Donna

I see the similarities with Floris White Rose but this is more pink roses with a big bunch of red carnations and rosewood. White Rose is white roses, white carnation and violet. This is much more carnation forward and unisex as well. I would love to get the Parfum form of this instead of the toilette sample I have. I do want this but I will try to find and spring for the Parfum version. The toilette version is a bit to weak. I just know the Parfum will be much more robust.

May Rose Water. A subtle fresh bouquet of roses floating into a cloud. A real feminin so natural perfume, a luminescent rose, absolutely not invasive, present but transparent, sourrounded by calming airy an humid "aquatic*" notes made with fresh woods and leaves and delicates flowers, minuscule spicies. A poetic scent. dragonfly wings. A little masterpiece. *not the synthetic aquatic notes, I mean the real water you can drink on a mountain little river.

Official site mentions both Rosa centifolia and Rosa Damascena. It is meant to be a rose perfume, yet I think of it as a Carnation one. It's always kinda there, blended with the rose, yet unmistakably there. One of the most beautiful carnation note I've ever encountered. Regardless of how someone approaches this, it's yet another example of the genius of Mr Villoresi. Good performance overall.

Its simple, classy , long lasting and very elegant

I was a little bit afraid to try this perfume. I have read some reviews where it was described as a rather strong scent – I expected something heavy, maybe a bit masculine... But what a nice surprise – this is beautiful, sublime perfume, without any sharp note! I JUST LOVE IT! It opens with bold wet roses mixed with ylang- ylang and jasmine. Some why it gives me an oily sensation - not wet, but oily and remembers Jean Patou Joy a little. There is no animalic note in D, but I guess it’s a mix of Rose, Ylang and Jasmine. After some hours it tries down, I can’t smell oiliness any more. It’s a time of iris and carnation. It turns more and more powdery...Just beautiful! The longevity is excellent – 8-9 hours. By my opinion it’s one of the most feminine scent I ever tried. It’s a Donna (woman in Italian) who is proud to be a women. She moves sinuously, speaks lowly, but everybody notices her and I guess Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct could been wearing it. PS! The morning I tried D I visited one shop. It was 3 hours later and I was spritzed just 3 times. One person ( a stranger and a man) asked me what perfume I was wearing as it was so amazingly good...He was in distance of 1,5 m from me. And there was another person nearby who was nodding the head and repeating :”really good!” I was in absolute embarrassment... :-)

I really like this one too. I bought it years ago without smelling it first, just off reviews on another perfume lovers website. Fortunately it agreed with me, but I can understand how others might find it too strong. It really shakes you by your shoulders and takes no prisoners. I love carnation and to me it's overwhelmingly carnation. My main fault with my bottle is the sprayer is so stiff I worry about carpal tunnel every time I spray it. And when it finally works, it really blasts out more fragrance than I wanted. I've tried all sorts of things to fix it, and considered breaking the top off entirely and decanting it. I thought this problem was specific to my bottle, but maybe that's the real problem. Defective sprayers on all the bottles, so much so that you wind up drenched in it? Do they deliberately make them that way so you use it up faster and have to buy more? This is the only Villoresi fragrance I have, so I don't know if all their bottles are a problem.

Unapologetic rose with the best of the old-fashioned demeanor-I love the rosiness, but this scent reminds me of a sheltered aristocratic woman as much as I can smell a diva's beckoning- The carnation is so bold and sharp for the first hour or so, that I almost decided the fragrance is unwearable for me. But then-I can smell the narcissus!Rose gestures to me throughout the heart, carnation puts on a show, but iris with a touch or ylang ylang and jasmine carries this classical statement fragrance to the subtle but beautiful dry down that I wish would endure for much longer, with more presence. It might, if I sprayed the fragrance on instead of dabbing from a sample. In the end, I like it, and find it solid, and would wear it if I had a bottle, but I don't swoon for it. I would enjoy it very much on the right character!

