Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo - Cipresso di Toscana

I remember when I first started collecting. I always liked cypress and pine as favorite notes. This was discontinued. Glad it's back! It was a blind buy. I heard it had a lot of anise, which is often too sharp and bitter for my taste. I was glad at first impression, I got the anise, but it's perfectly blended with the citrus. It felt a bit peppery, like the Blenheim Bouquet structure of citrus, pepper, lavender, conifer. A lot of cheepos have poor synthetic cypress. But the cypress and pine are quite good and recognizable. The cypress took some time to be really noticable, around the mid. It's fresh and spicy in an Italian way perhaps. Love the conifer base. Will be best in Summer, but has good enough projection to be enjoyable in Winter. Just a side note: Clive Christian Cypress, is the best quality, realistic cypress I have found. PS: Just put it as my signature for Summer. It takes 15 minutes to settle to a harmonious fragrance of spicy, green, conifer fougere. Fresh yet has warm spicy touches. Rating: 8.25/10 God bless. John 3:16

This is a beautiful scent, but I think it is more appreciable if you've ever spent any time in Tuscany, and I say this for a reason. AdPs Blu Mediterraneo line first came out while I was living in a small town in Tuscany. As a fan of this house, I immediately investigated the new line at a local boutique, and Tuscan Cypress resonated with me greatly. It was EXACTLY the scent of the town I'd been living in and what I loved so much about the "air" and atmosphere around me. I purchased two bottles right away, and over the years, it became harder to find. I have a few from this collection, but CdT is my favorite. During my time in Italy, I traveled to many regions and towns throughout the country, and Blu Mediterraneo does an excellent job in capturing the "essence" and vibe of each of the locations in its lineup both through using extraits indigenous to those regions and in transporting you there, yourself. Magical.

Sea water..the first sensation at very first sprinkle is of sea water! I love how Acuqa di Parma has such natural tendencies ( in the only 2 that I have tested). Another enjoyeable facet of this perfume is that the florals are just enough, never too forward or sweet, and there are so many individually distinguishable notes-and so many perfectly blended and meshed combinations of scents here. I do love unisex perfumes, this one leans towards masculine. I think it is the lavender, sage, petit grain, all combining together, and then, the added zing of pine and sometimes cypress, that makes it so manly. However, the cardamon here is not so strong, neither the patchouli. The sillage is medium to high, the lasting power is long and excellent. (The spicy notes last forever during the dry down). Highly enjoyable, leafy, herbal, fresh, a bit of a voyage in a bottle.

I recently discovered this lovely gem. It reminds me of scents like Halston Z-14 and Ralph Lauren Polo (Green). To me, there's something very nostalgic about it. I guess, the men around me when I was a child, back in the early 80's, smelled similar. Thus, this is my perception of what a real man is supposed to smell like and I love it. I feel, I gravitate more and more towards these old school type of fragrances. I don't understand the criticism about the longevity. I've worn it a couple of times now and it lasts, especially on clothes. I sprayed it around 19 hours ago now and I can still smell it prominently on my shirt. The other day I sprayed it on my arm and also got a good 8 hours of a nice whiff now and again. Such a shame that it's discontinued. You can still find it, but it's going and soon it'll just be another memory of how men used to smell...

Brilliant stuff from ADP. A clean, piney top with the characteristic soapiness in the drydown. I have no idea where fragrantica got their fictional note list from. According to ADP’s website, the notes for this fragrance are: Top: orange, elemi, star anise Mid: lavandin, clary sage, petit grain Base: cypress, pine needles, fir balsam The longevity is solid with this one, more so than others in the Blu Mediterrano line. Cipresso's piny qualities are quite different than other masculine pines like Polo, Quorum, One Man Show, etc. Do not be quick to dismiss it if you haven't cared for piney scents before-this is all done with debonair nonchalance, as if the fragrance is carried to you on the breeze rather than condensing thick in a murky miasma in a coniferous bog. A perfect summer woody scent.