Fugazzi Nicocello Review: The Citrus Woody Extrait of 2026

Every few years the fragrance world performs a collective palate cleanse. We spent the early 2020s marinating in gourmands — vanilla, praline, burnt sugar, syrup poured over amber — and the pendulum was always going to swing back toward clarity. In 2026, that swing has a name: Nicocello. Fugazzi, the Amsterdam-based house that built its reputation on playful, pop-inflected sweetness, has done something quietly radical. It has released an extrait de parfum built almost entirely around citrus and wood. No dessert accord. No vanilla. No sugar. Just blood orange, bergamot, citron and lemon, sharpened with black pepper, briefly sweetened by pineapple, and then set down on a thoroughly modern woody-amber foundation of Pepperwood, Akigalawood, Georgywood and Ambrofix. On paper that reads like a summer cologne. On skin, it reads like something else entirely — a high-concentration citrus with the tenacity of a resin, the kind of fragrance that makes you realise how rarely the genre is taken seriously. Nicocello is not a splash of lemonade. It is citrus as architecture.