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Collection L'Héritage Corse

Acqua di Scandola Parfum d'Empire 2019

7.5 / 10 117 Ratings

A popular perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green

Fresh

Aquatic

Citrus

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Juniper

Algae

Immortelle Moss

Moss

Perfumer

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

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Ratings

Scent

7.5117 Ratings

Longevity

6.796 Ratings

Sillage

6.391 Ratings

Bottle

7.274 Ratings

Value for money

6.544 Ratings

Submitted by Mefunx, last update on 08/25/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is inspired by the Scandola peninsula, a nature reserve in Corsica that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.

The fragrance is part of the Collection L'Héritage Corse collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Pioggia Salata

Sel Marin

Mediterranean Pine Forest

Aqva pour Homme Eau de Toilette

Épice Marine

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/18/2024

Ebichuunee
98 Reviews

Ebichuunee

1

Missing something

I have a sample and I was really excited about Acqua di Scandola, as it's my first from Parfum d'Empire. Normally, aromatic aquatics are my thing, so this was supposed to be a safe bet.

However, this one left me a bit underwhelmed. The initial spritz offers a fresh and salty sea breeze, which is quite pleasant, but it quickly fades into something rather nondescript.

I found the longevity to be lacking as well; within a few hours, it had almost entirely vanished. While I appreciate the attempt to capture the essence of Corsica's coastline, the execution fell short for me. It didn't provide the evocative, immersive experience I was hoping for.

In summary, Acqua di Scandola is a nice scent but not a memorable one. It didn't stand out or leave a lasting impression, making it a "meh" in my book. I expected more from Parfum d'Empire. Perhaps it works better on others, but for me, it just didn't hit the mark.

08/31/2023

7.5Scent

OdorAeternus
27 Reviews

OdorAeternus

1

Green Aquatic

Another great fragrance from a wonderful house.

The signature of the Perfum d'empire in many it's fragrances is the realistic aromatic and green scents, that is presented here as well.

The marine accord in this fragrance is mainly extracted from the seaweeds together with the salty base accord, so it gives you a realistic aquatic scent. This is a marine but complex marine. I think the best marine fragrance is still Sel Marine by Heeley but this one also gets a high score. Brilliant work

06/14/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Marieposa
90 Reviews

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Marieposa

Top Review 37

The Island of Prospero

The song of the air spirits in my ear blends with the waves as they whisper my name. There, between the devil and the blue sea, where my heartbeat connects with the rhythm of the ocean. Filtered sunlight drifts away like gently swaying flags in the blue, allowing me to dive deeper until I no longer know which direction leads to the surface in the embrace of the sea. Until I too get lost, dissolve in the roar of silence, until my hair transforms into seaweed.
There is a depth that calls to me.
But here on the beach, the lemon sun kisses salt tears from my skin, leaving white streaks and small crystals that sparkle like the waves in the distance of a memory. On heated stones, the spray dries, bleaching the driftwood, the wreckage of ships that once were. A long, long time ago, until they shimmer silver like the branches of juniper in the bay. Gently whispering, the sea carries tiny sun-golden flowers to my feet, telling of another world somewhere out there, easing my pain, the sea-sickness, the longing for the endlessly blue depth, smoothing my scars. Perhaps I have waited here too long.

(“Underwater love” Smoke City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLjsW8XhY4)

**

Only very, very few aquatic fragrances awaken my mermaid DNA, but Acqua di Scandola does this with ease and brilliance. Furthermore, I believe I am developing a little fondness for Marc-Antoine Corticchiato and Parfum d'Empire, but first things first: Until now, I always thought Heeley's Sel Marin was the philosopher's stone when it comes to authentic, salty, slightly seaweed-like marine scents, but Acqua di Scandola, with its brighter, friendlier Mediterranean nuances, can easily keep up. The idea behind the fragrance is as simple as it is brilliant: Here, sun-sweet lemon meets bitter green juniper in an extremely attractive contrast, along with completely non-fishy seaweed, creating an illusion of salty notes and seawater. The more the lemon evaporates, the deeper the water becomes, and when I close my eyes and take a deep breath, I feel surrounded by blue water - and all without any hint of shower gel associations or whatever else might be in those dreaded blue bottles that I consciously avoid. Here, however, I gladly let myself drift until a distant hint of sun-warmed, slightly caramelized immortelles reminds me that there is a shore somewhere where the sea breaks. I smell the mineral notes of warm stones, hidden moss clumps in the shade, a few hard-to-define flowers, and a skin accord that may not even be an accord in this perfume but simply me - the scent was too precious for me to test on paper.

