Bizzarria

Bizzarria Santa Maria Novella (First Impression on July 28, 2024) I think Bizzarria is fruitful production from legacy Santa Maria Novella, the new EDP range. This is new release. I like the fact Bizzaria is not craft to perfection like the other - L'iris, Magnolia or Gelsomino. Which craft to perfection with overly precision. Bizzarria smell like fresh Neroli, later on develop to kaffir lime. The tart citrus fruit with bitter aromatic oil from south east Asia culture. Fresh and Sunny, like a yellow bottle this brings image of Portofino (Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003) on soft musky-woody end. Due to it tartness, It is linger on my skin quite long time. Even when all the citrus is gone, as I know my skin. My skin consume all the citrus very fast. This blend does lure my nose to think that it keeps fresh and tart, on and on. I like it, Probably my most favorite from the EDP line. Which I would still 100% insist that the rest are most beautiful craft floral creations. It just ain't for me ------ Update 1 on February 13, 2025 REVIEW I recently bring out Bizzaria to refresh my certain throught about this. And I find this is fairly a beautiful take on the Hespidic tone scent. It kind of encapsulte and retake how we could define citrus cologne. Late citrus cologne in this modern day, more focusing on other element than actual hespidic quality underlying, but Bizzaria apart from rounding a perfect element between Citrus bergamot tone with Orange Blossom / Neroli quality. It use the same old trick that have been using in old hespidic fragrance. The fresh chypre. Fresh Chypre, in the old day. using combination between Bergamot, Oakmoss and Labdanum; fool the nose thinking that Citrus quality is ongoing. But it is, actually. The Balsumic quality of Labdanum instead. Before it ending with oakmoss that feel like an old powder scent. This trick has been repeatedly using from 1950 - 1970. At this moment, I do not think we have Fresh Chpyre left in the market. But, Bizzaria is kind of using that trick to fool the nose. Thinking that Labdanum quality is on-going. Bizaaria ending with Soft Musk instead of original Oakmoss feeel. I personally interpretted this as innovative. And thinking about How Bizzaria can beautiful rendered. The beautiful combination between Tart, Textured peel. Sharp Bergamot and Floral-Citrus quality into one perfume. Before transit to sour balsumic note. I think this is really beautiful. I think I will revisit Bizzaria more in upcoming summer. And if there is a point I can mention, I wish it is slightly more tangy than this. Like, slightly stronger dose of Vitamin C. But consider how Bizzaria can feel *Citrus* for a good 2-3 hours before Transit to floral / balsumic / sheer musk that stay on skin for more than 7-8 hours. I think this is really good fragrance already. It is really high-qaultity cologne type scent... END OF ASSETMENT.

I’m deeply humbled to have discovered this wonderful brand. I’ve never seen anything like it. The number of soulless companies is large. From imagery to packaging to the shipping and customer experience this brand excels by far. Bizzarria starts off strong and bright. It radiates and makes me happy instantly. I’m a huge fan of florals, citruses and Bizzarria is of the highest quality imaginable. The citrusy introduction is so joyful it’s hard to beat. There is no funkiness during the day and you keep smelling your wrist when it becomes a skin scent after a while. If this all sounds a little over the top, imagine someone with well over a hundred fragrances to choose from learning about this company, history and quality. It’s a great journey and with high pleasure that I’m recommending everyone to give it a try. Thank me later.

They said: you turn 40, you’ll start getting up early. Nothing like that happened and I still love to sleep till someone’s late late lunch and they know s**t 🤪 Until now. I tried Bizzarria and suddenly I want to get up early every morning to feel this scent and this energy. To feel it changes on my skin with such a grace. And still being a little secret to me. Bizzarria is not just another lemony freshie. She's bitter. She has some creaminess. She is not so clear cut. Someone tell me what she's like? 50ml is not enough, I need 100! P. S. Longevity is not so impressive.

I'm in love at first sniff too like what @impressionistg said. Bought a discovery set from SMN and got this as one of the free samples. A super spicy, tangy, juicy, green, fresh, blend of citrus! I never found citrus like this before. Truly bizarre! It's bitter, yet juicy, yet powdery! Have you ever wanna eat the whole lemon tree? This is the time for it. Tasty!

I tried this in Florence in Santa Maria Novella shop (btw, if you have a chance to visit Florence go and visit Santa Maria Novella vintage store). I fell in love with Bizzarria after the first sniff. Of course, I bought it, it was such a great experience! Now Bizzarria reminds me of my favorite city in the world - Florence.