Cassiopea

The fragrance opens with a delicious note of passionfruit, it evokes a mix of tropical fruits and some flowers. Its initial projection is very good, the opening is aromatic, a great combination of passion fruit, lemon, and some flowers. The cassis adds a sweet, vanilla-like aroma that enhances the opening; the fern adds a soft green and earthy tone. The lemon adds an important fresh/citrusy accord, important to avoid a fragrance that otherwise would be too sweet. The floral tones listed as mid notes come up immediately after the initial application, they balance the fragrance that otherwise would feel just fruity and sweet. After a few minutes, Tiziana Terenzi Cassiopea reaches its dry-down, here the sandalwood adds a soft woody touch that adds depth to the scent; the tonka bean adds some more sweetness and the must enhance a bit the lemon note of the opening. Once the fragrance has reached its final dry-down, it can be summarized as a sweet, passionfruit, and lemon fragrance with some floral, woody, and faint musky accords. The fragrance feels delicious, unique, modern, unisex, and very pleasant. Batch reviewed: 2020 Wow Rating: 10/10. A delicious, tropical, citrusy fragrance with some soft floral accords. Dislike Rating: 3/10. The fragrance may feel too fruity or too sweet to some people. Uniqueness: 9/10. Not too many fragrances feature passionfruit as the primary note. Mass Appeal: 10/10. A sweet fruity/citrusy fragrance; it will please the crowds for sure. Projection: 4/10. Moderate, about four feet around the wearer. Sillage: 5/10. Moderate, about five feet around the wearer. Application: For atomizations will suffice. Longevity: 5/10. Moderate to very good, this is an Extrait de Parfum. Seasons: Spring, fall, and winter. Also colder nights or climate-controlled environment. Occasions: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, home, romantic, dating. This is an office-friendly fragrance. Versatility: 7/10. Other than the warmer months, this is a very wearable fragrance. Gender: Unisex. The two main notes of this fragrance are passionfruit and lemon, both are unisex. All other notes can be classified as woody and softly floral, both notes balance each other creating a unisex fragrance. Ages: Any. Recommendation: This is a fantastic fragrance for those looking for tropical scents, Cassiopea brings two notes in a very pleasant fragrance. This is a great buy. Blind-Buy: No, the fruity notes are unique and strong, therefore sample it first. Similar: Alfred Dunhill Desire is affordable citrus, vanilla, fruity, fresh, and green, however, its performance is very low; Carolina Herrera - 212 VIP Men EDT also features passionfruit, and lime, additionally, it contains ginger and boozy tones; Hugo Boss - Hugo Just Different Men EDT contains green, fruity, and woody accords; Paco Rabanne 1 Million Lucky EDP contains grapefruit, plum, and honey notes. Summary: A sweet, passionfruit, and lemon fragrance with some floral, woody, and faint musky accords that feels delicious, unique, modern, unisex, and very pleasant.

I will say this opens as a very soapy vibe. I get the passionfruit, cassis, and lemon at the beginning. Then the tonka and sandalwood come out making it a smooth jammy rose and fruits. The dry down on my skin is interesting.On my skin the drydown is like fuity jammy smooth rose with a bite of green. I think it is the carnation or fern at play. It takes the smoothness and sweetness and cuts it. It reminds me of cutting fresh flowers. Like you are in the kitchen, after showering with some fruity soap and you are cutting some jammy roses over the sink. Your toddler takes the green stems and proceeds to mash them to bits near your feet. So there you are fruity jammy creamy rose with this bright green aromatic scent cutting through. I would say 25+. Strikes me as a more mature fragrance. I would say leans more feminine in tone. More of a casual fragrance but definitely business professional as well. I imagine a mom doing some housework and then out for a small walk in the woods with family. I like it personally, but dont know if it is full bottle worthy just because its more of an everyday scent and price is pretty high.

