This perfume really got my hopes up only to disappoint. It’s supposed to lead with lemon and blood orange, with herbal notes of Chinotto, evoking Campari, with a balsamic base chord and touches of violet leaf and incense. As a negroni devotee and lover of bitter Italian sodas, that all sounds fantastic to me, but on my skin, I find it mostly just smells like cheap orange dish detergent and then dries down to something unpleasantly powdery (that’s the violet and the musk ambrette, probably). I simply do not like it, which is a bummer, because I really wanted to.
0
2 years ago
Italian Citrus, from DS&Durga was released in 2011. The perfumer behind this creation is David Seth Moltz. The notes are Ambrette (Musk Mallow), Bitter Orange, Blood Orange, Citruses, Green Notes, Lemon, Mandarin Orange, Musk.
This perfume really got my hopes up only to disappoint. It’s supposed to lead with lemon and blood orange, with herbal notes of Chinotto, evoking Campari, with a balsamic base chord and touches of violet leaf and incense. As a negroni devotee and lover of bitter Italian sodas, that all sounds fantastic to me, but on my skin, I find it mostly just smells like cheap orange dish detergent and then dries down to something unpleasantly powdery (that’s the violet and the musk ambrette, probably). I simply do not like it, which is a bummer, because I really wanted to.