Sotto Voce

SOPHIA GROJSMAN'S SOTTO VOCE UN SUSSURRO IRRESISTIBILE: AN IRRESISTIBLE WHISPER Sophia Grojsman is a master perfumer/nose who brought us such masterpieces as: Yves Saint Laurent's Yvresse Champagne Passion by Elizabeth Taylor, Diamonds and Rubies by Elizabeth Taylor, Vanderbilt by Gloria Vanderbilt Sun Moon Stars by Karl Lagerfeld, Kashaya by Kenzo, Lalique, and the more popular Tresor by Lancome as well as Volupte by Oscar de La Renta. It is no wonder then that her Sotto Voce is in the same league. This beautiful perfume was created for fashion designer Laura Biagiotti in 1996. Biagiotti's Roma from 1988 was a big hit of a fragrance but this one is more appealing to me. At it's launch in Madrid Spain, European royalty attended a gala event with opera singers and a 19th century atmosphere recreating the costumes from the Claudia Cardinale Italian film The Leopard. This is a breathtakingly beautiful fragrance. It's a powerhouse 90's fragrance at a time when the gourmands had not yet taken over the business but when frags contained some sort of "gourmand" note like peach, plum, vanilla, but it was never the strongest player. This one opens up with real rosewood, mahogany. It fits the look of the bottle which is supposed to resemble a musical instrument like a violin or cello. The woodsy note in the opening is unique as most head notes do not contain woodsy notes which are normally in the base. But here the woods evoke a distinct wooden musical instrument. An then you get plums and peaches, lush, ripe and even sexy. Sotto Voce has a floral heart but it's not heavy on flowers, otherwise the wood note would disappear. These are flowers I adore: orchid, heliotrope, orange blossom and tuberose. They don't necessarily blend well together especially tuberose and heliotrope who appear to be competing with each other. This dissonance of notes made me think that it's supposed to wear like your perfume is playing music, but not an actual melody that has already been composed, it's more like the sound of orchestra musicians as they tune up their instruments before a performance at the symphony. To my nose the strongest floral accord is the orange blossom which is easier to combine with the plum-peach notes at the top. The orchid is fragrant and feminine, somewhat exotic and very romantic. The dry down is woodsy. It has sandalwood, beautiful sandalwood. I don't detect any vanilla but it's probably there. This was already such a sweet heady fruit-scented perfume at the beginning and so it would make sense the vanilla is there to enhance the sweetness. And let's talk about the bottle. What a gorgeous bottle. It's made of glass and the stopper is like metal prongs and it's rather large. It's rare to find a stopper like that. This is really such a gorgeous romantic perfume. It wears like a formal evening fragrance for dinner parties, galas, the theater, the symphony, the opera, the ballet, or a romantic dinner, a wedding perfume, a gala black tie and evening gown affair. They don't make them like this anymore. This fragrance was never reformulated and still sells on ebay. You have 2 versions eau de parfum and eau de toilette. Both have the same fragrance and are both quite strong and wear like eau de parfums. If you have over 100 bucks to spend on one fragrance please make it this one. It's divine. It's so beautiful. You have never smelled anything like it. I wear this all the time right now and cant' stop smelling my wrist. I am wearing it all month long and for Christmas and New Years Eve. Merry Christmas

I like this but not crazily in love with it anyway. First thing comes in mind, instantly reminds me of Karl Lagerfeld Sun Moon Stars but lighter and without that sharp tangy pineapple found in KLSMS. Few second afterwards this is so much like Lancome Tresor. However, Tresor comes rounder and smoother....feels like true cashmere blanket. While IMO Sotto Vocce still has some rough edges. I dont' know which particular notes/ingredients that made this happened....but that's what I feel. If you notice KLSMS and LT were made by the same perfumer, Sophia Grojsman which often created similar fragrances. Other than KLSMS and LT, Laura Biagiotti Sotto Voce, Paloma Picasso Tentations and Boucheron Jaipur are 3 other examples that resembles to one another. At first, I disagree with her and asked myself...."Why so much effort to produce something that always reminds you of her late fragrance over and over again?". But later...I made peace with myself and think...."Well, maybe that's her message...that's her signature, creating something that always reminds us of her creation. So, that her adherents will always found out which are hers, even without having to browse our finger off on our beloved website". All in all, although barely in love....I love the bottle, so the search continues