I adore this scent, it is a fruity fragrance that is so refined. It was between this and Erba Pura. I’ve been sampling both for a very long time and thought the creamier Erba Pura was the winner but the musk in that became too sharp for me, so Cassiopeia won. This fragrance sneaks up on you and projects more the longer it settles on the skin. Love the airy, slight greenness in the opening. Also that rose tea elevates the blend from just your regular fruity sweet scent. The dry down has this creamy Tonka which deepens the fragrance and the musk is not sharp. This reminds me of a mix of Killian Princess only because of that addicting airy tea note and Xerjoff Erba Pura because of that strong clean fruity note. I was thinking of getting both but no need because I have this now. It’s a love! #1 spring/summer fruity fragrance in my collection, but is also beautiful and crisp in cooler weather. Update 20Apr2023: Have to use up within Best by range or less, else it will start to smell like vinegar.

My go-to perfume, it’s feminine, it’s fresh (soapy type of fresh), it’s giving you’re bathing with luxurious soap. It’s creamy-fruity, not bright juicy fruity. Ignore the fragantica reviewers that thinks so highly of themselves and trash every perfume, they probably smells like poo because they’re too cool for any ‘textbook pleasing perfume’ so they go around smelling like 600-dollars vomit with a twist. Though I think the DNA is acceptable for almost everyone, and somehow familiar, It’s not that common amongst popular options, so you can make this as your signature scent without being overly unique and hard to understand; in another word, people will instantly love it.

I've had like 2-3 bottles of this perfume until now which I think speaks to how much I enjoy this perfume. I really enjoy light floral sweet scents and the combination of all the notes is just perfect. I've gotten a lot of compliments on it and I feel it isn't too light or too strong of a scent. I wear this all year round but I'd say it is most suited for summer/spring. However, the price is pretty high for perfume but as someone who wears this every day (or nearly everyday), I think it is worth it. The bottle is also beautiful and so is the box it comes in. It also lingers lightly on clothes but it isn't too overpowering. Definitely will buy again if I run out.

This was love at first smell from the bottle cap. I was completely taken with the scent of expensive shampoo / hair conditioner and I absolutely love that smell. Maybe it's the passion fruit which gives this effect, I noticed it as well in other shampoo-like perfumes, but this is the best. Longevity is not bad, 4-5 hours. I just wished it came in smaller bottles, but oh well, there's no such thing as perfection, apart from how perfect this smells to me. Update: after trying Erba Pura as well I have to agree they are very much alike to my nose. Perhaps Cassiopea turns more gourmand and sugary towards the end and Erba Pura is more linear.

to leeyah87, i have experienced same with cassiopea! my mother bought this perfume from authorised store and it smells like a dream: creamy, woodsy, gourmand, and reminds like you mentioned Britney spears fantasy. I fell in love with this perfume and bought from person which bought it in Portugal and we with my mom compared both perfumes, mine smells more like Kirke, more fresh, less sweet and it seams to have green notes - similar but different! I have heard that Creed Aventus does smell different depending on different batches, maybe it is same with Cassiopea.

Jadelynn below is so correct...this powdery, tropical, airy, well blended delectability is pure Charmkins from the 80s! It is non linear meaning you will engage in delightful all day nose aerobics as you strive to differentiate which facet of fruit or jungle plant is revealing itself at the moment. I don't remember Brittany Spears Fantasy very well but it didn't seem at all as nuanced as this scent and was more of an all out linear fruity bomb. This one is more sparkling and effervescent. Cassiopea seals my love of Tiziana Terenzi!

This has been a hidden gem for awhile, but glad she's been getting the attention she deserves. This is the girly girl of the bunch when it comes to TT. I get no comparisons to Erba Pura bc of the polarizing musk. On the other hand, if you're able to get your nose on Sospiro's Erba Pura Magica it smells more similar to Cass (You don't need both imo). Both have a clean and toned down musk which makes it more wearable daily. This is def a grown up & fresher version of BS fantasy. It's a flirty scent imo.

If a mischievous forest fairy decided to ditch the muddy moss, get a high-end blowout and attempt to blend into polite society, she would smell exactly like Cassiopea. The opening is incredibly bright, clean, playful, almost sparkling; with a twist that keeps you guessing and could never be boring. Its whimsical, it's pristine it's got jusssst enough ethereal magic to make people wonder if you actually possess some sort of supernatural charms. FOR ME it's a 9.4/10 WOULD fly off into the sunset again.

