Dolce Shine

I am not coming here to say that Dolce Shine is a masterpiece perfume, but I genuinely believe that it deserves a higher rating than 3.69, which is what it scores when I am reviewing it. From the entire Dolce line, Dolce Garden and Dolce Shine are the best. With the caveat that I have not tried Dolce Blue Jasmine... But back to the original point, Shine is an absolute must for summertime for those who want a perfectly balanced scent between various white flowers, tropical fruits, cool/ozonic and warm/solar notes, salt, citrus and woods. I promise you, it’s spectacular in offering the wearer the best of all these accords. Effortless, pretty, fun, flirty, fruity, tropical, sweet and salty in the background, it’s a joy to wear Dolce Shine! It makes me feel like I am fully enjoying the best, bright and beautiful sunny day every time I am wearing this perfume! For me, it’s a mood booster for sure! At the time of launch, the world was in a terrible state because of the pandemic, and I m feel that this might be one of the reasons why Shine is not so popular as Garden. Cause it should be! I hope that my review will inspire more people to go to their local perfume store and give this beauty a shot. I’m sure more will come to appreciate this little underrated gem from the Dolce line. Performance is not the best, but it lasts a decent amount of time especially with heavy spraying. I get a full day wear with moderate to minimal sillage! Priced fairly decent especially if bought from discounted sites for the way it performs.

I love tuberose and got convinced by reviews who were complaining about tuberose being too strong (tuberose is never too strong for me lol) and I was looking for some tropical vacation fresh scent possibly with tuberose. I get very little tuberose in dry down, but almost non at opening, I strongly dislike those solar notes which I think make it bit synthetic. Although opening is bit scratchy, dry down is definitely nicer, actually I would say creamy like creamy lemon ice cream, if only first hour wasn’t that chemical. I’m forcing my self to like it and honestly it’s not as bad as it was at first, especially dry down in nice, maybe it just needs summer and humid weather to get in to its full glory. Can’t wait to test it on the beach. EDIT: So we had couple of hot days and I can already tell I’m happy I didn’t sell this perfume, it’s such a lovely summer scent, it acts totally different than in winter. It’s not as scratchy and I can get tuberose right away from beginning. Actually find my self grabbing it almost every time when planning to stay outdoors or evening patio sitting. It’s very feminine, I love it for now🤷🏻♀️. UPDATE: I just received sample of Replica Beach Walk in my mail, is identical to Dolce Shine at last on my skin.

This is the most convincing V&R Salty Flower dupe I've smelled so far. It's the tiniest bit more sweet and feminine than Salty Flower. But the heart and dry down is nearly identical (on my skin). That being said... This is not an overtly tropical beach scent. It doesn't pull a super strong coconutty spf smell. It's not a fruity cocktail. It's more like a big white linen bedsheet that's been used as a beach blanket several times without being washed. A sandy towel. Dry green grass growing out of the sand dunes. The ocean beating on some minerally jetty stones. Sun-drenched skin that's started to sweat a bit. The breeze coming off the ocean and drying the sea water from your hair. Your sun glasses sliding down your nose because your skin is greasy from your lotion. Your big floppy sun hat. The infinite blue sky during the hottest part of the day. That feeling you get when you're lying so still and you can almost feel heat cycling through your skin. Your body trying to give off heat as quickly as it absorbs it from the sun. This scent is an experience (at least for me, because I spent many years living next to the beach). This can transport you to a very particular place. Very very impressed. I want a full bottle!

This is such a lovely perfume from beginning to end. I enjoyed it the whole time! The opening is bright and fruity in such a fresh, sunny way. The fruit is not too syrupy, synthetic, or sweet, it just smells fresh. It smells almost more tropical in its initial spray than the dry-down. The midway dry down smells like creamy, sunny honeysuckles. I know honeysuckle is not listed as a note, but that's what the blend reminded me of. It was so happy and warm smelling, but not too cloying (as florals/honeysuckle can sometimes be). It's probably the solar notes and salt that help balance out that sweetness. In the final drydown I get more of the musk and sandalwood, and it smells like a floral sunset - floral and bright, but a little deeper. As you can see, in all three of my descriptions of the phases, I use "sun" in some form. The solar notes really come out to play on me, and it smells divine and different at each phase. It does feel tropical and beachy, but not in a typical sense. More like, a sunny, breezy day walking the boardwalk in a sun dress at a fair near the ocean. I feel like its name and color definitely match the scent! Probably a pretty safe blind buy. Really glad I picked this up on a whim!

A tropical fruity fresh floral, tuberose here is tolerable and made fresh with the solar notes and ozonic notes. It definitely has a “solar” vibe and leans more tropical than white floral. I was testing perfumes in Ulta for something new and decided to get this for something fun and cheerful that is not a rose perfume. I love white florals as well as I love rose perfumes and sometimes I just want something different than rose, but white florals can be cloying and heavy for me sometimes. This is a white floral that has been made fun and fruity and aquatic so if you like those types of perfumes this will be something that you will be able to live with. I was afraid the longevity would not be very good compared to my past purchases of this line but it’s not bad and not ground breaking either. I do have to reapply it after about 4 to 5 hours. It does not have a very big sillage but noticeable to those close by which is nice too.