I feel the need to speak here because The beginning of this perfume was to me unearthly scary Equal to or more than ELDO Rein. I could'nt get the image of a beautiful body getting pushed into that bucket of green chemical mess on batman and i was thinking ' Superhero fallen into toxic mess'? (Or Supervillian) The Joker Is it? The Roses are green and soapy but its motion is somewhat glorious/ though harsh becoming more like a scene from kill bill an elegant female martial artist finally having her revenge Sharp Sword in hand #Beatrix The carnation in here is ridiculously beautiful though it takes some time to meet her and as soon as she comes; she goes The warmness of the other flowers and spice are also running in circles I cant imagine who would win this battle but My eyes are OPEN

Some other reviewers have written fantastic things and I encourage everyone to scroll down and at least read the ones with all the balloons, but because they're there I will take you on a short trip completely lacking in poetry. It opens with coriander, very sharp and food-like, but that dissipates quickly. Next comes a shouting cacophony of carnation, wood, and leaves. Eventually the roses bloom and make a bouquet with carnations and sandalwood, and I think this is the point where people say it's a rose for people who normally don't like rose scents.

I had been wanting to try this forever it seems and finally got my hands on a sample. It reminds me a little of something vintage. I get a waxy rose no sweetness here of the top with the violet and ylang-ylang alongside. After awhile I get a little spice. I notice most of the ingredients which is nice. Its not mainstream at all. Daithi mentioned nail polish, and yep I get that at first too. I like this but it is not a love. It has an unfinished quality to me.

Intoxicating rose and nail polish. Extremely feminine, a true Italian diva perfume.

uhm. yeah. courage is needed for sure. I do not get any classiness or sexual confidence from this. More i can imagine a vamp wearing this. It is also a macho fragrance. Dark for sure. the opening is unpleasantly sharp, honestly, i dont want to talk about it. I did not get much rose - if any at all, which was quite disheartening as this one was quite rose-like on paper. Never mind, no crying over spilt milk, right? so what does it smell like on my skin? daffodils, leather and a very little carnation. this is all i get. if you can bear sharp floral with leather, you will like this. If you can bear Magie Noire or Paloma Picasso, this is similar genre.

This is not a safe blind buy, please test it before committing. It may well be your type of fragrance, but to me it had a cold ozonic note that threw any promise of florals into a harsh disinfectant brew. I was so taken aback by how awful this was, I had to reread the positive reviews to try to elicit some alignment between what I was experiencing and what had been written...sadly without success.

Beware ladies with delicate constitutions & polite sensibilities, this is most certainly NOT for you. If you associate rose perfumes with lace hankies and slightly batty old women, a spritz of this will open your eyes... I am not normally a fan of rose as a main feature of my fragrances. They tend to be a bit whispy around the edges with no backbone or real character. They seem to apologise for themselves and whisper: "I'm so sorry, I know I'm a perfume, but at least I smell a bit like a pretty flower..." As a dyed-in-the-wool Oriental gal, they fail to beguile me... Until now. Lorenzo Villoresi's Donna should be worn by comely women who have enjoyed multitudes of lovers and flirt outrageously with everyone they meet - yet somehow remain impossibly sophisticated and poised at all times. The woman who wears this would never be seen without her full face of perfectly applied makeup and beautifully coiffured hair. It screams EXPENSIVE and packs an enormous punch - one must be careful when applying, as too much of a good thing could be like being punched in the face with a red velvet-covered fist. If I have made this sound boring or a bit stuffy, I have failed you entirely, dear readers. This is an exciting, uplifting and devil-may-care fragrance - no age limit required, although life experience in bucket-loads is a must. NO shrinking violets need apply - a diva's perfume, indeed. This is a sumptuous over-stuffed sofa of a perfume - a heaving bosom to sink into, with just the right amount of spicy depths and fruity highs to keep it interesting and beautifully balanced. As a previous reviewer exclaimed - the carnation stage is just to die for. I aspire to be the woman who could waft intoxicating trails of Donna. One day perhaps but, alas, I'm not quite ready for it to be my 'signature' (yet)! As for the notion that this is a unisex fragrance... well. I think this is one of the most intensely Female perfumes I have ever smelled - perhaps a man could wear it, I never say never. But he'd have to be something of a character, and very brave.

