Guanabo by Renier Perfumes

Always fresh proposals from Renier. If you’re looking for something generic like Tommy Hilfiger, forget it; this is pure personality. It evokes a real Caribbean summer: beach, fruits, herbs, and seaweed. On my skin, it evolves beautifully, with every burst feeling new and transporting me to the coast. It starts fresh and fruity, then shifts to herbal-floral after half an hour. The seaweed note is handled with mastery; it doesn’t dominate but accompanies perfectly. Performance and projection are excellent. Totally unisex. Congratulations for escaping the commercial mould.

I was looking for a summer perfume and bought a marine beast similar to the kraken (I don’t know how to spell it). It opens with a critical lunge of lemons mixed with semi-wet seaweed and a cold or fresh sensation (probably the ambroxan) that reminds me of a cleaning product I can’t quite identify now. Then you note the floral mix along with passion fruit. I find it very sensual and dare to say something animal too. It lasts a long time on the skin and trail: more of the same, richly for over 10 hours, yes, because we know how Miguel Matos spends his time when he gets into his laboratory. For me, who likes challenging perfumes, it has been a success. It’s very fresh, gives you a boost and makes you smile when you go out into the street wearing your kraken. Hahaha

Love and hate with this one. It smells like the shoreline where rocks trap seaweed until it’s almost rotting, mixed with a sharp marine note. I love the sea and live on the coast, but this won me over. There are strange moments where I think of waves crashing against rocks. If you like smelling like Bill Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean after rubbing himself in piles of seaweed, it’s for you. Olfactory experience 10, quality at the top. Stellar performance on my skin, although it wrinkled the faces of people nearby on paper. Sincerely, I think almost no one will like it, but it blew my mind and made me rethink my perfumery world.

Imbalance in the seaweed note, very heavy, I couldn’t handle it, although Renier always brings quality, exclusivity and originality. Not for me.

After waiting for the heat and challenging myself with Behique and Cacique, I ventured into this creation by Miguel Matos. It’s the last of the Taíno+Turkey set I wanted to try. I left it for last for a personal reason: it mixes two notes I don’t like, lily of the valley and marine accord. The opening is very citrusy and astringent; the bitter petitgrain lasts a while until the heart with the bergamot’s acidity, where that lily slap hit me. If it weren’t for the fruit, I’d be washing my skin. It’s a salty white floral phase; the jasmine is barely noticeable, it’s green. The marine notes dominate the entire life like a wave: a high peak of seaweed at the start, declining in the heart and hitting again at the end. At four hours, the trail dropped and only the marine afterimage remained with ambroxan, sweet and juicy passion fruit, and light floral touches. It’s not a bad perfume, but it’s nothing to my taste. For warm weather, unisex. Moderate projection, excellent longevity.

I like Renier fragrances, but not with Guanabo. Longevity and projection are very good, but its powerful citrusy and herbal opening sadly reminds me of a floor cleaner sold here. Perhaps in other countries it’s novel, but here it is like that. After six hours, it changes and the expected marine notes appear, very similar to BVLGARI Aquamarine but better structured, more realistic and natural. However, the projection is very low, almost skin-scent, lasting 1 or 2 hours before disappearing completely.

Guanabo is the safe bet for a summer at full throttle and full of conquest. Renier’s new proposal with Miguel Matos further enriches the Taino line, alongside its sisters Behique, Cacique and Habana 500. Guanabo arrives with freshness, summer elegance and irresistible seduction. My compatriot Renier keeps raising the bar; anyone wanting to stand out and walk through life smelling as God intended now knows the magic name is Renier Perfumes 💯