Just Cavalli

I don't know many fancy fragrance terms and idioms, but I just have to make this review. I love this fragrance. It was almost a blind buy because I was rushing through the Schiphol airport but wanted to make a stop in the Duty Free to get a perfume. My nose was full of all other scents that when the wonderful SA (her name sounds like Diyana or Diana) insisted on this should be the one I was looking for after I explained to her what I like (and she kind of tried to examine my personality), I took her word as it is, although I didn't like the opening note I smelled on the paper strip. Plus, I'm a bit turned off by the exploitation of animal prints by RC and thought that this fragrance would smell 'too young' from the look of the commercial. I am glad I bought this. I was looking for 'my' fragrance. I like floral but it desperately needs to be not too light and be weighted down by heavier notes. I don't want to smell beyond my year or like a teenager, either. I don't even originally like neroli. But for some reason, they all work out beautifully in this fragrance. The neroli only gives a bit of a fresh opening that lasts for about 30 minutes. Than it melds into the creamy tiare and the smooth palisander wood did not come out until an hour. It was not complex at all, but when it all melds together it smells beautiful, cozy, sweet (but not overly so), delicious and sexy at the same time. The drydown is very skinlike. My friends told me I smell like creme brulee (we just had an amazing grand marnier creme brulee with blood orange sorbet, obviously they sensed the neroli). It turns out to be quite a people pleaser as other samples from Diptyque, MFK, Cartier and Paco Rabanne that I asked them to sniff, they set aside and still loved this one that I was wearing. But they still thought that it's not really a common scent most people (at least from a couple of places I've been living) wear, as do my sisters think. The sillage is quite soft and longevity is moderate. However, when I top this fragrance with 3-4 more spritz after it starts to fade in a couple of hours, the sillage becomes a bit bigger as it wafts around softly when I move and wrap me in it and then it lasts overnight. I would still smell it when I wake up in the morning. I've been trying to look up for a similar type of olfactory with bigger sillage and better longevity. Some people mentioned Poeme and Amarige, I found them too floral and not creamy enough at all. Guerlain L'Instant is as creamy and powdery but a little too 'delicate and meek' for my taste. G Insolence EDP is sweeter and more complex and has a little bit sour-sweet smell from the red cherry. Rochas Byzance has much more powdery body and on me, it's not until a couple of hours that the spices-floral blend starting to ease up the powderiness and smells more complex and finally smells more like JC (I'm thinking about getting this, but still hesitant because the powdery scent smells a bit 'dated' and it lasts a while). The closest I can get until now is Maison Francis Kurkdjian APOM Pour Femme. They apparently have the same pyramid with fresh citrusy smell on top (African orange blossom in APOM), creamy floral as the middle note (ylang-ylang in APOM) and wood as base (cedar in APOM). The shift in APOM takes longer than Just Cavalli and the drydown is not as smooth (cedar vs palisander), but the whole feeling is uncannily the same. Plus it's a tiny bit louder. I'm gonna test it some more, see if it's worth dropping double the amount of cash to get similar olfactory and feel. I am expecting an order of samples to see if there's anything else that has the same feel as this lovely fragrance. All in all, I'm so glad I bought this. This is pretty and sensual. But the sensuality is not loud or cheap. It rings to the saying of "Be a lady in the street and a whore in bed". Not a cheap, freak, skanky whore. But a sweet, elegant and dexterous escort.

I don’t understand how this perfume has just florals and woody notes... this perfume is the prettiest and most feminine perfume i own. Granted, it does smell like white florals, but it also smells very powdery, like baby powder. It seems like it has notes of talc and some vanilla too. This perfume is so special to me and if i had to pick only one perfume to wear all my life, i’d definitely pick this. I have smelled hundreds of perfume and this is by far the most beautiful feminine perfume i have ever tried.i will speak on its performance shortly. It smells like femininity. I’m usually a gourmand perfume lover, sweet vanilla , cacao, caramel, honey ,milky scents you know? But this is absolutely beautiful. This is what i’d imagine goddesses would smell like. Soft and feminine, ethereal beauty trapped in a bottle. I’m lost for words here really. This isn’t a childish sweet scent. It is a young woman captivating scent. (I just turned 22) Now let’s get into the performance of this perfume. This is a high performance perfume. It’ll be worth every penny, even if they triple the price i’d still buy it! And it’s relatively cheap but it performs like it’s a 200dollar perfume. Don’t be fooled by its eau de toilet description, this is an eau de parfum as far as i’m concerned. It last longer than my other designer and Arabian eau de parfum scents. I sprayed this on my shirt (keep in mind, i live in a hot tropical climate) i went about my day, got home, hung it up,3 days after whenever i walk past my closet i still smell it!!! Days after, it still has about 3-4 feet of sillage. If that’s not high quality idk what is. I sprayed this perfume on my clothes, Went through 24hours plus of traveling in it, arrived at my destination , folded my shirt and forgot it at the back of my closet, 8 months after, i picked it up for washing and immediately got a whiff of the perfume. So please don’t walk, run and go get this perfume. On your skin, this last 12 hours minimum. Now if you like white florals,slightly woody,powderly vanilla scents, this would be a safe blind buy. You won’t regret it, i promise. I’d rate this perfume a 20/10 because its just that good. <3

