Scintilla

Look, I get that this perfume is fairly unpopular, but I really like it! Throughout the year of testing/collecting perfumes, I realised I like some of the synthetic molecules, like ISO E SUPER, and not so much the others, like ambroxan. So, to me personally, Scintilla smells beautiful. A soft, airy, spicy, mildly sweet, mostly fruity, with some floral mixed in the blend effortlessly and a warm, earthy base. Therefore, for those who like ISO E SUPER dominant perfume, with a fruity opening, a floral heart and a ambery dry down, Scintilla is a must try! It’s not a beast perfume like some other from Giardini di Toscana, but it’s one that lingers on the skin for hours with intimate sillage. For spring and summer, Scintilla is amazing. It just needs more hype to get more people intrigued, to want to try Scintilla, my humble opinion...

It’s Iso E Super on steroids, with great projection and longevity. If you’re anosmic to Iso E Super in Molecule 01 by Escentric Molecules, here you’ll definitely smell it. It’s smooth, unisex leaning feminine, like a fresh, airy bubble with iris. A combo of Hermès Eau des Merveilles (minus the gin note) + Molecule 01. Gorgeous! It was my favorite from the Giardini di Toscana discovery set bought last year, and this week I finally got a full bottle. It layers beautifully with tons of perfumes, adding an airy/woody vibe and extra dimension. Today I’m wearing it with Moschino Toy 2 Bubblegum and it works amazingly well!

I could see this being polarizing but I really like it. I can also see the Ganymede comparisons but this is something a little softer in the opening and not quite as mineralic. I love the iris and Iso e as well as the very subtle sweetness of the violet and jasmine. I had my husband sniff it and he loved it! But he also said it smells like Aqua Di Gio(😩😭). Im the actual frag head, not him, so I gave him grace lol.

A beautiful fragrance, very much in the same line as Molecule 01 or Cheeky Smile. Projects well in an airy, lighthearted way, lasts well. I 'll consider getting a bottle once I've drained my Cheeky Smile

I didn't get this smell for the first time. But I fell in love when I try it again!

Reminds me of ganymede; very nice fragrance I like it

540 aventus more creamy.... Like not love.....

It's freezing outside, so you've walked into a 1970s style European art gallery, maybe Die Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The building looks like a concrete car park from outside, but inside you begin to see it's well designed in the modernist way. The floor is in a complicated oak-wood parquet pattern. Just a little light flows in through horizontal letterbox-like windows. It feels like an expensive bunker. A huge screen covering one wall flickers on and off - the view from a moving car travelling past rainy fields. You nearly trip up on the parquet floors which are starting to turn up at the edges, so they've treated the floor with some sort of solvent beeswax, probably some time ago as the scent is faded, quite pleasant. A faint coffee aroma, a scintilla, wafts from a distant corridor. Serious, studious and detached. Probably worn by the introverted architect who designed the building. Synthetic, slightly uncomfortable.

Fruity-woody may I say, ever so slightly more masculine leaning version of Celeste. After it settles the pineapple and pear say hi for a brief moment before being left with the Celeste DNA lingering violet and Iso E. You'd be lucky to get 2 hours out of this, that's not to say I don't like it. I just don't feel like I could reapply this and it still smell good? I don't know how to explain. I'll stick with Celeste.

To my nose, this is a slightly more masculine version of Celeste, but with poorer performance. It's okay, but I would choose Celeste over this.

To me it's a very delicate and feminine perfume, despite being very very woody. It's the type of perfume I would gift a teenage girl.

Very interesting. Opening on my skin - 100% iris, violet and jasmine. I don't detect any fruit whatsoever, in any stage of development. What I detect as "sandy", "grainy" is (I think) moss accord. I perceive it as a "white" fragrance. Like looking something in distance through summer, thick and warm air (or recalling a memory). Sillage is discreet, it' detectable as a skin scent long enough, but a quiet one.

Front and centre ISO E base swirled with 'gasoline' Violet/Iris Fruitiness is vaguely apparent for a short while in the opening (mainly pineapple) and works well. I just feel the oak moss was an unnecessary addition and doesn't quite fit the vibe. I don't mind this fragrance, but as has been said, longevity is at best moderate, and sillage even less so.

Excellent blend of iso supers and pink pepper in the opening. Mixed with sweet, tart pineapple it smells a good deal like a juicy lemon or yuzu at first sniff. The florals are ephemeral but present, mostly jasmine. Bright and pleasing, suitable for spring/ summer. However the drydown is very shortlived. I get barely 2-3 hours wear.

Iris and violet in beautiful manifestation... Pity, that oakmoss overcharges it. Powdery, floral aroma in rich nuances is suppressed by masculine-fresh, monotonous base. It is amazing perfume anyway, but unbalanced, in my opinion. --- Moderate projection, longevity 6-7 hours.

First spray: Clean, sharp, kind of spicy? Like a cleaning product with a hint of green curry. An hour in: smell is gone basically. Very soft scent left of pineapple and white flowers? Not sure but felt more like a toilet spray thats gone after an hour.

Lidl has some pralines filled with fruit brandy. The opening of this perfume reminds me of that fruity brandy. 😅 It leans more masculine in my opinion. The dry-down is pretty: woody, comfy. Unfortunately it fades to a skin scent quite fast.

Its a like not a love, If you don't feel like wearing anything you can wear this happily. Sunny but cool temp sorta day, not much on but running a few errands.

Pinapple, Pear, Black currant, florals, patchouli and amber, a nice semi tropical scent, maybe a top 5 from Giardini di Toscana.

To me, the entire structure of this fragrance feels dominated by Iso E Super. Iso E Super is a synthetic woody molecule known for its smooth, clean, slightly creamy wood character. It isn’t dense like natural woods; it’s more transparent and diffusive. It tends to become more noticeable with body heat, and some people perceive a faint leathery edge or a papery fiber-like texture. In Scintilla, the top notes of pineapple, pear, and apple are present, but their brightness is most noticeable only in the first few minutes. The fruit quickly gets overtaken by Iso E Super, and from that point a soft woody layer sits over the composition, making the fruity aspect rather short-lived. The floral heart—rose and violet—should normally introduce a gentle powdery softness, but here their presence feels quite restrained. The main reason is that Iso E Super remains very prominent from beginning to end. In the base, the note list includes oakmoss and patchouli, but they’re barely perceptible. What remains is essentially a lightly sweet woody scent. Overall, Scintilla feels like a fragrance that starts with fruit, passes through a light floral heart, and finishes with a clean woody base—but the real protagonist throughout is Iso E Super. Personally, my reaction is fairly neutral. It’s an interesting molecular-style perfume, though it does feel somewhat overly synthetic.