Loggia

Love this scent and just ordered a full-size. The individual notes are well-blended and no one note dominates for me - I get a lovely incense smoke, and a creamy, almost fruity accord - like the aromatic woods found in an orchard. It must be the cognac and/or the musk with the woods? The drydown becomes more spicy, but the fruity, faintly boozy, sweet top notes never really dissapear completely on me. Wood-heavy fragrances are rarely feminine, but I would say this is unisex leaning feminine on account of that sweet, creamy note. Personally, it gives me a wave of nostalgia - my grandmother used to wear Avon’s Topaze, and this is reminiscent (wood, musk, spice). However, Loggia is infinitely more natural, balanced, and modern - no fussy florals or fizzy aldehydes. Easier to wear, yet more nuanced. It’s a lovely balance between light and fresh, and refined - I’d say it’s very well suited to cold-weather daytime wear and to a special evening out. A small dab with the sample wand makes it stay very close to the skin, but the longevity is impressive - still a complex, lovely scent 6 hours in, on my scent-canceling skin!

I love this scent. It smells like you are in a polished wood cabin and a fancy older woman walks by and is wearing a spicy vanilla-musk perfume! my sister said “you smell like old lady perfume.” i couldn’t stop sniffing my wrist all day at work, i’m obsessed!

Very much reminds me of the feel of TOBACCO VANILLE. Similar stories, different flavor, identical vibe. Bold, hot opening dries down to creamy smooth sweet spice. Perfectly unisex. If you like T.V. but want a less common, fresher/lighter scent, this is for you. I can see this as a spring fragrance, transitioning from richer, cold winter scents to lighter, summer styles. Review of official PERFUME EXTRAIT sample purchased directly from SolsticeScents.com

39th EDP: I loved the floral-fruity-herbal aroma about it, but the polished/varnished wood(mahogany?) note turned me off. If it had a slightly sweet natural wood smell, I would have loved it, as the other notes together smelled unique. Maybe Angela can make something like this without the polished wood smell? It seems that it's the case with this perfume line: I love most of the composition in many of her scents, yet there will be some harsh note that will make it unbearable for me. 6/10

Smells like varnished wood and spices. Pretty on point with what it’s going for. Unluckily for me, that scent makes me feel lightheaded. It dries down a bit fresher, lighter, and sweeter spiced. Interesting, but maybe not quite a like. It has a distinct base smell here that reminds me of some of Alkemia’s bases.

When I first got this perfume in a sample pack, I was hoping I would smell literally any of the notes in the description. Unfortunately when I got it out of the bottle, all I could smell was a very strong bathroom cleaner smell. Like, something you would use to deep clean a house. On me it was an immediate scrub. I let it sit for a while and forgot about it. Six months later I smelled it again—It had developed into a stronger aldehydic smell straight from the bottle. On the skin I smell a deep smoke note—but smoke like soot, not like wood smoke. A distinct gumdrop sort of sweetness, a dark blue scent (I have synesthesia so I'm not sure why but it just is blue). And something floral, but like artificially floral. Overall it smells like when you're in the middle of a Joann's fabrics smelling all of the candles and knickknacks and whatever generic cleaning solutions they use in there. It takes a few minutes for this scent to open up in a way that doesn't smell terrible, cloying, and aldehydic. Once it does, I can begin to smell something like Jasmine (?), cognac, spices and vanilla, but it's faintly sweet. Then the Cognac, amber, vanilla and mahogany take over, and the smoke note begins wafting out in a way that is no longer like soot, but actual smoky embers. I think overall, it might be a little too sweet on me but the complexity and linearity of the scent is an interesting journey for sure. Projection and last isn't great, which is an issue I have with most oil based indie frags. 4/10

Imagine the poshest, most polished home you’ve ever been invited to, recall the awe you felt traversing its passageways and the illicit delight you felt at peeking in every doorway and chest of drawers, and that may give you a minute inkling of Loggia’s appeal. Conjure the memory of those opulent wooden doors with their exacting filigree details; creamy white European linen draped on tables whose construction may be older than the country in which you’re currently living; an enormous, roaring fireplace where exotic woods crackle and blaze merrily; a silvery, bright kitchen from which the most ambrosial aromas drift, sparking visions of delicacies and confections the likes of which you, you poor sod, have never before experienced. An elegant glass snifter with a generous pour of deep amber liquid shimmers in the firelight. (You’re too young to drink that, but you’re quite certain it tastes of clover honey and sweet tea and vanilla wafers, and it will make you feel giddy and giggly and important and maybe a little sad.) Have you ever been to such a place? Have I? Or have I only read of it in books, or dreamed it?

I adore this, one of my top faves from SS. This pulls quite SWEET on me... warm and cozy. A log cabin, spices but sweet smoke and an abundance of maple. This is SO maple on me, so it must be the spices, vanilla, cognac, and sandalwood? It's a beautiful log cabin in the deepest maple woods, and it's all mine! Love this. (I expected Maplewood Inn to be like this... given that has the notes I smell here. Maplewood Inn is HELLA smoky on me.)