Valentino Donna Born In Roma Pink PP Valentino 2023

My husband and I love Star Trek. When we met, he brought this passion with him. Since we both have nerdy traits, I also took a liking to the Federation, Kirk and Picard, Janeway and much more. Right now, we are watching Discovery. Season by season. A series with spectacular effects that utilizes all the technology that is possible today. In Ultra HD with Dolby Atmos sound. It's a lot of fun. Definitely. However, it is supposed to take place around the same time as Captain Kirk's Enterprise from the seventies. And here, I really can't make a connection anymore. Everything is too far removed from the rather simply constructed technical possibilities of that time.

I observe the same more and more in the world of perfume. I was tantalized by the new Valentino Donna Born in Roma Pink PP. As much as the bottle in its screaming pink repels me, I was equally drawn to the comparison with the vintage Classique. A great fragrance love from my youth. Safanad by Parfums de Marly comes close, but it doesn't quite reach it. It is a bit sharper with its jasmine, and that's exactly what I don't always like. So here is the hope for a new fragrance love. Since I was only interested in the scent, I would have almost disregarded the pink bottle. But it turned out differently.

Already when unpacking the sharing post from the lovely Diana970411, I smelled it. Fruity notes. Penetrating. Like gummy bears. And when I sprayed it this morning, my first impression was unfortunately confirmed. No orange blossom, no bourbon vanilla, but just another ethyl maltol bomb. Very penetrating, very demanding, very clingy. No, this is not my world. For this reason, I also had to sort out Meringa by Profumum Roma.

Although the pink Valentino is supposed to remind one of the nineties and Classique with its very special, up-to-date style, it has as little in common with it as Star Trek Discovery does with Next Generation or Voyager. And unlike Star Trek, where every new series eventually grabbed me with its characters, with ethyl maltol in this concentration, unfortunately, I find that, no matter how well thought out and made, I just can't connect with such compositions anymore.

In the nineties, there were already fragrances with this scent ingredient; Angel and Wish were probably two of the most prominent representatives, but not in abundance yet. Classique was certainly no wallflower and also sweet, but this fragrance was always very clearly a floral scent for me and not a gourmand. I would have never associated it with gummy bears, which unfortunately I do once again here. The base note of the pink Valentino is indeed quite nice and feels more perfumey and less edible again, but the wearer has to show patience before getting there.

What a pity. But I had almost suspected that this one would also be very sweet. For this reason, I am unfortunately finding it hard to discover anything in the designer segment anymore. But it will have its fans. I am sure of that. Sweet, loud, and sugary should, however, be among the favored attributes.

A big thank you to Diana970411 for the sharing.