Aqua Allegoria Flora Salvaggia

Flora Salvaggia is soft and sweet! It is a refreshing treat on a warmer Florida Day. And we are in the high eighties and low nineties here. Upon first Spritz I am put into a cloud of powdery Violet and Sweet Melon. It is a soft romantic vibe that is a pleasure no doubt. Then within minutes the other florals make their presence known. And they are dreamy. It is hard to pick them all out actually but the star here is definitely the Violet. The Iris is also noticeable to me adding its soft, powdery, woody touch. At this stage there is also the Aquatic facet which lasts through the dry down. It adds a nice fresh water vibe but it is not too synthetic smelling. Not to my nose anyway. I am sensitive to high concentrations of Aquatic and Calone notes in fragrances just for reference. Sometimes they cause my olfactory receptors to tingle and itch which is not a pleasant experience. Upon further development, I also pick up on a mild Solar note and a moderate dose of Musk here that give this juice some warmth. They both linger on through the dry down. Not too much though. Just enough to ground the otherworldly soft florals and fruit. The dry down is mostly a soft, fruity, aquatic floral on my skin with a touch of warmth. I am thinking this one is going to become very popular for the Summer. I can see it being appealing for most ladies of all ages not just the younger ones. It is fun and a little on the flirty side. The song that comes to my mind is Olivia Newton-John's sweet, soft voice singing "Summer loving! Having a blast! Summer loving! Happened so fast!" In all reality, Flora Salvaggia could be a little much for the midday high heat of Summer if you are going to be outside. You know...in those places that get above 100F (38C) and that have extreme humidity. For balmy Summer nights though it could be fun for dinner dates and going out. Where Summers are milder this will be perfect anytime. Salvaggia means "Wild" in Italian and Flora of course means "Plant life". Perfectly named. This is a romantic Summer floral for the most part. I have been enjoying my bottle immensely. Seeing masks are mostly off these days I have received many compliments as well. Mostly by ladies. So there is an appeal in my neck of the woods. Longevity is about normal for an Aqua Allegoria. I would say four to five hours but re-spritzing is a treat. Sillage is huge at first then it fades to become moderate but a little closer to being a skin scent. I am so glad I picked this one up. A delightful surprise and nice addition to my Aqua Allegoria collection. It gets a 10/10 from me. Give it a try!

Flora Salvaggia is so, so gorgeous when first applied--the most intoxicating lilac, hyacinth, violet aroma imaginable, with sweet, melony top notes. I knew this would be très légère, as they say, so I prepped my spray-spots carefully with unscented petroleum jelly and oversprayed a bit (I think five sprays total). I want to score this as a love, but the longevity is worse than the average body mist. The skin scent is exquisite, but it fades much too quickly--much like a violet, I suppose, one of the more evanescent blossoms and scents. Honestly, I'm a fool for Guerlain, and I probably would have bought this anyway, even knowing that it would be short-lived. Especially since I scored a bottle at half price from one of the discount sites. Despite the relatively low cost, it was still a bit pricey considering how much you need to spray just to enjoy an hour or so of this impossibly delicate and wispy evocation of the French countryside. The bottle is gorgeous (although I also adore the classic inverted heart-stopper design of my cherished L'Heure Bleue). I'm pathetically besotted with the Guerlain fragrances I have sampled so far, but I think I require a bit more longevity from a fragrance. At the same time, I keep catching deep violet-shadowed whiffs of myself during the drydown, and I feel that I smell magnificent. At least for now! I wish Fragrantica offered a more nuanced emoji for me to select. I love this when I can smell it, and I'm sad when I cannot (which is shortly thereafter). Update: I might have to upgrade this to a Love. The shy woodland violets deal, with some silky luxury powder vibes, is making this irresistible to me. I can tell it will annoy me when no one will be able to smell it on me, but this is really special. Leave it to Guerlain to make me consider purchasing a jumbo-size refill bottle (and I wish all perfume bottles were refillable, with screw tops, if only because it makes it easier for me to share my favorite scents with my friends). I really enjoy the way the florals meld with the green notes (grass, stems, leaves). To anyone who said this smells like laundry detergent, please tell me the brand name because seriously, I might want to buy it!

