Q by Dolce & Gabbana

The juiciest, most intoxicating grown-up fruit punch. I love it so much. Reading the reviews, I feel very lucky to say that I get heaps of mouthwatering cherry, lemon, and blood orange over dreamy, slightly vanillic florals. The new flanker for 2025 is far less interesting in my opinion—yet another dark, woody cherry in the same vein as TF Lost Cherry. This original showcases cherry while retaining more of the freshness people love in Light Blue and Devotion. (Other people--I can't get into Devotion. Something in it is sharp and sour to my nose.) Now, listen. It’s easy to underestimate the projection and longevity on Q. I first sampled it from a tester in an Ulta, which is always just a scent cacophony and I should have known better. After walking around with it on my wrist for a few minutes, I sprayed a few additional times on my collarbone and arms before leaving the store to trial it in the real world. While I enjoyed my scent bubble all day, two members of my family commented that it was unpleasantly strong. A week later, I was still getting whiffs of it off the seat belt in the car I drove home in. Lesson learned. It’s absolutely delicious and a new favorite, but I will be careful not to overspray it! Edit: This has become my warm-weather signature. It's sweet and bright like a fresh fruit salad is sweet, not like frosting is sweet. This and red lipstick and a great pair of sunnies and I am on my way.

Love ❤️ love ❤️ love!!! Absolutely gorgeous, sexy, sensual, regal! This is so beautiful! I don’t get the light blue comparison, the citrus notes add dimension but in my opinion, in no way are prominent. I wouldn’t consider this powdery either. I don’t jive with powdery scents. This is so stunning in that sexy powerful woman way! It’s fierce! I’d say it could teeter on unisex but this is more of a Boss B——- scent! It is LBD in a bottle! With Rockstud stilettos! The woody and musky notes mixed with the cherry! Chef’s kiss 💋! This is a scent for a woman who is comfortable in a man’s world and rules it! This isn’t a girly girl scent, this is a woman’s scent that knows what she wants! For some reason, Samantha from Sex in the city pops in my head, during the Richard era. I personally find this to be more of a fall/winter scent! I don’t get tropical in the least! It’s beautiful and I can’t wait to wear it! I also purchased Queenstown from Maison Alhambra. I’m not sure if it’s intended to be similar to this or the intense version. I can say, they’re similar but the blood orange note is replaced with more of a tart grapefruit note. Q is much better, smoother and more elegant. Stick to the original on this one!

I blindly bought this perfume, basing my purchase solely on the fact that it was crafted by my beloved Dolce & Gabbana and on the reported notes here on Fragrantica, and I must say that this is a gorgeous perfume!!! The opening of Q is a delicious combination of lemon and jasmine that is amazingly warm and musky on my skin. This perfume is by no means a 'girly' fragrance - I find it incredibly womanly. It possesses a regal, mature quality to it. As it dries down, a cherry scent blossoms and ultimately the cedarwood note follows suit, mixing with the lemon and jasmine to create a beautiful concoction of a citrusy, woody delight. Perhaps it's because I've never owned a perfume that has cedarwood, but I find Q to be wonderfully unique as a result of this note. This perfume is heavenly for a girl like me that loves feminine fragrances with spicy and musky undertones. Despite my adoration, my only complaint is that the longevity is quite weak considering the price point.

Idk if I’m the only weird person out here, but I smell a cactus-citrus? I can’t get cactus out of my mind! I just got a tester from Disneys Italy when I bought Dolce Lily. But MAN!!! This scent of SO FUN!! I’m obsessed with it & I might hop back to Italy & but this one .. I can’t live without it! I hope to lord the big bottle smells just like the tester. Because I’m not getting ANY cherry or orange really.. Maybe that cactus smell I’m getting so vibrantly is the heliotrope & cedar mixed together? It’s just so nice tho! It’s like a cleanish cactus type smell, then it completely changes to an almonds warm down. I keep looking it up on all my resale apps because I’m THAT obsessed! Sadly I’m on vacation, so I can pay $155 here, or be patient and pay $50 on resale! Lol! So I’m weighing these options lol! This and Devotion was really nice too!

I’m not a citrus lover and I hate the bottle and the branding of this perfume. I had PTSD from smelling devotion as one of the worst fragrances ever, so I kind of lost interest as D&G as a house. However I was watching Veronica Says talk about this fragrance on her YouTube channel and how citrus can be a very approachable scent profile for others to smell on you. She had a good point and recommended Q. I went to my local department store to test this and immediately purchased it. This is a lovely citrus scent and dries down into a very addictive lemony woody and some kind of dry vanilla or sweetness note. If you are expecting cherry you will be disappointed, but that’s fine by me as I don’t love cherry forward fragrances. I think this could be a good gift and I’d say blind buy safe Love it 8/10

I've changed my vote from an OK to a Love. I got it in early spring and it was just a "Meh" actually. But it was still cold then. It's well over a 100 degrees in this desert and boy oh boy she is singing to me. Not too long lasting but that's fine because I keep switching up throughout the day anyway. Not overly cherry but just enough and a good cherry too. Not cough syrup at all. I love the fresh, musky aspect of this beauty. I haven't tried many D&Gs but I do love The One. I can't recommend this for everyone but yes to those living in a hot, dry climate. It's truly gorgeous and cooling. UPDATE: It was a sweltering 114 degrees a few days ago and I wore Q. Wow did she ever project... By far, my favorite summer perfume.

