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Donna
Anyone looking for a classical feminine composition made by an independent house rather than a conglomerate should look at Lorenzo Villoresi Donna Eau de Toilette 100ml.
It opens with rose and spice together, which is unusual and immediately appealing. Coriander gives a dry, slightly citric, faintly soapy lift, carnation adds a peppery, faintly spiced bite, blackcurrant brings a tart green edge, and rosewood sits underneath with a sweet resin. The rose itself is full rather than fresh. The middle doubles down on the flowers. Rose returns, joined by jasmine for sweetness and ylang ylang for a creamy, almost banana like richness. Iris adds cold powder and a root like bitterness, and violet leaf, which is a very different thing from violet, cuts across everything with a sharp green crispness like a snapped stem.
The base is short and soft. Sandalwood provides a creamy warmth, musk pulls the composition down onto the skin, and daffodil, oddly placed as low as this, leaves a thread of green sap running right through the finish. It is a graceful end rather than a dramatic one, and it never raises its voice. From 1994, it holds five or six hours at toilette strength and stays reasonably close to the wearer. Autumn and spring suit it, and so do occasions where you would rather smell considered than fashionable. It reads feminine, and it has the unhurried quality of something made without a marketing brief. The house is a small independent Italian operation, founded in Florence in 1990, which also runs the Villoresi Museum in the city and counts Teint de Neige and Yerbamate among its best known scents.
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