La Danza delle Libellule

(TL;DR: a sweet fairytale of a fragrance with notes of realistic red apple, creamy vanilla, and cinnamon. Enchanting and comforting. Chases the blues away.) Reviewer youmeoui captured the essence of this fragrance perfectly when they described La Danza Delle Libellule as a perfume that evokes a beautiful fairytale land, filled with lush gardens, where gentle magical creatures roam. I agree completely. The fragrance opens with a burst of red apple. When you bite into a red cooking apple, it’s not the sweetest fruit, but it is refreshing. Baked into a pie, apples lose their fresh nature as they combine with the brown sugar and butter and soften in the cooking process. The apple in LDDL retains a sense of unbaked (but not too tart) apple crispness throughout the fragrance’s wear time. The apple is accompanied by warm cinnamon. The cinnamon is distinct, but LDDL is not a spicy fragrance per se, as cinnamon blends harmoniously into the other notes. I can't pick out the bergamot, but there is a sense of fresh citrus in the opening, which is very nice. As I don’t care for musk, I am relieved it is absent. I don’t get a specific cocoa note. The cedar is there, but quite sublimated, acting like an almost invisible scaffolding for the sweeter elements. Delightfully present throughout is a wonderful creamy richness, like a luxe vanilla custard, which comes into its own after an hour or so. La Danza Delle Libellule is not, despite the dessert-y descriptors, overwhelmingly sweet. It *is* sweet, but the apple staying fresh and the hints of citrus and cedar keep the fragrance from becoming cloying. There is also a realness, a genuine nature, to the composition. This is not an apple hard candy fragrance. You can tell the ingredients here are not the chemical additives that give apple hand soap from a big box store its scent, or that are added to apple fast food pastries to augment their flavor and smell. While I do enjoy apple in a fragrance, raspberry is my favorite fruit note. But as soon as I put a dab of the sample of La Danza Delle Libellule (from Luckyscent) on my arm, I fell in love. There was no question I would be ordering the largest size of this fragrance I could afford ASAP. This perfume is just so incredibly comforting. Nobile 1942 has created the best kind of gourmand: delicious and uplifting, but never fake-smelling, nor oppressively sweet. Fragrances inspire visual recollections, and bring back memories of nearly forgotten places and times from long ago. Or, as with what happened with me, a fragrance will make a connection with something out of the past. Right after this perfume’s molecules hit my nose, a scene from the book "A Wrinkle In Time" popped into my head. I had not thought about this book, a favorite from when I was a kid, in many years. La Danza Delle Libellule brought a memory from it right back. Protagonist Meg and her friend Calvin have been transported by Meg's scientist father across space, in order to escape from the conformist shadowed nightmare planet Camazotz. While making their escape, they have to pass through a field of dark energy that is surrounding Camazotz. This energy is, for lack of a better term, made out of pure evil. After their escape, the three materialize on an unknown planet. Meg has been damaged physically and spiritually by the passage through the dark energy. She is paralyzed, and almost frozen. Her father and Calvin are at a loss as to how to help her. Alien beings native to the strange planet approach. The atmosphere on their dimly lit world is opaque, so these entities communicate by non-visual means. To human eyes, the beings are shapeless, eyeless monsters. But they are an advanced race, and they sense the stricken stranger on their planet is badly hurt, and needs help. After introducing themselves, one of the creatures gently reaches out to Meg's cold, pain wracked body with furry gray tentacles. Meg is afraid of this alien. But she then senses the deep benevolence the creature is emitting as it tends to her. Her body had been stiff and icy cold, but she soon relaxes, soothed and warmed. The being picks Meg up to move her to a place where she can be healed. Comforted by the being’s embrace, knowing she is completely safe now, Meg sighs, and leans into the creature’s fur, which is described as sweet smelling. She falls asleep. This fragrance brought to mind the kind alien, identified in the book as “Aunt Beast.” Her soft comforting fur, I thought, must have smelled like La Danza Delle Libellule. I experience bouts of depression and anxiety and lately, there has been much to be anxious about. The aroma of this fragrance clears trouble from my mind and relaxes me. It conjures a protected realm of safety and of gentleness, where darkness has no power. I logged into Luckyscent right away, and ordered the half ounce size. I love this fragrance so much I try not to use it too often, though I would certainly like to. I noticed here on Fragrantica that La Danza Delle Libellule is being sold by Fragrance Net for a reduced price. I haven’t ordered from them before. I have heard they are a trusted vendor, so I think I will place an order with them when my supply of LDDL gets low. I want to never be without this utterly enchanting fragrance. If you are looking for a soft, sweet new scent for Spring, I would definitely order a sample of La Danza Delle Libellule. Each time I spray it, I am newly beguiled by its delicious soothing nature. The dry down is particularly yummy, as that is when the creamy vanilla, warmed by cinnamon, really shines. This stage is worth waiting for if you test it and don’t care for it at first. It is the “nose glued to arm” phase of the scent. This fragrance’s sillage is not huge; it stays fairly intimate during its wear time. It isn’t a weak fragrance. It’s just not a powerhouse room-filler. I find the best way to keep getting whiffs is to spray it on the décolletage, where body warmth helps keep it noticeable. And I always dispense a spray on the inside of my left arm, to keep this delightful scent handy for immediate sniffing. It is detectable for at least six hours. La Danza Delle Libellule's half ounce size comes in a no-frills plain glass cylinder with a stick-on label (it does have an excellent sprayer.) But that doesn’t matter to me one bit, as this fragrance inspires so much joy. I’m happy I found it. Edit: I did place an order for the half ounce size from Fragrance Net. It was shipped promptly, was packed well, and arrived intact. I made a careful comparison of the new La Danza Delle Libellule with the fragrance in my previous bottle. The new juice smells great, and is the real thing. I wanted to share my experience with Fragrance Net in case there are others like me who had never ordered from them. Best of all- I now have a fresh supply of this lovely stuff.

