Paradiso

PHEW!! Where to start? This is maybe the best blind-buy I've ever made! I'm typically a fan of Cavalli's offerings, so I figured it was a pretty safe blind-buy... but I had no idea I was about to stumble on something so special. First of all, I have to say that the the marketing material is a bit ridiculous and misleading. Calling it Paradiso, putting a parrot in the photos and referring to it as a "holiday scent" gives the impression you're getting something sweet, beachy & tropical. Nope!! Paradiso may be a holiday scent... but it's not a beachy holiday in the tropical sense. It's a holiday on the Adriatic or Mediterranean coast... and maybe even a bit inland. It's a citrus orchard on the edge of an evergreen forest, next to a house with blooming jasmine, not far from the sea. While it opens up with a lot of beautiful and fresh citrus, the pine & cypress are also immediately present. This makes it so clean & crisp - it actually reminded me a bit of Irish Spring soap that I remember from my childhood. As the citrus & wood settle down a bit (after about 30 mins), I could sense the jasmine ever so lightly. Eventually it dries down to something a bit warmer and less fresh. The jasmine & wood notes combine to create something ultra feminine and soft. (almost a bit powdery for me) The bottle is also a thing of beauty. It's truly like a large diamond. So not only does it smell gorgeous, it's also lovely to look at on your dressing table. While I own many many fragrances, I find that I'm never really excited about my "Summer perfumes". I'm more of a warm, spicy, BIG, fragrance kinda gal. Well, Paradiso gives me that vibe, that I like so much about my Winter perfumes, in a summery scent. I absolutely see this becoming my signature this Summer... if not every Summer from now on. Sillage - 9/10 Longevity - 10/10 - edited from 8/10 to 10/10 when I realized that 12 hours later, I could still smell it on myself.

I have tested it in perfume store, Calm perfume and very distingushed, woody citrusy with jasmine, this fragrance like you are walking in the forest feeling you have a deep fresh oxgen in the morning then the woody fragrance had been more intensive with dew of Jasmine flowers. This fragrance dosen't suitable for lady's prefer strong, heavy or sharp perfumes, needs calm sensitive romance classy lady, don't seeking to famous or attracting attention, Despite all this, still all eyes turn to her because her charisma forces you to pay attention to her. This fragrance suitable to wear it during the day, in all seasons but in winter or Autumn seasons will be more cleary in my openion, hence, woods ingrediants beauty appears in cold seasons, It lasts 8 hours on leather. I hope to own this perfume in the near future after I had finished previous perfumes which I own it currentley. لقد جربته في محل عطور، عطر هادئ ومميز للغاية، خشبي حمضي مع الياسمين، هذه الرائحة تشبه وكأنك تمشي في الغابة وتشعر أنك أخذت نفس من الأكسجين العميق المنعش في الصباح ثم أصبحت الرائحة الخشبية أكثر كثافة مع ندى أزهار الياسمين. هذا العطر لا يناسب السيدات اللواتي يفضلن العطور القوية أو الثقيلة أو الحادة، يحتاج إلى سيدة رومانسية هادئة حساسة وأنيقة، لا تسعى إلى الشهرة أو جذب الانتباه، وعلى الرغم من كل هذا، لا تزال كل العيون تتجه إليها لأن كاريزمتها تجبرك على الالتفات لها. هذا العطر مناسب لارتدائه في النهار، في جميع الفصول ولكن في فصل الشتاء أو الخريف سيكون أكثر وضوحًا في رأيي، حيث أن جمال المكونات الخشبية يظهر في المواسم الباردة، يدوم لمدة 8 ساعات على الجلد. أتمنى أن أمتلك هذا العطر في المستقبل القريب بعد أن أُنهي العطور السابقة التي أمتلكها حاليًا.

I wanted to buy it. I own ysl libre and I've red this smells alike to it. Went in store to try it and I have to agree. it smells really like libre, the only difference is that this is lighter and more aromatic, especially on the drydown ( it's like sweet chamomile to me, and I love sweet chamomile as a note). All in all I prefer Paradiso more. Infact I would weare Paradiso in spring and summer but I wouldn't with Libre. I'm agog that there's no Vanilla in the base because I smell a distinct sweet vanilla, like in libre. Maybe the tester bottle had plenty of time to mature and become thicker in its smell and concentration. Maybe the ones that don't agree with the similiarity between paradiso and libre have new batches that smell different initialy, but in time I think this becomes really cose to Libre. I would say Paradiso is the eau de toilette/ eau freche concentration of Libre IMO. But the time I will finish my libre I will purchase Paradiso because I enjoy a lighter/softer version of libre that server me as an all rounder and also because in the drydown there's more aromatic quality and less plain dense sweetness unlike in libre.

Paradiso completely blew me away - I picked up a 75ml bottle for £23.00 recently - the bottle is absolutely gorgeous, heavy glass, beautiful feeling when held, it feels lile a niche bottle. This beautiful sunny super clean scent is refined, balanced - it's of a beach-vibe but I am going to say it's more on the aquatic side, it's slightly clean laundry on a sunnybday, definitely not the salty seadog seaweed skank, but there definitely a fresh air on the beach vibe here and it's super clean in the light fresh wood musk dry down. The longevity is about 4 hours on my skin and it's safe to wear around anyone. I also own Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid and that's on the same trajectory as Paradiso and only arrived 4 years after Paradiso. To my nose, these two smell very similar, with the Mermaid being slightly salty and fruity on the first spray and a beautiful ozonic fruit on the dry down. Both are clean, summer beach perfumes. Just smell them side by side and you will instantly understand. For under £30 in the UK it's absolutely worth having in your Summer collection 🌞

The same thing happens every single time. It sits in my perfume closet neglected for months, then suddenly I get an urge to spray it to finish the bottle faster, but when I actually spray it on I'm hit with this beautiful captivating scent and I think to myself- "wow! this is amazing! why don't I use it more often? I should get a back-up bottle asap!", only to never actually buy it. I'm always amazed and impressed by the smell when I spray it, but I don't often actually get to using it. I don't know why. I genuinely enjoy it. What impresses me is how clean and fresh it smells, without that sour soapiness that I hate in Si, for example. Not even once have I regretted spraying it on, it never becomes overbearing or too much, it's always just right. It's a strong like, at least whenever I actually use it. I don't know why I keep forgetting about it. Edit: my husband loves this one and keeps complimenting the way I smell when I wear it, so I might just repurchase a small 30ml bottle to wear when I want to make him happy.