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Un Uomo Italiano

Un Uomo Italiano

Inspired by Born In Roma Uomo, Valentino

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

€25,00
€123,00 €25,00
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Inspired by: Born In Roma Uomo, Valentino
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Un Uomo Italiano is an eau de parfum, 50 ml, with roughly 20% fragrance oil, priced at an affordable €25 like every one of our perfume dupes. Free shipping applies on orders from €49, with delivery in 2 to 5 working days.

Valentino sells Born In Roma Uomo as an eau de parfum, and Un Uomo Italiano matches that concentration rather than a lighter eau de toilette or a heavier extrait de parfum. That is what lets the vetiver and woody base hold their shape for hours.

Handmade in small batches, vegan and cruelty free. Not for you? Un Uomo Italiano can be exchanged within 15 days.

Among the more intense, woody fragrances we make, this one holds its vetiver base especially well through a full day. It isn't built as a feminine scent, though a fair number of women who like clean, mineral fragrances wear it too.

NOTES

Top notes

Mineral notes, violet leaf, salt

Heart notes

Sage, ginger

Base notes

Woody notes, vetiver

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Un Uomo Italiano is our perfume dupe of Valentino Born In Roma Uomo, made for anyone who wants that clean, salty-mineral opening without hunting down the original bottle every time it runs low. Mineral notes, violet leaf and salt open it, sage and ginger carry the heart, and it settles into woody notes and vetiver that keep the whole thing grounded.

The mineral and salt accord reads almost like skin rather than a classic fougere, and the ginger adds just enough warmth to stop it feeling cold. Longevity sits around 6 to 9 hours, with sillage strongest in the first couple of hours before settling into something closer to the skin. Anyone who has looked into Born In Roma Uomo before buying already knows the profile, and Un Uomo Italiano smells like that same modern, mineral-forward original.

Un Uomo Italiano is one of the Valentino dupes people search for directly, and it isn't a thin clone, more an intense, mineral-forward take on that same Born In Roma Uomo profile. The salt and vetiver pairing is what lines up closest with the original, while the sage and ginger of the middle notes bridge the opening and the vetiver base.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Un Uomo Italiano

Inspired by: Born In Roma Uomo, Valentino

Un Uomo Italiano is an easy wear from spring through summer, when the mineral and salt opening feels fresh rather than intense, and the woody base keeps it just as wearable into autumn and winter. Office wear is easy since it never gets loud, and it holds up into the evening without needing a second spray.

This is a masculine fragrance made for men who want something clean rather than sweet, built for him more than for anyone chasing a soft, powdery scent.

Understated rather than niche or unusual, it lands closer to a modern classic than a statement scent, which is why it works as a daily bottle.

Choose our Inspiration

Valentino is the Italian luxury design house behind Born In Roma Uomo, part of a designer fragrance line that leans on the brand's Roman roots rather than typical fougere cliches. It sits alongside the original Born In Roma as the men's counterpart, aimed at a cleaner, more mineral take on the story.

People usually shorten it in conversation, just Born In Roma. That original, with its salt and vetiver base, is the reference every version like Un Uomo Italiano is trying to sit close to, not replace.

Valentino built Born In Roma Uomo as part of a wider reinvention of the house's fragrance line, moving away from older, sweeter Valentino releases toward something cleaner. It's one of the Valentino fragrances that keeps coming up whenever people compare mineral, salt-forward scents.

Why choose us?

Un Uomo Italiano is our alternative to Valentino Born In Roma Uomo, an independent blend made with French fragrance oils and filled by hand in small batches, with no link to the original house.

We only make it as an eau de parfum, since that is the concentration that carries this kind of mineral and vetiver combination best. If it does not feel similar to what you remember, send it back within 15 days and we will sort an exchange.

It isn't a clone pressed from the same mould, more an intense alternative built from its own recipe, and it stays affordable whichever Valentino fragrance inspired it.