Aria

Aria is a soft floral fragrance that I wear for formal business occasions when I want confidence, sophistication, and presence. It is beautifully blended and gets lots of compliments. Definitely worth the investment and even a backup bottle. I love this fragrance!

It’s okay. It’s floral and sweet like Frangipani, remind me about the Hanae Mori perfume. ( it’s only 40-80 USD for 100ml). Aria for me is nothing very special like all the influencers mentioned. Also, I have to pay $30.88 for the import duty fee. I wish I do more research at least from here.. Not happy to pay the extra cost.

To my nose this smells exactly like Psychedelic Love so I sold my bottle I don’t want redundancy in my collection

My bottle was delivered yesterday, so I’ll let it rest from delivery before I really try it out. I just wanted to quickly add I paid $25 tariff & it was delivered in a week. It is 40% concentration so that every spray is precious because it is only 50ml. And although it was cold to touch , from spraying the sample it didn’t smell like it was worth the trouble. It is not anything to get excited about. I’ll do a review later. Smelling the paper from yesterday: It smells like a warm, aromatic floral almost bubble gummy bubble bath or bath splash. Tiny animalic musk presence. The tonka is well blended. It is very smooth. This is relaxing/ comforting. It’s like a hug from a toddler. It’s AYR but it will not shine in winter / cold weather- more spring/ fall/ cool summer. Unsure about hot summer days. I can see myself wearing this in winter after a nice bath, it’s warm inside and cold outside & I’m staying inside. It’s not sexy or sophisticated. It may be different on my skin. But remember: I tested this 40% perfume on a thick piece of paper, so I am getting a good sniff of what this really smells like. Ok: I just sprayed out my TOCCA FLORENCE (oil or EDP- it’s thick) & they smell exactly the same! I don’t know about longevity yet, but if someone would have gotten on this platform and told me that this 40%, 35month matured fragrance smelled like TOCCA FLORENCE, I would hunt down the TOCCA FLORENCE body wash, lotion & body oil/EDP instead of buying this. I’m so tickled about the similarities between ARIA & TOCCA FLORENCE! It’s like 90%+. TOCCA FLORENCE doesn’t have the animalic musk note. It doesn’t matter because Aria is close to the skin. If TOCCA wanted to sell it’s bath & body to men, they would sell ARIA; but maybe with more musk or oud. As I keep smelling this on my skin ( I own the TOCCA FLORENCE DRY BATH OIL & ARIA)- this isn’t unisex! Men may wear it but it’s ALL WOMAN! In the air, there is no difference between the two. You have to be very close to a wearer to pick up the musk. I do like the musk, but I’d rather have TOCCA add it to their bath & body products than rebuy ARIA. This took a long time to dry down: less floral, musk skin scent. So not worth the trouble.

Ok- this is my 2nd review because I just saw a YT short claiming that ARIA is “deep & resinous” at which I almost choked on that out right lie! So, I sprayed it out again (because I am saving it for the spring & summer). This has recovered from shipping with the musk/ ambergris accord/ note smoothly combining with the bubble gum/ MR BUBBLES/ tuberose? Floral scent. It has a better presentation now. Yet, the scent isn’t remarkable. I bought into the marketing that this fragrance had matured for 18+ mos! I thought, this must be special. I drink socially. There is a HUGE difference between drinks that have been allowed to age over drinks that have not. ARIA is not a top shelf product. And now, I will no longer support another YT CHANNEL because she lied about this fragrance. I doubt if she ever smelled it bc she only threw a picture up- I have never seen her discuss her review of this fragrance. ‘Resin’ is an accord that far removed from ‘musk/ ambergris’. Someone who has a perfume hobby/ collection knows the difference. Although this perfume isn’t remarkable, it is a safe blind buy. And if you wanted to layer it with TOCCA FLORENCE products knock yourself out. ARIA would layer nicely & because of the musk in it, it is not an exact match for TOCCA FLORENCE EDP/ dry oil. ARIA can be considered a ‘flanker’ of TOCCA FLORENCE where it isn’t t redundant to have both. Update: GUESS WHAT!!! I blind bought INITIO PYSCHEDELIC LOVE as a NEW YEAR gift to myself and bc the price was more than 50% off. lol. Well these two smell the same, with ARIA having more musk in it. Nothing else has changed. I’m just happy PSYCHEDELIC LOVE was so affordable. I have been using TOCCA FLORENCE bath wash for years. So, this fragrance feels unspecial to me. Now I am going to get the FLORENCE BODY LOTION so that I can have a full experience.