Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo - Arancia La Spugnatura

The best release of 2023 for me personally. I love citrus freshies anyway, but I think this might be my favourite straight up citrus forward fragrance ever. I basically just get the citruses but with very light touches of sweetness and creaminess, but the orange/mandarin easily stand out above everything else in the mix. Longevity is excellent for this type of fragrance, citrus heavy fragrances don't tend to last all that long, but on clothes this lasts all day. On skin it's about average but on my t-shirt I was still smelling it in the night after spraying it on at 8am and being in work all day. Named due to the process of rubbing the citrus fruits against a sponge and draining the infused oils. This seems to have done wonders for the longevity of the citruses within this fragrance, as well as how great they smell. This is a stunner and perfect for hot/warm summer days, and totally unisex. 10/10 from me.

The best citrus scent I've ever smelled. It smells like the juiciest Sicilian blood orange you've ever had, but with a touch of vanilla sweetness and the tiniest bit of spice to round things out. Not too grassy or fresh which I like, and also smells like a real perfume, not like "mm i want to eat this" which I also like. It's true it's not very complex, you will smell like citrus with this on and everyone will say "yep that's citrus" but I have never smelled another citrus scent that is so good. I'm usually a fall-winter fragrance kind of person but this spring-summer one is a delight. Savoring it since we'll never be able to buy it again :,-(

The smoother and less punch in yo face citrus arancia di capri with a gorgeous dry down. If you love arancia di capri and dont know this smell its not really blindbuy safe but it is at the same time. Youll love it but not like arancia di capri. Imagine capri being an orange straight from a tree on a beach. Spugnatura is you drinking that oranges juice on a nice relaxing beach chair with a sofa in fancy clothes watching the sun set over the horizon. Love it.

Interesting, this fragrance smells different on tester strip than it does on skin. On tester it's more orange focused, while on skin you still get the orange but it adds what seems like a marine quality to it, maybe a calone or ambergis, especially in the drydown. Loving this so far and I am glad I picked it up.

Had to buy it after smelling it in a perfumery. Very nice take on a summer citrus scent. Unique juicyness that smells very natural. Drydown is a leafy mandarin zest with a bit of spicynes and creaminess coming from almond and musk. It's a bit expensive so don't go for it if you're short on budget.