I love ts one. There’s actually not many Tiziana Terenzi’s that I enjoy, but this creamy passionfruit/musk/tonka bean scent is different. It’s soft, almost powdery, clean and fruity smell. It opens up with a DNA most people know from Kirkè, but WAY smoother. Imagine the most beautiful woman standing in front of you in the night time under the Y can smell her from far away. She smells addictive, playful but also inviting and comforting. She is wearing Tiziana Terenzi Cassiopea.

This is definitely a familiar fragrance, so check your collection before splurging on a bottle. This smells VERY close to Simone Anderoli's Pacific Park. On my skin, PP is pear and caramel, while Cassiopea is a bit juicier, muskier. They both share lily-of-the valley, so perhaps that's what's triggering my scent memory here. On my skin this is lovely--well blended, juicy, sweet, bright--if you liked Victoria Secret's Lovespell, this is the grownup version, lol.

Similar to mind games lionara, with nuance of course. There's more lactones in lionara for a warmer drydown that's slightly gourmand, where cassiopea is more floral...so it depends on the vibe someone is aiming for. I have gotten many compliments on both, but honestly moreso on Lionara. Idc, cassiopea has by hear more! It's gorgeous and feminine, perfect for a wedding or any occasion where you're looking and feeling your best self!

For me this is the muskier version of Kirke, with a milky and more vanillic approach. If you feel that Erba Pura is too musky for you and Kirke needs something heavier at the base, maybe you’d like this. On my skin this smells amazing, it’s like a fruit milk and soapy at the same time. I don’t find a reason why anyone would hate this, so if you’re looking for something that’s mass-pleasing but has that niche-uniqueness, this is it.

A sweet and creamy, musky fruity shampoo/body wash in the best possible way. With hints of tropical fruit, delicate flowers, and a very slight woodiness to balance it out. The vanilla and Tonka provide a beautiful base that carries the fruits throughout the perfume's moderately long longevity. Not everyone's cup of tea; if you are not a fan of prominently sweet, vanilla synthetic-fruity scents this one might not be for you.

this is the exact type of chypre I am a sucker for. Juicy sweet fruity top, like a full-on berry jam, yummy. passionfruit quite distinct delicate fleeting floral middle and my all-time fav combo of musk, sandalwood and tonka bean base very girly-girl perfume, not too complex or sophisticated, and nothing frustrating in it provided that you do like sweet fruity opening and sweetened musky drydown Love it

I don‘t get the comparison to erba pura at all. This one is fruitier and sweeter than erba pura and not as musky but not beast mode like erba pura is unfortunately. It also doesn’t smell like Kirke. On me it lasts all day and I find it to be a great everyday scent or a signature perfume (in fact it is my everyday scent) If you like fruity but feminine perfumes you will probably like this as well.

Britney Spears fantasy but make it Italian, niche, and a long lasting extrait of perfume. Not an exact dupe but familiar. Cassiopea has more complexity and character. But the similarity is there. I love Cassiopea it’s my favorite from the Terenzi line. It’s so fruity, juicy, sensual, sexy. Gorgeous! Just stunning! One of my favorites no surprise there. Perfect year round also.

Omg this is delicious. Flirty, feminine, and playful without being juvenile. I feel like a walking pitaya fruit bowl or smoothie but not in a hyper photorealistic way! It’s so hard to find something gourmand-esque but fresh enough for the warmer months, and this is IT. The passion fruit smells like it’s doused in whipped cream.

Fresh with a lovely opening that develops into a sweet, slightly tart scent. The depth/layers to this fragrance are great. I do get a little bit of a dryer sheet scent - but in the best, most luxe way. Its giving clean, put together pretty woman who at her core is a sweetheart. It was an immediate yes for my husband.

