Dorade (Harrods Exclusive)

This has really grown on me after wearing a few times now. As somebody who usually gravitates towards woody / oud scents. This is a nice addition to my collection when I want something thats fresh and bit lighter. I've been wearing it into the spring time here in the UK during the day to work - but this can easily translate into the evening too and even colder seasons. I do agree with some of the the other comments about it being a bit generic. But it seems well blended and very pleasant. This is my second perfume from the house of Tiziana Terenzi - I adore Ursa!

This may feel mean, but I'm trying this as someone who knows not much about the brand, I can see the vision, the sillage is okay, but I feel I may be going noseblind, if I'd spent £500 on this I'd have regrets. I'm going to hop in here as someone who recently tried dorade, it does have a fresh quality to it, but I think that is the magic of it, opens fresh, after a while it turns into a creamy floral and finishes with smokey woods and ambergris It's like you went on a boat with your husband who'd just sprayed Versace Dylan blue, until you drown yourself in eden Roc later while your boat burns at the destined shore, interesting, but could be a lot more for the price and theme. It's a multifaceted mineralic blue in the opening, and transforms into a very subtle slightly sweet fresh fragrance with a touch, and I say that generously, of jasmine water. Needs more substance in the mid and base, but opens strong. Scent: 6/10 Longevity: 6/10 Price: 1/10 Bottles pretty tho 🤷 Updating my review, scent is a 9/10 Longevity 10/10 Price is still horrific, 3/10 Turns into a creamy woody jasmine water scent once the freshness has died down

This is nice, if not my usual kind of scent. A herbal, quite bracing lemon and eucalyptus fragrance. I definitely understand the marine/sailing inspiration behind it. The performance is great, but so it should be for £500. It lasts a good while and it can clearly be smelled on me when I walk in after spraying - or so I’m told. I got this in the Harrods fragrance advent calendar, to be clear - I would never drop this cash on this scent. The review below mine which mentions that if this were a Zara or high street scent it would be likeable is right, but I would go further to say that it would probably have a lukewarm reception and then be forgotten. What I don’t enjoy is the arrogance of a brand to think that their scented water is worth half.a.grand, but someone out there must be paying it. It just won’t ever be me.

Extremely basic fresh fruity aquatic/aromatic fragrance. Generic and mass appealing, if this was £20 it would be seen as an excellent daily driver fragrance to have. Definitely can detect a good touch of Invictus/Hawas DNA in there. The listed notes are straight up cap. I am not claiming to have a perfumers nose but by no means is this a complex fragrance. Smells lovely though, I even get a touch of coconut or something slightly tropical/salty. Well blended but not groundbreaking at all. Performance is poor, sits very close to the skin. Truly a perfect example and lesson on ''expensive ain't always better''. It's not the houses that should be ashamed of themselves for extortion through exclusivity and status, it's the consumers who fall for for such ridiculous schemes.

I find it to be an extremely overpriced, safe, generic office and gym fragrance. There is absolutlely no story to tell, the scent doesn't make me feel anything, no sparks, sadly. It isn't a horrible fragrance by any means, it's perfectly wearable and pleasant but not worth the retail price. If it was from an affordable designer or Zara for £30, this would be deemed as a perfectly reasonable and likeable fragrance. 5/10 - generic 'cheapie'