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.

Surprisingly, this perfume smells so sunny and optimistic. Sure it's not mind-blowing or revolutionary, but does it cheer me up in the grey and rainy weather of the UK? Sure does! I wouldn't call this a mango scent at all tbh, but more like a fresh and slightly sweet pear, which is perfect for me because it reminds me of the summer days in my childhood when I would eat pears from my grandpa's prized pear tree! Quite floral too, so I pair this with a perfume oil that's deeper in scent (like a lemongrass or amber) to give the perfume a more mature oomph. The bottle is adorable with the cute flower on top and if you're diligent, you can find this perfume for really affordable prices. I know the Range is selling this stuff for £35 for EDP 50ml currently and you can get it on eBay for relatively cheap prices! I defo wouldn't pay full price for this but if you can find it at a good price, it's worth it!

i think this perfume is absolutely stunning and its SUCH a staple for me !! its bright and refreshing, summery and happy. it captures being out in the sun during a warm day in such a beautiful way. when you first spray it, the citrus lemon/grapefruit notes of it really shines through. after the dry down, you notice the more warm, floral scents of the jasmine and the sea salt. i actually dont notice too much of the mango, sweet notes at all, but it could be a personal thing. my only con really is that it doesnt last long at all on my skin !! it will completely disappear after about an hour or two. its a very subtle scent and the sillage is quite intimate in my opinion, you definitely wont be able to fill a room up with this scent but i think its beautiful that way, making it a lot more delicate and youthful feeling. i absolutely adore this perfume :)

I was so upset when I learned that Ulta no longer carried this fragrance since it was always the highlight of my trip there to go into the fragrance section and absolutely douse myself in this. Dolce shine smells like the perfect summers day. Like a warm hug and sunshine. I tend to favor more winter and fall based gourmands so it's rare that I like this fragrance. I did not pick up on any mango in this but instead got a sweet lychee instead. There was a certain baby powdery smell to this as well which really roped me in. This is the perfect "clean girl" fragrance. It perfectly encapsulates taking a shower in your hotel room and getting ready for a family dinner after a long day at the beach filled with with shared laughter and smiles. There's nothing quite like it.

A perfect summer fragrance. Not something I would have picked up based on notes but got a sample and promptly got a full bottle. All those notes that could have pulled it really strongly one way or another yet I find it holds a nice middle ground. Not too overly floral, more soft florals. Not too juicy fruity, just a touch to add sweetness. Not too beachy, just a slight hint but not salty and obvious about it. The base keeps it softly grounded and it projects well without being aggressive in its scent bubble. Wafts like a sheer curtain in a summer breeze. I pulled this out yesterday for first time since last year and got three compliments on it. I find it well blended and a super pretty easy wear with softness and effortless summer trail.

Cannot stress enough how much i love this. This doesn't smell like a typical perfume at all, and it definitely is very sweet and young. So if you like spicey mature fragrances this is not for you. Whoever I love it, ever since i first bought it nothing else has compared. The tuberose and the mango go together like nothing else. I got so many compliments on this. It makes me smell fresh, you, and clean. Yes, it's very tropical, and maybe smells a bit like a very scented soap, etc. but I don't mind at all. My goal is not to smell like I'm wearing perfume, my goal is to smell like a fantasy. And with this fragrance, an image of a young and fruitful girl gets painted in one's head. Will definitely be repurchasing.

This is sunshine in a bottle! Don't let the negative reviews persuade you - you have to try this for yourself. This is the only flanker from the line that I like. The mango note captures the powdery essence of the fruit perfectly. This has a satin finish and is sweet but not in a sickly way. The white florals are there but you're enjoying them sitting next to the ocean in the sun. While this perfume is made for spring/summer, I've been enjoying this in cold weather as a pick me up. The woody base-notes give it a grounded depth that you don't get with all yellow, summer scents. I lucked into this bottle at Winners and I'm so glad I blind bought it. It's unique and I will certainly buy a backup!

