Dolce Vita 1995 Eau de Toilette

Dolce Vita (Eau de Toilette) by Dior
Bottle Design Serge Mansau
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Dolce Vita (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Dior for women and was released in 1995. The scent is floral-sweet. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Floral
Sweet
Spicy
Fruity
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes MagnoliaMagnolia Lily of the valleyLily of the valley RoseRose
Heart Notes Heart Notes ApricotApricot PeachPeach CinnamonCinnamon
Base Notes Base Notes VanillaVanilla HeliotropeHeliotrope SandalwoodSandalwood

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7.7391 Ratings
Longevity
7.9292 Ratings
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7.1279 Ratings
Bottle
8.4288 Ratings
Value for money
8.051 Ratings
Submitted by Sani, last update on 27.03.2023.
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Sonnenwende
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Top Review 50  
Facets of life
It must have been 1995.
My sons were still young and the eldest had brought home an unpleasant cold with fever and middle ear infection from kindergarten.
His little brother had not been asked for long and had followed him with all his symptoms.
After a visit to the doctor it was clear
that we had to make ourselves comfortable at home in the coming days.
Together with Benjamin Blümchen I took over the childcare.
I read until we knew the stories by heart, built with Lego and Playmobil or we made other games.
If Benjamin would tell me with loud
TÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ from the cassette recorder,
i devoted myself to the housework and took care of our physical well-being.
The days were filled and passed quickly, but due to sniffing noses and earaches the restful night's rest for all of us failed.
When my husband came home from work on Friday evening, there was no prize to win with me.
After a hot bath I said goodbye relatively fast with Mister Sandman.

The next day we were all much better already and my husband suggested me after lunch that it would do me good to go out for a while - to stroll into town maybe.....He would be there now.
Oh, what a nice offer.
It didn't take long, and I was out the door.

In the city I strolled aimlessly through the shopping streets, but after a week of quarantine I enjoyed the colourful life and was happy to drift without having to get involved myself.
My way led finally into a perfumery, where a friendly saleswoman received me immediately.
She asked me if I already knew the new scent from Dior and if she could spray it on my wrist?
Probably she had recognized by my dark eye rings that a little Dolce vita could not harm me.

The beautiful bottle alone awakened my spirits.
Like a small celestial body it lay in her hand and through the facet-like cut the lights of the perfumery broke in it and sparkled like stars.
The golden yellow liquid promised a delicious elixir and YES, of course I didn't want to refuse this fragrance experience.
So she sprayed and what I experienced was a real firework of aromas.

The fruity sweetness of apricots and peaches,
spicy chords of cinnamon and cardamom,
and the peppery spiciness of carnations poured on me.
Roses and rosewood accompanied by soft vanilla were revealed and again some pleasant sweetness of heliotrope.
Sandalwood, vetiver and patchouli gave a very beautiful, delicate woody note in the drydown, which I only noticed later.
I didn't wait that long to decide to buy.
I wanted to make this bottle of sweet joie de vivre my present.
Yeah, well, in that case, I'll wrap the scent up nice for you, the salesgirl said.

Happily I made my way home and was greeted by my men with stormy joy.
Of course I had a souvenir for everyone and after I had examined all the buildings of the afternoon, I took my present out of my pocket.

The saleswoman had draped numerous stars on a golden plate. In the middle the bright yellow packaging of the bottle was presented, wrapped in Celophan and with a glittering yellow ribbon
locked up.
It should take a few more days,
until I paid enough tribute to my anticipation and opened the box.

I am happy that I can continue to get this fragrance and that I can refresh a beautiful, intense memory again and again.
In the meantime it is only available as Eau de Toilette, but its durability and sillage are extraordinary.
Dolce vita has a high recognition value and stands out clearly from the current fragrance creations.
Its sparkling, fruity - flowery spice keeps what its name promises.
Pure joie de vivre.

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Serenissima
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Serenissima
Top Review 17  
sheer joy of life
I remember that after it came out, I thought "Dolce Vita" was too well-behaved, not spectacular enough.
Now I was then also in "my best years" and anyway everything was different.
So I was all the more excited, how I would like this fragrance today.
Heikeso was again so sweet and sent me a bottling. This she had received from Floramalia, also one of my dear fragrance friends here: so small is our world here!
Thanks to both of you!
The pyramid reads really beautifully; but how would I feel about this composition now?

