Italica

Opening: Cherry + Vanilla Toffee cookie + Almond nut + Milky-Lavender + Spices, possibly with Cardamom + a touch of citrus to brighten it up + Saffron to make it female leaning giving it a hint of mid 1980's perfumery smell + a touch of wood to give it's body a base + a touch of powder. Dense-velocity gourmand. You're not getting this scent & style in a regular department store. This is one of the most beautiful female leaning fragrances i've ever smelt! Id eat a girl up if she smelt like this! This is hyped?? I hear hardly no reviewers talking about this today, and imo this is slept-on! It's sexy. Even as a guy that bought Guerlain's - L’Homme Ideal as one of his first fragrances, and felt it's so cloying he never touched the bottle ever again and got so turned off from the note of Cherry in perfumery ever since, this just pulled me back into Cherry, (as well as Xerjoff's - Naxos). Cherry is not listed on the pyramid, but my nose is picking it up, whether it's in here or the ingredient combo is playing tricks on my olfactory, regardless it's the first & most prominent note i pick up on the opening. Interesting that the bottle color is also Cherry ;) AND, multiple people below me have also mentioned that note being in here as well. Im also shocked that Lavender is also not listed or even mentioned in the comments. Bizarre.. Mid/Heart: Cherry is still the strongest note, as is Saffron. The notes are becoming more distinguished within the heart dry-down process but over-all still smells the same, thus this is a linear fragrance - what you smell on the opening is what you get in the end-dryoff, just like their other frag 'Lira'. Im selling the 2 bottles of L’Homme Ideal that i bought and replacing it with Naxos and Italica for the best non-cloying cherry frags i've found to date (although i have just started casually exploring female frags because im curious to find the best for reason of opinion). Again im not the biggest fan of cherry in frags because it's not real cherry juice it's synthetic, and id rather eat & smell real cherries to my olfactory. Im not a fan of synthetic fruity notes as it smells fake & cheap, but with this frag i can give it a pass enough to keep my bottle. I feel it is slightly over-priced about $30-$50 but you can also argue that not only are you getting quality juice, but you are also getting a quality bottle, and some of the best packaging that i've found in the industry to date. The quality & artistry packaging for their gourmand line really is so fantastic you want to display the box on your shelf! <3 You are giving yourself the feeling of luxury when opening & owning this. This frag won't be for everyone, but if your nose's personality loves it then you'll love this dna for long-term. If what you are reading in my review sounds like it's to your liking, then you can safely blind-buy. But if you're still unsure it's 100% worth buying a sample. Personally im not "crazy" or "obsessed" with this fragrance dna, but i do enjoy it and respect it, and again it's pure quality in a bottle! Gentleman's clap to Xerjoff for this & Lira's frags. 4.5/5 Woofs!

S Y N T H E T I C S A F F R O N , MY BELOATHED Holy mother of smothering acrid cherrypit bitters. This indonone laden potion dances between careless splashes of bright marzipan liquor and effluviant vapors laced with mortuary cleaning chemicals, as benzaldehyde takes flight at first breath and escapes the room. This shocking combination of suffocating sensory messages leaves one to juggle a dry, stifling prim powdery almond accord over a heavy antique stack of weathered leatherbound tomes, with the wondrous acrid flavour from nervously nibbling cheap ink directly from your nearest pen barrel during a 3 am study deadline. Well within the hour, Delirium will insist this snack shall be sweet as any hallucinatory pastry found from fanning through thick sleek magazine pages, chasing shadowy fogbanks of baking sugarplum delight from one laminated splash page to the next... but there's nothing save cumulus clouds of fluffy musk dissipating quicker than cotton candy, and fleeting hints of cursed ancient cedarwood containing something stirring restlessly, what we shall not dare name. Italica is Something... marvelously gruesome for those Nightmares before Christmas. One must only use in the driest depths of the frozen times, to truly appreciate it's unholy, gangling, petrified and soulsucking beauty. This treat is not for tasting, it is one which consumes the wearer and leaves its crimescene without a trace soon after.

This is a nice fragrance, nice but not too playful. It makes you feel like you are using a luxury perfume as soon as you spray it because of the saffron and cinnamon in the opening (although there is no cinnamon in the announced notes) . Too much sweetness is going on🙊 Sweet and spicy... To enjoy this scent, you have to make sure you like sugary and spicy scents😃 And of course milk 🥛 The milk note is quite distinct. Although saffron and cinnamon fade into the background over time, they never leave the scene. It reminds me 100% of the smell of Starbucks' "caramel waffle" standing next to the cash register 🧇🤤. Sometimes it smells like biscuits when I smell it, but the milk note is always there. Although it is not a very tricky perfume, it was a perfume that made me very happy. Rather than sweet/sugar perfumes alone, spicy/sweet or woody/sweet scents give me real pleasure. 2 sprays for all day and you are good to go. This is how performance is insane. Even a single spray fills the room. So I think she definitely worth the money that will be spent. Gentlemen who like sweet scents will also like it. It's not a gender-selective perfume. I hope it doesn't disappear from the market ❤️

I feel I do not have much more to add beyond what has already been said about the fragrance. I DID blind-purchase a 100ml bottle. And yes at first, I felt uneasy and unsure about the fragrance. But as time passed and I wore the scent on a regular basis, I definitely fell in love. It's about four months later and Italica is a TOTAL love for me. One of my top 5-6 favorite fragrances currently. Italica is a STRONG, polarizing fragrance with clear identifiable notes. Opens with an EXTREMELY powerful, strong, almost astringent almond and saffron accord. The almond-saffron notes quickly blend with milky, lactonic, creamy, sweet and sugary, bakery-type notes. There's an almond croissant, or almond biscotti-type feeling with Italica. Quickly sandalwood and musk notes emerge, which add the perfect base to an otherwise very sweet fragrance. The perfume lands and wears as a strong vanilla, slightly spicy, musky, sandalwood fragrance with prominent toffee almond notes. You gotta love ALMOND fragrance, like Almond Extract kinda fragrance (aroma) to love this. For me, the creamy, dense, well-blended, super lactonic, woody, musky, almond, toffee dry-down is to die for. Total obsession-love.

I hated this perfume. Truly hated it. Every time I smelled Italica, it was nauseatingly sweet to me. Overwhelming. Too much. I told everyone this was my one blind buy fail and fully planned to sell it. When I checked reseller sites, there were tons of bottles listed, which honestly made me feel validated. Like okay, it’s not just me. I decided to keep it anyway, thinking I’d eventually layer it with something or revisit it later. About a year passed. I tried it again and... wow. I love this perfume now. I mean love it. I’m so glad I didn’t get rid of it. On my skin, it smells beautiful. Rich, creamy, and comforting. It gives off a cherry almond vibe even though there’s no cherry note. I know that’s the saffron doing its thing, but my nose reads it as sweet almond with a soft cherry nuance, and I’m obsessed. It’s also very long lasting. I’ve been sniffing my arm all day like a weirdo because it just keeps getting better as it wears. This one taught me a lesson. Some perfumes need time. Skin chemistry changes. Taste evolves. What once felt like too much can turn into something magical. I wear Italica now, and I genuinely love it.