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Fuligo
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Eidos
The opening declares what this will be: light citrus, white florals, and vanilla. It's a structure I'm coming to associate with a certain strain popular women's perfumes of the 2020s -- Prada Paradoxe, Mugler Alien Goddess EDP, Michael Kors Gorgeous!, MCM EDP, Jean Paul Gaultier La Belle, Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia, Giorgio Armani My Way, to name the ones I've encountered. I have no problems with this kind of fruit-floral-vanilla fragrance, of course, so it's a question of how this manifestation compares with the others.
The citrus top is a bit vague and my spouse said it smells like Juicy Fruit, though its not without its refinements, however briefly it appears. The last time I put it on, I was getting more gardenia than orange blossom, but my notes from the past tend in the other direction. No idea if that means that the florals are just a bit vague/well-blended or if this is attributable to me taking three years to finish this sample. The vanilla base isn't too strong or choking, and between that and the oakmoss it has less of a dessert vibe than many vanilla fragrances and remains neutral. Projection is decent for 2-4 hours, then it fades to a skin scent and becomes increasingly harder to find over the next 2 hours or so.
In short, pleasant, but to me, not remarkable. I think La Belle did it better, though that's arguably more suited for colder weather, while Voce Viva is lighter and suited for springtime. Voce Viva simply doesn't have much depth to me, and it leaves me craving Bvlgari Baciami more than anything.
But then again -- I don't know if it's just because it's the perfume that made me realize this fruit-floral-vanilla trend, or if this is an accurate assessment after all -- but Voce Viva feels like a Platonic Form of this genre of 2020s women's perfume. Putting it on today, it felt so familiar, perfectly in between all the fragrances I've mentioned above -- no coconut, nor overly strong orange blossom or tuberose, nor rosy flourishes, nor gourmand inclinations. Fruit, flowers, vanilla. That's it.
You could call it generic or iconic -- I'm not sure which. I'm not judgy enough to make a determination there. It's pretty and pleasant, and it's hard to have complaints.
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