Lemon
Cypress
Driftwood
Oak wood
Amber
Cistus absolute
Salt
Sea breeze
06/26/2023
IdleExpatter
18 Reviews
IdleExpatter
Very helpful Review
3
I love it. I cannot recommend it.
I confess that I sometimes get a little annoyed by those members of the fragrance hobbyist community who go on and on and on about performance.
I don't need every fragrance to last nine days and announce my arrival to everybody within a 20-mile perimeter. I don't WANT my fragrances to do that.
Getting 6-8 hours of gentle projection out of most fragrances is a perfectly acceptable, even preferable situation for me. It lets me easily change things up between daytime and evening, if I want; if I need it to last longer, I can always reapply.
...but there's a line, even for me. And Costa Azzurra is on the wrong side of it.
Let's start with the positives: I absolutely love the fragrance itself. This is a beautifully mineralic citrus. It's briny and oceanic without going fetid or funky. It's one of the most genuinely "coastal" fragrances I've ever tried.
The opening is dazzling - it leaps and fizzes off the skin when you first spray it, lively and playful. You get a heady and potent rush of salted lemon and a strong sense of sea air. It's a more complex lemon than most: it's bright, yes, but with a little bit of dark depth behind it.
As it dries down, you get minerals and woods. It truly is evocative of the seaside: I almost feel like I can hear seagulls every time I spray it.
And then, within an hour, it's gone.
The first time I tried it was from a tester in a store, and I figured it was just a badly-abused tester. So I tried a sample decant, and figured maybe it was just the decant. But I still liked it well enough to splurge on a bottle at full retail (from an authorized retailer, so I know it's the real deal) and, sadly, have the same problem.
I'm not exaggerating, either. I cannot get more than an hour out of this. It's the shortest-lived fragrance, by far, in my collection.
I don't just mean in the air: even as a skin scent, there's nothing left.
I don't just mean that I've got anosmic: I've tried it on test strips and clothing and left them in another room far away from me, and when I went back an hour later and stuck my nose in, they were gone from there, too.
If this was an inexpensive, reasonably priced fragrance, I'd say "hang the expense." I'd douse myself in it every hour on the hour on days I wanted to wear it, and cheerfully enjoy the experience. If the aroma was SO overwhelmingly magical that nothing else even came close, I'd say "it's still worth it." But as good as it is, it ain't all that. And at Tom Ford prices, even through discounters, I just can't find the value proposition here.
I love it.
Don't buy it.
I don't need every fragrance to last nine days and announce my arrival to everybody within a 20-mile perimeter. I don't WANT my fragrances to do that.
Getting 6-8 hours of gentle projection out of most fragrances is a perfectly acceptable, even preferable situation for me. It lets me easily change things up between daytime and evening, if I want; if I need it to last longer, I can always reapply.
...but there's a line, even for me. And Costa Azzurra is on the wrong side of it.
Let's start with the positives: I absolutely love the fragrance itself. This is a beautifully mineralic citrus. It's briny and oceanic without going fetid or funky. It's one of the most genuinely "coastal" fragrances I've ever tried.
The opening is dazzling - it leaps and fizzes off the skin when you first spray it, lively and playful. You get a heady and potent rush of salted lemon and a strong sense of sea air. It's a more complex lemon than most: it's bright, yes, but with a little bit of dark depth behind it.
As it dries down, you get minerals and woods. It truly is evocative of the seaside: I almost feel like I can hear seagulls every time I spray it.
And then, within an hour, it's gone.
The first time I tried it was from a tester in a store, and I figured it was just a badly-abused tester. So I tried a sample decant, and figured maybe it was just the decant. But I still liked it well enough to splurge on a bottle at full retail (from an authorized retailer, so I know it's the real deal) and, sadly, have the same problem.
I'm not exaggerating, either. I cannot get more than an hour out of this. It's the shortest-lived fragrance, by far, in my collection.
I don't just mean in the air: even as a skin scent, there's nothing left.
I don't just mean that I've got anosmic: I've tried it on test strips and clothing and left them in another room far away from me, and when I went back an hour later and stuck my nose in, they were gone from there, too.
If this was an inexpensive, reasonably priced fragrance, I'd say "hang the expense." I'd douse myself in it every hour on the hour on days I wanted to wear it, and cheerfully enjoy the experience. If the aroma was SO overwhelmingly magical that nothing else even came close, I'd say "it's still worth it." But as good as it is, it ain't all that. And at Tom Ford prices, even through discounters, I just can't find the value proposition here.
I love it.
Don't buy it.
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