Dolce Prospettiva

Right here’s the lowdown. Having owned Terrarossa for a couple of years now, and being made aware of this brand by my pal Dana (the brilliant A nose knows) I’ve been tempted to get the others for a while and I’m not disappointed with this blind buy. Here is a true first impression of this fragrance, immediately sweet orange top, cascades down into a gourmand, so it’s a chocolate orange, great combination but hard to pull off. (For a novice like me, because I’ve tried) The reason it works here is because it’s not too sweet and has evolved into a fatty, creamy lactonic orange orange blossom when dried down. The main thing I took away from this was (bearing in mind I just said it wasn’t too sweet) a mildly inflected, bubblegum note. This is not the crappy saccharine note of cheesy men’s designers of late, it smells of Jasmine or tuberose in that natural, slightly bananary sense. Dries down much more vanilla and similar to a million femme marketed fruity vanillas, but maintains a nice chocolate/benzoin right to the death. I think when you look at this as a whole, from unique start to somewhat predictable finish, it still has a huge amount of merit, I mean I’d wear this, and will of course, being a rare fragrance of this type that I actually like, opening with such an interesting and well constructed flourish as it does. Do I love it? No. I like it though. It’s nothing like Serge Lutens Fleurs d’oranger BTW except for an orange blossom note/accord in here.

Dolce Prospettiva Profumo di Firenze 1954. AKA Sweet Perspective in English. This is blooming gorgeous! And to date is a very unexpected blind buy success. Ive sampled my fair share of orange blossom fragrances but this one beats all of them hands down. This is 🍊 orange blossom and chocolate amped up on steroids and it is spectacular and so is the tangerine!!!! Which together are the stars of the show. Next, the neroli and jasmine lend to a lush, extravagant, dense, Mediterranean floral that is slightly green and just bursting with a rich, slightly syrupy and spicy juiciness. Which I really appreciate. As if there wasn't that airy, green note and the low-key spice. This could be a bit too much. But it isn't. Its just perfect. In fact I think its a masterpiece as it reminds me of scents like Elle Saab Le Parfum Intense and Reem Acra by Reem Acra but its much, much deeper and more intense then both of these scents. And then underneath all this. Is the perfect vanilla and praline duo, just tempering and restraining the citrus from going crazy; giving this a sensual feel, which then is rounded off by the musk. Which adds to the warm, sensual, feel. I feel like this is the Marie Callas of Orange blossom. Big, bouffant, buxom and lovely. A grand dame of Italian perfumery.

This is lovely- a tamer version of Serge Luten's Fleurs d'Oranger, imo- amazing longevity, gorgeous dry-down-

That good hey? On YT people are raving about this line....