Light Blue pour Homme Italian Love

Grapefruit, bergamot, and vetiver. Thats essentially all this is,but its done so well you wont care. A slightly sweet photo realistic grapefruit merges with the tangy buzz of bergamot to render humid summers clean and give an air of hygenie. The ozonic notes seem to create a tangible cloud, constantly pushing the other ingredients forward. This thing radiates, so be careful in the trigger. A cool vetiver appears halfway through, likely emphasized with additional green note aromachemicals. This vetiver is humble but well done, as it has both a dry and soapy element to it similar to Creeds Original Vetiver. While the majority of the money went to the initial blast, the vetiver sticks around in pleasant whiffs that are noticeable but not overbearing. White musks round out the very end some 10 hours from the trigger squeeze. This is the longest lasting citrus forward scent I've ever had that kept the details, rinds and all, intact for over 3 hours. The scent is clean, young, and fresh but serious enough to work in an office setting. I hope they never discontinue this or limit the amounts of ingredients that achieve the clean buzz effect this thing generates when the temperature hits above 75 degrees. Edit: There is a decent amount of violet leaf I am picking up now. It seems to hide behind the ozonic and grapefruit notes, but rounds off the woodiness of the base and gives a fresh, wet herbal effect. Violet leaf usually is annoying to me but it is subtlety used in this one. Edit #2: For whatever reason, the violet leaf grew stronger to my nose. The detail of the opening and the smooth base are now in the background to what I missed initially in my first few wears. The violet simply overpowers everything else, which sucks because I like the other notes. Might just be my taste, but I can't wear this one anymore.

This stuff is awesome. Got lucky and found a local beauty store selling testers. They often have discontinued fragrances and was shocked to find this for only $60 cad. Bought up two bottles and should have got more. Super realistic grapefruit in the opening that lasts throughout the life time of the fragrance. After the opening it keeps that strong citrus accord but the woodiness and slight green accord comes in and mixes perfectly. I’ve seen reviews saying it doesn’t mix well with certain skin chemistries, but it works really well on my skin. Projects well and lasts a long time. I got about 8-10 hours on skin with strong projection for the first few hours and then it gradually became a skin scent. I don’t know if I got a good batch or something but this stuff has a good punch on my skin. I normally don’t find citrus forward freshies this interesting, but the way the citrus and woody / green notes come together is just really intoxicating to me. You definitely have to like citrus for this to work because it’s a grapefruit nuke in the opening. Pretty much exclusively a warm weather fragrance. It would work well in the early fall but once it gets really cold I’d wear something else. Overall I adore this stuff. I’m really sad they discontinued it. If you can find it for a good price definitely give it a try if you need a new warm weather fragrance. If you can find Forever I’ve heard it’s pretty much the same just with more citrus and is less smooth than Italian Love.

I found the original light blue a bit funky, but sort of in a sweaty sex sort of way. That's fine for some places and occasions, but definitely not what you want to wear to the office or around friends and family. I find both Italian love and forever to be better balanced and more accessible. Out of the two, I think Italian love is the better. This realistic grapefruit note is something else... It's super rindy and refreshing without being too sweet or sour. I love this in warm weather and for me, I prefer to wear it more casually than dresses up. I save prada l'homme, aqua di parma essenza colognia, and the one grey for business casual and up. This and missonni wave are beach days and weekends without thought. This is a love, despite the sort of ridiculous name. Update 6/13/23: The scent is sooooo damn good! But the performance is sooooo damn weak! I hate how quickly this completely disappears regardless of how much I overspray. All it does is make the opening 15 min too intense and like magic, it's barely a skin scent after 2 hours. I tried everything: applying right after the shower, using moisturizer first, spraying clothes - doesn't matter. This stuff is gorgeous but super thin. It's still a love but it's only good for a short activity or beach day where you want the skin scent or when you will be home again to respray or put on something else on that lasts a bit longer. Ahhhh drives me nuts, this one!

It's mid-afternoon at your vacation home on the coast. Despite having gotten ready for the day about two hours ago, you just now decided to go out onto your balcony and enjoy the vista. Stepping out into the sunlight, you can smell the breeze off the ocean; but thankfully, the tide seems to have brought out all of the seaweed and fish smell with it - so you're just getting pure sea air and a little touch of musk. Feeling a bit peckish, you decide you rather fancy a grapefruit, grab one from the kitchen, and bring it back outside to cut into it. The juices spray up at you in a fine mist, lightly coating your forearms. Sitting back as you enjoy your citrusy snack, you catch a whiff of something, and slowly realise it's you, yourself. As you put your nose to your forearm, the sea breeze blowing up around you, at first, all you can catch is grapefruit - tart, fresh, and rindy. Putting your nose a little closer, though, you realise you're catching the dry-down of your cologne, lingering close to the skin, from when you started your day earlier. "Am I wearing Luna Rossa Carbon?" you wonder to yourself, "or am I catching my body wash? Maybe both." In any event, the admix is intoxicating, and you find yourself sporting a relaxed smile; so, you lay your head back, and bask in the warmth of the sun, deciding to while the rest of the afternoon away in idleness. Welcome to Light Blue Italian Love. 9.2/10

Italian Love is a citrusy, fresh, slightly mineral and aromatic fragrance. Its opening is similar to Ligth Blue Forever for Men, with that very realistic grapefruit note, which is also reminiscent of some grapefruit drinks or sodas. After a few minutes that grapefruit outlet relaxes, and it becomes a little more mineral, ozone and creamy, I imagine like a cocktail drink with grapefruit and mineral water. Once it reaches its drying phase, the aroma becomes more pleasant, a bit musky and woody. Unlike Forever, Italian Love for me is more balanced, since it manages to tame the sharpness of the grapefruit note, in other words, I think Italian Love is a more polished version of Forever, however not everything is an improvement, since its performance is inferior, after the first hour it projects very close to the skin, even so it remained close to 8 hours. at least on my skin. Italian Love, like the entire Light Blue line, is a fragrance for daytime use and for warm days, such as spring and summer. It is a fragrance for casual use, not very formal, outings to the beach, or outdoors. I do not recommend that you buy it blindly, but I do recommend that you try it. I liked Italian Love, I even think it's better than Forever. About the bottle, the combination of colors of the blue liquid with the white cap contrast very well, reminding me of the color of the sea with white beach sand.