Estoy enamorada de este perfume. Tiene una sensación fresca de cilantro y algo chispeante que supongo es la naranja sanguina. Aunque es un perfume fresco, puede percibirse a la vez cálido, por lo amaderado y algo relajado, por la cereza. El cedro y el musk le dan ese toque adulto. La combinación lo hace magnético. Posee una estructura y combinación justa de notas que consiguen una evolución atrapante en sus acordes. No es para nada lineal. Está injustamente subestimada y mal valorada. Es extremadamente sensual y jamás lo usaría para dormir o entre casa, debido a que es un perfume que despierta! Evoca una salida noctura de mucha clase y estética, entre modelos de alta costura de dicha marca, luego de una pasarela.

I wasn’t too excited for the reviews are mostly negative. But I got this in the mail today and wow, I LOVE IT! This is how I want Light Blue to smell like. It’s sweet, bright, and mature (in an elegant way). I like that even tho it has a cherry note, it doesn’t smell super sweet. My husband detected the cherry upon first sniff and he told me, “wow, a cherry note that doesn’t smell cheap”. So yes, that’s a good thing! I also dislike cherries in perfumes cause they smell too juvenile or sweet-like-candy-trying-too-hard so this is good. I love clean scents, bright, and not super showy screaming scents. I like it light and classy. It’s beautiful on a hot day! Smells like a modern queen! Really matches K. Love it! 🌸

I really did not like this one when I first sprayed my sample, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it... sprayed it a second time and still wasn’t in love, but it definitely started to grow on me the longer I wore it that second day. Today was the third day I tried it and I am actually now in love with it!! I am not sure what changed over the course of trying it out once a month but it is absolutely delicious and I’m obsessed. However, it does sit real close and does not project hardly at all, and it lasts around 4-5 hours which I think is decent. But the smell alone is gorgeous and I will definitely be buying this in a larger size!! I think it would work well in any season :)

Hey I just want to reflect to the opinions that this perfume has no sillage-it has at least an arm lenght becouse I met with this frag first time in a Gym Arena where a woman next to my Husband wear this and I fell in love instantly her smell. It has a beautyfule unusual and unique aura mixed with blood orange, cherry, musk and heliothrope. I don’t get the Light Blue wibe at all, it does not comes to my mind becouse this perfume has more depth. After 3,5 hours I get the brave to ask her what is she whearing? She said it’s the new D&G with the crown. I decided to buy one for myself. Very good and likeable scent!

I’m tickled by all the hate for this and all the love for D&G Devotion. This one has some ‘dirty’ sexy notes that remind me of vintage Dior Eau Sauvage, a men’s fragrance I like to wear. It starts out all bright and citrusy, but thank goodness it has some depth and develops into more of a skin scent — a scent that does not just sit on your skin like a blob of sweet pudding, a candle, or syrup, but melds with your humanness. It’s slightly animalic, and I really like that. But if you don’t like smelling like a warm, clean, sexy human, you might not like this. 😉

I think this is a beautiful perfume! If you like strong perfumes with huge sillage this might not be for you though. This is quite lightweight and works well as an everyday perfume. I smell mostly cherry. Not in an artificial and strong way but more like a real cherry. This is not very sweet. But I don't recommend blind buying it because I can see reviews being very mixed with this one. For me this is a really beautiful and even a bit delicate scent that still has something interesting in it and I really love it.

Honestly I don’t understand negative reviews about this fragrance. To me it’s a very juicy cocktail on a sunny day. Refreshing, happy and bright. Zesty, slightly sweet blood orange with hint of tart cherry. It’s more fruity , feminine and interesting than Light Blue ( which is more linear and lemony to me), they are not the same at all, maybe distant cousins. I can detect some berries, maybe blueberries or red berries. Overall it’s a great spring/ summer scent. Decided to get fb right after first sniff.

Guy here. I don’t understand the hate on this. It smells like armpit? Urine and Celery? What?! 😂 People have to get their noses checked lol. I bought it for my wife for Mothers Day. She loves it and I love it. It’s citrusy and fruity and mixed well. I understand the knock on performance, but just go heavy. It will offend no one. It’s light blue with some grenadine. Sign me up!

I fell in love when I spritzed it in Ulta, it was a light lemon cherry scent that was fresh and not heavy, and ended up getting a perfume sampler bag with this in it, and I wore that for a bit to make sure I loved it. I finally got a bottle and I hated it, it smelled like lemon soap. I'm hoping that I'll like it again after it gets a little oxidized.

I love love that fresh, elevating classy and playful summer scent! It definitely carries the Light Blue vibes but it is a perfect alternative to it if you feel something new. The lemon is definitely there but blended a very beautiful way with the rest of the notes. I honestly can not smell cherry at all. It is definitely not boring scent to me!

Very green opening on my skin. Beautiful drydown. Immaculate final drydown, leaving an addictive scent behind on clothes or whatever it touches. I can't smell any of the individual notes listed and, based on the composition, I can't figure out how this smells so green but I still really enjoy this fragrance.

Every comment I read on this perfume is very negative but I love this perfume. I sampled in the store and was instantly in love. It was very very tart and fruity on me in the best way. Just a very strong tart fruity yummy scent. I love it and will be purchasing it very soon.

I was able to test this and I wanted to buy it so bad. Definitely reminds me of Light Blue but with way more lemon. But the scent disappeared so fast I couldn’t believe how poor the longevity of it is! It’s such a nice fresh scent! Very disappointing:(

Almost every one commenting: I'm a fragrantica member so negative comments are all I can add. I'm better than everyone. I'm also going to hit the negative smiley face to show my superiority over all. Blah blah blah. Ugh to synthetic blah blah.