I don't know what I smell exactly. I have never taken a whiff of pure jasmine, neroli, OR rosewood. I kinda know jasmine because I've had pure jasmine oils and perfumes that reviews unanimously determined it was ONLY jasmine you smell. Judging from this, I don't really smell jasmine. I DO know, I love this already. I have Nuit Etoilee, barely used, that I have kept for use during this holiday season. It's the scent dreams are made of...or so I thunk. Now that I've purchased this, blind, at TJ Maxx for cheap, my holiday scent may have changed. This is only comparable to JPG Ma Dame, well...of the scents I've known myself. The instant I sprayed this, it was the holidays for me. It's dreamy, magical, feminine, it's some of the best...of any memories I have. I'm not happy about this. Robert Cavalli isn't someone I even care to find out about. I haven't the least interest, no inclination to even TRY another of his scents, well UNTIL.....I sprayed this custard filled long john of a scent. In my world, that's a term for da BEST! It's just about that creamy also. It's puddin' in muh mouth. I think, to say the very least, even if you dislike this, it's pretty unique. Yeah it's sugar coated sweets and blah blah blah, but it's a UNIQUE sugary same ol' same ol'. It's the freshest, dreamiest custard filled long john with a prettier, COULD be tastier frosting/icing that is gonna make you WANT this to be the best. It might not be for you, but it has ended up to be to me. It's not really a good blind buy because it seems to be extraordinary only to those of us that love it. That's to say with any ol' perfume. But I think a LOT of people, and reviews show, think this is quite the pretty picture! It's a holiday picture for me for many years to come I'm sure. It sure can be a summer scent if you wish. For me, it's a Christmas wish! DO at least try if you like sweet, pretty scents at all.

Just Cavalli is a delightful perfume and it makes me think of the tropics and the beach, without being at all coconutty. The tiare flower is of course the star of this fragrance, but the neroli gives some zing at the top and the Palisander sandalwood gives it some longevity. I wouldn't class this fragrance as at all woody though, but a tropical white floral fragrance (which is what I was looking for.) It reminds me of another fragrance I already own called Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche 2019 by Estée Lauder, but this one has even less of those sunscreen vibes from the coconut and bergamot you find in that one. Just Cavalli is even more floral. This perfume has a moderate sillage on me that is just right and not too subtle to smell or so strong that it knocks you out and it is nice and sweet. I got 5 hours wear time from it, so it lasts a decent while but you do need to re-spray it towards the end of the day. It gives me spring and summer vibes and would be appropriate to wear during the day. It is a very easy and breezy fragrance you can just spritz on at any time of the day and it won't offend anyone! I personally really love it and I would give Just Cavalli by Just Cavalli a 9/10! It does exactly what I wanted it to do and made tiare the star of the fragrance, turning me into a summer goddess. Now I just need to find the perfect bikini to match!

I love this scent. This is one of the two scents I always carry in my handbag. The bottle is flattened and the cap is really tight, snapy and the scent itself is wonderful and versatile. Rather evening and winter scent, but moderately sprayed pleasant even during the day, the scent is strong but stays close to the skin, leaving behind a small trail. This also blends well with almost all floral and fruity scents, making it easy to use. I have had this for much longer than Alien. I fell in love with Alien from the first sniff, but it took a long time before I realized why it felt so familiar. My Alien is from 2011, i.e. the older edition. In the opening, these are completely different, Cavalli smells clearly lighter and I can smell both neroli and tiara. Alien slams on with a heady jasmine splash. But as the opening calms down, (Cavalli rather condensing ...) for a while when drying, they are very identical to me. White flowers, jasmine. I can't tell them apart. It takes about 10 minutes for both scent to continue to develop on its own paths. Alien to earthy darkness and Cavalli to lighter, slightly wine-like splashing. In both performances, those flowers remain identical until the end. And... This is almost as long lasting on my skin as an alien, but very much near to skin. Hope this is never stopped or reformulated. Big love to me.