This arrived today and it is gorgeous. I was recommended to try Nobile 1942 by Sad Muppet (huge hat tip to SM for this - I bought this, Sandalo Nobile and Chypre 1942 and all three are bloody awesome). La Danza delle Libellule is a gourmand lovers' delight. The main notes on me are beautiful, fresh juicy apples, lightly dusted with cinnamon and creamy, musky vanilla. Cedar grounds this and prevents it becoming tooth-achingly-sugary-syrupy sweet. I tried and tried to smell the coconut - a note which normally stands out to me; I love fresh coconut, both to eat and smell, but it's definitely MIA from La Danza delle Libellule (The Dance of the Dragonflies - isn't that a lovely name?). I was puzzled by the missing coconut, particularly as I thought I could smell creamy milk chocolate (think Lindor - those wonderful chocolate spheres, filled with ganache), so I searched the internet for clues about where the coconut might be hiding. Always go to the source! I checked Nobile 1942 website and sure enough - I was right (huzzah and lashings of ginger beer!); there is no coconut in LDdL; here are the notes, cut and pasted from their website: "Apple and cedar smooth vanilla in this composition which starts with Nobile 1942’s distinctive bergamot. A pinch of cinnamon, cocoa to make the ensemble truly gourmand. The unavoidable musk keeps the graceful tone of the fragrance." Sillage and longevity are moderate - and I'd say this is a safe blind buy for any gourmand lover; it's such a delicious but subtle perfume I honestly can't believe that anyone would be offended by it. As at 28 July 2018, allbeauty.com in the UK have 75ml of LDdL for £49.95; they have a range of Nobile 1942 on special offer - definitely worth checking out. The site won online retailer of the year recently from Which?, the consumer's champion; their products are genuine and customer service is fantastic, too. ETA After wearing this overnight, I am revising my comments about longevity, as I can still smell this - on my dry, perfume-guzzling skin - well over eight hours later. The thing that keeps coming to mind wearing this is: Toffee apples!

