Dylan Blue
Alberto Morillas is credited with Versace Dylan Blue Eau de Parfum from 2016, and this one is built on fruit and flowers rather than on the dry green materials the name is usually associated with. Blackcurrant opens it with a dark, tart, slightly green bite, apple adds crispness, and shiso is the interesting choice beside them, a herb with a minty, faintly aniseed sharpness that gives the top an edge most fruity openings lack entirely. Clover rounds the four out with a soft green sweetness.
The middle turns floral. Rose comes through full rather than fresh, sambac jasmine adds a rich, heady sweetness with a slightly leafy quality to it, and peach gives the pair a soft fuzzy warmth underneath. It is a generous heart and it carries most of the wear, holding its shape for several hours before it begins to sink.
Styrax is the material that defines the base. Balsamic and faintly smoky, with something sticky and resinous about it, it pulls the fragrance somewhere darker than the opening suggests, while patchouli adds earth and musk keeps the whole thing pressed close to the skin.
In eau de parfum strength it gives a full day with moderate projection after the first hour, so two sprays is a sensible maximum in company. Autumn and evening suit it best, and it is comfortable enough in the second half of its wear to be used at a desk. Anyone choosing between this and the lighter version of the name should know they are not the same fragrance in different strengths.
The label is Milanese, in business since 1978, and in Donatella Versace's hands since the death of her brother. It covers fashion, interiors, hospitality and perfume.
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