Conaffetto

This to me is what I expected from Alessandro (which ended up too powdery for me) and I get the association some have to Farmacia CARA but with more lasting power and scent trail. (still love Farmacia CARA). This has that sweetness that floats in the air in Spring when sweet blossoms open and you walk around wondering what it is that smells so wonderful. Along with that I get the almond and the sugar. The orange blossoms are not sharp - I believe them to be the honey-sweet that I sense after this has set for about 5 minutes on the skin. Perfectly blended, once settled from the initial blast. One application behind my neck and on my chest gently wafts about treating me to its gentle caress. It is a perfume that smiles. I read that her perfumes are scent memories. Scents that trigger past warm fuzzies. I get that - when I experience this scent it feels familiar but different. Hilde Soliani created this scent for her friend's wedding (LUCKY FRIEND!) Comfortable and very cozy and sexy at the same time. Though I do appreciate Alessandro and would not be upset to receive it as a gift - and I LOVE Farmacia Cara and wear that often. This has wiggled its way up to one of my top favorites in this scent category. A scent for grown ups that feels young. LOVE it! Oh, yes, expensive - but if 2 spritzes can last that long - very worth it and I know I will start saving now for another spare bottle. Hope she makes it forever! *I find I am drawn to many of her scents - at least all that I have sampled so far. *Also, this is one that lasts longer when SPRITZED versus dabbed. (but with sample dabbing you will still get a great sense of this fragrance - just know it is even better with spritzing)

This was a blind buy for me, and no, I'm not talking about a sample. I blew a whole $200 for this beauty - unsniffed - and it was worth every penny. This is an odd fragrance really because its beginning is so opposite of what you'd expect. I opened up the bottle for a whiff and I smelled something metallic and a little sharp. I was so disappointed. I thought I'd wasted my money. I spritzed a little on the tissue paper in the box (for this much money, they'd better wrap it in tissue paper before they box it up!). We all know spritzing on tissue paper is NOT the same as spritzing on oneself. Again, utter disappointment. Finally I squirted a spray on my arm. Sharp notes for about 5 - 10 minutes and then, something magical. Kind of an orangey, almond-y, candy like breeze wafting through the air. And the magic continues. A couple of hours later, a light orange blossom/vanilla/almond confection of a dry down. But, it's not sickly sweet. It's adult, and it's beautiful. What I originally thought was a disaster turned into an sweet orange veil of wonderment. I took another whiff from the bottle after going through all of the stages with my new perfume. This time it smelled like orange candy. It's an interesting fragrance that can smell different to me each time I sniff it. But wearing it, it brings me back to Italy in the springtime, my most favorite place in the world and my most favorite time of year. Give it a try, just a sample to start :)

This is wonderful! The first few minutes I did not like at all -- too bitter for my tastes. But after a few minutes it dries down so loverly. Almonds and powdered sugar -- truly just like Jordan Almonds -- with a subtle whiff of orange blossoms on the breeze. Just like the description. I wish I liked the first few minutes better, but the dry-down is worth it I think. Now have to raid the pantry to see if we have any Jordan Almonds left from the wedding... eta: Love this stuff so much, and my sample is almost gone! So sad a full bottle is so pricey, though I understand why! You definitely get what you pay for with this perfume. I have found this perfume to be very long-lasting, and I love it more every time I wear it. It has this sweet delicateness that is just heavenly and addicting. Would love this in a lotion or body oil (though they would probably also be out of my budget lol), I could just roll around in this fragrance! Might have to get another sample and restrict myself to wearing it very rarely. ETA: I broke down and bought it! I tried many others, and nothing came close to the subtle divinity of this fragrance. It is also excellent for layering as well as wearing on its own. The longevity is insanely good -- it lasts upwards of ~24hrs. Maybe longer, but I shower once a day so haven't had the opportunity to see how much longer it will last!

