Ruben Dias has been a solid acquisition for Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City ever since his arrival at the club in the 2020/21 season, even helping them reach the Champions League final in his very first season itself. A leader with excellent defensive prowess, Dias has been a permanent fixture at the base of the defence, the first name on the team-sheet.
Ruben was also part of the well-oiled machine that was City that won the historic treble last season, winning the Premier League (a third consecutive time, a streak started during Dias’ first season), the FA Cup and of course, the title that has eluded the club for long, the biggest club competition in the world, the UEFA Champions League. While Haaland and De Bruyne took care of business in the final third, it was Dias and co. that shored up the defence at the back.
Recently, Netflix dropped a docuseries following this treble-winning City team and their journey chasing Champions League glory. The series is an instant hit among football fans providing buildup to and aftermath of the biggest games City faced that season including the run-in with Arsenal and the volatile Champions League knockout ties. The dressing room footage especially deserves special attention. So intense and upbeat in equal measure, it is bound to get you hooked.
One such footage involved the players getting ready before a game, and there was Ruben Dias putting on some exotic fragrance over his impressive drool-worthy physique before he took to the field. That bottle of perfume caught the attention of many viewers and it sparked a full-blown search for it on X.com. As random yet observant the X.com (formerly Twitter) football community is, it is as out-of-context as they come.
A user, after extensive research of its own, found the brand and presented its findings before the X football community. The user, rásputin fagioli, was glad to reveal before everyone the brand as ‘Maison Marigela’ of Paris. The scent was also found to be ‘Replica’, due to its ‘reproduction of familiar scents and moments of varying locations and periods’, as the brand suggests.
The case seemed closed, shut and solved, only for Arhlzz, another user, to blow it wide open once again.
The conclusions of his research differ widely from that of their counterpart. Arhlzz replies to fagioli and claims, that the perfume being used by Dias in the frame, is not actually Replica by Maison Margiela, but in fact, a Hibiscus Mahajad by Maison Crivelli.
He did not stop there either, he even presented detailed evidence as to why it is the Mahajad and not the Replica. So determined he was to prove it is not the latter, Arhlzz provided insight into the difference between the length of the white strips on the bottle of the perfumes which contained the details of the scent and the caps of the bottle.
His passion was contagious. It convinced the football community of his findings, that the perfume donned by Ruben Dias’ shredded bod, was indeed, Hibiscus Mahajad. Well, almost. While even now, especially now, the case may seem solved, some viewers are still sceptical about the assumed conclusion. The writer of this post happens to be one of them.
Unfortunately, until there is total agreement on the matter, the findings of one or other cannot be deemed to be absolute. So, while the case is up in the air, such a curious case at that, the brand of the perfume remains a mystery waiting to be solved.
Over to you again, X.
