BVLGARI
Omnia Crystalline EDT

2005

PERFUMER
alberto morillas

Bamboo
pear

Lotus
Tea
Cassia

Musk
Guaiac Wood
Oakmoss

I was entirely unfamiliar with the Omnia line, aside from thinking that the bottles look pretty great. Crystalline EDT is my first attempt at this collection (via a miniature for 2010 I believe).

This is pretty nice and interesting. It features bamboo as a note and the only bamboo fragrance I have in my collection is Ella K Poeme de Sagano. I’d say overall, the two are quite similar, with the Bvlgari being sharper and brighter and the Ella K more fruity.

Omnia Crystalline is a very ‘high-frequency’ fragrance; zesty, acidic, veering almost into reminding me off an air freshener. It has a clear, alcoholic tinge, like the oil you put fragrance sticks in. That being said, it never goes over the line and is very wearable as a perfume.

It has a light green tinge; more the tea than the oakmoss to my nose; it does not register like a chypre per se. Mostly floral, clean musk and a watery fruitiness from the pear. I like the pear here. Alberto Morillas did Tommy Hilfiger Tommy 10 years prior (that’s a fragrance I always said could use a revival), and Omnia Crystalline makes me think of a slightly feminine pear counterpart to the fresh apple Tommy.

It makes for something that would probably cut through the warmest of weather. It almost demands a crisp, white t-shirt or linen to match with. About as clean as you can make a fragrance, before falling into cleaning-product territory.

Not something I particularly gravitate towards and I do prefer my slightly more full-bodied Poeme de Sagano, but an excellent fragrance nonetheless.