Top Notes 
Honey
Orange
Gardenia
Heart Notes 
Vanilla
Hay
Base Notes 
Ambergris
Powder
Patchouli
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A rose is a rose or a dupe is a dupe?
Not at all.
Even though Bella Senza is more known as a dupe manufacturer, as the scents are reminiscent of more well-known fragrances, it seems to me that the well-known ones are merely a basis for their own interpretation, and sometimes this results in a more beautiful scent overall.
So here we have a scandal.
I purchased the bottle - as I believe, it may have been longer ago - about a year ago, filled some for myself, and sold the rest. By now, my dark orange sample is empty, and I enjoyed it very much. Well, I like the original, but I find the copy even better.
Why is that?
The honey starts off with a bang. But this is not a honey note like those honey shampoos or honey squeeze tubes; this is pure forest honey, deep, dark, and spicy. It may be that the orange enhances the impression, but I couldn't call it orange honey. Rather, it’s as if the orange adds color and season.
At some point, the scent notes change; the honey recedes but remains throughout the entire scent journey. We now have a very deep, quite dark, sweet-spicy fragrance, like tree resin on the bark. A not overpowering vanilla, no vanillin, rounds off the scent pleasure, and amber is very clearly noticeable to me. Although powder is mentioned, it doesn’t come across as powdery in the scent; there are quite different powder puffs that don’t even come close.
The scent is late summer and early autumn. The sun is low, the earth is warm. The field is fragrant, and the bees are buzzing. Honestly, this could also be a Lehmann, completely devoid of vintage character. There is no trace of any plastic note that is so characteristic of modern sweet scents these days.
The scent has a very long lasting power into the next day, but it doesn’t project extremely. At least not during the wear; this is one that quickly focuses on the essentials and takes a yoga class for relaxation. Chill.
Friends of sweet, resinous-spicy scents, where everything forms a melange that you could easily spread on bread, should enjoy this scent for a modest price, and although I don’t like to eat honey, I sometimes like to smell like it. It smells - by the way - pleasantly warm and likable to the outside world and certainly not like a scandal. ;-)
Btw, unisex, if HE likes it sweet.
I’ve now ordered a new bottle again. And also of the Scandal. Maybe I’ll add a comment with a concrete comparison. We’ll see.
Short extension in direct original comparison:
- no forest honey
- no spice
- more perfumey
- no amber
- no vanilla
- less depth
- hardly any scent development
The original is practically a L'Eau, and I don’t see it as unisex either.
Even though Bella Senza is more known as a dupe manufacturer, as the scents are reminiscent of more well-known fragrances, it seems to me that the well-known ones are merely a basis for their own interpretation, and sometimes this results in a more beautiful scent overall.
So here we have a scandal.
I purchased the bottle - as I believe, it may have been longer ago - about a year ago, filled some for myself, and sold the rest. By now, my dark orange sample is empty, and I enjoyed it very much. Well, I like the original, but I find the copy even better.
Why is that?
The honey starts off with a bang. But this is not a honey note like those honey shampoos or honey squeeze tubes; this is pure forest honey, deep, dark, and spicy. It may be that the orange enhances the impression, but I couldn't call it orange honey. Rather, it’s as if the orange adds color and season.
At some point, the scent notes change; the honey recedes but remains throughout the entire scent journey. We now have a very deep, quite dark, sweet-spicy fragrance, like tree resin on the bark. A not overpowering vanilla, no vanillin, rounds off the scent pleasure, and amber is very clearly noticeable to me. Although powder is mentioned, it doesn’t come across as powdery in the scent; there are quite different powder puffs that don’t even come close.
The scent is late summer and early autumn. The sun is low, the earth is warm. The field is fragrant, and the bees are buzzing. Honestly, this could also be a Lehmann, completely devoid of vintage character. There is no trace of any plastic note that is so characteristic of modern sweet scents these days.
The scent has a very long lasting power into the next day, but it doesn’t project extremely. At least not during the wear; this is one that quickly focuses on the essentials and takes a yoga class for relaxation. Chill.
Friends of sweet, resinous-spicy scents, where everything forms a melange that you could easily spread on bread, should enjoy this scent for a modest price, and although I don’t like to eat honey, I sometimes like to smell like it. It smells - by the way - pleasantly warm and likable to the outside world and certainly not like a scandal. ;-)
Btw, unisex, if HE likes it sweet.
I’ve now ordered a new bottle again. And also of the Scandal. Maybe I’ll add a comment with a concrete comparison. We’ll see.
Short extension in direct original comparison:
- no forest honey
- no spice
- more perfumey
- no amber
- no vanilla
- less depth
- hardly any scent development
The original is practically a L'Eau, and I don’t see it as unisex either.
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