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Blu Mediterraneo

Chinotto di Liguria Acqua di Parma 2018

7.5 / 10 336 Ratings

A popular perfume by Acqua di Parma for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It was last marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Floral

Spicy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Chinotto

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Geranium

Rosemary

Cardamom

Base Notes

Musk

Patchouli

Perfumer

François Demachy

Ratings

Scent

7.5336 Ratings

Longevity

6.5292 Ratings

Sillage

6.2292 Ratings

Bottle

7.9271 Ratings

Value for money

7.0111 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 09/13/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Blu Mediterraneo.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/06/2020

7
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 7
Scent

Emorandeira
395 Reviews

Emorandeira

1

Nice smell, weak performance

Just a Big pass for me...boy my type of fragance. Very typical citric and fresh colegbe which smells like the hundred cologbes que can find in the Parker for a quarter of the price. The performance is weak on my skin... It lasts 2 hours with a very light projection ion so It doesnt worth the price. You can find something similar for less than 20€. The quality of the ingredients is good but very light concentration. For activities un summer: beach, walking, Sports...

Scent: 7
Longevity: 5
Sillage: 5
Quality/price: 4
Versatility: 8
Originality: 5
Global: 6

05/10/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Yatagan
96 Reviews

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Yatagan

Top Review 58

Can Men Wear White Flowers?

The question of which fragrances can be preferred by men or women leads to endless discussions about attributions, gender identities, and roles. I will relieve the discourse at this point and postulate that it is not necessary, so I will not write anything about it or discuss it here.
With one exception: the question of what makes a man or "oneself" feel comfortable. For me personally, a boundary is often crossed when a fragrance exhibits a strong dominance of white flowers: tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, gardenia, tiare, lily of the valley, daffodil, orange blossom... I suspect that most men feel similarly. Conversely, this also means for me: fragrances that contain the aforementioned notes are a special challenge for perfumers and particularly appealing for tolerant wearers (this is not a generic masculine here). In other words: if it is possible to incorporate a strong white flower note into men's fragrances without immediately thinking of a women's fragrance, then a small, unwieldy work of art has been created. In the past, I have often dealt with men's fragrances that contained a noticeable, but masculinely interpreted, tuberose component (see my comments on Aftelier's Cepes & Tuberose, Baruti's Voyance, especially Jardin d'Écrivains Marlowe) as well as my special collection "Tuberose XY":
https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust8

I am particularly grateful to Terra for the inquiry in his recent blog about which fragrances with classic white flower components (jasmine, ylang, orange blossom, etc.) would be suitable as men's fragrances for summer. For myself (and interested parties), I have also created a - naturally manageable - collection for this variant, namely "White Flowers XY":
https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Yatagan/Sammlung/Cust16
Further tips can be found in Terra's exciting blog.
By the way, the classic variant, the cologne with its high neroli content, was excluded from this thread. Of course, many other fragrances with white flower notes can be found in this Cologne segment that can be wonderfully worn by men. I personally love this fragrance archetype very much! However, it should not concern us here and now.

One of the fragrances that I spontaneously placed in the aforementioned White Flowers XY collection is Acqua di Parma's Chinotto di Liguria, which I was thankfully made aware of by Couchlock with a sample.

For me, this fragrance is therefore one of the particularly interesting representatives of men's suitable white flower fragrances (for summer) because it explores the prominence of jasmine, which plays the role of the white flower here, to the edge of what is compatible for men's fragrances. The jasmine is primarily contained by a bitter-sour note, which presumably comes from chinotto (see ingredients), a variety of bitter orange, as I now know. Responsible for the masculine part would perhaps also be the spicy-green note, which reminds me a bit of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantiers' almost lost (but fortunately in my collection) Baimé. However, the culinary herbs there are so pronounced that I have removed it from the aforementioned collection. Baimé is actually almost better suited for winter.

Is there anything else to say about Chinotto di Liguria? Actually only that it will certainly polarize, as can already be seen from the previous comments and statements, and that I personally like it very much. For open-minded men, a clear recommendation to test - as are almost all from the blue AdP line!

07/25/2021

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Stulle
16 Reviews

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Stulle

Top Review 38

Shyce on it - Malle's only once a year

Actually I wanted to get rid of here only times a small history of the Balearic Islands.

