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Signorina Romantica
Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Romantica Eau de Parfum has a biscuit in it, which settles the matter for most people one way or the other. It is the sweetest thing in the range and entirely unembarrassed about being so. The opening is the best part. Blackcurrant is tart and slightly green, lemon sharpens it further, and rum sits underneath both with a boozy warmth that is far more interesting than the usual citrus start. It smells like the beginning of an evening rather than the beginning of a day.
Then cookie arrives, which is exactly what it sounds like: a warm, buttery, faintly floury sweetness, the smell of baking rather than of syrup. Orange blossom and neroli are placed around it, both clean and bitter in their own different ways, and they are what stop the whole thing from collapsing into a pudding.
The base is long and warm. Vanilla bean is thick and dark, benzoin adds a sticky resinous sweetness, sandalwood brings a creamy depth, amber a low resinous glow and musk a soft, skin close finish. Five materials holding up the bottom of the fragrance, which is the reason it lasts the way it does. It wears for eight hours or more, projects strongly for the first two and should be applied in single sprays rather than handfuls. It is aimed at women, belongs to winter and to nights out, and it is the obvious choice for anyone who loves a sweet fragrance and has grown tired of apologising for it.
This is a Florentine house with a shoemaker's name over the door, trading since 1927, and it has kept its headquarters in the Palazzo Spini Feroni since 1938. Perfume has been one of its businesses since 1999.
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