This is an amazing fragance! my 2nd decant from Nobile 1942 and this one is crazy good, i usually hate apple but here is just amazing with everything else, you get at first sniff the fresh artificial green apple and bergamot, like a expensive perfume with Apple-cinamon Fabuloso, but is tricky, 1 minute after is a fresh green apple with warm creamy cinammon and the signature bergamot, and a suuuuper creamy vanilla givin a hug to everything with the warmess of the musk, and a cedar sprinkled with cocoa powder, but is not the tipical Gourmand that smells like food, cant believe it does not have flowers, definitely not a fragrance to do layering, but Nobile 1942 is like that, the fragances are so amazing that adding something else would just ruin it, this one makes me feel like a medieval fairy smelling a pay at the distance, so if you want to smell like a bakery, its not, La danza delle libellule and Nobile in general is more a scene in a tale more than a dessert, but yeah, it does smell like green apple pie haha but not like on first smell, is more like a "oh yeah, i feel some reminiscence to apple cinamon pay" and not so sweet, unlike most gourmands that just sofocate the sweet out of you, the musky vanilla is the only sweetness here and the cocoa, ant i would say sweet is like on the last on the list, but is a good one, totally feminine unless is for kids, wich would be like Rolls roys kids fragance haha but on a lady is just great, very youthful and nostalgic on grown ups

Ok I will start off by saying that this is not exactly what I expected it to be, but I nonetheless LOVE this perfume!❤️ So from the notes listed, I expected a thicker more coconutty and cinnamony apple pie fragrance. I expected a dense and heavy gourmand. But let me tell you this is opposite of heavy! It definitely is a delicious gourmand but it is an airy, fruity, and shampooey gourmand. I definitely smell the apple, but it is very crisp and sweet. Like a sweet and fruity apple shampoo or body wash. It smells like you showered with a sweet red apple shampoo and body wash, then applied a sweet vanilla body cream afterwards. 🍎🍦🧴 Even though this is a fruity and shampooey fragrance, it somehow manages to have a delicious creaminess to it. I can definitely smell alot of vanilla in it and it makes it so edible. If you are thinking cheap shampoo then this is not it! It’s a luxurious well blended shampooey smell, if there is such a thing lol. If I were to describe this in a few words it would be: a creamy and sweet apple and vanilla shampoo! Keep in mind, if you are expecting a dense apple pie then this might not be the one for you! There is zero cinnamon in this (Which I think would be crucial for a realistic apple pie scent). 🥧🍎 Also, it’s longevity and sillage are both great and its extremely potent. I adore it! Ps. It is similar to Casablanca and Ebhar, but this is much more fruity/ shampooey. I love the 2 mentioned but personally La Danza is my favourite.

Usually, it is normal to make a link between Italian fragrances with freshest aromas, citrus, of clear and natural aspect, as if it was impossible to produce beautiful floral, chypres or gourmands with this nationality. Here is a proof that this is possible. This beautiful fragrance is gourmand and liqueur! The official notes are: bergamot and apple, in the output; Cedar and cinnamon, in the heart; musk, vanilla and cocoa (not coconut, as stated in some websites) at the base. From the moment it touches the skin, it is possible to notice a slightly fruity aspect, in which the apple appears as a liquor, plus an appetizing vanilla. Although it was created for the female audience, I know many men who would love to wear this perfume, since it has an output of nuances very similar to the modern sweeter fragrances from nowadays, which have been marketed to men, like Black XS L’Excès or Diesel Only the Brave Tattoo, for example. And over time, its evolution doesn't lose in any aspect for some fragrances of exclusive lines from Guerlain, which are rich in vanilla and sold as unisex. Therefore, if you are man, fond of perfumes with vanilla and you don't care about labels, do not hesitate to meet this wonder. The relationship I make with the name given is the lightness of the Dragonfly over water, beyond their mating ritual, when the female and the male writhe and fit, forming a heart. A beautiful Eau de Parfum with huge projection and longevity.