fantastic simple scent. if you like white florals, you'll enjoy this. i like to wear this scent to work. perfectly inoffensive. i can also see myself wearing it to the gym as well. i do see mango as a top note which i find interesting. but makes sense since it does have that freshness to it. i have mango skin by villhelm and look forward to layering the two. ♡ quality: 8/10 ♡ projection/sillage: 7/10 (fades kinda quick, maybe 3 hour wear time max) ♡ versatility: 5/10 (day scent, spring/summer vibe) ♡ unisex: 2/10 -- fem leading ♡ value: 10/10 ♡ packaging: 8/10 ♡ overall score: 9/10 ♡ compliment getter: yes ♡ repurchase: maybe ♡ blind buy safe: yes (if you like white florals)

This perfume is an anomaly! It’s crazy how many things you can visualize while smelling this perfume. My initial whiff, I saw myself eating honeycombs in a glass garden at a tea table. My mom got the sea. She smelled the salt of the ocean, a little sand, and face sunscreen. After saying that, I saw it too! When I finally read the notes and saw the mango, instantly I smelled Del Monte sun fresh mango in extra light syrup. It smells identical to those delicious mango pieces I ate every summer during my childhood. Unfortunately, not very long lasting, but beautiful and sweet. The jasmine is a perfect partner to the mango scent.

Love love LOVE!!! 😍 This is what I wished Mambo by Liz Claiborne smelled like. I'm a fan of salty, solar beachy scents so this is heaven. Picture yourself by the ocean. An hour ago you applied creamy, tropical sunscreen. Then you went for a salty swim and now you're basking in the warm sun, beads of sweat glistening on your skin. That is what Dolce Shine smells like. It's definitely in the "your skin but better" category. I can't wait to wear this in the winter when the city is blanketed in snow and the wind is howling, and I'm yearning for warmth and sunny days. You will be my hope in wintertime, dear Shine.

I absolutely love quince, ever since tender chance, so this is an absolute must try for me. And yes it's just so cute. It does seem like the dolce line just piggybacks off of marc Jacob's last years daisy line. Last year it was yellow daisy sunshine, this year its yellow dolce shine. 2 yrs ago marc jacobs did purple, last year dolce did. 3 yra ago daisy did pink. 2 yrs ago dolce did. If the flower vase bottle wasn't a big enough hint, there's your pattern. Here's hoping next years dolce is blue instead of orange...

This is such a beautiful summer perfume. It is indeed most similar to beach walk but it lacks coconut and adds a brightness from the fruity mango. I've never had raw mango, but to me this smells like mango hi-chew in the opening which is very nostalgic. The notes then blend into the brightest, happiest concoction. The combination of tuberose and mango create a very creamy scent while the salt adds a slight ocean breeze. The name and bottle are so fitting it just makes you feel happy.

Natural fruits and flowers are not what to look for in Dolce Shine. To me they are almost too abstract to be recognized, in the best possible way; Molecules play beautifully, and evoke the fresh lightness of air, warmed by early sun rays. It is a modern scent, painting with light saturation pictures of relaxed and cheerful moments, lighter days, mornings on holidays. This is not getting much love at all online, but to me it is a uniquely uplifting, well done brightly airy scent.

I just bought a few samples of This as a blind buy and I’m so happy I did. There was this perfume from Aeropostale, called Hailey, and it was floral and sweet. I’ve been looking for something very similar to this and this is the closest I’ve found. It smells a bit mature because of the florals, but it is not old lady stuffy. I originally bought this because I wanted a perfume with salty notes. I don’t really pick up on the salty notes, but I’m very happy with this perfume.

Blind bought this today and I’m in love! Mango, jasmine & tuberose are the main notes I smell. It’s a creamy fruity floral that smells tropical even though there’s no coconut note. I get a touch of a soft clean musk after this sits on my skin for awhile. Light, breezy & fresh. Perfect for summer. Dry down reminds me of a fruity tropical shampoo or body wash 10/10! A new favorite summer scent for me!

I love this fragrance. I don't get a lot of citrus or fruitiness - I wouldn't smell it and think 'fruit.' I get the solar notes, the salt, a bit of creaminess from the sandalwood, some sweetness from the fruit and a touch of florals, mainly a rich, NOT bubblegum, tuberose (which doesn't bother me surprisingly, though I usually don't like white florals.) It smells decadent, beachy and tropical to me.