I had a chance to test this beautiful perfume since early 2022, finally got it from my sister. It is very very beautiful fruity, and musky. I love it more than Erba Pura which I think it is too much. The silage is great, I sprayed it after shower before bed and my brother asked me who used the perfume from upstairs.

This one smells like a beautiful dream; it's so creamy, woodsy and fruity that makes me fall in love. I love the slight of greenness in the opening and the beautiful blend of the flowers. The dry down includes this sweet tonka which makes the fragrance deeper. It's a clean, classy and elegant scent!

Bought this for my wife and erba pura for myself. This is a nice and soft version of the erba pura. Both are perfect❤️❤️ Edit: it has som flowers added to it, in comparison to erba pura which is pure fruits. Erba pura is a little offensive and harsh, but i can drink this one.

This is beautiful!!! Such a soft, sweet and fruity scent! This is refreshing. Perfect for spring and summer. Performance is AMAZING. This is a very pleasant scent, clean and well blended. Tiziana Tarenzi is slowly becoming one of my favorite fragrance houses.

I love it! It smells creamy and fruity , like a delicious smoothie but in an elegant way, if it makes sense. It’s elegant and feminine. I have it on my arm for 4 h already and I can still smell and I even had a quick shower and is still there

One of my favorite women’s fragrances that I like to wear as a man. it’s an absolutely gorgeous blend of juicy sweet fruits and florals with a lovely sweet drydown. I’d love to smells this on a woman but for now I will smell it on myself

This is gorgeoussss! This is being compared to Britney Spears fantasy which I hateeee. However, imho this one is wayyy better it’s a beautiful sweet fragrance! It’s very refined. Definitely going to be my go to summer fragrance lol.

Clean scents aren't always a bad thing. This would smell lovely on a woman. It reminds me of those Herbal Essence shampoos from the 90s, but more luxurious and refined. In other words, like a clean, classy, elegant woman.

9/10: This is a fruity and sophisticated fragrance that’s perfect for warm weather! It has a juicy passionfruit opening and then dries down to a sweet, tropical scent on my skin. It’s crowd-pleasing as well.

This is one of my favorites. I love the way this evolves on my skin. Many fruity florals seem too young for me, but this one has a lovely complexity. My husband always comments favorably when I wear this.

I love this fragrance! My husband is obsessed and loves when I wear it as my bedtime scent. It is unisex but leans more feminine. I wish the longevity was a bit better, but overall this is a great buy!

Is it just me or is this smells similar to eldo goat in shells. I like it, I think it fits more for summer, but depends on you. I think it’s strong and stays for quite some time

Beautiful, creamy floral with a little spice! All of the TT fragrances are lovely in very special ways. I wear this one the most.

A sweet, fruity and feminine fragrance in my opinion. The musk in here gives a kick to it and makes it even a better perfume.

This smells 95% like Britney Spears Fantasy and lasts all day on my skin. Win, win.

Its an amazing fragrance!!! Summer,fresch, clean but sweet, i love it!!!!

Absolute stunning. Scent: 9/10 Sillage: 7/10 Longevity: 8/10

Fruity, Fresh, Candied sweetness. Safe blind buy.

Love this perfume! This is my next purchase.

The love child of Britney Spears' Fantasy and Tiziana Terenzi's own Kirkè, and Fantasy's genes are mostly dominant. This opens up with the same vibrant, fresh passion fruit and citrus accord as Kirkè does. Very summery and uplifting, a little like shampoo, but a good one. Thankfully it doesn't have one bit of the scratchy, harsh musk base that I hate in Kirkè, and instead smells a lot like Fantasy in the drydown. I love Fantasy, it's one of the great classics of celebrity scents, so this is not meant to be degrading in any way. Cassiopea feels a little fresher, more floral and more grown-up. Its sweetness comes from tonka beans instead of the white chocolate and cupcake notes in Fantasy. It still has a vanillic gourmand vibe, but nothing in this smells like literal baked goods. All in all it's less warm and more appropriate for summertime. I like this a lot, I especially appreciate that this has THAT radiating passion fruit top note, but doesn't turn into a harsh mess in the drydown. Finally something Kirkè-esque I can enjoy! But as Fantasy is available for a tiny fraction of the price, I don't see a reason to get Cassiopea instead. Even though it is a more balanced scent and would be a good upgrade to Fantasy, my immature, nostalgic self loves the full-on kiwi cupcake experience even more.

