Mediterraneo (Eau de Toilette) by Carthusia

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Mediterraneo Carthusia 2003 Eau de Toilette

7.8 / 10 183 Ratings

A popular perfume by Carthusia for women and men, released in 2003. The scent is citrusy-fresh. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Green

Spicy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Litsea cubeba

Bergamot

Corn mint

Eucalyptus

Red thyme

Heart Notes

Green tea

Cardamom

Jasmine

Mandarin orange

Wild flowers

Base Notes

White musk

Perfumer

Laura Bosetti Tonatto

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Ratings

Scent

7.8183 Ratings

Longevity

5.5133 Ratings

Sillage

5.4125 Ratings

Bottle

7.3119 Ratings

Value for money

7.436 Ratings

Submitted by Lissy, last update on 10/25/2025.

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Reviews

18 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/28/2012

6Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Very helpful Review 5

Inoffensive citrus

I usually detest citrus-based scents, especially lemon ones. I often find them too sharp, too much like the scent of detergent or too candied. Mediterraneo on the other hand, is perfection.

The composition is mostly lively, watery citrus, quite natural smelling when compared to other citrus perfumes. There is a touch of tea leaves, however it's not particularly strong. I love how refreshing Mediterraneo is on the skin.

It's nothing out of the ordinary, but for what it's worth, I'd choose it over and above many Summer scents on the market these days.

It feels like a cologne or a body splash, yet it comes in the form of an EDT, with great lasting strength and moderate sillage.

Like craving a glass of icy cool water on a hot Summer's day, Mediterraneo is the kind of fragrance that you reach for to feel refreshed and energised during such weather. It is, in my opinion, much nicer than D&G Light Blue and Annick Goutal's Eau d'Hadrien, and all in all, much more exclusive.

01/25/2015

6Scent

Silverfire
134 Reviews

Silverfire

Helpful Review 4

Oceanfront Nectarine Stand

Meditteraneo begins life on the skin as a sharp, nectarine aroma, mingled with notes that remind me of a sunny ocean. Over six hours, it fades to a rather clean skin scent. The projection never exceeds a foot and quickly dwindles to much less. However, reapplying brings out a different side to the scent -- an almost aggressive, aromatic orange oil. Here it becomes like Silver, but dirtier and not musky. I did enjoy this scent, but like many orange-based compositions, my skin simply devours it. I'm loathe to reapply, so I cannot give Meditteraneo the rating I would like. However, if an oceanfront nectarine stand sounds good to you, this scent is worth sampling, and one of the few from Carthusia that shows some hints of mastery.

03/13/2025

Lillady
24 Reviews

Lillady

1

Mediterraneo - Vibes

a lemon poppy seed muffin encrusted with coarse sugar, candied lemon rinds but with a bit too much of the pith left, green tea with an entire lemons worth of juice, lemonhead candies

It starts very sweet but dries down with just enough bitterness to encapsulate the vibes of a photorealistic lemon

09/13/2018

10Scent 2Longevity 4Sillage

Valrahmeh
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Valrahmeh

Top Review 22

I'm off then.

Wine and perfume have a lot in common. A dedicated clientele discovers taste and scent directions that a normal person would never think of, and this clientele also spends a lot of money on an ephemeral work of art that only they and a few insiders can appreciate. And there’s one more thing that wine and perfume have in common: they tempt you into vacation-related impulse buys.

The ice-cold rosé from Ramatuelle, which tasted so delicate and fresh on the sun-drenched terrace in St. Tropez, turns out to be a flat drink on the balcony in Hanover, for which you wouldn’t have spent 10 euros per bottle. That’s how it was for me with Mediterraneo.

On my tour of Italy, which fittingly ended in Capri, I couldn’t leave the island without a bottle from Carthusia. It’s just the etiquette of perfume. So this time I fell for Mediterraneo, no wonder given the constant lemon temptation you’re exposed to there: mountains of lemons for breakfast, lemons in the large marble fountain in the spa, lemons in colorful ceramic bowls by the pool, lemons in wooden crates in the shop displays.

Mediterraneo smells exactly like that: like thick, irregularly grown lemons with bright yellow elephant skin around them, which is so firm and snow-white when cut that there’s hardly any room left inside for much juice. Yet the juice that does come out is aromatic, fresh, and not even really sour. So these are lemons that have nothing to do with the puny Spanish industrial lemons in yellow nets at the supermarket.
The lady at Carthusia recommended the large 100 ml bottle, which turned out to be very useful. I sprayed myself generously with Mediterraneo and instantly became my own lemon grove. A few mint sprigs were also lying around in the lemon grove. As I floated lemony-minty towards the hotel terrace for an aperitif, I must have left a few scent marks on the stairs, while my family smelled-nothing. Or very little. After an hour, nothing at all. Mediterraneo doesn’t develop on me at all; it’s there-and soon after, quickly gone. On clothing, it disappears after ten minutes. Simply dissolved, pressed out, gone.

That’s a real shame, as it is a truly immediate, fresh, and authentic lemon scent with a hint of mint that doesn’t remind you at all of cleaning or dishwashing liquids (which citrus scents sometimes tend to do).
So it’s a kind of vacation wine that was fantastic on site and doesn’t have much strength at home anymore. That’s okay; I still love Mediterraneo, as it’s a lovely memory, and I enjoy spraying the lemons as a longing for Capri into my hands and behind my ears again and again. But without this personal connection, it really is just a nice, very quickly fleeting Caprese lemon water.

07/09/2013

Knickzimt
102 Reviews

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Knickzimt

Top Review 15

The Next Beautiful Sun Drink

In perfumes, the name component "Mediterraneo" is regularly the reason why I eagerly snap it up. And when the component is even the bolded whole name, I've almost bought it already. :) But travel is expensive and the canaries need to be taken care of, so I hold onto my money in July and just test for now. As will be shown here, that will come to an end in August.
At first, I was afraid it might be a bit too lemony, but when I did the wear test, my heart opened up. Reminiscent of "Bergamotto Di Calabria" in its round, playful nature, in its full appetizing quality to "Eau De Fleurs de Cédrat," and with its uncompromising bitter side, which it certainly has, to pure, ethereal lemon scents. You can see already: It’s not particularly unique, but that’s not so easy with citrus scents, and secondly, it’s not the main thing as long as beauty prevails. And that has been captured here in every facet.
What I find particularly beautiful is that you don’t have a mundane hissing lemon in your hands, which evaporates faster than you can memorize the Italian national anthem, but that the scent also has a kind of "base note," something very round, delicious, that reminds more of pastry than just a soft drink. Sometimes, just briefly in between, I wish for a little spike or edge from one herb or another, but these concerns can really be brushed away with a little finger.
And so my collection, although I actually wanted to expand it thematically in a more diverse way, receives another wonderful sun drink made of citrus fruits. Not a problem at all!

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