Dolcia Detaille

Why Dolcia, actually? Dolce is Italian and means sweet. Dolcia is by no means sweet - it starts off sour-fruity, fresh with a light apple scent. The apple has nothing of the artificial candle apple, but it is a green apple complemented by the tart quince, and then slowly transitions into the floral heart, blooming very little and unsweetened. The resinous, woody base overshadows the shy little flowers quite early on. Cinnamon, amber, and osmanthus unfortunately do not honor me. I would have loved to know how osmanthus smells. What remains is a rather dry, cool stack of wood. A suspicion is slowly forming within me: woody and resinous notes in fragrances are either amplified by my skin, my nose, or my brain and do not tolerate any gods beside them (this effect was extremely pronounced in Zen Concentrated by Shiseido, but also in Seductive by Boadicea the Victorious).

Dolcia is not a scent for standing out, let alone for causing a stir, but it is refreshing and a pleasant change from other summer fragrances made from hesperidic notes, and it is equally wearable by both men and women. While Dolcia doesn’t make it onto my wish list, I will gladly use up my sample if the weather hopefully warms up again.