Top Notes 
Indian jasmine sambac
Japanese cherry blossom
Juniper leaf
Lavender
Tuscan apricot blossom
Heart Notes 
Cherry
Italian magnolia
Italian peach blossom
Musk
Oxygen
Base Notes 
Arbutus
Ambergris
Italian juniper
Red elm
Tuscan birch06/14/2025
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5
Access to this fragrance closed or simply not available!
As a very big friend and lover of the Terenzi brand, whose floral, partly synthetic and often playful DNA appeals to me enormously, I have to state at this point and for the Ilba: It's nothing!
Two thoughts accompanied me from the very first minute, namely "you know that smell" and "that doesn't smell really good".
Now the big pondering started, because it is, at least to my nose, a fragrance that I have already noticed several times. But I couldn't figure out where and when.
I pondered for days and waited with my review and ZACK: the moment of inspiration struck me.
As I so often do after eating chicken, when I used the enclosed fresh towel, the Ilba immediately came to mind.
I'm sure you're familiar with these fresh hand wipes and yes, there are countless versions with lemon and the like, but also this supposedly fresh, flowery touch.
I like to remain alone with this opinion, but a comparison on my skin, which I carried out two days later, confirmed my assumption.
Sure, the Ilba smells a little more delicate, it doesn't have that "disinfectant" note in the background and is also a little more full-bodied, but the base is right for me.
In my opinion, Terenzi does not manage to implement the otherwise so attractive, floral structure of many fragrances of this brand. The clearly noticeable fruity notes do Ilba no good at all and deprive it of a pleasant form of freshness that I actually like.
Towards the middle of the fragrance, you can detect a slightly sour note in the background, but otherwise the fragrance as a whole remains fruity, floral and somehow synthetically fresh. The whole thing is supported by a sweetish base, which only makes everything worse.
For a fruity fragrance, it still smells quite clean, probably due to the musk and the oxygen! But for me it's just unpleasantly clean, synthetically clean, which brings us back to those fresh hand wipes. I find zero access to this fragrance...
Lavender and juniper would certainly have done the fragrance good, but they are only to be found in the fragrance pyramid. I would also have liked a slightly spicier / woodier base.
In my opinion, this fragrance is a failure. I simply can't get used to this fruity, sweetish scent. If anything, it needs a bit of sophistication, and I completely miss that here.
I also tend to find it rather feminine; the projection and longevity are solid but not annoying.
Two thoughts accompanied me from the very first minute, namely "you know that smell" and "that doesn't smell really good".
Now the big pondering started, because it is, at least to my nose, a fragrance that I have already noticed several times. But I couldn't figure out where and when.
I pondered for days and waited with my review and ZACK: the moment of inspiration struck me.
As I so often do after eating chicken, when I used the enclosed fresh towel, the Ilba immediately came to mind.
I'm sure you're familiar with these fresh hand wipes and yes, there are countless versions with lemon and the like, but also this supposedly fresh, flowery touch.
I like to remain alone with this opinion, but a comparison on my skin, which I carried out two days later, confirmed my assumption.
Sure, the Ilba smells a little more delicate, it doesn't have that "disinfectant" note in the background and is also a little more full-bodied, but the base is right for me.
In my opinion, Terenzi does not manage to implement the otherwise so attractive, floral structure of many fragrances of this brand. The clearly noticeable fruity notes do Ilba no good at all and deprive it of a pleasant form of freshness that I actually like.
Towards the middle of the fragrance, you can detect a slightly sour note in the background, but otherwise the fragrance as a whole remains fruity, floral and somehow synthetically fresh. The whole thing is supported by a sweetish base, which only makes everything worse.
For a fruity fragrance, it still smells quite clean, probably due to the musk and the oxygen! But for me it's just unpleasantly clean, synthetically clean, which brings us back to those fresh hand wipes. I find zero access to this fragrance...
Lavender and juniper would certainly have done the fragrance good, but they are only to be found in the fragrance pyramid. I would also have liked a slightly spicier / woodier base.
In my opinion, this fragrance is a failure. I simply can't get used to this fruity, sweetish scent. If anything, it needs a bit of sophistication, and I completely miss that here.
I also tend to find it rather feminine; the projection and longevity are solid but not annoying.
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