Gucci Bloom Ambrosia di Fiori

This is a treasure find for me. I remember that first commercial for Gucci Bloom ambrosia. They built it up with advertising a few months before it hitting the shelves. They did it sneakily. First the occasional billboard type with no text Just beautiful bohemian style setting with flowers and vines trendling down. In what appears to be Eutopia or Eden. While a natural spring water pool/pond have exotic blooms floating asa few lucky lovely ladies get to bathe in what is the most intoxicating floral bath one could imagine. Then, it just says BLOOM. It was only here and there at first But then the adverts subliminally hit television usually evening. Magazines, of course advertising posters. Increased gradually. All I know is I had my alarm set for the day it came out and the time. Believe it or not. The only store that carried it was Macy's. The Gucci store didn't even have it. Nor the website.There were no samples available. I got .y bottle. It's worth every single penny. It doesn't have just Honeysuckle. It has Rangoon Creeper. (In the same family) Where generic Honeysuckle smells like a straightforward white flower. Rangoon smells like white flower, creamy jasmine, and a slight maraschino undertone way down deep. It's also made with Orris butter. That gives it a briocche sweet bread, sweet cream scent. Yes you get Tuberose A nice floral, creamy and smooth tuberose. (Nothing heavy, animalistic sk*nky-type) Jasmine is a fresh green, and wet jasmine. The Quality, Silage, projection and longevity are phenomenal. Especially for a designer fragrance. This could compete with a nìche house easily. If could compare it to any other perfume. It would be very very close to Amouage Love, Tuberose. If you have one you don't need the other. IMHO, the selection pyramid is not accurate I think because many people may be familiar with essential oils and not the actual flower. Also, Maybe they are not familiar with the Rangoon Creeper scent and it's notes Or the difference between Orris and Orris butter. I think it would change the pyramid a bit. Because the Creeper and tuberose are evenly matched. But the creeper is most noticeable of all the flowers Especially at first. The orris stands out very well. I think it's overlooked because it's Orris butter from living Orris. Which gives the perfume a sweet, cream delectable note. Unlike "garden-variety" orris. Which is powdery scent most people are familiar with. This is definitely one of my very favourite perfumes.

Honestly? This is like a little slice of heaven for me. Heaven. This perfume centers around a spiced tuberose. Along with that I can smell mainly honeyed white flowers (lily, jasmin?) and woods. It's so fresh, I could swear I can actually smell the pollen. I become a bee. I find it vegetal, dry. Botanical, humid, exotic. I see little red and black frogs on pods. I feel engulfed by tropical greens. My best friend finds a heady incense and rose. Two sides of the spectrum? Maybe that's part of the magic. Signature scent worthy. Love it so that I sought and bought the main, original GUCCI Bloom along with the yellow (mustard) coloured version, Profumo Di Fiori. Neither smell enough like this. The original actually makes me nauseous shortly into the wearing. At first I can handle it (petals in water, captured by the ad campaign) but after a short while it becomes unbearable for me (muggy, muddled, too sweet). We're incompatible. Something in the original doesn't mesh well with my senses and makes me feel incredibly queasy. The mustard is nice enough but perhaps too much like a mix of this one and the original, along with a laaaarge helping of Ylang-ylang. Too much of the original in there and not enough of this one. They're both very dewy and pitch potent. This version is perfection for me. Other than being comparatively soft in projection. It is a concern that if it were stronger I may not find it quite so alluring. This is special to me, genuinely like a little slice of heaven. This is the only way I can describe it. I have honestly dabbled with the idea of having it be my signature scent and would recommend it as such to others. It is a real beauty, a top favourite. Only wish I'd backed up and bought two more bottles of this instead of taking the blind plunge topple, getting myself those others thinking they might be just as good. I got it right first time.

A randomly received (unwanted) sample of this in a Sephora order is what got me sticking my nose into perfumes after decades of avoiding them. To me, this is stunning. It is so unabashedly floral, a true ambrosia of some of my favorite flowers in all their beauty. I feel like this evolves to give each flower a turn to shine, sparking a lifetime of memories and associations. Such beautiful scents bring memories of happy moments, as the gardenias of my childhood, the jasmine growing outside a former lover's window, the honeysuckle of a single sun-soaked summer, roses which have sprinkled my life on various occasions. These are not memories of perfumes but of the flowers themselves, gifts from nature that have given me real happiness from their beautiful existence. It's difficult for me to express exactly what I mean, but some of those memories were moments of beauty and happiness stolen from darker realities. Whatever else was happening, my gosh, those flowers smelled glorious. The florals are rich and beautifully balanced, the evolution is a kaleidoscope of exquisite specimens brought forward in turn until they combine into the sparkling sweetness of buttery orris. I can feel something like pollen on my skin. I am savoring my tiny sample, and every time I take it out and apply it, I have to stop everything I'm doing and drink in this precious magic. I get drunk on its beauty and whatever else is happening, my gosh, this fragrance smells glorious. I haven't tried the original or any other flankers and I don't want to, I'm not willing to risk how this makes me feel. I love white florals and have others, but nothing like this. It is all floral and quite sweet on my skin, but it lives in a class all its own.

I have absolutely no regrets blind buying this fragrance bc out of nowhere i wanted a tuberosey fragrance that makes me feel all old-school glamour and ofc i had to trust my gut and snag one. but then again it was quite obvious that i was gonna LOVVEEE it beforehand bc I'm familiar with heady floral dnas like this--it's just that i needed something tuberose-leaning. it starts off vegetal, bitter, and green but it warms up very quickly to its honey-like, gummy, and voluptuous tuberose heart that's beautifully dosed with indole, which makes it sultry, thick, and velvety. The rose and orris are just there to give it a warm, powdery, and soapy base. it's such a comforting scent because it reminds me so much of a mother's love? LMAO. please take this with a grain of salt: I remember sampling balenciaga’s rosabotanica when i was wayy wayyy younger (literally a child) and weirdly enough, with the not-so-helpful help of my blurry memory sniffing that fragrance, i think ambrosia di fiori reminds me of it. it also reminds me a bit of the plasticky doll head accord that i get from vintage ysl paris' suffocating powdery florals maybe a bit of alien-ish paradoxe-esque l'interdit-ian thrown in there too? LOLLLLLLL or maybe that's kind of a reach. who knows maybe it's also giving mugler aura + ck eternity for women ummm idk whatever. whatever it is, it's a sweet, honeyed, tuberose-heavy, powdery, aldehydic white floral bouquet of a fragrance that reminds me of fur coats.

This flanker of Gucci Bloom is so much better and more realistic smelling than the original perfume from this line... the original Gucci Bloom smelt so synthetic and sickly sweet to me but Gucci Bloom Ambrosia di Fiori smells like a lush bouquet of white flowers! If you like honeysuckle and tuberose, you will LOVE THIS!!! It as all about these two white florals in this fragrance and all of the other notes in this just buoy the smell of these two flowers up and enhances them. I next get a good dose of jasmine, but it never overpowers anything else in this perfume and I find this really well balanced. I also think that the addition of orris root in the base was a BRILLIANT idea and it added some depth to this perfume without drowning out the florals with woody notes. I get a tiny hint of a very romantic and lush pink rose too, but it is only just a hint. This fragrance also had a moderate sillage on me and was not too strong or too light a sillage and it lasted just over 7 hours on my skin. I thought that it was a lovely and feminine fragrance and I could imagine wearing this either day or night during the spring or the fall to really enhance those floral notes. I give this fragrance altogether an 8.5/10. It is worth spending money on a full bottle of this and I think that it is the only Gucci Bloom you will ever need!