Colonia Pura Acqua di Parma 2017

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A perfume by Acqua di Parma for men, released in 2017. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Floral

Woody

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Italian bergamot

Italian orange

Paraguayan petigrain

Heart Notes

Jasmine sambac absolute

French narcissus absolute

Russian coriander

Base Notes

Musk

Indonesian patchouli

Virginia cedar

Perfumer

François Demachy

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Ratings

Scent

7.3366 Ratings

Longevity

6.2325 Ratings

Sillage

5.9325 Ratings

Bottle

7.7311 Ratings

Value for money

6.7146 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 21.04.2024.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/05/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Basti87
242 Reviews

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Basti87

Top Review 19

Timeless classic modernised with light flowers

Another fragrance from Acqua di Parma entered my collection last month. I didn't have the great desire for heavier scents this year, also due to extremely mild temperatures and little winter feeling. So you can start buying summer scents earlier. Especially since Flaconi had a 30% discount. So I bought the 180ml for under 90 Euro. For the size and the high AdP prices a great bargain. A good size as well, because it is a great cologne that can be worn for many purposes.
Acqua di Parma is a brand that I like very much. It simply stands for elegance with Italian flair. A lot of classic, especially through this Colonia range, which started with the classic over 100 years ago. In addition, many modern and new releases followed, including the Blu Meditirraneo series of which I also own 3 fragrances. Maybe one or the other will follow from this brand.

I really like the bottles of this brand. Great glass in a round flacon, with a stylish logo, simple and noble. The Blu range is even more beautiful with blue glass, but here the bottle simply conveys the content: style and elegance I will keep the description of the fragrance short. Gemini is the original from 1916 and you can clearly smell the relationship. Especially the opening with lemon bergamot is quite similar. In my opinion the Colonia Pura smells modern and contemporary over the whole course. This is probably also due to fresh light flowers and a lot of petitgrain, which freshen up the fragrance in a modern way. The original is 100% timeless, but you have to like these classic vintage DNAs and they have to match the style. With this one you can say: It always goes. A great blend of fresh, citric DNA paired with light flowers and tart green notes. The base finishes with slightly woody notes. All in all a round thing from beginning to end. The really big highlights remain, which is nothing unusual with this Cologne concept. Always wearable at warm to hot temperatures, especially in everyday life. Not so suitable for the job if you don't want to spray more often. It lasts 3-4 hours with good sillage, maybe even longer with tender skin. But in summer I like a great refreshment for a few hours. This one is wearable from young to old, from woman and man. The scent type is similar to Artisan Pure by john Varvatos, which is a bit better and also performs much better.

Conclusion: For me a great modernization of an absolute classic. It always works at temperatures from 20 degrees. A fragrance I can recommend, but only if you get offers or have a discount code.

Under the given circumstances, let's hope for a great summer with many possibilities to wear great summer scents. Stay healthy

02/08/2019

8
Bottle 3
Sillage 5
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 17

White shirt for Men

"Colonia Pura" is a white floral for the modern gentleman of world. At least that's what the makers of this polarizer must have thought. Almost a perfect perfume for a perfumer himself - discreet, radiant, pure. A citric jasmine jet man who redefines "freshly washed". Futuristic flower.

Dry and deluxe. Very high quality, there's no other way to say that. Some may find it boring or meaningless, but I can take enough pleasure in this pure style to keep my thumb clearly up. A "white" like that for a man, you gotta get it right first. Ungenious, summery, flowery, sensitive. Moschus is a big player here, along with brand-typical citrus chords that remain unbeaten. Iso-E-Super gives the whole thing an ultra-modern, synthetic coating. Idiots would say "gay," I would say "cool" to that. A matter of taste. And about that, as is generally known... Heavenly, in many ways and reversing some prejudices. And so then again somehow brave?!

Flacon: timeless elegance. The brand has found its language.
Sillage: not perceptible. At the most, if you get very close to the crowd. A fragrance almost exclusively for the wearer himself.
Durability: short-lived and cool - 5 hours

Conclusion: a pure, bright, radiant white floral fragrance for men - neutral and very noble, but also somewhat lame and bland. I like this luxurious, more neutral version of "Fleur du Male", though. Not very good. But enough. Test requirement for all men who like to wear flowers. A wedding scent?

12/01/2018

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
657 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 12

Pure boredom

Soo... *munch* *munch* *crunch* *crunch* ...
You'll have to excuse me for a moment, but today is the first of December, which means I was able to open the first door of my Advent calendar, wohoooo! This time from this After-Eight Tower with delicious mint chocolate (today with white chocolate!) in it, hmm... :)

Soo,... after the chocolate's been crushed, I can come to the fragrance description!

Hmm,...
You know, somehow it took me quite a while to comment on this scent here. Normally I can hardly wait to try new Acqua di Parma fragrances. Because I like this brand, especially since I discovered Fico di Amalfi, which is one of my favourite fragrances especially in summer. Gradually I tested myself through the different perfumes and Colonias and at some point I had most of them, so that I could only wait for new fragrances. In 2017 Colonia Pura finally appeared.