This is my favorite fragrance, but I find it difficult to describe - more so than most. It's very sweet, but it's a fresh apple. Apples picked straight from the orchard. There's a caramel-apple-pie-creaminess there...but as though you're smelling that apple pie from a distance on a clear fall day while it cools in a window nearby. It's light, refreshing and not a heavy-handed gourmand. This really works with my skin chemistry because it smells in the bottle just like it does on my skin and it stays that way for several hours. Eventually, after about 8 hours (fragrances tend to last a longer time on my skin than most), I am left with the melted french vanilla ice cream you didn't quite finish with your slice of caramel apple pie and I'm not mad about that at all. I don't get much citrus, but I get a lot of cream - more so than most fragrances I've tried labeled 'lactonic' which, so far, rarely smell creamy or milky once they dry on me. I think this is due to the vanilla/coconut/musk base, but I definitely get a lot more vanilla and coconut and not a lot of musk. I am generally avoidant of musky scents, which do horrors to my nose and head, so this is not a heavy note here if that's a worry for you. Every time I wear it, I get actual compliments. For me, it's a good all-season perfume and my biggest 10/10 (along with Salome, it's complete counter really).

soapy, shampoo green apple in the opening fades to a tart, red apple juice, light cinnamon dream, which then fades to an ethereal vanilla skin. the perfect summer scent; i love gourmands but i also love to smell clean and bubbly in this oppressive, 90 degree city heat. july in new york, i crave the long green grass and craggy orchards in the hills of san luis obispo, california. the whisper of cocoa-vanilla-cedar is creamy and grounding but never over-sweet. so fresh-cut, playful, and enchanting! uplifting and soft, it's not terribly ambitious or complex but i do love that slight spice from the cinnamon that's more cold cider-leaning than warm baked pie. truly a garden fairy scent. just really straight-forward and likable. i wore it to a party and someone said "who smells like vanilla? someone smells so good," which is always a good feeling. bonus: spraying this heavy onto skin and then layering on a modest half-spritz of bianco latte is just "eat me." like apple cream puff, bite-me delicious. how to smell simultaneously expensive and laughably girlish, like getting drunk underage on champagne. such a frivilously yummy combo! or, alternatively, add a bit of sol de janeiro 71 if you really want to evoke a warmer/autumnal, pastry scent. up to you :)

I tried this perfume at scent bar and have thought about it ever since. I had been telling the employee how much I enjoyed Lira and similar vanilla frags when he suggested La Danza delle Libellule. On the test strip the Apple top note was so unique and unlike any other apple scent I had tried before. Now I got myself a bottle and have fully tested the wear. I can’t seem to make up my mind if the fresh red apple at the top is photo realistic or synthetic - it’s just that bright and unique. It keeps you wanting to smell more. Some people said it reminds them of a sweet candle or green apple shampoo. But I think the longer and warmer it gets on the skin it loses those qualities. I can admit if you’re looking for it to be mildly soapy - you can find those qualities. But what stands out to me after dry down is the vanilla, and this is what makes the scent bubble so magical. It is a true Madagascar vanilla bean icecream melted with a tad touch of cinnamon, not enough cinnamon to be considered spicy or christmasy just the perfect amount to flavor the icecream. This is such a comforting and playful scent for daily wear and I really love it.

I've heard a lot of people raving about La danza delle Libellule. She caught my eyes in the middle of Galeries Lafayette, and I gave her a little sniff of curiosity. At first, I smelled a delicious, sweet and decadent strawberry shortcake. And then, I couldn't stop smelling it. It was addicting, to say the least. For some time, I was confused by the notes, since I couldn't smell the apples. I was not able find the courage to splurge on a bottle, but 2 months later I bought a 15ml because she was haunting my mind. Since then, I can recognize an sweet, caramelly and fuzzy apple. This perfume can last a while on me, and I receive compliments from many. It is a gourmand, and it is sweet (not my usual thing), but it is quite nice. How can I justify the price for La Danza delle Libellule instead of a random apple bodyspray from B&BW? Hard to say, maybe it is the lovely bottle, maybe it's the glorification that embodies this product... but I love it. I've got the 15ml 3 weeks ago and there's already a dent halfway through the bottle. When I'll empty it (because I will), I'll get the full size.

