Krizia

Krizia is truly divine. I think it's one of the most beautiful perfumes I've ever come across, and I adore it. The star anise and vanilla, the heliotrope and iris, and the beautiful soft gentle yet rich pungent patchouli, not to mention the divine jasmine and musk, all together so well blended, create heaven. It's beautifully sweet and luscious. Really beautiful creamy almond from the heliotrope makes this perfume sublime for me. Add the pungency of the star anise, with it's bitterness, and it's an amazing creation. Splendid. Elegant, refined and maturely feminine, and lasts and lasts till the heavens open my heart with love. It's like going on a journey to heaven for me - mysterious, dark and deep, with a sense of ascending to higher plane. Very sensual, in a refined way - like your higher senses are being caressed and loved. It's superb. I LOVE KRIZIA - to death!!!

Mysterious and deep with a clean opulence. Like a black pearl--smooth, cool and bold. I get an almost-almond note which I think is an accord created by the nutty, earthiness of star anise, the creaminess of heliotrope, and the coolness of iris. Patchouli lends some warm depth and clean woodiness that draws you right in before you're even aware. Musk and vanilla add some sweet enticement without being cloying, yet it is strong. Sensual with a cool, luminous glow, yet warmly inviting at the same time.

A fantastic scent, definitely unisex. Very sexy when is wear by a woman, it's a pity that is no longer in production.

Explosion of spicy sugar and pure wilderness! Strong and deeply warm scent suitable for daring women. The earthy-black model on the poster is great for promoting this perfume - because if feeling of hot african savannah could be transformed into fragrance, then it will be Krizia ;-)

As soon as I put this on, I knew I have smelled this before. It was bugging the living hell out of me - until I saw F_A's comparison to Lolita Lempicka - YES, EXACTLY its sister! In other words, it's exactly like L de Lolita Lempicka, the gingerbread relative of the classic Lolita. Krizia is definitely not woody spicy on me, but spicy vanilla. And that's not just its category, that really is ALL it smells like - delicious & edible spicy vanilla, i.e. gingerbread. Yum!

KRIZIA Krizia Year 2001 I had this fragrance & didn't realize I had some remnants of it until I walked into my walk in closet a while back. This is a very underrated & little known and even hard to find fragrance by the world class house of Krizia. Notes of star anise, iris, jasmine, heliotrope, patchouli, musk and vanilla. I normally don't care for fragrances like this: super sweet, powdery, floral, vanilla. But I didn't realize just how it would turn out. I bought it blindly back in 2001. 9/11 had occurred when I first bought this perfume. This fragrance grew on me. It was a soothing and very lovely scent, a powder can be just like aroma therapy sometimes. I forgot how sweet & lovely this perfume truly is. Krizia is quite linear & doesn't have much of a complex nature nor longevity. It's a lovely powder based perfume to make you feel clean & delicious. This starts off as an iris & heliotrope floral perfume, no fruit, no aldehydes (the star anise spice note is sort of a substitute for the aldehyde a la L'Heure Bleu by Guerlain which this fragrance sort of resembles). The iris is quite strong and it smells very floral on it's own. Then I detected some white jasmine & vanilla. The jasmine note is smooth, silken, and evokes a kind of white tablecloth on a dresser table with old bottles of perfume. It can be pretty mature even grandmotherly but you have to wait for the powdery florals to subside. It then turns into a green patchouli leaf, a bit mysterious, dark, Oriental in nature, with a muskiness. This sort of feels like a hybrid creation & the two fragrances blended into it seem to be Shalimar & L'Heure Bleu so think Shalimar but super powdery. A vanilla dry down of delicious yummy sweetness. The opening is not sweet but it gets sweeter & sweeter. Very delicate and subtle if applied with a light touch. This is a good perfume to wear when you don't want to make a statement but wear a sweet vanilla powder perfume. It gets compliments. It has a gourmand Lolita Lempicka type of vibe but Lolita is far more full bodied whereas this fragrance has such a shorter lifespan & simpler composition. Wearable for spring & summer but also warm with that musk which makes it just as nice in winter time. A flexible & any time anywhere casual soothing fragrance. I wear it to bed these days & feel very relaxed wearing it. It's also suited to lingerie: nightgowns & robes or skin on robes in the morning. If you like florals, vanilla & powder/musk the only other perfume that comes closest to this discontinued beauty is Lolita. I wish Krizia would bring this back.

Krizia has an almost edible quality, I suppose the powder, vanilla and spices give that mouth watering appeal. I can sense the floral elements beautifully. Everything feels delicate, though my overall impression is of a very full bodied perfume with excellent sillage and longevity. It is a gem in this respect! A fabulous fragrance that is loud enough to be noticed and enjoyed, the complexities visible, shimmering like lovely jewels.

Not so far from Asja by Fendi this is more timeless than that. It smell like carnation, red berries, liquorice. But when you read the composition you exactly find star anise, vanilla, heliotrope, iris.. Very nice and well made composition. More actual now than almost 15 year ago. Could be also a clear sugary version of Body Kouros. Definitely unisex.

A wonderful fragrance, sister of Lolita Lempicka EDP. This perfume is very sweet and addictive. On my skin it has the smell of sweet coconut, mixed with the powdery scent of anise and iris. Pity it is discontinued. Worth trying for all who love LL EDP.

è molto speziato di anice ,sembra di sentire la ciliegia dolcissima o l'amarena direi.... Calda e piacevole fragranza,pero non è il massimo.....

it's a very sexy perfume!very complex and it lasts a lot too! the bottle's design is quite original

It is sophisticated...but hard to find:(