I was happy to try this scent, but although the scent was not bad, the spark just didn't want to jump over. I have tried it again and again since then, and now also again and it simply could not inspire me. Still, I thought I'd write my opinion on it. To of course provide you with new reading material as always, so that you are not sad, so shortly before the 1st Advent (aaaaaah soon is finally Christmas, juchuuuu :))

But first of all: I still don't like the scent very much, and no, it's honestly not the coriander this time, which I always despise so much :D

The fragrance:

The scent actually begins quite nicely. It is fresh and I smell citric notes (mainly oranges) and light, sweet scents. There is also the coriander, which, however, is weak and doesn't really disturb, actually it provides a little, even nice herbaceous change. So you see that the coriander doesn't bother me here and that it is not the reason for my somewhat low rating of the fragrance.
The sweetish notes become slightly stronger after a few minutes, which is probably due to jasmine, which often gives off a stronger, sweet scent. Then a light, flowery and bitter note is added. This is the daffodil, but she is weak and I have to admit that I wouldn't have found this flower if it wasn't in the pyramid of scents, because normally the daffodil has a very distinctive scent for me, which you can recognize very fast.
A little later, the fragrance continues to be slightly citric, slightly sweet, woody and earthy because cedar and patchouli are added to the base. That's the way it stays. That means, the scent is not grottenschlecht, but somehow nevertheless boring (you will understand that especially if you smell the scent yourself). So for me it is a fragrance that you can safely leave behind, because there are much better fragrances from Acqua di Parma, even in this fragrance here.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The Sillage is above average, at least at the beginning. Then the intensity decreases quickly and although it doesn't get close to the body, it is still quite weak, so that it can be smelled more closely.
The shelf life is five or six hours before it becomes too weak, and for a light Colonia I think it's quite good.

The bottle:

The bottle has the basic shape of all Acqua di Parma bottles and is therefore cylindrical, with a slightly wider height. It is clear and filled with a slightly green scented liquid. On the front there is a grey-silver label. The cylindrical lid is also wider in height and has the colour of the label, so the interplay of colours here is pretty good. In addition, the bottle lies very well in the hand. I like the bottle, even though I find the blue bottles of the Blu Mediterraneo fragrance range much more beautiful.

Okay, I think I know by now why I don't like this fragrance so much. As of the heart note, the fragrance begins to smell slightly insignificant as described. It's actually quite okay, because it doesn't smell bad, not overly synthetic (well, maybe a little synthetic in the later base), but it's nothing new, and even among the Acqua di Parmas there are similarly scented fragrances. He seems almost as if the perfumer wasn't so sure what to do now, so he has created a fragrance that looks like a kind of Colonia Light of existing and similarly scented fragrances, just a little more herbaceous and possibly even looser. In principle, Colonia Pura is a fragrance that already exists millions of times in this form and therefore looks boring.

I think that's a pity, because I expected something nicer, but still, if you want to have a look at it, you can do it for me. However, I would recommend more to many other Acqua di Parmas. With the "Mirra", which also appeared in 2017, Acqua di Parma did everything right again (don't forget, all this is of course only my personal opinion!), so that I would rather try the Mirra, or also the Chinotto di Liguria, which appeared this year. The Vaniglia should also be good, but I haven't tried it yet... I'll have to catch up quickly! By the way, Colonia Pura belongs to the summer and can be used as a simple day fragrance.

So, with this comments my written and published comments number has been increased by 1, yes! And for all those who just don't want to check it out, that's what I meant! Even though I should write many comments (and some might even think that I would do it compulsively, tss...), I do it because I like writing here and not to get as many commissions, awards or anything else as possible! Have you finally figured that out? No? I honestly didn't expect it either, tsss... :DDD

Well then, have a nice rest weekend! And especially tomorrow a nice 1st Advent... even if it is said that tomorrow should be quite stormy and rainy...
And we... "see" each other tomorrow evening probably again :D See you :)

05/12/2018

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

MisterShaver
9 Reviews

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MisterShaver

Very helpful Review 7

Once upon a time in Colonia ...

... and one asked oneself, how can we make our Ur Colonia fragrance, which has been around for a long time and rightly so, different without betraying it?

That could be how Pura got here. It starts with a citrus scent, but it only has orange in it. Okay, that's enough. Because in the overall composition the Ur Colonia is there, but somehow more modern. Pura doesn't start as loud as the Ur Colonia and the course remains exactly on this level. The beginning is just fresh and then it becomes something that you don't know so much about the great father. It evolves with a slight understatement to a truly elegant fragrance. It goes well with the fine suit, the leather shoe, the loose fitting tie with open upper shirt button. However, it is more inconspicuous for the environment, the scent remains close to the body. It's like a fine watch that was a bit more expensive, but doesn't look so fat (my tip would be the Junghans company with the Meister series).
And is all this now bad in the direction of ISO-E-Super? Not to me. It is perhaps an approach to another segment of the public that has so far been more dedicated to the modern and hip fragrance area. If that were even necessary. If so, then it is the possibility to build a bridge between these worlds. But it is by far no ingratiation by copying the synthetic fragrance world. Not by a long shot! The pura stays on its side, so to speak. It never slides into this sticky candy world or even violently clinging to the top note. It's just nobler, but it could go through on the modern side. Those who wear Pura still look fine, balanced and rather elegant. If you hang your clothes on the hanger in the evening then there is something else there. A light hint of fresh laundry .... does that come from the pura, or was it really the detergent? Just because I think it's possible it could come from the pura makes this fragrance something fine.
I think it's wonderful!

.... By the way, that's where Chnuddelchatz can stay and be stolen from me. Because what he does doesn't interest me very much.

12/08/2020

7
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Phill
5 Reviews

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Phill

Helpful Review 3

Stylish fresh fennel for the office

I do not judge a fragrance by its durability. But with this one I find it really a bit too short.
But if you leave out the shelf life, Colonia Pura is a really great, fresh and flowery cologne for my nose. Somehow after about 30 minutes I smell a fennel note, which makes the fragrance seem unique and very high quality to me.
I think the price-performance ratio is very good!

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