Teatro Olfattivo Di Parma: Bell'Antonio

This perfume is very evocative. It's a snippet from a motion picture for me. It ignites all of my senses. The touch of a cigar to the lips, the taste of strong espresso, the scent of an old building made with fine wood that has absorbed the energy of a coffee house. I can hear the commotion of conversation, and I can see the decades of lifestyles that have gathered to this location. This is the scent of a robust time and place. Bell'Antonio is a fall/winter scent extraordinaire. It feels very European American to me.There's nothing watered down here. It's simple and yet complete. Rich tobacco and coffee resins combined in a very realistic~and yet wearable~fashion. Definately unisex, it's also quite liberated. I can also see the beautiful mavericks of the past insisting on a bottle for their vanities as well, right before they put their menswear on to go out on the town. Names like Marlene Dietrich, Kathryn Hepburn, Greta Garbo, just for starters. Absolutely timeless......

Hilde Soliani is a perfumer that does not cease to surprise me. This is another fragrance I try and love so much that I almost have tears in my eyes thinking of the price and the fact I will probably not be able to buy it for a long time now. Bell'Antonio appeals to me as I love tobacco (in perfume, not in real life) and I love coffee. And bell'Antonio is all about them. A smoky, cloudy tobacco and deep, rich flavour of espresso. Imagery depicting old-fashioned theatres with long, red curtains, audience in evening gowns, gentleman with monocles and fashionable ladies looking at the scene with their little binoculars. I love fragrances that represent something more than just olfactory experiences. Also,this scent beats Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille on all fronts. Unline TV, it is not overly sweet, but and the coffee and tobacco notes are so deep and full of flavour and aroma, that Tom Ford's creation starts looking like its poor relative.

Either this is the cheapest presentation ever created or Luckyscent dropped the ball by repackaging this into a Glad lock safety bag. On another note: It took me a second but i think i figured it out....This smells like a sweeter but less powdery version of Xerjoff's Tobacco Oroville. I almost resent the comparison but if you take what i said into consideration, you will notice the similarities. Oroville is pungent and brute whereas Bell Antonio's tobacco is more rounded with soft notes. Both frags have soapy dry downs but one has to wonder....Where are the rest of the notes for Bell Antonio to justify the soapiness? I like this stuff so much that i almost considered this to be my new signature scent. I definitely need more time with this but in the meantime this is a winner. Side Note: If you like whiskey in your notes, you should give this a try.

I bought a sample of this perfume on Lucky Scent based on notes of coffee and tobacco which I love. This is a wonderful winter holiday scent I really enjoy! It reminds me of my grandfather Dziadz who smoked a pipe. Opening on me is sweet pipe tobacco that quickly adds hay then a sweet alfalfa scent mixed with tobacco. Zero coffee or other notes on my skin it stays same after first 20 minutes and lasts 6 hours before slowly fading to skin scent. I love it! This is unisex scent and is not masculine on my skin. Scent trail and projection were great the first hour. After reading reviews I realized this perfume smells drastically different on people so I suggest testing it first. If I had read reviews I would never have tried this perfume and would have lost out on a beautiful fragrance! I plan to buy a full bottle!

I absolutely love it! Use a little bit of it over Bond New Haarlem to make that one last a little bit longer on me. Works well :) Upon application it smells like fresh pipe tobacco, nice and round with a little faint floral in the background. Not at all sweet. I smell no coffee. When it dries down my boyfriend complains that it smells old tobacco, but I love it for that same reason. It smells old tobacco but a good old tobacco, no sourness :) My father said it smelled just like Mac Baren pipe tobacco which my uncle used to smoke when I was little.