Doolciiisssimo

I have a special perfume fairy, Kris919, she has graciously sent me many of her previously tested samples. It's so interesting to see where we agree and where we differ in our assessments. Doolciisssimo may be our biggest difference of opinion. Her review uses words like whale blubber and Ron Jeremy, two of the grossest things I can imagine smelling. I, on the other hand, love this one. At first this reminded me of Guerlain's Tonka Imperiale, probably owing to the tobacco. I decided to test them side by side. They are similar but at the end of the day Guerlain wins. Actually, wearing them side by side made Doolciisssimo smell more like root beer which reminds me of Hypnotic Poison. I think this is an interesting sweet and comfy scent, that I would probably grab for a lot if I had a full bottle. Tobacco is a difficult note for me but I like it in here. The lasting power is good and it has a rather large and noticeable sillage.

The reviewers who have liked or loved this perfume have described my experience perfectly. It is a well blended gorgeous cherry tobacco (but like pipe tobacco not cigarette) which is wonderfully softened by smooth vanilla.It is a light gourmand, perfect for Autumn and Winter. A lot of cherry fragrances can be overly synthetic or screechy, and this one manages to avoid that, although right at the back of the smell is a faint note of plastecine / play-doh that does dissipate after the first 30 mins. The fragrance becomes a faint skin scent after about 2 hours, but retains its lovely dry down smell so you keep catching whiffs of it. Very nice.

It is right there with Bell D'Antonio. Sublime tobacco w/ a delicious cherry sweetness. Simple, redolent, elegant, and tobacco heavenly. It smells very natural. Unisex. Good for every day wear but also for formal occasions. I would wear it all year, although perhaps not at the peak of summer. Longevity and silage are above average. If you are a tobacco scent lover, you have to try this one.

I loooove Doolciiisssimo. It's very natural, don't smells synthetic cherry...Reminds me Gloria by Cacharel without the boozy note

A good perfumer makes a lovely perfume. A great perfume takes an overexploited note and makes something different with it. Which is what Hilde Soliani did with cherry and vanilla. Whatever I imagined Doolciiisssimo might be was wrong. The fragrance starts with a punch of sweet, dark, dried cherries. The juice is gone, but the aroma is still there. Then tobacco kicks in. I need to note that tobacco is a note I would love to love, but very often fragrances with it tend to smell on me like something decomposing in an old, humid basement, with TF Tobacco Vanille being an exception. Doolciiisssimo resembles Tobacco Vanille slightly- there is the strong vanilla presence and smoky tobacco, but the sweet cherry note sets the two apart. However, 30 minutes into the fragrance, my hand started smelling sort of like a cherry ashtray. At first I thought my neighbour has been smoking new type of cigarettes before realising it was my perfume. It is not exactly unpleasant, there is still vanilla and cherry out there, made me think that is cigarettes smelled like this, I would not mind hanging around smokers, but it is still not enough to make me love tobacco.