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.

A very interesting perfume, but even more interesting for me as an ex smoker. This smells exactly like the fresh tobacco smell when you first open a pack of ciggies. I barely smell the coffee at all, which Ive noticed others have the same experience. But this is a really nice tobacco smell, mildly sweet spices with some subtle smokiness. I really like it but just not sure that I actually want to smell like this or where I could wear this??

Starts out like stale coffee and cigarette smell, not super pleasant but it’s fades after like 10-15min and then I never smell any coffee again. To me it isn’t actually linear, it goes through 3 phases. Starts like a green or wet sweet patchouli tobacco, then it turns into a more soapy oakmoss tobacco, and then it ends like a soft incense tobacco. I like it, going to get my bf to try it and see if he likes it for him too.

I'll tell you what makes me so happy about this masterpiece of a gorgeous scent. It's a happy scent! It's a different take on the oh so common sweet tobacco like back to black. All these notes blended oh so well one just has to try it to experience it. It's not a spicy dry tobacco. It's sweet and dry at the same time. Full bottle on the way!!

It smells wonderful!!Wooden floors at an old theatre along with good tobacco!it's indeed an amazing mix that gives a dark smokey result, suitable for a confident person.. especially a charming bon-viveur!

Exactly what is says: coffee and cigs. Wonderful.

Hilde Soliani Bell'Antonio involves a simple pairing, coffee and tobacco, and doesn't add much else, not that that's a bad thing. For example, unlike many other coffee and/or tobacco scents, this fragrance is not noticeably sweet. So if someone has a problem with the sweetness of, say, Mugler A*Men Pure Coffee or Burberry London, Bell'Antonio offers an option that takes the coffee and tobacco without the sweetness. Certainly this is a cold-weather-leaning option, as well, but since it's not a tremendous powerhouse, one can try to pull it off on a summer evening if they so dare. Performance is very good and this could easily be a winter signature scent for a man, but at the standard HS pricing of $160 for 100ml (on Luckyscent) it's a tough sell for, but I could easily see it being quite popular and its consensus seems positive, accordingly. 7 out of 10

The notes of Bell' Antonio are right up my alley. tobacco and coffee. So I had to try this one. I recently got a sample and was excited to give it a full day wearing. The opening of BA has a great tobacco opening. Almost like an unlit Cigar, with just hints of coffee. I love the tobacco, but could use a little more coffee in this. In the dry down I get the dusty reference that others have talked about, with something a little sweet that I cannot put my finger on. Overall this is not a bad scent, but it does not knock my socks off or stand out in my collections, so i will not be adding a bottle in the near future. I will revisit this again though. If my perception changes I will update this review. Bottom line: If you like tobacco scents, this one is worth a sample to see how it works on your skin.

Unlit cigarette when you put your nose very close to it. Very well achieved indeed. Simple but very wearable and not boring at all. Yes, 20 seconds of coffee note and then pure tobacco. I love this scent, it is very soft (don't expect a room-filling tobacco scent) but I think it is very apt for those days you want to smell great without bothering anyone. It is dusty, very unisex and I think a full bottle would last little as I would definitely spray a lot each time for the expected result. It is on my wishlist! Think of eau de cologne strength or you may be disappointed with a blindbuy.

Enjoyable tobacco and coffee for those with an acquired taste. Definitely not for everyone. Starts off very clary sage and clove heavy, then slowly transitions to dry pipe tobacco, mixed with coffee grounds. In the base, tonka and vetiver show up to soften up the rough edges. Eventually, it becomes a bit soapy like a bar of tobacco scented soap. I like it a lot. It reminds me of Tobak by Maya Njie, but that one has an odd odor that I find really unpleasant.

This is a surprisingly sweet and ashy tobacco. When I first smelled it on the paper strip, I thought it would be way woodier, but on my skin, it melts down to something different. It is almost nostalgic in a way. The coffee is also very prominent on the skin (I didn’t smell that at all on paper). The coffee note here is an all-black one, one that has been sitting in your mug the entire day or has been in the pot all morning until it got cold, and now it is slightly bitter and sour. Though, it is something poetic about the blend of this. The drydown comes faster than anticipated. The perfume is weak and intimate, and an hour after application it is just barely a memory. Like smelling the side table I inherited from my grandparents, that have been through a lot of cups of coffee and infinite cigarettes.

Opens with a musty, stale smell. The coffee is here but smells of an empty plastic bag that I used to carry coffee to work. I think the tobacco is floating in the background somewhere here. I also get a huge metallic note. I just sampled Penhaligans Sartorial last night and it is the same metallic note that was in that one. I don't know if its developing right on my skin. Hours later and all Im getting is the metallic note. This must not be blending with my skin. I have to try this again and see if it changes. As is, I couldn't recommend this to anyone!!!

Dusty, musty, why? If some tobacco fell out of a cigarette onto the floor of a 1976 chevy Nova that hadn't been cleaned in years, this is what it would smell like.

As a very-pleased owner of Hilde Solani's "CiocoRosissimo", I had equally high hopes for "Bell'Antonio"; sadly, my hopes were dashed. TL;DR -- It's a "scrubber"... wow, is it ever! There's absolutely no coffee to be found (other than what was in my moka pot-brewed mug), and the "tobacco" was of the greenest-of-green flowers (and overwhelming). Natural or synthetic? Your guess is as-good-as (probably better than) mine; but, FWIW, it doesn't matter -- this is just awful, and does a horrible injustice to a pairing as iconic as ham 'n eggs or fish 'n chips. And it's way overpriced, at that. I'm glad I only sprang for a 9ml decant, and not a full bottle.

Basically if you dump some tobacco into a cup of coffee, then dip your finger into that coffee and run it across your arm you will have the same experience as wearing Bell'Antonio. It is so very, very mildly scented, and also absolutely flat - no zip to it at all. Throw is nonexistent.

Bell'Antonio smells like moldy coffee—especially at the opening—and ashtray. While not strong or invasive, the fragrance feels unpleasant and evokes a sense of filth. Although it may hold interest as a perfumery exercise, I struggle to find positive associations with this scent.