Perverso
Baruti (2019)

Perverso is the fragrance from Baruti that was most interesting to me when I first smelled some of the line at Perfumology in Philadelphia, clearly a dark, sweet, spicy, semi-gourmand from the onset, and I’d be remiss to omit any of the interesting notes: rum, roasted nut, cocoa powder, caramel fudge, fig, tobacco leaf, styrax, musk, and ambergris. Most of all, I get the roasted nut, caramel fudge, tobacco leaf, and styrax, a sweet and spicy blend that leans slightly sweeter but clearly with a lot of non-sweet components, too.

Perverso is in the vein of a Slumberhouse fragrance, with its dark juice, and scent characterized by a sort of sweet/spicy but not entirely gourmand mix. It’s not quite as sweet nor resinous as, say, Bruno Fazzolari Ummagumma, instead, rather, a mix of the gourmand elements crossed with tobacco and styrax. So bits of Slumberhouse Jeke and Ore, perhaps.

It’s a dense extrait de parfum, with exceptional performance, and is priced at $140 for 30ml, sold at great boutiques like Perfumology and Tigerlily Perfumery, both of which offer spray samples.

Overall, it’s great, even if it does not rank among the very best in this category like some of the Slumberhouse offerings, and I definitely recommend trying it out if you like those types of fragrances, as I surely do.

8 out of 10