After I successfully refused to visit these islands all my life for reasons of foreign embarrassment, I finally let myself be persuaded a few years ago by vehemently insisting Spanish friends to spend a few days in their cottage in a small and quiet village in Mallorca.
What can I say: deepest, cold and dark winter in Germany, but spring on Malle - a dream. I spare you further details in these somewhat travel-restricted times, although already the great Joseph Hader knew: "The imagination grows with the limitation of possibilities" (or something like that).

The abandoned tourist strongholds only once quickly driving through to know how it looks there, we spent most of the time in nature. Behind our little village it went right into the mountains, and our extended walks led us past an old Palacio, near which were fields with tons of orange trees. There was of course picked from the tree, eaten and packed what could only so, because these gardens were quite obviously no longer managed for years.

Sitting by the fireplace of the old, cozy farmhouse in the early evening, there was then storytelling, laughter, dinner planning, and eating from the freshly picked oranges.

The problem with my Spanish is that I guess I speak it too well to get any great consideration, but too poorly to catch any detail thrown sideways out of the corner of my mouth.
The definitive piece of information I missed this round was, "Eat all the oranges you want, but not THAT ONE there, that's an inedible bitter orange."

[SLOWMOTION]

....in which I peel in slow motion this very bitter orange, look at it drooling with pleasure, and then bite into it with the greatest delight....

[END SLOWMOTION]

What followed was an incredibly powerful physical experience, probably comparable in intensity to few legal things. No, no, it was not intoxication, but: this simply inconceivable bitterness that gripped my body was so gross that EVERY single hair of my body stood upright.

My hair, which was only moderately luxuriant, stood up steeply in the air. The bitterness gripped me with massive force, every millimeter of skin - and it was so unbelievable that I had the most legendary, tearful laughing fit of my life. Speaking due to the laughing fit was absolutely impossible for five interminable minutes.

Of course, due to my impaired articulation, I couldn't explain to anyone what had happened, and then when I could halfway breathe again, I pointed to the orange remnants laughing, sniffling, and snorting. And then it started all over again, because everyone suddenly understood what had happened and lay bawling on the floor. Sure, every Iberian knows of course that you can NOT eat these things.

Well, anyway, the evening was henceforth for me in orange light dipped and my Mallorcaaufenthalt had found another, if not THE highlight.
¿But how smells then now CHINOTTO DI LIGURIA?

Bitter orange with a tart and juicy fruitiness everywhere, but no orange juice note (as for example with Orange Sanguine by AC), which often leaves me cold. Immediately, the dark floral and aromatic fullness of jasmine flowers also comes into play, which reminds me a bit of the warmth of AZZARO pH.
That one probably smelled completely different than I remember it, but I always associated with it a poignant and warm physicality that is also cited by CHINOTTO DI LIGURIA.

Soft musk rounds the fragrance down, but at no time takes away the pinch of masculinity with its clear, but not overpowering patchouli note. This is also the part of the fragrance, which makes him for me no longer seem so right lady-compatible, but that decides yes each nose quite subjectively for themselves alone.
The patchouli, by the way, I only really notice when I wear the fragrance exceptionally on the skin. Otherwise, I prefer to wear on textile; on the one hand, to protect the body & the skin, on the other hand, the fragrance then retains by far longer the freshness and acidity of the wonderful top notes.

AdP has some beautiful fragrances at the start, besides BERGAMOTO DI CALABRIA (the Mrs. Stulle has torn under the nails) CHINOTTO DI LIGURIA is in any case so far my favorite

06/21/2018

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Meggi
212 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 29

The Where Can Be Decisive

For decades, a certain Vincenzo Andronaco has been supplying the Italian community here in Germany - as well as all other yearners - with a wide range of relevant culinary delights in various branches (or better, warehouses) between Cologne and Lübeck. The branch in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld is conveniently located near one of my evening routes home. So, it’s no problem to pop over and quickly grab a bottle of "Chinotto," a soda named after the eponymous orange variety.

However, it is something entirely different to sit together in a small local place after a family walk through Milan, guided by a dear fellow Parfumo, and drink a Chinotto soda THERE. An evening of "oh-the-kids-don't-need-to-go-to-bed-yet" in southern regions is one of the more uplifting parental experiences.