Description for dummies (lol): squeaky clean, but dense luxury soap that is slightly fruity and sweet You're at a luxury, seaside hotel on the rocky coast of California. As you are stepping on the elevator, a woman is taking her ride down from the penthouse suite. She looks to be 40-45 year old. She is freshly showered, about to start her day with her morning 2-mile run (yes, she showers always before she leaves the house... even to exercise). She is wearing athleisure of the finest quality - understated and brandless... even though you know her simple white T-shirt costs $80. She walks off the elevator and you are left feeling like you just walked through the finest spa. There is a clean, crisp, enlightened smell. Maybe it's what white smells like? But sweeter. Later, you discover her husband's net worth is multiple millions of dollars. He owns mansion that hugs over the cliffs and opens wide to the Pacific ocean. Like her... this is mature (not in a bad way), self-assured, well placed together, clean always. Though insanely different as far as it's wear and notes... the women who will wear this may also wear Xerjoff Dama Bianca. She is a more understated, subtle and youthful energy of the same type of image. She is the 25-30 year old. I like this scent... but I'm just not the woman.

Before writing my toughts on CASSIOPEA I will let everyone know that this retails for 210 EUR per 100ml. That said: CASSIOPEA is very likeable. Given the notes, I get a very powdery sweetness, I could swear there is peach. This perfume feels very light to me, not "light" as non detectable, but mostly "light" as blonde female with blue eyes, this is very innocent even though it projects very strongly. This is the scent of naked feet and tropical beaches. When the citruses hit in, I'm struck with a very clean, crisp freshness, together with the flowers it does smell a bit like fruit shampoo. This is set here as "unisex", but in my opinion - this is so very girly that very rare man would find the need to wear this. Longevity is mediocre, like many scents of this kind - 5 to 6 hours. This is also set as "chypre floral", but there is nothing chypre like here. This is a floral fruity in my books. Non offensive and very likeable, almost commercial, nothing ground breaking, but pleasing nevertheless. And now get back to my first sentence - FREAKING 210 EUROS FOR A SHAMPOO SMELLING DESIGNER-LIKE SCENT? No way! I'd give 5/10 for this non offensive thing, but I have to give 3/10 for the funny price tag. The regular line by Tiziana Terenzi which was less expensive was so much more promising.

I have two decants of Cassiopea purchased from two different online vendors and they smell completely different from each other. One decant smells similar to Britney Spears Fantasy (gourmand fruity cupcake) and the other decant smells similar to Xerjoff Erba Pura (loud fruity molecule scent). This would explain why there are votes for Cassiopea smelling like both Fantasy and Erba Pura even though those two fragrances are so different. Both online vendors supposedly sell authentic Tiziana Terenzi fragrances, but my decants smell completely different from each other, so I'm very confused! They both smell nice, but they can't both be Cassiopea 🤔 UPDATE 11/13/21: Mystery solved! I purchased a manufacturer's sample and can confirm that Cassiopea smells like Britney Spears Fantasy, but without the sharp kiwi note. I've been looking for a fragrance similar to Fantasy without the harsh kiwi note and Cassiopea is it 🥰 If you have a decant of Cassiopea that smells like Erba Pura or a super strong and loud fruity molecule scent, it may have been filled with the wrong perfume like what happened to me.

