So de la Renta

So de la Renta by Oscar de la Renta: This,The Original Oscar de la Renta,& Espirit de Oscar have always been my all time favourite Oscar de la Renta perfumes!! For some reason So de La Renta always takes me on drive along a beautiful Costal Road on a gorgeous warm summer's day & there's lovely flowers growing along the side's of the road & Their wonderful aroma is very much mixed into the fresh salty sea air!! I ALWAYS feel very uplifted when I Wear So & never fail to draw compliments too!! This deffo is a beautiful sparkling Floral that has a sea air aroma mixed into the formula to give it a lovely Floral freshness!! I certainly don't find this Perfume sweet in anyway!! Although I'm finding that my brand new 100ml bottle deffo isn't as long lasting as my old original which is now finished!! So I'm a little disappointed with it,as sillage with my original one was a complete monster!! A few sprays of it took me from early morning right into the night without even having to retouch it up!! This brand new one,I'm lucky to get 4hrs out of it before having to retouch it up!! So in my opinion the new bottle of So de la Renta I have has deffo been reformulated somewhere along the line & Deffo isn't the powerhouse it used to be!! To Be Honest I actually much prefer the original So de la Renta over this new one!! & Hope that Oscar de la Renta get many e.mails regarding this issue!! Absolutely so sad when this kind of thing happens to such a gorgeous original perfume!! This new bottle I have deffo does now behave like a proper etd where the original deffo was as good as an edp!! Deffo Still A Perfume I want in my vast perfume collection!!

Very lovely fragrance, like a fresher, lighter version of Marc Jacob's Daisy. I've had both frags on either wrist to compare, and I can say without a doubt, that Daisy dries down to a slightly musky floral retaining a honey scent. SDLR is a light floral with a sweet note that dries down to a light, sweet Osmanthus scent. I'm surprised Osmanthus wasn't listed as the main accord, since this is what I smell when I put this frag on. This is a very light, proper scent that sticks to the skin. Polite, and also polished is what it gives off. The first 30 seconds or so opens up with a white floral note, you can absolutely smell the floral. It is pure floral, no soapiness or coconut notes that I find in most white floral frags. This one is straight up flowers! About a minute or so in, the white floral dies down a bit to sweetness and a touch of powder, give a nice, light, powdery sweetness. To my nose, it smells of an intense Osmanthus scent, which I find lovely. Osmanthus smells like honey, but lighter. Finally, it dries down to just Osmanthus , and stays that way for the remainder of the sillage, which is a good 6 hours on me. As a side note, I would like to say that my skin is of a "warm" base, meaning it highlights any heady accords in s frag, such as vanilla, amber, musk, and other decadent notes more than green or floral notes. If your skin is like that, then you'll probably find the same thing happens to you as well. Overall, this is a lovely, polished summer scent or polite office scent.

Dewy Fruits & Clean White-Florals with a Vintage Vibe... Starts of freesia, gardenia and a dewy, tropical-fruit burst with aquatic, creamy, clean, citrus, tropical, sweet & fresh tones. As it transitions it deepens & intensifies into the heart and drydown. Although many individual notes are recognizable, the overall effect is a beautiful, nuanced floral scent with a faintly vintage vein, to my nose. This has an elevated vibe, and I could imagine wearing it strolling the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, wearing a vintage woven beach cover-up and 60s British Vogue make-up. Overall: gorgeous evoked orange-blossom scent with average performance for a spring-summer wearing experience although it could be worn anytime. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Contrast to Laura Laura Biagiotti: These are different, but you will catch a glimpse of Laura in the dewy tropical top notes here. So de la Renta has clean/soapy & creamy facets not found in Laura. Roughly equivalent performance. Contrast to Inspire Ellen Tracy: These are different, but there are similarities with dewy fruity-florals over powdery florals. Inspire has a more forward lily of the valley, while So de la Renta has a more forward tuberose. Roughly equivalent performance. Update 07/24/24: Sprayed this on my wrist after a shower, and it really shines in the heat. Watery, dewy fruity-florals on top of powdery, creamy white-florals. The jasmine sambac is coming a little more forward now than I remember. Still a love.

So de la Renta has become my most reached for perfume this week. We are in the hundreds weatherwise, and there are no other florals in my collection that are as cooling and lovely as this one...the watermelon and fruits really lift the dewy lush petals of the lotus and gardenia in this perfume. It feels to my overheated senses that this perfume is like having my body wrapped in dewy, delicate flower petals. I’m in a spa and now the scent of high end face moisturizer enters and mixes in. This is the scent of cooling self-care and relaxation. I don’t know if that makes sense, but that’s the visual that I have in my head to describe how this perfume makes me feel! Instantly cooling comfort to my mind. You gotta like floral perfumes to get this one and it may even lean a bit vintage for some people! I’m 100% in. 🩵 So DLR is lovely and I hope my senses will always perceive it this way. Sillage is voluminous and it can be used year-round though I love it in summer! I got this bottle at Ross for around $20 which is just amazing. Long live the floral-fruity. 😍 P.s. I had this one in my “maybe sell” cabinet for a year. So glad I re-tried it, I’m realizing my sense of smell is maturing/changing.

I have as of late focused my interest on florals in my collection, getting all swoony again over the heady whites and sweet roses well before springs upcoming bloomfest. "So" DeLa Renta I bought because I find the notes irresistible, mimosa and lotus with melon and clementine- with those,it just couldn't be bad in my book!! And true to my imagination,t the combination of notes perks up my mood and cheers my senses. I just love the soft powdery trail. So feminine!! I would so LOVE if the lasting power was several times better. If it was, It could be up in the stratosphere with the likes of Beautiful and Poeme, but I suppose for the price I should happily spray with abandon. April 2015 Update: Since my original post I have had more time together with "So". This fragrance can hold its own against the best of them. It is such a beautifully crafted floral with no harsh angles, layers blending seamlessley into each other. I find I crave it more often the more I wear it.