It's mid-February, the first slightly milder day back after double-digit subzero temperatures; but the dingy snow is still everywhere. Nothing out of the ordinary, really, but doubly hard to bear given the current isolation and the fact that I had to make closer acquaintance with ice at the very beginning.

So "Dolce Vita" is exactly the right fragrance! Here pure joie de vivre is sprayed: sun and cheerfulness spread immediately hospitable laughing arms!
What a welcome!
A fragrance fabric in the most diverse shades of white develops: from lily of the valley white (the little guy may not be missing in a Dior floral fragrance) to rosy magnolia tone.
The rose is also certainly very bright in bloom: perhaps even in a delicate yellow?
This color palette is translated into fragrance here and finds wonderful partners in the golden ripeness of apricot and peach.
Cinnamon embellishes these two fruit nuances and prepares the fragrance path to the dark purple vanilla flower (heliotrope) to the creamy sensual vanilla tone. - A delicate fragrance dream.
Sandalwood puts him a bright golden crown on and it's ready: the "sweet life"!

How loving and comforting this fragrance creature is these days: just the way it smiles!
How I miss that light-footed floral joie de vivre that "Dolce Vita" so generously exudes.
Durability and sillage correspond to its time of origin: At that time, there was no spilling; even with the floral summer fragrances was luxiriös geklotzt! Simply beautiful!

Just today I read an interview with Dior's "nose" Francois Demachy in the current FAZ magazine.
(Sorry, but I'm still at war with the special characters here!)
Coming from Chanel, he has been the head perfumer of the house of Dior since 2006 and said in this article and the current context:
"Perfume has been around for millions of years; it's always been there. It used to be mystical, had something religious about it. And like food, it's part of people's lives. It's a cultural asset.
You smell the flowers, and they smell nice. But a perfume is more. Just as cuisine is more than nourishment."
I leave him (approvingly) to conclude
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Top Review 18  
golden elixir
Dolce Vita is a very, very special perfume for me personally

It is one of the most multifaceted fragrances I know & has a mega recognition value, especially now in a time of lush sweet scents (which I am also very into
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Magieodeur
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How appropriate is your name!
Unfortunately, I have never been to Italy, but this fragrance embodies for me Italian lifestyle and joie de vivre pure. I spontaneously associate a ride in a convertible along the Amalfi coast, the scent of zirtonenhainen, mixed with a fresh Mediterranean breeze, sun, laughter, dolce vita just ...

Sun, Mediterranean lifestyle and happiness from the flacon, how great :-) !!!

Sweet I find him, thank God, not at all! Although floral-fresh, but also spicy and woody, an absolutely successful synthesis, very stimulating and energizing. Spritzig, also something fruity and still seeeeehr elegant...

The vanilla holds itself discreetly in the background, the fresh, floral and spicy notes pleasantly gently underlining.

Wearable for women of all ages and not only in the summer. So you can get in the dreary autumn or winter also times the sun on the skin and in the soul. Dreamlike...
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A funny anecdote
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... out on one of my regular Sunday afternoon fragrance trolls (what else is there to do an a Sunday afternoon?) I walked up to the Dior counter in a department store and was accosted by the Sales Assistant who immediately wanted to slap the new J'Adore all over me. I told her I didn't do flankers. She assured me it was no such thing as a flanker ... it was brand spanking new!! ????? ... "Funny that it's also called J'Adore" said I lifting the bottle of Dolce Vita to my nose with an evil gleam in my eye. "Mmmmm ... Tuberose" ... I said. She responded that it was strange that Tuberose is not in very many fragrances these days, except of course the one I was holding in my hand. Really??? I remember when SA's could tell you exactly what was in a frag and how the notes interacted. These days they know less than most of their customers ...shameful! How about this for some extra gumph direct from the Dior website:

"Dolce Vita Eau de Toilette is a spicy woody floral. The expression of happiness and joie de vivre

The top note is the first olfactory impression and the most volatile.
The heart note is the fragrance's core and lasts for several hours.
The base note lasts the longest and can be perceived in clothing for several months."

Now I have to say that Dolce Vita is probably one of my favorite Dior frags of all time (pre reformulation that is) ... I love the bottle and the joyful yellow box and I LOVE THE JUICE. I am, however, hard pressed to find a jacket that I wore a month ago with the lingering smell of woodsy notes (which is what I love most about Dolce Vita). How wonderful would that be?
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 5 years ago
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Its sweet, warm and woody acchord reminds me of the 90es and my Youth. I had it and I wore it expecially in winter. Lovely
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