Dolcelisir

THE WELL-BEING ITALIAN ELIXIR An elixir (a word derived from the Arabic الإكسير or Al-Ikseer) is a preparation containing an active ingredient dissolved in a solution with a certain percentage of alcohol. The most famous elixir in history has been created by Giuseppe Balsamo, known as "Count Alessandro Cagliostro", an 18th-century traveller, occultist, alchemist, healer, hypnotist and freemason. This adventurer, also known as Count Felix, Marquis of Pellegrini and Prince of Trapenzut, was an intelligent and charismatic charlatan. He claimed to be able to cure all kinds of diseases and, like any good alchemist, to turn metals into gold and become invisible. He committed his first crimes in Palermo, his home town, where he turned out to be a skilled forger. When his activities became too notorious, he was forced to emigrate to Egypt. Later, at the age of 25, he married a 15-year-old girl in Italy. She was the daughter of a humble artisan in Rome and had started working as a prostitute. Over the years he made friends with the true king of impostors and charlatans, the Count of Saint-Germain. From him, he inherited the formula of the "elixir of eternal youth", with which one could live up to two thousand years. In one of his pamphlets entitled "Secret of Regeneration or Physical Perfection", he recommended that people retire to the countryside, follow a diet for a month and takes the appropriate doses of his miracle elixir. As soon as the fevers, delirium, hair loss and periodontitis were overcome, one should take a good hot bath. In this way, the patient should be rejuvenated by 50 years. He died in Rome in 1795, at the age of 52. He had to appear before St. Mary's Church in penitential clothing and renounce all his sins and errors. However, he was not forgiven. As a result, he was imprisoned in the fortress of San Leone in Urbino, where he was finally strangled in his cell. Fortunately, people are no longer strangled today for making and selling unusual elixirs. At least I hope they don't! Dolcelisir is a remarkably safe elixir even if you are not going to live longer just by using it. To me, it is a tonka bean elixir lightly infused with rum and flowers. Its amber facet is very pleasant and neither too strong nor overly sweet. The tonka bean originates from the Amazon rainforest and offers a sweet scent with notes of almond, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon and tobacco. Besides the coumarin ingredient (Tonka), the addition of these individual notes to this fragrance only reinforces my opinion of it smelling like a tonka elixir. It starts with a caramel cherry-cola and rum accord that is eerily similar to "Raghba Wood Intense" by Lattafa. Over time it becomes more reminiscent of "Hermessence Ambre Narguilé" by Hermès but probably less ambery and less sweet. It evolves into a narcotic amber blend with cinnamon, vanilla and bitter almond, without losing its alcoholic, caramelised accord. Although not listed, the base recalls a cherry tobacco note. The Hermés-like scent now also reminds me of "A*Men Pure Havane" by Thierry Mugler. It doesn't perform particularly well and you have to re-spray to get a full day's wear out of it. As for the scent, it gives off an above-average quality feeling. It is a natural treat for lovers of not-overly-sweet amber scents. As one should expect from a natural cosmetics brand, the presentation is quite simple. The same look and feel are shared by fragrances from L'Occitane and sometimes The Body Shop. My overall impression of this fragrance: You get a mix of different oriental scents in a single bottle, with the easy recall of "Hermessence Ambre Narguilé" predominating. However, the value for money is remarkable considering I got a 50ml bottle for €15. It is quite safe to recommend it as a blind buy... and that's what I've done! The fragrance is currently discontinued, so if you see a remaining bottle in any L'Erbolario shop, buy it immediately. Music: Roger Daltrey - It's A Hard Life

This is Philippe Garrel "Les Amants Régulier" in a scent. I feel like being transported in the failed post 68's to 70's social's rebellions, disillusioned with the state of affairs of the world...smoking opium in my spare time, while dressing à la Bertolucci's "The Dreamers", like Theo to be exact. I just can not dissociate it from that aesthetic. Ok, about the scent itself...forget warm cinnamon and rhum (and caramel), this is a liquor, yes.. but it is an elderflower based one. They make themself known in the opening, supported by bitter cacao powder and something lightly zesty (bitter orange? ginger? candied citrus?), and they never, ever leave the composition, remaining until the dry down, in a true narcotic fashion! The rhum and caramel notes are quite faint and serve more as a support for the elderflowers which are present since the opening with a central role. The boozines dies down a bit in the mid of the scent, where heliotrope and tabacco intertwine to create a powdery smoky/dry effect. But, like all the elements in here, they are toned down and muted, as if a patina, or better yet a sepia filter is applied on them, rendering them dusty, antiqued, but almost royally ancient. This is truly an androgynous perfume, it's almost pure in this characterisation. There is a bit of cinnamon sprinkled in the mix, but it is so cold...again, almost denatured. This stage remainds me so much of a Lush product, a bubble bar called Gingerbread House. Such fond memories evoked in me... There is no palpable fruity note (maybe just the ghosts of dried fruits), nor truly tonka beans, at least in this new edition put on the market in 2023...a light nutty facet is only found in the opening where it is bitter and recalls the boozy notes of Mandorla, by the same L'Erbolario, and in the end of the base notes where results more as an almondy heliotrope then pure tonka. Dry down is evocative of something even more old and aristocratic, a little smoked and powdery; the amber in it has a balsamic touch, it is paired with a smoky dry vanilla (so no sweetness from both of them) and a bit of brown sugar. The cacao powder returns from times to times, but present itself in a new facet...more mellow and lightly colored, not so bitter as in the opening. Lasting power and projection is in line with other L'Erbolario creations, from 4 to 5 hours, depending on weather and skin, quite good but nothing to rave about. Overspraying definitely helps. I find the scent very elegant and sensual, as I like to repeat, an elegance of old times. I picture someone disillusioned by the mundane and detached from reality wearing it...someone that has the means and will to unplug everything and fly away to a safari (or to his uncle's "in the middle of a vineyard" French villa), spending his days in resigned hedonism, smoking narghilè while dressed in fine silk Etro bathrobes, listening to Nico. Not yet abadoned to nichilism but surely damaged, the egemony of the status quo to much to bear for his generous, illuminated soul. The notes declared by the brand are as follow: -Caramel, Rhum Absolute -Elderberry Flowers, Cocoa Powder -Benzoin Siam Absolute, Vanilla Absolute

