Aqua Di Casta

This is for me the beautiful fragrance of Trieste. The shiny, transparent air on the harbour and the windy night on Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia...

Oh - this is very masculine and very weird on me. It opened with a blast of black pepper and ginger, but soon turned to this green/herbal/almost medical smell of wet woods and some sweet/dry undertone which must be the chestnut. Even though this is not wearable by me I find this to be very appealing because of the unique smell and great quality. Good enough to try.

The better of the line for me.Testamaura is more a landscape olfactory serie than true perfumes. They are certainly interesting,but not worthing that price. Sillage and longevity are rather scarce.

Fragrance composition: Topnote: Black Pepper, Ginger Heartnote: Rose, Ylang-Ylang Basenote: Vetiver, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Chestnut I'm sold. Aqua di Casta gained its place among the most interesting fragrances of the past few years. First of all, let me tell you that in order to appreciate this fragrance, you've to be into extremely dry woody compositions. There's nothing sweet here, nothing smooth... Aqua Di Casta opens with a shockingly pungent/piquant pepper and ginger combo immediately joined by a beatiful accord of woody vetiver. If this brings to mind of modern masculines a-là Bang, be advised that the Testa Maura it's, both in concept and execution, very distant from these types of fragrances. The central vetiver note is refined by a desweetened rose/ylang-ylang accord that while being surely remarkable, it doesn't drive the fragrance towards the floral. This is more intended to slightly soften the general austerity while a bold and extremely dry sandalwood base emerges from the back turning Acqua Di Casta into a nutty and woody vetiver/sandalwood drydown. Overall I would recommend Aqua di Casta to both sandalwood and vetiver lovers as one of the most natural smelling examples of these notes. Anything but sweet. Very nice. Rating: 8/10

Horrible stuff! A complete disappointment to my nose. There is actually a slight hint of Marron but its embedded in so many other notes that make the scent smell more close to a cleaning agent than a fragrance. I think its a catastrophe and I don't think I'll can become friends with it.