If this fragrance was a movie character, it would be Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly. In the opening I get a crisp, fresh, juicy red delicious. The notes here changed to green apple at some point, but I disagree- instead, think the apple used to tempt Snow White. Not quite soapy enough to read as shampoo, but it’s definitely fresh. Next a frothy, fluffy cloud of vanilla takes over. The cocoa and cinnamon add body and warmth rather than distinct chocolate or spice. About 30 minutes in the vanilla seems to expand even more and take on a laconic quality. In the deep dry down the white musk adds back the freshness of the initial apple opening, now more of a whiff in the background. I don’t feel the cedar at all. There’s a warmth that reminds me of towels fresh from the dryer too. I think she’s stunning. Dainty. Playful. Freshly cut apple slices buried under mounds of sugary just-whipped cream and hand grated cinnamon, enjoyed sitting in a patch of sunlight. If La Danza was a color, I think she’d be the most pristine shade of Cinderella Blue. 🦋🍎🍭🥛🌤️🧚🏽🍦🩵

I first smelled this at La Jetee in Nashville and was obsessed. This was my favorite fragrance for many months. It's so good. I just remember smelling a realistic apple and vanilla and was in love with the apple note. The lady showing me around told me that Nobile 1942 was known for their realistic notes and that La Danza Delle Libuelle was known for its realistic apple note, and then it hit me, it really did smell like an actual apple. After leaving with like 11 Tester strips, I couldn't stop smelling this one, so I put it in my phone case so my phone would smell like it. I was that obsessed. Now I'm testing it again with my own sample and was immediately brought back to Nashville. I am definitely going to buy a full bottle when I visit my friend again. I get Apple. Vanilla and Cacao in the opening, and so far, that's where I'm at. I love it already. After the it begins to dry down, it turns into a sweet sweet vanilla that makes me think of Ani. I sprayed it nearly 24 hours ago and I can still smell it on my wrist and even on clothing. It's great.

As someone that lived and breathed juvenile vanilla scents (Vanilla Bean Noel anyone?) this is so not that! I own this one and tried the Exceptional Edition and bot are wonderful in terms of longevity and sillage but this one does tune down the apple a bit. If the vanilla and cocoa are too much for you in this one, if you want the "fresher" version, def check out Exceptional. This works so beautifully for me, I was so frustrated that I couldn't find a vanilla forward fragrance without florals! I wanted a "grown up" VBN or WVS, when I found this I was ecstatic. This is like the fall/winter counterpart to Zoologist Cow! On my skin, it's warm apple pie a la mode for sure but it's not cheap feeling. What you see in the notes is what you get EXCEPT that the coconut is a mistake, that is not in this at all. It's cocoa! If you like HoS Hufflepuff (kicking myself for not getting a FB) absolutely check these out.

La Danza delle Libellule is a sun-dappled orchard hug — juicy red apple and bergamot sparkling like summer fizz, twirling into warm cinnamon and cedar like spiced fruit tart baked under a fluffy vanilla-musk cloud. The opening bursts with crisp, sweet apple freshness that's bright yet cozy, not pie-like but airy and inviting, gently dusted with cinnamon powder for a whisper of holiday warmth without spice overload. It settles into dreamy gourmand bliss: smooth vanilla and subtle cocoa blend with clean musk for a pillowy, skin-like comfort — evoking strawberry-tinged chocolate fluff, feminine and soothing like dragonflies dancing on a breeze. No heavy sweetness; it's luminous and versatile, year-round joy with a soapy-fresh edge that radiates happiness. Lasts 6-8+ hours with soft, memorable sillage — perfect for carefree days when you crave fruity-vanilla lightness that feels like self-indulgent magic.

Love from the first sniff. It is a creamy vanilla bomb mostly, then the apple, then everything else. The apple note is more prominent in the opening, but then becomes subtler. What I really like about this composition, that everything somehow 'knows its limits' (well, apart from vanilla). It is very sweet, yet it stops right before getting cloying. The cinnamon is here, but rather shy, because this note tends to be very overpowering when it is listed in many other perfumes. It is happy and light hearted, yet not juvenile. Someone pointed out that this smells like apple pie dough before you put it in the oven, and yes, I can agree with this :) Is it similar to Casablanca? Yes and no. It is a bit like if Casablanca and Toy2 had a very beautiful offsrping. I think it can be worn during spring and summer, because it is really sparkling.