I never had the pleasant to try hermes ambre narguile but when I was reading it's reviews I discovered dolcelisir and it was on my radar for a while.it has almost all the notes I die for so it could be my best perfume ever so I had to order it from other countries and it costed me almost 80$ but I couldn't let it go First time I tried it I wanted to cry with dissapointment.I expected dolcelisir to be super delicious.but all I could smell was rum,cinnamon,amber and lots of tobacco!it reminded me pure Havana which I like but on a man I decided to give it another chance today and glad I did so.it's still nothing like my imaginations.it's sweet but not as sweet as I wished and unfortunately there's no caramel and sugar to my nose and vanilla,cocoa and benzoin aren't as dominant as I want.I still can smell something like tobacco.it may be the combination of cinnamon and cacao.all in all it's a combination of something like tobacco,cinnamon and rum in a warm,sweet ambery base.it smells niche-like.very balanced,well put together and charming.it's definitely unisex and I believe you don't need to be a gourmand lover to love it.it's a complex fragrance and seems to have lots of layers.I can sometimes pink up small hint of orange,immortelle and other powdery musky florals but they come and go I know that I have to give it time.most sweet,complex scents need time to grow on my skin and usually such fragrances turn to passionate loves for me after passing a small period of dissapointment and a week or month period of giving time If there was more caramel,more balmy sweet notes like vanilla and benzoin and more cacao I'd love this.for now I can say I like it very much and I'm very satisfied with my blindbuy although I find it a little too masculine for my taste.it worthes as a high-quality niche for me.I also love it's simple bottle Longevity is very good,+8 hours and sillage is moderate If you're into spicy boozy balsamic scents give it a try

I've been eyeing Dolcelisir on Fragrantica for a while, because judging from the list of notes and the reviews, it looks like it might just be the ultimate fragrance for fall, and it seems it's cheap as well. It sounds a little too good to be true, but now that I have acquired a small decant, I'm happy to say it's everything I expected! It's such a cosy scent - wonderfully warm and deliciously boozy and spicy, without smelling too edible and therefore too conspicuous to be wearable. In the bottle it does smell exactly like apple pie, or maybe apple juice or cider, so like other reviewers I was surprised to see that apple isn't even listed in the note pyramid. But on my skin it goes into an entirely different direction: there's still a suggestion of apple in the general boozy juiciness of the fragrance, but the warm spicy notes are definitely the ones that stand out - so much so in fact, that I understand why some people find this unisex fragrance more masculine than feminine. It's definitely not too much for my own taste, though, and spices aren't usually my favourite notes. So this is really just as perfect for a cold, misty day in autumn as I was hoping for - in fact, it has everything to become a particular fall favourite: warm and comforting without being either too immature or too overwhelming, very longlasting, and cheap to boot! The only things that some might consider downsides are that it doesn't change much throughout its long life span, and that it's not exactly a sophisticated, elegant kind of scent. But these things don't matter to me, because I'm no Coco Chanel, and I wear so many different perfumes that I don't have time to get bored by any of them. I think this decant will be used up faster than most, though!

The proposed Dolcelisir is a remarkable safe elixir. To me, it is a tonka bean elixir lightly infused with rum and flowers. Its amber side is very pleasant and neither too strong nor overly sweet. The tonka bean originates from the Amazon rainforest and offers a sweet scent with notes of almond, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon and tobacco. Besides the coumarin ingredient (tonka), the addition of these individual notes to this fragrance only reinforces my opinion of it smelling like a tonka elixir. It starts with a caramel cherry cola rum accord that is eerily similar to Raghba Wood Intense. Over time it becomes more reminiscent of Hermessence Ambre Narguilé but probably less ambery and less sweet. It evolves into a narcotic amber blend with cinnamon, vanilla and bitter almond, without losing its alcoholic, caramelised accord. Although not listed, the base recalls a cherry tobacco note. The Hermés-like scent now also reminds me of A*Men Pure Havane. It doesn't perform particularly well and you have to re-spray to get a full day's wear out of it. As for the scent, it gives off an above-average quality. It is a natural treat for lovers of sweet amber scents. As one should expect from a natural cosmetics brand, the presentation is quite simple. The same look and feel is shared by fragrances from L'Occitane and sometimes The Body Shop. My overall impression of this fragrance is that you get a mix of different oriental scents in a single bottle, with #Ambre Narguilée predominating. However, the value for money is remarkable considering I got a 50ml bottle for €15. I can easily recommend it as suitable for a blind buy. Music: Roger Daltrey - It's A Hard Life