Venezia 1600 - Sàl Mavive 2021

In keeping with the city's long trading tradition, a perfume was of course launched in 2021 to mark its 1,600th birthday, by the makers of the Merchant of Venice line. The packaging apparently involved seaweed and its byproducts, which are not particularly pleasing to the lagoon. Now this can be seen cynically as politically correct zeitgeisty money-making or simply enjoy the fragrance and the city.
As a Venice lover, I opt for the latter for once.

Venezia 1600 Sal is actually very close to a sea breeze scent, sweetness outweighs the salty. I would cut the notes listed above down to calone, some floral sweetness, and fabric softener musk. In the interplay, however, they work unexpectedly charming and pleasing
For various Aqua di Gio etc fans so worth a test, for Venice fans anyway. Definitely unisex, at my boyfriend I like the fragrance almost more:)

In sum: if it wasn't for the Venezia 1600 logo on the bottle, combined with the buying experience in a delightful little perfumery in Venice, the fragrance would definitely not have been worth even a glance for me. I'll gladly pass on aquatics with calone and other synthetics with clean notes. But sometimes marketing then just works even with hard-boiled, who are pleased to have fallen into the Venice trap!