I reviewed this on my blog, but will post the review here, too, since there are no others. I was surprised to find that this sample is a perfume oil, not an alcohol-based perfume. It’s almond, but not your usual sweet almond marzipan. Up close it’s unsugared toasted almond along with an unusually bitter, woody, herbal note that may be a mixture of petitgrain and galbanum. At the same time, however, the sillage is pure cotton candy. I love the opening. The juxtaposition of bitter and sweet is not only brilliant perfume composition, but is a wise commentary on the nature of weddings and the emotions they represent. In the background I detect a sharp, oily, citronella-like note that fortunately keeps in its place where it really underscores the rest of the notes. There’s a bit of orange blossom, but the fragrance never descends into floral territory. The sillage maintains its sugar-cone-with-a-scoop-of-vanilla-ice-cream character all the way to the end. After about 3 hours the scent dries down to an intense, beautiful, vanilla base. The amount of sillage is just right, it persists throughout, and the fragrance is long-lasting. Almond is a difficult note to use in perfumery, but Hilde Soliani has done it to perfection, so kudos to her skill. If you like almond, you should try this.

Hilde Soliani Conafetto entails a relative simple, straightforward note list of almond, orange flower, and sugar, and offers it in the right balance to yield an enticing and comforting gourmand scent. The almond lends its sharp, sweet, nuttiness but is tempered by the creamy citrus orange flower. It's quite sweet, slightly fresh, and perhaps year-round versatile, even, while also being unisex. I liken Hilde Soliani's Conafetto to a less screechy, less sharp counterpart to Profumum Roma's Confetto, and perhaps Soliani's is best described, with the use of orange flower, as at a crossroads between Profumum's Confetto and its Meringa. Performance is very good, better than Vani Choc, for one, and on par with Bell'Antonio and Buonissimo, up to the high bar set by the brand. 7 out of 10

To me, Conaffetto smells like a heavenly combination of orange blossoms and marshmallows. If you indulge in candied yams during the holidays like I do, then you are very familiar with the sweet and creamy smell of melted marshmallows. Take that sugary smell of melted marshmallows and mix it with a heavy dose of citrusy orange blossoms and you have Conaffetto. I don't pick up on the bitterness and dryness of almonds too much - it's very mild here. On me, Conaffetto is mostly a sweet, sugary floral. Sillage is really strong when first applied, but after 15-20 minutes it settles down nicely. Lasting power is above average. I get 6-8 hours from 2 spritzes. This beauty is perfect for cooler weather, snuggling, and daydreaming :o)

Conaffetto opens with a blast of cigarette smoke, dentist's office, and flower vase water saturated with powdered sugar. A rather absurd combination, and certainly one that took some getting used to. Within 15-20 mins, it morphs into an idealized women's magazine beach wedding editorial. It's sweet and heavy on the orange blossom, but sheered out to a warm breeze. I don't find it similar to Reminiscence Dragée - they are very different to my nose. Dragée is both denser and fluffier, more literally gourmand, pure sugary white. Conaffetto is airier, more floral, creamier, a wash of warm orange. JPG Classique smells harsh in comparison and thereby just rendered itself redundant in my wardrobe. Good going, Hilde.

bello l'inizio con una giustapposizione gradevolmente pungente di neroli e mandorla amara. peccato che questa fase perduri poco, assestandosi quindi su un odore di zolletta di zucchero non del tutto gourmand. la persistenza non è tanta, ma è compatibile con un uso estivo. ricorda un po' amande de ble di acorelle.

Conaffetto smells like a freshly bathed baby to me. I can only barely detect the vanilla and floral.. Overall, I smell pink baby lotion (I have an 8 month old - I know this smell well). It is not unpleasant by any means, just not what I signed on for.

This was an interesting one to sample. At first I got a sweet marshmallow note with a hint of astringency, loads of vanilla, slightly powdery, and not much complexity. Almonds, check. Sugar, check. Orange blossom? Not quite getting that note. It smells a bit like a biscotti to me, and a bit like vanilla frosting on those supermarket mini cupcakes. It's not bad, but it's also mildly reminiscent of that plastic doll smell, as others have noted, that I don't care for.

