Somehow, even concentrated several times over, it preserves its shape and avoids dissolving into a metallic briny mess. This is a fascinating salt note, intriguing rather than chilling. Miraculously, it all but almost entirely avoids the metallic effect that marine notes can sometimes have, successfully siloing the saltiness in the realm of seawater rather than that of blood or the inside of a dryer. Perhaps the salt is drawn out by all the other contrasting deep and heavy notes it makes sense that, like every other facet of Acqua di Giò, the marine notes have been concentrated several times over. The sea notes here feel much saltier to me than in the original. The marine heart of the original is here, and it is pleasant, albeit exaggerated to match the swaggering contours of everything else. This is one of the more interesting and distinct sporty blue scents out there, so if you like that sort of thing and aren’t opposed to salt, Profondo is for you. Still, unlike some similar blue gym scents, that freshness in Profondo manages to convey actual notes: the aromatics of the original are still here, along with a heavy dose of innovative new sea notes. It’s fresh in that intense, moody, hefty way that sporty flankers in indigo-to-charcoal bottles often are. This is a fresh but not refreshing twist on the original that turns the sea notes and aquatic and marine accords way up, turning the 90s classic into a 2000s deodorant-and-locker-rooms, beast-mode-gym-bro blue fragrance. This is one in a long line of modern bright blue fragrances that are loud, disdainful, and rife for post-workout over-spraying, only slightly better put together than many of its peers. Gone are the subtlety, the carefully constructed pyramid of notes, everything but the central marine DNA of the original. Passably pleasant and utterly uninteresting, this is the 2000s sporty frat boy reincarnation of the original Acqua di Giò.
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