There is a scene in the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun" where Katherine, the woman who lives and dresses like an Italian movie star, is teaching the main character, Frances, about living life to the fullest, "living life spherically in every direction". The scene speaks to the moment in life when you realize as a woman, that it's up to you to go after the things that really matter to you; to do what makes your heart happy, to live life to the fullest with no regrets. In the scene, Katherine reenacts the famous fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" going into the fountain in her evening gown. In my mind, Katherine who embodies a woman living life to the fullest and comfortable in her own skin is wearing Lorenzo Villoresi's Donna. This is not a perfume for shy, apologetic women. This is not a perfume for a young bride, This is a perfume for a woman who knows who she is and what she wants, and goes after it with all she has. This is the perfume for a woman who lives life to the fullest. It's a full-bodied rose, with spicy carnation, and a warm mix of florals to be worn by someone as beautiful and timeless as a rose with colorful and interesting past.

Smells like tears. A rose and carnation blend always seems to veer off into weeping territory, much like that bitter metallic rose-geranium. If teint de neige is the colour of snow, then this is a frosted rose garden with those forbidding-looking wrought iron gates and rails. Before it became a saccharine commercial nightmare, the old rose garden at warwick castle had a lick of this smell on colder days, to my memory at least. Less come hither, more go away! But in a Brontean sense... dark, windy old house, something like that. She’s frigid! But not unfeeling.

Donna Lorenzo Villoresi for women and men عطر دونّا من لورينسو فلورزي العطر بسيط جدا فهو مجموعة رائعة من الأزهار من الممكن أن يقال عنه أنه صحبة من الأزهار الرائعة المقطوفة توا وتم اختيارها بعناية من بستان كبير من يظن أن العطر للجنسين كما هو مدون بالكثير من المواقع فسيصاب بصدمة كبيرة إن كان رجلا وستكون المفاجأة سارة ومذهلة لو كانت المستخدمة له امرأة فالعطر نسائي حالم رقيق وأراه يشبه بشكل كبير عطر Fiori di Capri Carthusia for women and men العطر رائع للأمسيات الصيفية ولا مانع من استخدامه طوال العام ثبات العطر وفوحانه جيدان جدا بشكل أكبر من كونه ماء تواليت

To me, Lorenzo Villoresi’s ‘Donna’ isn’t the formidable floral power-house which other reviewers are cowering from. It’s a gentle pussy-cat, that barely purrs to make its presence known. I sprayed it before the gym, did a spot of yoga, then returned to re-sniff my wrist to find absolutely no scent left. There’s no dry-down as it never achieves this stage before its gone and the middle only whispers a distant, muted rose. There is only the opening, which smells like citronella and geranium, and that’s it, then it’s gone.

This is no soft and pretty English rose. This is a hot-blooded Italian opera diva wearing a pearl necklace and a purple couture evening gown made of the finest silk. The rose mingles with carnation and jasmine, it's beautiful and very, VERY intense. Lasting power and sillage are both remarkable - so much so that I can imagine that every time a woman applies one tiny drop somewhere in the world, the maestro easily catches a whiff of it in Florence.

My initial impression of Donna was of rainfall of dusty dry rose petals with a generous hint of powder. The composition had a frosty distant quality, with the rose toned down by the violet woodiness. However, soon the fragrance warmed up thanks to the deep sweet sensuality of the carnation embellished by spices. The drydown dimmed the fire of spices to a gentle glow. The realistic carnation interpretation was my favourite part in this fragrance.

Beautiful bitter rose, sophisticated and lasting, mature and elegant, very recommended. So glad I found this perfume in a blind swap, despite some negative reviews it was worth it to try something unknown and take a chance.

سخت تحمل ترین کار لورنزو گلاب ناب پودری شده به زنانه ترین و حرمی ترین شکل ----------- Scent & Qualiy: 4/10 Longevity: 8/10 Sillage: 7/10 Creativity & Uniqueness: 6/10 Affordability: 6/10 ----------- Overall: 6.2/10

On me it starts with lemongrass and rose geranium. It softens over the next couple hours to a musky rose. Just okay. I don't like lemongrass.

This and teint de Neige at the same time gives me Turkish delight for hours and hours

I can't get rid of feeling rose here is made of geranium - modern cheap substitute.