Versilia Vintage Boise

Thank you both - FourthSense and glitteralex - for your terrific reviews! They made me want this, and so I have it now! And I love it. I really do. It IS very masculine, but I do find some men's fragrances suit me very well, and this one does, I'm very pleased to say!!! I love it. I love the very interesting mix of sharp and sweet, and I do think the cedar is the main, dominating note after a few hours, which is fine with me, as I adore cedar! I love patchouli too, and I find that it isn't - thankfully - completely squashed by the cedar. It's just there, softly, and it's gorgeous. And the lavender is sweet and zingy, beautiful. The dry-down is lovely, sweetish, beautifully resiny and woody. Wonderful.

This is a beauty. This captures the nostalgic feeling of the beautiful landscapes of Tuscany. I have being there several times, and it transports me back there through its aroma. You realize that you are at the presence of a truly art piece of perfumery, when such an effect is accomplished by using ingredients that are not native of the area. This is one of the reason I felt in love with Niche perfumery. I cannot add a note on how the notes play in their different facets, because the entire journey is just like going from town to town in Tuscany, a beautiful experience.

Versilia Vintage is a pleasant woody, fresh spicy, citrusy scent for warm weather, day and night. It feels unisex but I get vibes from other masculine scents especially at the opening. Its cousins are Narciso Rodriguez Narciso Rodriguez for Him Bleu Noir Hermes Voyage line, Cartier Declaration, Fleuve Tendre Les Liquides Imaginaires. It opens with a blast of citruses (bergamot / bitter orange) and spices (I get cardamom and traces of star anise) followed immediately by lavender and geranium. After some minutes emerges a strong patchouli / cedar note which is the dominant couple along with geranium and intensive elemi. This is not a lavender scent as shows the voting. It's a cedar based scent with some spices and herbs. The tonka beans are discreet and come at the late dry down. There's also a dusty-woody vibe in it. I can't detect honey here. Sillage and projection are moderate. Longevity is above the average. It leans to masculine scents imo.

I'll just ditto alfarom's review. To me, this fragrance opens with a nice citrus-floral burst and later transitions into a very nice patchouli-cedar-tonka scent with a pleasant light sweetness; it's just a really nice fragrance. While I do enjoy this fragrance, I don't love it (just not quite my style)...especially for the steep asking price. Versilia Boise last 5-6 hours on my skin and projects moderately so performance is decent but could be better. I find Versilia Boise to be an interesting darker type of fragrance and a solid like for me - definitely worth checking-out.

Versilia Vintage Boisè it's a pretty nice woody/resins concoction with a sparkling aromatic citrus and lavender opening and a moderately sweet drydown. There's something in it that vaguely reminds me of Jubilation XXV (maybe the sweet-ish resinous base?) and something else I can't put my finger on. I don't know if this is by Duchafour (considering he already orchstrated a bunch of the I Profumi Del Forte), but it definitely has his style: kind of transparent with a strong oriental vibe. Part Jubilation, part Kyoto, part Timbuktu with a touch of Eau D'Italie (the line not the eponymous fragrance) thrown in... Overall this is a very nice fragrace and, as usual with I Profumi Del Forte, high-quality stuff. Rating: 7.5/10