Accordingly, I followed the release of the new representative from the Blu-Mediterraneo line with great emotion, and only scheduling issues delayed obtaining a sample.

The opening fulfills all hopes splendidly. Although I only know the aforementioned bitter orange from the drink, I immediately and willingly believe in its namesake: deliciously bitter orange with dark fruity opulence, supported by a jasmine that, despite being noticeable in both its austere and sensual aspects, serves as the stirrup holder today.

Unfortunately, the voluminous orange diminishes to a little candy within a quarter of an hour. Its helper looks around in surprise at first before soon slipping into the background as well. An astonishingly spicy, bitter, almost serious layer takes over: pea-green, metallic (rosemary!). A hint of grass or hedge clippings comes to mind, herb-creamy green at the threshold of a hair salon later in the morning. The latter becomes a surprisingly long-lasting secret guideline, as a suggestion of citrus-touched soapiness accompanies me well into the afternoon, reminiscent of what can sometimes be associated with neroli and is also not entirely foreign to Ms. Jasmine.

This is quite respectable and an elegant scent, particularly well-suited for the gentleman in a casual summer suit during this impressively long, stable phase. However, I do not expect such from a fragrance titled ‘Chinotto di Liguria.’ In terms of fulfilling that promise, the scent offers a bit too little. As is often the case with AdP, the first quarter of an hour is breathtaking, before the magic fades all too quickly. What a pity. I can rule out a poorly aged sample. After all, the creation is still quite new, and my tester came directly from the AdP stand in Alsterhaus.

Would the scent also be able to be enhanced by a walk through Milan?

05/14/2018

7
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

loewenherz
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loewenherz

Top Review 31

Raymond

'My father was forty years old and (...) young, full of vitality, full of possibilities. (...) He was a carefree person, skilled in his profession, always eager for new experiences and quickly tired of them - and he was attractive to women. It was easy for me to love him wholeheartedly, for he was good, generous, cheerful, and full of affection for me. I cannot imagine a better and more entertaining friend than him.' This is how seventeen-year-old Cécile describes her father in Françoise Sagan's 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, a bon vivant with a charming exterior and the same capricious temperament as her own. And further: 'My father had such a strong aversion to ugliness that we often associated with decidedly foolish people. I didn't go that far, but I felt a kind of discomfort in the presence of people who had no physical charm whatsoever. They seemed to lack something essential. Their refusal to please touched me awkwardly like a defect. For what did we want, if not to please?'

This desire to please is the strength of almost all the perfumes I know from Acqua di Parma. They all know how to enchant their wearer with a top note that is often quite lively, sometimes melting, always special. What follows this facade may not always fulfill the promise of the first five minutes, but Chinotto di Liguria can. Its opening accord - Chinotto refers both to a type of bitter orange and to a refreshing drink made from it - stands out from all the other citrus openings we know from Acqua di Parma. And the fine soapy and ripe qualities that unfold in its - surprisingly enduring - heart are already hinted at in this initial accord. Anyone tempted to expect just another cheerful, lightweight, yet substance-poor summer fragrance, given the familiar-looking blue bottle - along with the equally familiar name structure of a southern ingredient plus Italian coastal region as a designation of origin - will be surprised by what Chinotto di Liguria has to offer.

I see it on someone like Raymond, more on a man than a woman: carefree and worldly, hungry for life, sometimes even indulgent. Attracted to outer beauty and successful with women and/or (other) men. Over thirty and equally happy with it as sometimes despairing about it. It is the bitterness in its top note that gives Chinotto di Liguria seriousness, and the barbershop soapiness in its heart - alongside the bitter orange, its defining accord - that makes me think of no very young person as the ideal wearer. It is the jasmine that - many other recent (summer) fragrances use tuberose for this - triggers this milky-sunshine accord that I experience here as soapy - and as mature and accomplished. And yet still light-footed and carefree. Just like Cécile's beautiful, albeit ultimately (too) weak father, who in Bonjour Tristesse can have both women - the younger, somewhat ordinary one and the so flawless, somewhat older one - even if his weakness and manipulability allow one to be used and the other to be destroyed.

Conclusion: an unexpected find for summer - whether 'in a large, white, enchanting villa by the Mediterranean, tucked away on a cliff that juts out into the sea' or elsewhere. For all those for whom 'only southern fresh' is not enough this season.

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