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09/16/2023
OvidiuPop
21 Reviews
OvidiuPop
3
Diavolo by Antonio Banderas
Before everything, I have a disclaimer, the bottle that I have is really aged up, so that the majority of my points will not apply to the majority of the bottles that are available.
This fragrance was given to me as a gift by a good female friend of the family around 2015, when I was the age of 12-13. I was not interested into wearing any fragrance at that time and I left it in the bathroom for all these years until in January 2023, when I started watching Kevin Samules on YouTube. He gave a lot of good advice about improving and maintaining personal image and that inspired me a lot to work on this aspect. He also had a lot of videos about fragrances with his charming style that always puts a smile on my face, that also inspired me to get into this hobby. So, I picked this one from the bathroom and I started to wear it at two exams, and I thought that the scent was going to get better with time but it was not the case, from there I only disliked it more and more.
This is a bitter green, spicy but fresh fragrance. The notes that I’m getting is that strong bitter green leaves, maybe, during september when I first wrote the review, this is a redux, I said that this was maybe the patchouli but ever since then I learned what patchouli is like, so in this fragrance I can't detect that note. There is also some pepper in the brief opening and I can detect the citrus acidity of the mandarine, not the actual note, so also that note got affected heavily by the aging process. Only recently I’ve discovered that when that strong bitter component evaporates fully I can detect the soft geranium that is in the heart, either that or is the musk.
For a long time I thought that it was at an intimate level but after a few months of wearing it I’ve discovered that it has a moderate projection with enough heat. That is also because the atomizer is really good and it does a really big distribution of the fragrance.
The longevity for me It's about three hours in that bitter phase but after that the soft geranium musky part is about two hours.
While I was researching the noses behind every fragrance that I had in my collection, I recognized Rosendo Mateu. He is a Spanish master perfumer, who, in my opinion, excels in spicy and peppery notes, and who also made fragrances for Kajal, Paco Rubanne and Carolina Herrera. But his fragrances under Olfactive Expressions are one of the best that I've experienced. I tried a few of them at a local boutique and every one of them was impressive. So go check them out on any occasion.
In conclusion, if not for the age and the maturation of this one I would consider this a solid release, but I will see how the scent is for the newer batch that will not have these problems and it will show me what I missed all this time. For now, I think that the fragrance that remains in my collection it's just tolerable. I don't like bitter and spicy scent profiles in general but on a few occasions it could work and combined with something else even better
Thank you so much for reading my review. This is my first review on this page and it is more like a prototype for how I should do my reviews and what traction I could have. Feel free to criticize me in the comments and look for the part that you want to know from each section. I thought that would be really useful for the ones who want to skip directly to any part of the review that could be useful. Next, I will write about Glacier Rock by Oriflame.
This fragrance was given to me as a gift by a good female friend of the family around 2015, when I was the age of 12-13. I was not interested into wearing any fragrance at that time and I left it in the bathroom for all these years until in January 2023, when I started watching Kevin Samules on YouTube. He gave a lot of good advice about improving and maintaining personal image and that inspired me a lot to work on this aspect. He also had a lot of videos about fragrances with his charming style that always puts a smile on my face, that also inspired me to get into this hobby. So, I picked this one from the bathroom and I started to wear it at two exams, and I thought that the scent was going to get better with time but it was not the case, from there I only disliked it more and more.
This is a bitter green, spicy but fresh fragrance. The notes that I’m getting is that strong bitter green leaves, maybe, during september when I first wrote the review, this is a redux, I said that this was maybe the patchouli but ever since then I learned what patchouli is like, so in this fragrance I can't detect that note. There is also some pepper in the brief opening and I can detect the citrus acidity of the mandarine, not the actual note, so also that note got affected heavily by the aging process. Only recently I’ve discovered that when that strong bitter component evaporates fully I can detect the soft geranium that is in the heart, either that or is the musk.
For a long time I thought that it was at an intimate level but after a few months of wearing it I’ve discovered that it has a moderate projection with enough heat. That is also because the atomizer is really good and it does a really big distribution of the fragrance.
The longevity for me It's about three hours in that bitter phase but after that the soft geranium musky part is about two hours.
While I was researching the noses behind every fragrance that I had in my collection, I recognized Rosendo Mateu. He is a Spanish master perfumer, who, in my opinion, excels in spicy and peppery notes, and who also made fragrances for Kajal, Paco Rubanne and Carolina Herrera. But his fragrances under Olfactive Expressions are one of the best that I've experienced. I tried a few of them at a local boutique and every one of them was impressive. So go check them out on any occasion.
In conclusion, if not for the age and the maturation of this one I would consider this a solid release, but I will see how the scent is for the newer batch that will not have these problems and it will show me what I missed all this time. For now, I think that the fragrance that remains in my collection it's just tolerable. I don't like bitter and spicy scent profiles in general but on a few occasions it could work and combined with something else even better
Thank you so much for reading my review. This is my first review on this page and it is more like a prototype for how I should do my reviews and what traction I could have. Feel free to criticize me in the comments and look for the part that you want to know from each section. I thought that would be really useful for the ones who want to skip directly to any part of the review that could be useful. Next, I will write about Glacier Rock by Oriflame.