Very descent, desirable scent. Sensual and feminine. Combination of classy and extremely sexy. White floral, sweet in a harmonious, subtle way. Fresh but not citrusy or fruity fresh, more like fresh cut flowers or garden after the rain. Tonka and sandalwood unfold as it tries down. Cassiopea is an absolute beauty BUT !!️!!️IT LASTS FOR 3 MINUTES. This scent simply disappears on my skin. If I hadn’t bought it in store at Saks 5th Avenue I’d think I got either a fake or a tester... Cassiopea has no SILLAGE whatsoever!! ❌ I don’t understand how Extrait de Parfum can be so WEAK! I want to know if it’s just me. Am I the problem? Do I have some kind of condition where my skin does not accept this particular scent? Makes no sense for a niche perfume to have such poor, poor performance... How utterly sad, because the smell itself is wonderful. Just wonderful

Cassiopeia is an interesting fragrance. It smells reminiscent of something I have smelled before, and it’s not super unique on first impressions. However, it’s a great take on whatever that familiar scent is. I don’t think I ever smelled specific notes like I do with some fragrances, but I got a whiff of something juicy occasionally that never went too tart or sour or pungent. It would stand out for a moment here and there and then fade into a graceful light flower scent that wasn’t too much of any one thing or another. I felt very pretty wearing it, but it’s not one I’m obsessing over and need to have. When one gets to this price point, it’s gotta be special. Cassiopeia is lovely, but I have much less expensive fragrances that are much more impressive. I’d wear it if someone bought me a bottle of course, but I won’t be purchasing it myself.

I 've worn it 2 days. Resembles BS - Fantasy too much for me to invest 10 times more money. I can't even say it develops much better or has a better dry down... i had high hopes, i really want to fall in love with any of the Luna collection Fruity, gourmand for me. Its summer now and its not cloying. It lasts but silage is faint, stays close to skin. A beautiful perfume but i feel its over-hyped, i'd rather spend money on adding something more unique to my collection. Its very girly update: wow i trashed it a little bit, didn't I? Just smelled the tshirt i was wearing on that day and it still smells beautiful few days after. I think this could easily be a signature if i were one of those people who have only one perfume at a time. Very beautiful perfume. I was just expecting smth a bit more edgy and mysterious.

This is a very young, fresh, fun fragrance. It’s the epitome of a summer holiday but without the suncream. It’s not your usual coconut sort of summer fragrance, it’s a fruity summer scent with some fresh leaves and doesn’t have a tonne of depth. I pick up a sugary tea rose, sweet Lily of the valley and a sharp passion fruit, grounded together in a sandalwood and very delicate musk. I get the fern giving it that fresh leafy element. It really is a very pleasing smell. Very easy to wear in the summer, more of a day scent. It is a bit like a beautiful smelling shampoo, which is why I wouldn’t put it in my top ten, it’s lovely but it’s not a very unique smell, you will get wafts of women who’ve just washed their hair and you will smell similarities. It’s a like, not a LOOVVEEE.

This fragrance instantly takes me back to my teenage years. Other reviewers mention Britney Spears Fantasy as being nearly identical to Cassiopeia. I also think I wore a Victoria’s Secret body spray that was similar to this. Although I believe this is a lot more complex and grown up than either of the aforementioned scents. It’s fruity but very tropical and sultry. And the lasting power is terrific. I can still smell it after 10+ hours. Do I feel like a bit of a fool for spending £200+ on a fragrance that reminds me of something I wore as a teenager and could be had for a tenth of the price? Yes. Am I a sucker for an insanely beautiful bottle and an equally beautiful scent inside? Also yes.

I get the comparison with fantasy. If you expect them to be practically identical you will be disappointed. It's a breeze of resemblance. Cassiopea is fresher powdery, tropical, less sweet. If you smell the perfume directly on your hand, you will not see any resemblance It's in the sillage and how it develops. In Cassiopea, the passion fruit makes the perfume more sour and the fern gives a green aspect, without it being too green. This perfume is perfect for lovers of fruity and floral perfumes. Personally I don't find it very sweet as suggested. Its a grown up version of fantasy.

i received it as a gift it is beautiful , fresh and clean fragrance and little bit different than many today as @Cereza wrote, i feel there peach too, strong one .. one they use in creams and in shampoo it is very sweet and powdery, i don't feel there nothing balsamic its clean sweet fragrance you will never go wrong with that one no matter where you go; office, city, wedding.... Definitely female fragrance little bit similar to bon bon from viktor and rolf 190 Euro.