Basilica Milano Fragranze 2021

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7.8 / 10 44 Ratings

Basilica is a popular perfume by Milano Fragranze for women and men and was released in 2021. The scent is spicy-woody. It is being marketed by Masque.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Creamy

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Rosemary

Thyme

Heart Notes

Frankincense resin

Labdanum

Milk

Base Notes

Cypriol

Santamanol

Virginia cedar

Perfumer

Violaine Collas

Ratings

Scent

7.844 Ratings

Longevity

7.932 Ratings

Sillage

7.333 Ratings

Bottle

7.932 Ratings

Value for money

6.820 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 21.02.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/21/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Smeriglio
53 Reviews

Smeriglio

1

The pizzeria after the basilica, on the left

It is a singular perfume. It can't lead anyone to associate it with a basilica, if it weren't for the name. I made some of my friends who aren't passionate about perfumes smell it, they told me: "let's eat pizza tonight". They're not entirely wrong because the protagonist note is thyme, which in this case is identical to oregano. At the beginning there is a bit of rosemary, which however remains an appearance. After a few minutes you can perceive the incense and a creamy note, which always remain only on the margins of the main note of oregano. So we have a combination of oregano, incense and milk which lasts unchanged for approximately 4 hours.At this point, the perfume turns towards delicate woody notes (guaiac wood) and cypriol oil.

12/28/2023

Inglebop
7 Reviews

Inglebop

1

Cathedral cafe

Got a sample from Scent Split, sprayed once on each wrist and once on the neck. I'm congested, so also very excited to try this again once recovered. Very lovely scent, I didn't think how I'd like how it would wear on me, based off the scent on paper (sharp, incensey), but actually it has such a pleasant, savory thyme and rosemary opening that cools down into this warm, creamy sandalwood. Nearly gourmand, enveloping. I definitely get some cedar and something ambery, but it's almost sweetly resinous, carefully reined in. I don't get any smoke, to be honest, and the incense wears very mildly on me, whatever crackling residue of fire it retains was from the oven, a mulled maillard.

09/06/2022

Mlleghoul
352 Reviews

Mlleghoul

1

a ghost monk goes to a local bake sale

Basilica from Milano Fragranze is a gourmand-adjacent spooky scent, it flirts with foodiness but it never actually goes there. It’s an eerie earthy musk (but think graveyards rather than gardens) creamy cedar and milky vanilla woods, and mysterious amber-myrrh resins, both warm and cool, enveloping and remote. It’s like a curmudgeonly ghost monk from a crumbling, haunted monastery has left the centuries-old ruins and paid a visit to a sweetly-bustling local bake sale

07/22/2022

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Landshark321
517 Reviews

Landshark321

1

Nuanced, balance incense with spices. Quite lovely!

Milano Fragranze Basilica is the long-overdue start to my sampling of this line, established in 2020, that is under the same ownership/direction as the beloved Masque Milano, full of gems. Like Masque Milano, Milano Fragranze has uniformity in its bottle design, a sleek, blue semi-translucent cylinder.

Basilica is a great start to my exploration of the line, as its deep, invigorating incense is right up my alley in terms of scent profile. The blend avoids being too sharp, smoky, or even animalic, instead surrounding the incense with other spicy elements—rosemary, thyme, cypriol—and woods—sandalwood, cedar. There’s something slightly savory about it, no doubt in part due to the rosemary and thyme, but its center is a medium-spicy incense, surrounded by delicately-used woods and spices. It’s a lovely expression of incense that manages not to be too dark, smoky, or “churchy” for lack of a better phrase, and it feels realistic, like walking into an older building where incense is burning.

I love this entry, a great first full sampling, and highly recommended that fans of incense check it out. I don’t think that it reinvents the wheel but it has a different, non-ashy aspect that distances it from other superlative incense fragrances, such as Profumum Roma Olibanum, perhaps the best frankincense-forward fragrance that I’m familiar with. Overall, I’m very impressed with Basilica.

The entire line is priced at $135 for 100ml, a bit more modest than for the Masque Milano line, which has similar pricing for 35ml bottles, and is sold at great boutiques like Perfumology, where I bought my sample set, which includes the first eight releases but not the two most recent, Panettone and Piazza Affari. Barely over $1/ml is really difficult to come by in this market, as well.

I look forward to trying the rest of my samples of this line, and acquiring some new ones.

8 out of 10