Vince Camuto

Qué les puedo decir uff! Amo esta fragancia con toda mi alma lo curioso es que cuando compré vince camuto lo hice porque me pareció súper preciosa la botella como el tipo de fragancia que usaría una reina, leí las notas y me parecieron licorosas y de cuero lo cual no me encantó tanto pero no le presté mucha atención cuando le puse en mi estante de perfumes en alguna ocasión lo espraye en la muñeca lo olí así de rápido solo recuerdo que yo iba de prisa y sentí algo como tipo fragancia unisex pensé creo que ese es el tipo de fragancia que le va también a un hombre y el cual me dije no es lo más lindo pero la botella es preciosa, qué error tan grande cometí porque después cuando estaba limpiando mi estante de perfumes lo volví a tomar y le quise dar una oportunidad pero ahora sí bien o olerlo esprayarlo, sentirlo, qué cosa tan maravillosa wow wow inmediatamente me inundé del recuerdo y pensé dónde he olido esta preciosura antes mi mente divagó hasta que di en el clavo, Vince camuto tiene el ADN casi igualitario al perfume Carolina de Carolina Herrera ojo no el tradicional estoy hablando del Carolina descontinuado senti una nostalgia y una felicidad porque yo amaba el perfume Carolina jamás lo pude volver a conseguir cuando lo descontinuaron y darme cuenta de que esta hermosa fragancia además de tener un frasco precioso tiene el ADN de Carolina digamos que esta sería la hermana de Carolina simplemente hermoso es un fresco licoroso que te hace sentir limpia por el almixcle y a la vez elegante chulada de perfume, tiene una buena estela tiene una gran proyección creo que sería perfecto para climas donde hace airecito donde está fresquito puede ser en otoño en invierno o incluso un día en la noche para una cita para mí es una aroma elegante no lo veo tan versátil no poniéndomelo todos los días ya que es muy imponente tiene mucha personalidad este perfume, le doy un 1000 de 10 Además su precio, uff! lo pude conseguir a un precio muy bueno cómo es que hay de estas joyas tan preciosas con frascos tan hermosos con aromas únicos a tan bajo costo es uno de los perfumes que para mi gusto deberían de ser nicho quizás parezca exagerada en mi reseña pero en verdad es una de mis tres fragancias favoritas 😍 se los recomiendo a ojos cerrados!

Let me start by a brief contemplation. First of all I’d like to mention that I disagree that fragrances should be attributed to different occasions and times of the day. If I like a fragrance, it means it represents how I feel myself in a certain period of my life, and I like wearing it everywhere, because this is who I am. To the office I’d just wear a tiny little bit, I’d spray somewhat more if going to an open air evening gathering :) Back to the review. The initial spray gives me a lovely fresh burst of citrus, which is not mentioned in the notes, which goes together with leathery-ambery accords that are heavy, sticky sweet, rich, sensual and masculine, which to me make the whole thing very sexy. Then the fragrance transforms into musky moistness, a bit green and watery, that gives this expensive luxury vibe. At first I though it’s the musk until I realized later it’s the rose!! This completely changed my perception of rose that I thought beforehand I don’t like. It’s beautiful! I also smell tobacco and chocolate with some resinous and smoky dark undertones (bensoin or olibanum?). VC original is unique and very complex, rich, luxurous and invigorating. After some time vanilla takes leadership and the dry down is warm, cozy and almost “eatable”, reminds me or a high quality sugar cookie from my childhood. And it leaves on my clothes a tender powdery rose residue the next day. It’s classy, and calls for high end clothes and gold jewelry. It’s not retro, as some people mention. Rather modern and bold due to its reference to masculinity. It gives me some sense of luxury and in my mind instantly transforms my casual outfit into an expensive one 😁 And yes, I wear it with casual outfits)) A girl wearing this fragrance is confident and has everything in her life put together. It gives me confidence to start new things and make decisions. I love how it stimulates my senses. In this moment of my life :) As a conclusion I wear a perfume as long as I haven’t unraveled its mystery, then I loose interest. Vince Camuto is still a mystery ))