This was unexpectedly good. On first spray, it made me think of a clear and fruity fluffy violet. But things go in a different direction within seconds. It morphs into an exceptionally pretty, soft floral getting a lift from a hint of "aquatic" notes. Not enough to turn this into an artificial smelling aquatic, but just the right touch to balance the natural powdery vibe of flowers like iris and violet. The balance and finesse of this fragrance set it apart. After a half hour or so, a gentle soap-like accord peeks through. Just like the aquatic and melon elements though, it isn't the star of the show. It just helps the scent stay fresh, clean, and sparkling all the way through. I don't get much jasmine or orange blossom. It dries into tasteful musks and some iris but with a continued gentle brightness I can only describe as green. Other lovers of the purple/green floral/iris accords of Green Irish Tweed might find something to enjoy in this drydown as well, despite these being very different fragrances. Lastly I think it's important not to skip past how fragrances feel, and how they make us feel. On first spray the texture is delightful and fluffy. Gentle blue flowers and wild flowers but light and balanced enough that I'd still wear this out, even as a man. It has zero heaviness and won't fill the room. It keeps the cheerful attitude up as it dries down but actually becomes less fluffy and interestingly, sharper and more focused, which is a nice trick that lets me continue enjoying the fragrance all day. It makes me feel a relaxed optimism. "I'm just going to take it easy today so that I can keep smelling my arm." This may be my favorite Aqua Allegoria.

I bought this bottle a couple of years ago, and I don't use it much, even though I always think it's beautiful when I put it on. A perfume vlogger I follow and whose content greatly enjoy--Wendi of Wendi's Parade of Perfumes--mentioned that she found the solar notes a bit much sometimes, and I wonder if that is the little extra note I'm perceiving here amid the "wildflowers" that do not grow wild in this country (to me, orange blossom, jasmine sambac, and iris aren't wildflowers, although violets certainly count--then again, the imagined setting for this perfume must be Italy or something, or perhaps the South of France, although then why the Italian name? I guess it goes with Aqua Allegoria?) I never think of myself as liking melon notes in perfume, but I suppose I must because there is calone aplenty in this juice, and it contributes to the general fresh-watery-ozonic vibe. Every once in a while it does remind me of an old body spray I had in the late 90s, some kind of cucumber-melon cheapie concoction, but then the trad florals come back, and I don't notice it anymore. Flora Salvaggia is a great choice for hot weather. I will probably puzzle forever over "solar notes," though. Sunlight--or light in general--does not have a fragrance. I suppose "solar" must refer to the way skin and other organic substances smell when heated: a kind of intensification of the normal smell, I guess. But I think "solar" and any references to sun in an olfactory sense are figurative because LIGHT HAS NO ODOR MOLECULES.

When I initially smelled flora salvaggio, it was at the end of a sampling sniff session so it all blurred together and i was kinda meh about it. Now in at 1:30 am in the morning, I can finally appreciate this attractive wallflower of a perfume. So delightfully sweet, she makes me feel like a swooning nobleman catching a glimpse of a beautiful lady’s shoulder as she walks past. Literally i got past the opening sweet violet notes giving way to the powdery aquatic scents and she just made me swoon. This is definably butch bait perfume LOL. It’s got a sweet wateriness at the end that I adore. I love water notes, so them being so prominent in the perfume is a big plus. Kinda disappointing they're stronger than the violet, but I enjoyed it anyway. Not really something that’s my style, but if someone wants to catch eyes or make a good first impression on a date this is the perfect perfume for someone. If my date showed up wearing this I would be ALL over them immediately. Might be a bit “old lady” for some people (My mom called it old lady), but that’s more because of the powdery and floral notes, to me I think this perfume is really special. Probably because of the aqua notes. This is a night perfume too by the way. I just have this vibe. But it's night perfume on an intimate yet sweet date, this isn't a party hard kind of perfume. Unfortunately, like her sisters in the Aqua Allegoria line, she doesn’t last as long as I’d like. A shame, really.