I came to Sotto Voce page on Fragrantica just to realize how sad it is when the perfume is gone. The last review was added 3 years ago. This extraordinary perfume is to be forgotten forever. Fascinating scent in a very interesting bottle, that was sadly discontinued and left all of us with bittersweet memory of good old times of our youth and a different world. I remember, this perfume was glorious and I loved the bottle with the tuning fork, it was so special in the nineties. The scent was woody, fruity, musky floral with hint of spice. It was feminine, sensual, soft, powdery and beautiful. I recently purchased a bottle off of ebay and unfortunately it is rotten, there is zero trace of the original scent and I have to probably put up with the fact, that Sotto Voce is the one that got away. And I have to end up with purchasing an old rotten perfumes from random folks on internet. I wish perfume houses would make at least small batches of perfumes based on orders from all the fans around the world. I would take any bottle, literally any packaging, if I could get back: Sotto Voce LB, Intuition Estee Lauder, V Absolu Valentino, Just Cavalli Her, Boucheron Jaipur, Dior Midnight Poison and some more.

My newest LOVE!! I've had a sample of this for several months and have only tried it once. I thought it was very very similar to LB's Venezia then, only softer, quieter. So yesterday, I tried them side by side and found that they are very different. Venezia is very fruity in the opening and stays fruit throughout, and Sotto Voce is a little fruity (peach and plum) but ultimately more woody. I am loving woody scents lately so I much preferred SV over the Venezia. I then showered and wore the SV all day. It had good longevity (about 4-6 hrs on my skin), although it stays very close to the skin. "Sotto voce" is a whisper and that describes this beautiful scent perfectly. It's a whisper that says, "Love me". Absolutely gorgeous, sweet, soft and woody oriental, with all the requisite oriental notes of tonka, vanilla and sandalwood...just beautiful.

11. January 2011 Very hard to find for a reasonable price this one is very feminine and amazing perfume! The name truly speaks for itself, it is not loud but sexy whisper. Got my full 75ml edt bottle today with amazingly low price!!!! I am soooo happy!!!! This is bit different from what i remembered it to be, but it is even better than i thought i would be!!!! Very yummy and sweet scent with long lasting staying power. The peach and plums totally got me, i wanted to eat my wrist! The tuberose and heliotrope give nice addition to the scent. It is sooooo well balanced and one of the best and outstanding fragrances i have ever tried! It definitely stands out from all others Sonja Grojsmann creation truly unique and non-replaceable with anything else. Ladies, do get it if you have extra money to spend!!!

Dear, this is one miracle! It almost smells with old wooden musical instruments in an orchestra chamber, plus some wonderful powdery vanilla and heliothrope. The woody notes are just amazing here! If you ever smelled an old piano or clarinet, you'll know what I mean - it's the mahogany. But I'm sure that sandalwood and other woods are present here as well. I fell for it immediately once it was released, I used one bottle, then I got another one and they stopped producing it, what a shame! I heard it was created as mourning/ tribute after some famous opera was destroyed in a huge fire. Well, maybe this is why it is gone, as every mourning has an end? But in this case I'd rather it was a tribute, not mourning, then it may have been still available:(

I can`t describe just how much I ADORE this perfume! My all time favorite! Timeless classic! I wish every single day that Laura Biagiotti brings it back....it smells divine from the very first moment until 3 days later when I can still smell it on my pillow. I love that it doesn`t change (I have problems with perfumes becoming completely different after half an hour...). I bought an open bottle on Ebay and I couldn`t be happier. I tried Sun Moon Stars after reading reviews that it`s similar to Sotto Voce. While it`s somewhat similar, it has disgusting sweetness to it that gives me headache. Nothing compares to Sotto Voce. I wish I could have a bottle of it forever!

I got intrigued by all these raving reviews so bought a miniature of Sotto Voce on Ebay. It starts out sweet and has an overpowering and almost cloying accord of vanilla / fruit syrup. Later it becomes a distinctly powdery, white floral scent that's less sweet and airier than before. About 5 hours later I get a sweet, peachy orchid scent that's less powdery and more woody now. To be honest, the vanilla in the beginning ruined it for me but it does recover after the glitch. A very feminine, soft (after the top notes) and powdery floral scent. Not what I was expecting from the notes though.