I blind-bought a small bottle of this frag based on notes and reviews and was very much pleasantly surprised by it, at first. Love the beautiful bottle, too! But then I noticed that I don't reach for it as often as I thought I would, even though the cool autumn weather is perfect for it. I started noticing some unpleasant bitter note in the dry down - leather? It also started giving me a strange feeling as if I have just eaten too much sweets. I don't quite like sweets (as in food), but I usually love them in scents. This perfume somehow satisfies not only olfactory craving for sweets, but almost makes you feel the taste of sweet rum/ honey syrup like the one they use in rum-babas, rum-cakes, baklavas, etc. To me, this intense sweetness seems to clash with the bitter note of leather, even though I know it's supposed to balance it out instead. I gave away my bottle of Vince Camuto, since I felt too full of sampling and "tasting" this heavy dessert of a fragrance, but now I started missing it and I'm thinking of buying one again. It's addictive. So I'm split between almost not liking it and loving it and craving it, at the same time. Never felt so uncertain about a perfume before. UPD: OK, after 3 months of obsessing over this perfume I bought it again - this time a large bottle, and finally I can confirm that this is LOVE for me! Not the spontaneous impulsive "at-first-sniff" type of love, but a love nonetheless. As soon as I took the bottle out of the box I sprayed about 10 spritzes all over myself and almost cried, as if I met a good old friend again. Gosh, I was going crazy thinking about this perfume after giving away the first bottle! I really missed it. Now I love this perfume through and through - even that little odd leather note that was annoying me in the beginning. Love it all!

I can see why some reviewers don't like this scent. If you believe you're buying a boozy, mysterious, spiced dark rum and patchouli kind of scent, this isn't that, and you'll most likely be disappointed. I believe the rum and leather notes are far oversold here. What I do get is a sweet osmanthus and pear (and yes, I know pear is not one of the notes; perhaps it comes from the apricot-like texture of the osmanthus, but still, i do get pear), grounded by patchouli and amber. It's more complicated than a simple fruitchouli due to that lovely osmanthus note. So yes, a smooth and deep fruity ambery osmanthus-chouli, and not at all the spiced rum you may be looking for. Also: Musk? Yes. Leather? Not so much. I surprised myself in that I truly love it, and there's something about its drydown that is slightly reminiscent of a long-lost discontinued love: Victoria's Secret Exotic Bouquet body splash. The only VS fragrance that didn't smell like absolute cat urine to me, and so of course it goes for hundreds on eBay now. (Another similar scent is the fragrance of Biolage conditioner. Would that I could break down those notes.) Obviously it's not the same: it's sexier, more ambery, with patchouli. A grown-up version of that beloved fragrance from my past. I absolutely adore this perfume's drydown on me. And even though I normally reach for darker, more complicated, niche fragrances, I can see myself reaching for this one a lot, when I'm in a mood to kiss myself in the mirror.

After wanting this for ages, I blind bought VC, as it was on a heavily discounted price on Notino and to be honest it isn't what I expected at all. The bottle is just beautiful but I have to admit that I truly expected this to be a heavy and thick scent but it's quite the opposite..Looking at the notes, you are under the impression that it will be a heavy hitter, so I was a bit disappointed as It's actually an effervescent and sparkling lil number. It opens up Boozy with the Rum and the Leather comes through almost immediately making this one of the strongest leather fragrances in my collection and thankfully, the Patchouli here is spicy, which I really like as it's restrained but it's there; albeit nicely balanced out by the Rose and Jasmine. The only thing that I'm not keen on in this delightful lil number is the musk, as it's the metallic kind that kind of burns your nose when you inhale it, but from a distance it blends in quite well. Now in the dry down and this scent has become quite synthetic and it slightly reminds me of Spell Caramel by Zara, which I already have. So I'm quite torn about having both, and it's more than likely that I might sell this on, as I prefer Spell Caramel over VC, which is such a shame really but Spell Caramel is the a lot smoother and this is kind of jarring in the dry down.