Note Di Colonia V

My goodness, this is quite wonderful. I have a pretty full range of great AdP fragrances (big fan) but this is a level up. Ordered it as an indulgence (which it is) and it just about justifies the headline price: an apparently simple scent that develops and lingers due to the very high quality of ingredients - you want to keep sniffing where it has been sprayed! I had a sample before buying the full bottle, but have to say that that the sample did not do justice to the fullness of this scent. Juniper, ginger and cedar are all there alongside the citrus, all in a very rounded way. There is a wonderful powdery-ness as it dries down, as others have noted. Unisex, tending towards feminine or at least a kind of softness. I have and continue to like Note I - however Note V is my new favourite.

Je porte ce parfum en rédigeant ce commentaire, j'obtiens un superbe odeur d'agrumes de gingembre à l'ouverture, et oui le gingembre vient assez tôt je pense que cette note fais partie de l'ouverture, le parfum évolue légèrement à l'installation des notes de fond. ce parfum est doux léger et agréable, le sillage est modéré. Je suis le genre de personne qui aime les parfum avec un fort sillage mais celui malgré sa douceur est le meilleur parfum de ma collection, j'ai utilisé plus d'une centaine de parfum en ce moment j'en ai une cinquantaine dans ma collection. ce parfum est d'une beauté difficilement descriptible: pour ceux que ça intéresse j'en ai fais une review complète sur ma chaine youtube en français "Billo LY"

From a 0,7ml sample: Smells like zesty lemon/ sweet lemon dessert. Overpowering lemon in the top note, but slowly settles to lighter woody note.I am picking up hints of seasalt or aquatic notes (?). Still a very refined and masculine scent given the frutiness. Very nice very Italian, very organic and very simple, but given it being simple, it might be better to look for similar and cheaper alternatives, since this one is $500 (!!)

This fragrance is really super nice. Clean, fresh, long lasting with a strong clean natural citrus opening and a really warm and inviting ginger beating heart with woody underpinnings. It's not revolutionary, it's not unique, but it is expertly blended with the highest quality of raw materials leading to an exceptional scent that just exudes class. This is peak citrus ADP. A real treat.

Wearing again this evening reminds me how quite wonderful this fragrance is - the intrinsic quality of the ingredients gives it such a luminous shine. Still my #1 from AdP. Though at the price point I sadly have to ration its use...