Aromaticity is one of the most important concepts in chemistry that addresses the interplay between molecular topology, chemical bonding, and stability. The concept is not restricted to the carbon-based molecular rings, and for various chemical elements there might be a wealth of topologically differentiated two-and three-dimensional structures associated with considerable aromatic stabilization. Very recently in this journal Peerless et al. isolated and investigated the heterometallic cluster [{CpRu}3Bi6] -(1 -) containing at its heart the Bi6 2-cage of the elongated trigonal prism topology. To explain its exceptionally high abundance and selective formation tendency (as compared to other Zintl clusters) as well as the unusual magnetic-response properties, the authors introduced the so-called φ-aromaticity. Here, we show that introducing a new type of aromaticity in this case seems unjustified and somewhat misleading.