Devotion Dolce & Gabbana 2023
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Lemon muffin
I'm a Swabian. When I buy a perfume, it's always the full-size bottle because of the price advantage...always in the hope that the bill will work out in the end. Accordingly, after a lot of research, I also bought Devotion directly blind as a 100ml bottle.
It was definitely not love at first spray and not at 2,3,4,5 and 10 either. At the first moment and the first spray, the perfume is very reminiscent of a lemon deodorant from Weleda, which my father has been using for decades. A tart, natural lemon that evaporates quickly. No trace of vanilla, sweetness or even creaminess. I could have bought my father's deodorant for €5 - meeeh.
So my shelf of shame (aka shelf for bad purchases) has grown once again. After 4 weeks of exile, however, I wanted to give Devotion another chance... because the idea of simply giving the perfume to my father for his birthday seemed absolutely ingenious and effective.
In the meantime, the lemon no longer smells tart but sweet and hardly sour. The vanilla is also much more prominent now and the perfume has a great drydown: like a delicious, freshly baked lemon muffin with vanilla frosting. However, it remains natural throughout and the lemon never seems synthetic. The vanilla note is subtle but clearly recognizable as vanilla. Overall, the fragrance smells like grating the zest of a lemon and stirring it into a cake batter. A harmonious interplay of sweet and tangy. After 3-4 hours it is a skin scent, it remains on clothing for 4-5 hours until it fades.
If Devotion seems too tart and sour at first, let it mature. It's worth the wait (unlike your toxic situation).
It was definitely not love at first spray and not at 2,3,4,5 and 10 either. At the first moment and the first spray, the perfume is very reminiscent of a lemon deodorant from Weleda, which my father has been using for decades. A tart, natural lemon that evaporates quickly. No trace of vanilla, sweetness or even creaminess. I could have bought my father's deodorant for €5 - meeeh.
So my shelf of shame (aka shelf for bad purchases) has grown once again. After 4 weeks of exile, however, I wanted to give Devotion another chance... because the idea of simply giving the perfume to my father for his birthday seemed absolutely ingenious and effective.
In the meantime, the lemon no longer smells tart but sweet and hardly sour. The vanilla is also much more prominent now and the perfume has a great drydown: like a delicious, freshly baked lemon muffin with vanilla frosting. However, it remains natural throughout and the lemon never seems synthetic. The vanilla note is subtle but clearly recognizable as vanilla. Overall, the fragrance smells like grating the zest of a lemon and stirring it into a cake batter. A harmonious interplay of sweet and tangy. After 3-4 hours it is a skin scent, it remains on clothing for 4-5 hours until it fades.
If Devotion seems too tart and sour at first, let it mature. It's worth the wait (unlike your toxic situation).
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