Bruce Willis Personal Edition
Bruce Willis (2014)

A pleasant surprise, really. Bruce Willis Personal Edition opens quite classically with a typical aromatic/herbal chypre (floral) accord kind of reminiscence of virile classics a la Borsalino by Borsalino or Basile Uomo (Henry Cottons, Trussardi Action etc). I get citrus, herbal woodsy "refreshment" and melancholic sharp floral shades (jasmine, cyclamine, geranium?). Sharp spices are included in the mix and black pepper in particular provides a sharply shadowy atmosphere a la Gucci by Gucci Homme. Gradually, along the way, tobacco and leather jump up, the first of two quite mild (moderately), rounding and flavoured, the second quite mastering and characterizing the real substance of the aroma. Dry down is indeed really leathery and with woody-floral-herbal nuances. I can surely say that Personal Edition's neo-classic dry down is not so distant from Ungaro III's final trail (just more properly nuanced by leather, less spicy and "kind of diluted" at same time). It seems to detect shades of lavender, musks and fern in the background, something still conjuring the superior (and more articulate) Borsalino, a scent from which Personal Edition could ideally (or effectively) have been inspired (being Borsalino, less leathery, more floral, more angular, ambery, herbal/aromatic and in general more nuanced). Honestly I don't get oud at all. The final wake is leathery, hyper masculine, slightly ambery, musky/cedary and "seasoned" by a warm tobacco's presence. An honest take on a classic leather (aromatic/chypre/fougere) theme, a fragrance potentially attractive for all kinds of women looking for a protective figure of man.