Whoever decided to take this one off the market should be punished by taking away his/her sense of smell. Why would you want to deprive anyone of one of the most delicate and well balanced perfumes I have had the joy to wear? Its solid consistency is also a quality I admire in it. Long lasting and embracing, you can wear it like a gorgeous garment. It will make you feel confident and happy at the same time. My heart goes to poor Sophia Grojsman. She created a subtle "soft tone", only to watch it end up being suffocated by the rattle of much inferior perfumes.

Last summer, I was lucky enough to score a sealed bottle in a Santa Barbara vintage perfume shop, and it is every bit as intriguing and lovely as I remembered. Woodsy and deep, with pronounced notes of tuberose, whose creaminess is tempered by the freshness of the peach, it is a smooth, wearable scent, perfect for the spring or summer in the city. * Recently, I bought Love Tuberose by Amouage and was amazed at the similarities between the two scents (although, to me, LT is perhaps a bit less complex, with a starker, more distinct tuberose opening).

Sotto Voce is one of the best fragrances ever. I still have 2 bottles that I hold on to. I love spraying it onto my wrist and I can smell it all day. The scent is warm and feminine. It is a shame that it is no longer made and it makes it even worse that it was replaced with Donna Due and Laura Rosé. If you are looking for something similar, try Sun Moon Stars which is not exactly the same but smells like an unfinished version or rejected prototype of Sotto Voce. Still, not the same but made by the same perfumer and there are obvious similarities.

Every time I put this on, I was to eat my arm. This just smells so good! I get this really soft, sweet woodsy note, like the smell you get when you open a wooden chest. The peach and plum are noticeable, but the overall effect is still very soft and quiet. It's my ultimate comfort scent and I'm so sad to see it's practically impossible to find.. The bottle is really cool too! The top is a tuning fork that you detach to spray the perfume and when you take it off you can hear and feel it vibrate slightly.

By ex-husband bought it for me when we were dating and I could never understand it. Bottle is great though. 2023 Reconstructing my lifetime perfume collection and got 5ml little guy on e-bay. It is heavenly! Absolutely adorable! I wish I knew where did this old 50ml bottle I had almost 30 years ago had gone. This is the perfume to wear in spring, going to a concert, wearing a little black dress with a regal brooch. Can't have enough of it. Seriously! Why would such a beautiful perfume be discontinued...

i liked narcisse of chloe, which was stopped and than launched again. if i had wishes to the golden fish they would be: launch again Sotto voce of Laura Biagiotti and Helmut Lang by Helmut Lang. In my opinion the Sotto voce radiates something of cherry, something like the tase of black cherry in the Jack Daniels, very tasty. Sweet and feminine. Beautifull and light scent. Yes, please launch it again

I have tried to mix "Tocade" by Rochas with "Desnuda" by Ungaro to get a similar scent to "Sotto voce" and i think it works. At least on my skin it works. I have sprayed this mix on my one wrist and original "sotto voce" onto other wrist and they smell very much alike then. P.S. i didn ́t mix those two in the botlle, but sprayed one over another one.

I had it in 90’s and absolutely loved it! Couldn’t get it since! I still have a miniature, which I will treasure forever. But I think I have a great replacement which is in my opinion so far the closest and the bestest to our dear Soto Voce! 🎉Balmain-Rouge🎉 It’s the newest edition and I’ve got it. Omg pls let me know when you try it if I'm any close!

I am searching for a perfume that could smell like sotto voce,does anyone could help me ? I like summer de kenzo,l'instant de guerlain,permier jours de nina ricci ...But it is not the same as SOTTO VOCE !!!

I loved Sotto Voce so very much, it's so sad Laura Biagiotti doesn't make it any longer, me too: We want it back! -No one can fill Sotto Voces shoes, but, Kashaya of Kenzo is very close :))

my fav ever!!! I used to wear it 10 years ago, and I finally have one, I only wear it from time to time to save it as much as I can, because I can not find it anywhere now..

Hey Guys. Greek perfume dupe house Shobi Perfumery have recreated this beauty! Run!! Its right as it was back then and Im so happy I got this fumie back.