneath this one tree where I am sitting, there is sunshine and no rain. This scent gives me this sort of feeling.
As querelle mentioned, this starts with pomegranate and raspberry and a hint of citrus; fruity fresh very cologne like. As this develops the incense slowly starts to come out mixed with pepper and lily of the valley, giving it a fresh feeling and not so cologne like anymore. Like querelle said “woods after the rain”. Surprisingly this citrus gets slightly stronger at this point, or maybe it is the combination of the incense and lily? This would smell marvelous on a man! The incense is there throughout the drydown, and the top fruit notes remain as well. This is an ever changing scent, but still it is a fresh incense and cooling incense; not the dark or heady kind.
Imagine a temple in Tibet on the top of a small hill; this one has a lot of soul, a holy spiritual scent. For a cologne the lasting power of this is AWESOME; lasts all day and night on skin! I like this a lot but it is too masculine for my skin, so I will give it my fiance so I can enjoy it on his warmer skin type :-). A must try. Serene, yet refreshing.
YarMaster – :
Starts with a blast of pomegranate’s quirkiness, ruby, juicy and crisp while the grapefruit gives it a mouth watering bitterness. And then, the divine incense takes over, giving it an intense woody character while the pepper and the patchouli turn it into a dark and wet cologne which you’ll enjoy from start to finish.
What is great with that cologne is the fact that they got a classic recipe and they’ve turned it into a modern beauty. It dries out smelling like wet woods after the rain.
Marvellous!