I'm on a never ending almond hunt, so yesterday I tried Profumum Confetto and today it is Hilde's Conafetto. Very different takes on this gourmand. Conafetto hits my skin with a strong licorice smell, like the allsorts candy, followed closely by citronella. It's not pleasant smelling to me as I dislike licorice and it reminded me of mosquito spray. As it warms on my skin, the orange blossom comes out and fights with the citronella for dominance. Once it dries down, I smell the hard, crunchy coating of confetti/Jordan almonds, but not the actual almond. This isn't unpleasant but it doesn't wow me either. The licorice is too much for my nose and beyond that, it's just a sugary candy smell. This was fun to try even though it's not for me.

I really love the name of this, it’s clever and fitting for the sweet scent. To my nose, this smells like orange blossom and anise- the combination reminds me of licorice jelly beans with a dash of floral. I am not a huge fan of neroli or orange blossom, so this fragrance isn’t for me but I can appreciate its appeal. It’s unique & uplifting.

initial blast was medicinal, like Noxzema/Carmex, with original peppermint Altoids thrown in. it took an hour to soften and calm into a light vanilla. but by hour 4 i forgot i applied it.

Have you ever felt that strange feeling when something had a smell like the taste...?Or inversely...?:) First, when I smelt Conaffetto,I known I felt some time this feeling earlier.Then I realized what is this "taste"-poured in a scent. Apart from the eagerly bitter and greenish sweet prelude, the scent itself like a candy- melted in the mouth. Taste of honey and sugar with liquorice and mint. Mouth-watering memories of my teenage years-I loved the honeyed liquorice candy in the college name is: Negro Honey.(It's a famous hungarian brand:Negro) The perfume is another well-blended Hilde Soliani creation. The notes above might be distinctive, the scent is a complex, rounded smell. Conaffetto is not that sticky sweet perfume as I expected. It has a kind of fizzy and spicy element what whirls the smell into something bipolar. Contrast of the initial sharp bitterness and powdery sweetness,disaccord of the ethereal white flowers on the dense almond-tonka shape.Strangely, I don't smell exactly almond here...especially not sugar coated almond.But I definitely smell notes of acacia-honey with vanilla and tonka,and subtle lemon and mint with anice or liquorice. The blend is very natural smelling gourmand, a blissful, carefree fragrance. Personally, for me the perfect wedding perfume is not this composition,it's just too sweet for my taste. But you don't need to be a bride to try-and like this fragrance.:)

Disclaimer: I'm obsessed with this. I got a sample and became obsessed with the sample. My full bottle is already purchased, shipped, and will be here at the end of the week. It is very classy. It's classy and gourmand and there is nothing anywhere near cloying about this. That being said, it smells a whole heck of a lot like After Shock liquor. The cinnamon stuff with the sugar crystals at the bottom? That stuff. Sweet syrupy candied cinnamon alcohol. I would never think I'd want to smell like that. I'd never think of that as some sort of fragrance goals, until I got this sample and well... obsessed.

This was a blind buy for me too and initially I was also disappointed. It was not what I was expecting when I bought it .I was waiting for the smell of a creamy almond vanilla and on my skin the orange flower dominates and in the beginning it’s loud. But if you give it time it calms and you can feel how cozy it is. The dry down for me is a light orange vanilla. It’s so interesting how a fragrance works different for each one ,on me it doesn’t last more than 3 or 4 hours.

This was a blind buy for me, I'm happy I took the leap!!! Compliments galore every time I wear it. Soft but strong, sweet, creamy, fresh.. unique!. I'm half way through my first bottle and just ordered another. year round fragrance that's stands out and makes people want to draw near. Smells like a waffle cone to me ... Just yummyyyyyyyy.

Light, soft, powdery without being baby powder, sweet without being cloying. There is a playdoh note for sure, that makes it smell like a barbie doll somehow. Really pretty and fun but I won’t wear a full bottle’s worth. Glad to try it though!

I am only getting soapy/bitter orange blossom from this, with just brief glimpses of sugary almonds. Overall I expected it to be much sweeter but it is not sweet at all on my skin.

Someone please dm me & sell me this fragrance in any condition. Thanks.