Imperial Woods Eau De Cologne by Tru Fragrances & Beauty

Who are Tru Fragrances?

Tru Fragrances was previously known as Romane Fragrances. Bernie Dworin founded Romane Fragrances in 1969 to develop and distribute a variety of scents. Romane Fragrances has been delivering fine fragrances and personal care products to customers all around the world for nearly 40 years. Today, Tru Fragrances continues to give its on-trend, creative stamp to each and every product brought to market including Tru’s own managed brands, private labels, and licensed brands.

In their own words:

Their distinctive approach has supported brands and retailers to reach their maximum potential for over fifty years. They create a completely customized strategy based on the ever-evolving, long-term needs of their clients, managing relationships with their unmatched infrastructure of global partners.

With main offices located in New York and Chicago; satellite offices in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, London, and Dallas; and sourcing and manufacturing partners in the United States, Italy, Canada, India, and China, they have the architecture to support your business from anywhere.

Imperial Woods

This is another strip mall find, and little is known about this fragrance online. The bottle has a squat-like cylindrical shape and actually weighs a fair bit. The liquid is a light green precipitating a sense of herbaceous-ness. The cap is fantastic, a wooden feel with a secured vacuum slide down to an assuring stop point. The atomiser is one of the best I've had in awhile.

This has that usual non-descript fresh opening. Some floral notes, some green crisp pine notes also. It has that immediate push of swiss cabin lodge about it. Incredibly light, not overly

luxurious and certainly not sweet. Yet there is enough crispness and mystique involved to keep you on your toes.

What it is not, is invasive. It sits very close and I find the projection just a little bit wanting. The pinewood is very prominent still, but then I get a little forest floor, fused with a trace of black pepper. It has a delightful aromatic climb-down that doesn’t really land on anything with two feet. That said it's not bland, and it doesn't pretend to be anything it's not.

Where to wear?

I would consider wearing this to client meetings, walking the dogs early Spring, collecting the kids from nursery etc. You could wear this to the office also because it's not a cheap smell, and it doesn't encroach on anyone's space.

If you were heading out you could also layer this with a Jo Malone Wildflower and Weeds scent. An oldy but a goody if you can still get hold of it. I reviewed it here awhile back and recently found an old bottle tucked away. This bottle also looks good on the shelf.