Etro

Very feminine, fresh,citrus, flowery and warm at the same time. It reminds me of a summer walk in Positano at dusk.It persists but it is not intrusive, over the hours it blends into the skin and...

When I ask for a bit of complexity in a fragrance nowadays, SAs direct me either toward expensive ouds or rose and patch combos nowadays. I’m OK with these but often find myself remembering older...

This is a warm, spicy fragrance that is marvelous in its restraint. When you think of a spicy oriental perfume, typically wildly exuberant scents come to mind. Certainly when you look at...

Why do they say on their site that the perfumes are made of natural ingredients when there's Lilial in the composition (butylphenyl methylpropional)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilial Also,...

Lovely bottle. Equally lovely fragrance, a little longer lasting than other Etro fragrances. I received it as a gift however, I would not have purchased it. A tad too powdery for me.

Years ago, I went through a phase of loving heliotrope, almond. Wore this daily for a year. Then one day decided it was head ache inducingly sweet, one dimensional, powdery and had become somewhat...

Finally, after many years of being a Perfumista, I had the opportunity to sniff and wear Etro's Messe de Minuit. I was surprised. I had read many a review of MdM and many references to dank, mouldy...

This is a lovely unisex scent. Notes include bergamot, cardamom, blackcurrant leaf, ylang ylang, sambac jasmine, pink pepper, vanilla, patchouli and ambergris. I smell mainly vanilla and bergamot....

Oh dear. You see, I thought I might like this because I love the way our real heliotrope flowers smell in our windowboxes. They're pleasantly candy-scented and sweet, and they smell delicious. But...

on first sniff, this smells a little dated to me. As it settles onto the skin, it warms and sweetens up. The closest comparison scent I can think of is L de Lolita, but it is not as harsh (peppery...