Roberto Cavalli Roberto Cavalli 2012

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