Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Verdigris, Charcoal and Cyprium Review – 2021

Perfume trios tend to be a mixed bag. More often than not, only one of the three is worth bothering with and the other two are best forgotten. So it’s worth celebrating the fact that in the new XXX trilogy of releases from Zegna (note: the brand would like us to read those letters as ‘triple stitch’) there’s just the one dud. I reviewed all three compositions – Charcoal by Frank Voelkl and Cyprium and Verdigris by Alexis Grugeon– in a recent episode of Love At First Scent. Here’s a link: Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Verdigris, Cyprium and Charcoal review.

As I say in the video, although Charcoal is very pleasing, the one to seek out from this set is Verdigris: an unsettling combination of greens, woods and – unusually, for a scent marketed towards men – ice-cold aldehydes. They come together to form an effect that is both organic and futuristic, like genetically-modified grass growing on a sealed-off space station. Strange and compelling.

Persolaise

[Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Verdigris, Cyprium and Charcoal reviews based on samples provided by the brand in 2021.]

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