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Roberto Cavalli (2012) by Roberto Cavalli

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Roberto Cavalli (2012) (Roberto Cavalli)

7.3 / 10 485 Ratings

A perfume by Roberto Cavalli for women, released in 2012. The scent is sweet-floral. It is being marketed by Coty.

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Main accords

Sweet

Floral

Oriental

Spicy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Orange blossom

Base Notes

Benzoin

Vanilla

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Louise Turner

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Ratings

Scent

7.3485 Ratings

Longevity

8.0385 Ratings

Sillage

7.6392 Ratings

Bottle

7.6409 Ratings

Value for money

8.5134 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 21.04.2024.

Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/29/2021

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Moenique
7 Reviews

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Moenique

Top Review 13

You&Me4Ever

I can not remember exactly when I smelled the fragrance for the first time, possibly 2014. I know it was a blind purchase..again been hooked by YT, the old Schlawiner. Flacon liked right away and on orange blossom I was already felt always...or at least at the time I bought it :D

The pyramid makes you think it's a simple scent. A bit floral with some vanilla. But there is so much more in this. It is extraordinary, warm, soft, cuddly. He wraps you up.
Since I have sought him on summer vacation, I associate him with summer, luxurious sunscreen, long beaches, delicious cocktails, tanned skin and everything else that goes with it.
But it's also a wonderful companion in the winter. A warm, cozy blanket that makes you feel cozy.
Its durability and sillage are really super. Although the sillage does not seem so strong to me, my environment takes him yet quite clearly was.

He is not for everyone, has rough edges, but if he comes across well to the opposite, then so right and guaranteed to be addressed! Who he does not like, all the better for me :-p

After a 30ml, 75ml and again half a 75ml bottle, I had smelled myself a bit full. Now 2-3 years later, I missed him incredibly. This feeling, which I associate with him, I really wanted to have again. Since you can get it very cheap, the big bottle was allowed to move in with me again and what can I say! I love it! Still the same ingenious, delicious fragrance.
Alone that I missed him, shows me that he is definitely an all time favorite. And as soon as I can, I'm going to bunker it down!

For me, a successful blind purchase, but should possibly be tested before but times, because he is mMn not the mainstream einreiht.

12/21/2018

Chrissie1220
1 Review

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Chrissie1220

Helpful Review 5

Pity

Honey, I don't think we'll ever make a pair.
The pink pepper in the top note is somehow interesting, but before you know it, it's already gone.
Orange blossom? Apparently there's a twig with only one flower in the game! Unfortunately I don't notice it at all, because the tonka bean spreads immediately after the pink pepper has left. Very broad, in fact.
I like tonka beans, no question. But so affectionate and persevering that everything else is slain, that again is less my case. Even the vanilla hides and only peeps out stealthily.

For some ladies a wonderful fragrance for very elegant occasions, for me unfortunately not. Sorry, sweetheart!

04/05/2021

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Naomagic
5 Reviews

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Naomagic

Very helpful Review 13

La Piscine

This fragrance inevitably makes a film play in my mind's eye. Already at the first spray arises in my head the image of the legendarily beautiful Romy Schneider in the late sixties classic "the swimming pool", lying by the pool glittering golden in the sun; half bored, almost sluggish by the heavy heat, but with a wild inner fire.
The scent, for me, is also an interesting mix of warmth, heavy and - if you overdo it - headache-generating like the southern French midday sun, and lively, sparkling freshness. According to the fragrance pyramid, I would blame the benzoin/vanilla & pepper/citrus combination for this. For me, the heavy, sweet, warm part is clearly in the foreground, only here and there flashes of fresh, cooling sparks. A great course of the fragrance I do not recognize, with me it only weakens (unfortunately relatively quickly) with time more and more. Too bad that durability and sillage do not have a little more power. The opulent bottle with the glamorous crown, in which the perfume shimmers like liquid gold, is in my view perfectly chosen for this somewhat decadent fragrance

11/26/2012

5
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Helpful Review 7

A flurry of powder

This eponymous fragrance by one of the great masters of Italian pop fashion is not at all what I was expecting! Cavalli's clothes are 'sex kittenish' and sometimes downright wanton ... while this fragrance is quite conservative and meek.

Perhaps Louise Turner was going for a dichotomous effect here, and if so this fragrance does exhibit a certain level of success. The sample package touts it as, and I quote "an ambery, floral fragrance: addictive, sensual and radiant'. I can't say that it's a horrible fragrance because it isn't ... it just strikes me as having the sensuality of a tin of baby powder!
An initial burst of the dreaded Pink Pepper is thankfully short lived by the emergence of Orange Blossom ... which settles nicely into the (very) powdery base of Benzoin, Tonka and Vanilla. I felt the need to look up some of the listed aroma chemicals included and the usual suspects ( citronellol, isoeugenol, geraniol, linalool et al) are all present in this concoction :) ... but the one that truly made me giggle was Benzyl Benzoate.

"Benzyl benzoate, as a topical solution, may be used as an antiparasitic insecticide to kill the mites responsible for the skin condition scabies, for example as a combination drug of benzyl benzoate/disulfiram.
It has other uses:
- a fixative in fragrances to improve the stability and other characteristics of the main ingredients
- a food additive in artificial flavors
- a plasticizer in cellulose and other polymers
- a solvent for various chemical reactions
- a treatment for sweet itch in horses
- a treatment for scaly leg mites in chickens" ........ quoted from Wikipedia.

Horses? Chickens?? SCABIES??? LOL ... not very glamorous right? It seems to be used here for fixative purposes, but other research informs me that it does indeed carry a "faintly sweet balsamic" smell ... well good :) ... at least it's performing some sort of function then! One pauses to think if the great man himself knows what Benzyl Benzoate is ... or is even aware that it lives in bottles of fragrance carrying his name :).

Suffice it to say that Roberto Cavalli EDP is a nice, generic, powdery floral completely out of line with it's provocative advertising campaign. Methinks this would have been much better suited to a short lived celebrity release. Then again, perhaps it is :).

01/31/2013

5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 6
Scent

Missk
1165 Reviews

Missk

Helpful Review 5

A rich, syrupy white floral

Roberto Cavalli has been relatively well-received since its release, and in my local department store posters and promotions are everywhere. I was forced to try this fragrance when a sales assistant handed me a scented card and encouraged me to take a sniff.

First of all, I was shocked by the slightly fruity and warm opening. I somehow expected something more floral or more woodsy. I smell zesty orange, pink pepper and perhaps even a hint of peach schnapps.

The fruitiness is fairly short-lived. The heart is where the white florals are at their strongest, with orange blossom settling on the skin in a somewhat syrupy and tonka-bean infused fashion. Essentially, Roberto Cavalli is all about creamy white florals drowning in golden syrup. It's a lot more likable than you'd think.

Roberto Cavalli has grown on me. I can almost see why it's so popular. It has this pleasing depth, which smells quite warm and sensual on the skin. I find both the bottle and the scent rather stylish and rich.

White florals are making a bit of a comeback, and for that I'm very glad. This is one example of a recent release that has done it right. I expect that Roberto Cavalli will appeal to quite a diverse audience; both young and old. It has that hint of classic charm that will most likely draw the older consumers in.

Honestly, it's not the best fragrance that I've ever smelt, but it does have its plus points. The longevity and sillage were good and the composition developed nicely. I recommend.

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