Thank you very much, dear SebastianM. This blend of carefree vacation feelings and deep intoxication is wonderful and unique.

06/11/2021

Intersport
115 Reviews

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Intersport

Top Review 20

Halbinsel Hinterland Juniper

Acqua di Scandola piqued my curiosity due to the advertised immortelle in conjunction with a 'very special' algae extract - good prerequisites from Parfum d'Empire. What ultimately came my way was, first of all, a surprise, a welcome detour in Parfum d'Empire's releases. Often, it is such moments that keep labels, publishers - yes, everything that is regularly released - running, alive, and of interest - even if they may seem like missteps at first glance.

Thus, Acqua di Scandola reminds me of another, older fragrance, Garrigue (1988) from Jean François Laporte's house Maitre Parfumeur. Laporte, who, like Corticchiato, could refer to an academic-chemical background, and who alone launched a remarkable portfolio with this brand in the late 80s, achieved with Garrigue a perfume that is hard to categorize within its own program. A kind of 'herbalist version' of the aquatic fragrances of the late 80s. At the same time, Garrigue was permeated by seasonal long residues of various shower gel odors from campsites in the Garrigue - these consistently re-synthesized with herbal expertise. Juniper plays a central role in Garrigue, just as it does in Acqua di Scandola. Whether these are missteps or detours remains to be seen: Coriolan, Jean Paul Guerlain's wonderful but nearly 2500 years too late Mediterranean-herbaceous late work, is also quite close, although overall drier than Scandola. This perfume, already outdated at the time of its release - by the way, one of the last witnesses of Guerlain's extraordinary bottle artistry, until it was diminished due to the rationing of the materials - also relies on a central juniper, framed in a Mediterranean and North African, hinterland context.

Acqua di Scandola tends for me more towards a juniper-centric perfume than a clearly defined aquatic, thus stepping back into familiar d'Empire terrain: In its herbaceousness (basil, artemisia, and geranium are also included - the listed notes have been reduced since the release, originally exotic notes like hyrax and raspberry leaf were also listed - the press text mentioned more than three times the current indication: lemon, aldehydes, artemisia, water notes, algae, green notes, juniper, geranium, raspberry leaf, moss, patchouli, hyrax, immortelle!) it appears as a deeper blue, calmer, and more reduced version of Guy Laroche's Horizon (1993), which also connects a lot of undergrowth and greenery with a distinctly more artificial high-time aquatic. The immortelles remain meters deep underwater and only flash through late, the algae appear unspectacular despite the use of a special extract, solid, and after hours, intensified and without kitsch, mossy notes also come into play minimally in the later development. Even if that sounds rather conventional, Scandola turns into a warm herbal-aquat in the drydown, perhaps the most beautiful phase, and as often with Parfum d'Empire, a surprising yet deliberately guided development: The outlines of the immortelles ultimately become clearer and give the veil of algae structure and silhouette in an idiosyncratic combination of these components. Volume is, in contrast to other current d'Empire releases, distinctly present and clear. Solid, sophisticated content, almost classic, aquatic for the water-averse, Neptune's Lair.

03/02/2020

SemiBoes
7 Reviews

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SemiBoes

3

Wonderful Changing Scent

I am currently testing a whole bunch of samples. ALzD also sent me a tester from Acqua di Scandola. Although the fragrance pyramid suggested a rather masculine scent, I was enveloped by a fresh, citrusy note after the first spray. Very pleasant. Not exclusively masculine at all.

But even before I could write this comment and say that the fragrance definitely has its feminine sides, the scent changes. Still unisex, but for me now definitely leaning more towards what I would prefer to smell on my husband rather than on myself. Very exciting, refreshing, definitely suitable for women, but only for those who prefer a fresh-bitter scent. Aquatic.

The longevity is very good. I will pass the sample on to my husband.