Sun di Gioia

Sticky, gooey caramel topping on creamy vanilla ice cream cum biscuity banoffee pie. This lingered in my room hours after I'd been there and my friend asked if I'd been wearing Prada Candy . They are certainly similar. I find Prada Candy rather "refined" and "sophisticated" (with its violet/rose/iris, tangerine hints and benzoin overload) while I find Sun di Gioia quite "playful" and "fun", not to mention stronger, sweeter, and boasting a touch more sillage than Candy . I do not smell frangipani in this. I was disappointed by this fact at first, but I love this caramel and ice cream, biscuity cheesecake combo so much that I no longer mind. There is a fresh floral scent lurking beneath, which shows through more as this wears on. I enjoy it, though I can't see it as frangipani; I would say it leans more toward ylang and iris. My main qualm with this scent is that it only seems to last for around three hours on me. (EDIT - OK, having given this a fair chance to shine, I found that this can last all day, i.e an average eau de parfum amount of time: I wore it from 12-6 and it was still there, albeit delicately so and with only very little projection. I could still smell it. What surprised me at this point was that I could smell the frangipani! On my skin it is in the base! Ah...! Yes, still smells lovely after six hours.) I love this scent. I personally believe this would sit nicely in the collection of those who're fans of Prada Candy, Alien Essence Absolue, and/or Lolita Lempicka's Elle L'aime. The bottle and ad campaign are strangely similar to the bottle and ad campaign for DUNE by Dior , though they smell absolutely nothing alike, both invoke reminiscence of bygone Summer days.

♡Romantic Summer Beach Fragrance♡ This is soooooo pretty, I just love it! Such a perfect summer, hot day fragrance. My life has pretty much always been around beaches, seas, oceans, and lakes. Atlantic, Pacific, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. They all have their charms, and their scents. I learned to swim before I learned to walk. I think that's why I'm so obsessed with beach fragrances. From Christian Dior's Eden Roc, Tom Ford's Soleil, and even the beach ones from Bath and Body Works. Just love beach scents. However, this. ... This right here is pretty girl in a summer sun dress, feminine in a bottle. I'm not big on florals per say, but this has such a girly soft perfume floral that blends so perfectly with the rest of the sun lotion vibe. This is for a date at the beach day, and/or night, where you don't necessarily have to get in the water. Maybe your date takes you sailing to have champagne and fruits by the golden gate Bridge in the Bay Area, or a private boat ride to a secluded little beach in Panamá, or just shopping and going for Gelato at the Florida Keys, or just eating dates at the beach of the dead sea and enjoy people watching as they float and read the paper laughing. Its a comforting fragrance. Reminds me of wrapping up a lovely beach date with my husband. I get whiffs of this perfume as we hug and kiss in the elevator up to our suite. We're just laughing with my wedge heels on my hand, and a glass of sweet apple crisp Pinot grigio on the other. It's a fun, pretty and relaxed, romantic sort of beach fragrance. I wear it in Hot days, mostly 80°F (26.67°C) and up weather. I smell it around me, and it last between 4-6hours. Hope this helps (◠‿◠✿)

I wanted a new scent for summer - a cool, delicious, aqueous scent that would emanate a calm elegance throughout what is looking to become a long, hot summer. The classy, understated Missoni Acqua with its melon and citrus is hard to get now for some mysterious reason. A department store in the city promised me Armani's Acqua di Gioia, but alas, it didn't seem special enough and the pepper rendered a kind of harshness to it that disappointed me. Then I tried Sun di Gioia and fell instantly in love with its aerial sweetness of frangipani and freesia, like sparkling sunshine dancing on water, like the frangipani flowers that fell twirling to the ground in the hot, heavy Northern NSW coast summer nights. I shouldn't love perfume so sweet, but there it was. After some research, I came back and bought it and have been wearing it all day through a searing heat-wave and still love it. The longevity is quite good. I can still smell its aura into early evening. After the initial high of florals, it mellows into a beautiful luscious ice-creamy scent which is probably the benzoin. My winter favourite, Ambre Gris by Balmain also has benzoin that imparts that same creamy lusciousness, except that it is warmer, more amorous and more of a winter scent. So how does a sweet, warm, luscious scent not become cloying in hot weather? This does not on me but stays a beautiful delicious fragrance shot through with a kind of sharp, beachy scent that immediately evokes a day at the seaside, of wonderful surprises, of happiness, optimism and long, lazy, carefree days.

I've been very bad girl and bought this one as well (after buying Acqua di Gioia edt in the same month). I just wanted so much to have this sunny fragrance in a sunny bottle as well. Well i like it but this is different from what i usually go for. have. I usually can not wear these tropical scents, that remind sun tan lotions, i often find them too strong and too floral and too coconuty. The later gets especiallly silly giving the fact that i live in a country where is practically never sunny enough to expose our bodies to sun. Anyway i like this scent, it is sunny and sunshine'y and and suntan'y without being too loud, which i like. It has quite a lot white flowers and i am usually careful with frangipni, so i am not sure how often i will be able to use it. As for now it feels like a nice scent and quite summery. it has vanilla nad powder as well. I can see it wearing in all seasons because it is warm and heavy on vanilla,which may feel comforting in the colder seasons. It may be nice way to remember sunny days then. I am a bit warry because i smell jasmine quite a lot and the scent is more floral than i usually go for. I will try to keep it, hoping we will have more warm sunny days and see how i like it. Who knows, maybe i will be converted. Update few weeks later: i do wear this one more than i thought i would. it is soft warm suntan fragrance that is quite subtle, which i like a lot. longevity is very good and sillage is close to skin. the bottle is gorgeous, summery, sunshin'y. this is my happy cheerful summer scent.

After sniffing my sample of Replica's Beach Walk, I was in love. In love with its soft and relaxed aura - opposite to what's typically mainstream on the market these days: loud, sugary, heavily spiced frags. Beach Walk isn't a friendly frag to my wallet so as soon as I saw fragranticans saying GA Sun di Gioia is similar, I had to investigate. Low and behold, Sun di Gioia is quite similar! Comparing side by side... SdG: - generally sweeter since the (smooth almost creamy) sweetness is characterized by the coconut, vanilla and frangipani? rather than the ylang-ylang. - ylang-ylang is quieter - slightly "perfumey" compared to BW - no saltiness although the ambroxan is trying to do something Beach Walk: - ylang-ylang is more prominent (the note that made me fall in love with BW) which also gives a mellow sweetness characterized by this yellow floral - has a veery gentle saltiness - light, realistic coconut note shows through - is lighter (more of a skin scent), and - is simply more "realistic" as this frag line suggests. Overall, SdG lasts considerably longer (moderate), has better sillage (soft-moderate), and is much more affordable! Both have the same "beachy" vibes. I wish BW lasted longer and was more affordable but SdG makes me happy! I agree with the other reviews about when this can be worn but I love it so much that I'd wear it in any season. It makes me feel cozy, uplifted and hopeful.