Sweet, sweet, SWEET, but God, I really love this scent. It smells like a beautiful princess frolicking around an apple orchard in full bloom—strong green apple, almost overpowering at the start, but with vanilla and a hint of cocoa, it dries into a beautiful, coquettish gourmand. Once it dries, that apple actually turns into something that reminds me more of a NICE artificial strawberry. And with the vanilla? Yes, you have a delicious strawberry shortcake. It smells EXACTLY like strawberry shortcake to me. That being said, this is not for everyone. I can see that apple being a bit sickly sweet for some, as it really is the dominator in this scent. But as someone who gravitates to deeper, more caramelized scents, this one feels like a guilty pleasure. I feel like a pretty Italian pastry, and I. Like. It.

Totally surprised by falling head over heels for this after trying the sample set, and had to get a bottle. There’s something so incredibly nostalgic about it, tugging on the heartstrings from long ago, but why.....? Is it the apple in the lunch box that usually did the round trip back home? Is it some apple fragrance like Be Delicious that I shrugged off a couple of decades ago? People are saying shampoo, but I’d remember that, and always avoided heavily scented toiletries anyway. It’s also totally utterly different to anything I own, and I’ve gone full ham on all things fruity. So light, sweet, vanillic, and beautiful. I’m finding the performance really good too, and am almost shocked at what great value it is for niche in Australia. (Better not say too much.) A fresh sweet apple, a bright blue sky.

This fragrance is so beautiful. It smells like the juiciest red caramel apple. A gourmand lovers dream. I usually don't like fragrances that smell like caramel because they're either too sweet or they smell like burned sugar, but this fragrance is so well blended & soft. To my nose this isn't too sweet & it's not offensive, but the dry down does get sweeter once the apple goes away a little. I've had it on my wrist for about an hour and it's dry down smells like sweet vanilla with the apple still present. This fragrance deserves all the hype. Although it's a fruity gourmand, I probably wouldn't want to wear it in warmer months. One thing to note is the atomizer on this bottle is so nice. Probably the nicest atomizer I have. The mist is fine but full and it does half sprays very easily, which I love.

A bright and diaphanous fruity floral with impeccably good manners and classic style. Nobile 1942 are so good at creating vivid illusions rooted in the past but with always enough of a modern twist to make you sniff twice and pause for a moment before letting the luminous beauty of the materials wrap around you like a warm, loving embrace. The bright opening is balanced by hints of dark chocolate and cinnamon evolving via warm woody notes, creamy vanilla and the gentlest of musks to a gorgeously wholesome and magically resolved finale. I could wear this all the time and anywhere. One of the House’s finest creations. I love it!

Wow!! I first bought La Danza about a year ago and when I first wore it it gave me more of a fresh, apple shampoo vibe and I was not impressed (I love gourmands). So I thought I would give it another try last night and oh my goodness! I was pleasantly surprised! I actually got the sweet apple with the creamy vanilla and a touch of cinnamon!! No more shampoo smell! I am in love! I was even considering decluttering this one and I am SO glad I didn't! La Danza lasted about six hours or so on me and after the first hour or so it was a more intimate scent bubble. Very enjoyable and I can't wait to wear it more in the coming fall!

This is something magical... this is a fairytale. A nostalgic place in your childhood, maybe not one you’ve physically been to, but an enchanting land you dreamt up. The land inhabited by gentle creatures, unicorns, fairies, and dragonflies. Filled with mystical secret gardens and flowers. You pull down an apple from a beautiful tree, and start eating it as you sit beneath, being shaded by its branches. It’s the sweetest apple, and as you take a bite, the wind blows the tree above you and from its branches fall a sugary-cinnamon-cocoa powder into the air. It’s sweet, playful, innocent, and quite enchanting.