Donna Sentenza Hilde Soliani Profumi

A beautiful banana masterpiece!! This isn’t hyperealistic bananas off a tree, but instead a banana pastry or a banana candy scent. Genuinely reminds me of banana pudding for sure, sweet whipped bananas with decadent cream. It’s so sweet, smooth and addicting. The sillage was pretty strong and lasted a while when I tested.

This smells like you’re 10 years old and you’re eating banana Runts candies from one of those quarter operated dispensers in an auto shop while you and your parents wait for the car to be fixed. Somehow this even has the rubber smell from the tires!

Ultimately, this is not the super sweet banana scent I've been searching for. But it's fine as it is.

My absolute favourite banana scent!!! Right off the bat, it smells intensely like banana laffy taffy. Once it dries down, it’s not so intense but it’s still super creamy and delicious. I feel like it could be interesting to pair it with something more vanilla heavy, but I still love it on its own. I didn’t think it would work in the summer considering how thick it is, but summertime is actually my favourite season to wear it in! Has moderate sillage and lasts all day.

Pure sweet banana from the very first spray.
Creamy, fruity and delightfully artificial in the best possible way.
It is a pretty linear banana candy scent.

Custardy, chewy and covered in yellow sugar. Youthful, fun and playful.

The fragrance stays true to this joyful gourmand profile, radiating a bright and somehow nostalgic confectionery aura.

As it dried down, there was a slight shift. A vetiver-like, branny woodiness that wraps the banana candy in a soft powdery and dry halo that gives the scent a bit of a more grounded texture without losing its thread.

Projection was strong, though the overall life on skin is relatively short.

Yet another fun, unapologetically sweet creation that leans fully into its edible, photorealistic, artificial charm by Hilde!

I have been on the hunt for a banana fragrance, as banana desserts are my favorite! Despite the PTSD I received from Kayali Maui in a Bottle Sweet Banana|37, I am back to try again with Donna Sentenza.

The banana pulls more artificial on my skin than it did in the bottle. It is very sweet and candy-like. Conversely, the cream is incredibly realistic. It's not a sweet cream, rather a full-fat whipped-cream with just a hint of saltiness. It dries down to a whipped, slightly sweet, salted butter. Its final moments are spent as a marshmallowy vanilla that sits close to the skin.

I'm impressed with this fragrance, but I feel like neither the banana nor the cream sit well on my skin. If you like sweet and synthetic, this is probably for you. I, however, will continue wishing they would make a candle version.