Sole Di Positano Acqua

Fresh floral and citrus. The petitgrain is very apparent but softens to a slightly green, blossom floral. I’m wearing it on a miserable wet day and it’s quite comforting. It performs better on a warm day but I’m enjoying the momentary transportation to an orange grove in the Mediterranean.

Showed it to 5 girl friends: all of them LOVED it. One of the best fresh floral scents out there. It is as smooth as it can get. Projection is quite strong. I can smell it inside my house 3-4 hours after my husband wears it.

This is what I douse myself with like a maniac after a shower... Dear children, run away from this drug while you still can... 20 outta 10

This is the best of all the TF blue series. So pleasant and well blended. Lot of Orange blossom, with Mandarin orange and shiso mint. The musc makes it very wearable. If you don't use this a a couple years, the musc gets stronger, as MFK Aqua Universalis did. The florals, lilly of valley loose their scent in a few years. I did recently get a sample of the (non Acqua) Sol di Positano samples. The Acqua is more interesting scent composition. It is more floral, and more shiso mint in the Acqua. The longevity may be less than the original, but I prefer the Acqua for it's greater vivacious freshness. The original has more tart citrus, less floral, and some orange note, not mandarin. The original is more like TF Mandarino Amalfi, which I have. So next Summer I may purchase the Acqua Sole de Positano. PS: I picked up a 50 ml when I spotted a good deal on eBay, about $65. It is more feminine leaning than I remember my sample. Guys may still like it. But ladies, if you like the Blue series of freshies, this is well blended and maybe the most feminine in the line. Even more so than Fleur de Portafino, one of my favorites. This is closest to Mandarino di Amalfi, but its softer and makes me think of water,. So Acqua is a good name. They really capture that sense here. The florals are not all white florals, like with Fleur de Portofino. You have the Ylang ylang, yellow floral, mixed with jasmine and orange blossom. I don't pick out lilly of the valley, it must be a nice nuance. Rating: 8.25/10 God bless. John 3:16

This is exactly what the original Sole di Positano should have been. A symphony of bergamot and bitter orange citrus, jasmine and neroli, made to be light and luminous. But it still misses the mark a bit. Like the original, it still feels cold and icy rather than like flowers and citruses being kissed by the warm Positano sun. The second issue is that it is extremely close to the other "blue" Tom Ford lines - namely the Neroli Portofino line, and Mandarino di Amalfi. In fact, I cannot recall there being much of a difference to Mandarino di Amalfi - I dare say they are almost exactly the same except that SdP Acqua is a touch more floral. And, to that point, it definitely calls to mind Neroli Portofino Acqua, which is all-around a better fragrance. Having tried both versions of SdP I can now see why they were discontinued and didn't sell much at all. It's not that they are bad - far from it - but the Tom Ford fragrance shelf is/was already crowded with fragrances that accomplish nearly the same thing, that are more established, and simply better - leading to the point that there are plenty of fragrances with this DNA on retail fragrance shelves, period. Glad to be wearing it, glad I got smell it, glad I got to bask in some of my favorite accords of good quality, but I will not shed a tear nor have a second thought to leaving it alone and forgetting about it.