Solo Loewe Esencial

I got 2 x 2ml samples and I am positively surprised by this sweet, gentle and refined fragrance. 😋 It reminds me old Dior Homme only without powdery feeling. It is very joyful and youthful scent. It is not very masculine 😗 but I still like it as for me it feels very elegant and sweetness is not like kitchen and toffee but rather like... 🤔 something very ethereal that is hard to describe. Like good cologne! 😁 It smells very pure - like distillate of bunch of flowers (i know there are not much flowers in formula but it is just my olfactory association). It is very cohesive scent, no uninvited notes stand out. 👍🏽

The first 3 minutes after applying it honestly I did not like it. But after 4 minute mark, a sweet smell of orange / tangerine begins similar to that of Solo absolute and solo POP (both discontinued) followed by a powdery smell. I think it's a great launch. An excellent summer fragance. I don't get the reference to invictus, it has nothing to do with it. Please try it before judging

I'm surprised to say this, this is the first perfume that I've smelt from Loewe that reminds me of something else, it has lots of similarities with Versace's Eros. The signature ambery/incensy accord of Loewe is there in the dry down, but it's combined with Tonka, mint and and a dense citrus note. Not bad at all, but an alien to the Solo line.

This is a really sublime and unique discovery. Fruity woody but the Tonka bean is just so so good. This won't be a compliment getter but it's a greatly put together perfume

I find this very nice, spicy and sweet. Very very similar to Armani Code Profumo after 5 minutes. The Tonka is the predominant note in this fragrance. 8.9/10