Intenso

Hi,

i am Tenerife and today I would like to tell you about a bad consultation.

I was educated and grew up in Hungary, my consultants are called Superz.
I always had a good feeling and found myself well equipped for the application at the gate of summer, because they gave me a robe that could hardly be fresher and more summery.
I was also advised to come across as fresh and masculine, even dominant.

Fully motivated, I waited at the gate of summer, in front of me some colleagues like Sedley , Menthe Froide , behind me was Mirto di Panarea , Théorème pour Homme and some others.
I felt in the best, summery company.

At last it was my turn and I was immediately looked at by the Lord of Summer, I boasted confidently in my turquoise robe and pointed at the turtle with a confident look. "Look here, water, fresh", "oh yes, the turtle is very masculine"

But the Lord of Summer seemed less than impressed and sniffed me critically.
His gaze was doubtful, his eyebrow slightly raised.

He cleared his throat and began to speak:
"Who advised you? Who recommended that you introduce yourself to us?"
"A seemingly summery robe does not a summery scent make, you should remember that!"

I quickly sensed that I wasn't generating much enthusiasm and immediately had my consultants in mind, but I wanted to wait and see the final feedback from the summer.

The latter continued:
"Your white flowers certainly exude a touch of beach feeling, but these are torpedoed in a way that is dreadful for summer, namely by quite potent sweet notes and sweet spices.
Your lemon is anything but masculine, it carries the powder puff in its hand and is constantly busy in front of the mirror. With vanilla, you have the queen of spices in you, but apparently only a weak copy of the original. Your amber is far too sweet!
I'm sorry, but you won't be able to pass the gate of summer like this!
Feel free to apply further ahead to Spring or try back there, Autumn is waiting".
"Oh yes, and one more thing. For an extrait de parfum, you should push the weight bench a little more, a little weak on the chest, dear Tenerife"

So I left disappointed. But at the same time I was also angry, angry with my consultants from Hungary, who had told me such garbage and apparently dressed me completely wrong. And the consultants are quite expensive...

So I'm going to shed the attributes of dominance and masculinity and try again, probably in the spring.

With Kristina I have found the next great Terenzi, which can again be grouped in the direction of Rosso Pompei.
Not too long ago, I already reviewed Sunsation , my frist number 10, and tried to point out where the differences to Rosso lie.
While Sunsation is a slightly spicier, more distinctive and more masculine version, Kristina tends in a softer, slightly more citrusy and greenish direction.

The magenta-colored bottle is definitely an eye-catcher, but it is hard to draw any conclusions about the fragrance. This is because it neither tends in a too feminine direction, nor can I draw any other parallels.

Iris also plays no role for me, at least not with its familiar powdery note. The fragrance is and remains consistently fresh and fruity with some sweetness and greenish accents.

Grapefruit and tangerine strike an excellent balance between citrus and fruity freshness, truly outstanding! In my opinion, the blackcurrant complements this mixture perfectly, so that the green tea is only responsible for and accentuates the nuances.

Sandalwood and musk are sometimes the best base notes to envelop a certain calm, something soft and harmonious. This is also the case here.
You don't notice much of the "Terenzi synthetic" that classically characterizes some fragrances here.

A very big difference to the Rosso Pompei is also the longevity and the silage
While the red is extremely strong, Kristina is quite restrained.
After 6 hours at the latest, it is over on my skin, silage and projection are present, but in the moderate mid-range.

I don't even know if I've mentioned anywhere that I'm a terribly visual type of person. When I learn something, I rarely learn content, I copy the page in my memory and then read it off in my mind, is that actually called cheating!!! ;)

I digress...
Why am I emphasizing the visuals here? Because I was actually really excited when I saw the Violet Venom bottle. Not only is Venom my favorite anti-hero of the Marvel world, no, violet is one of my favorite colors and I've already seen the bottle front and center in my glass display case.
But, what can I say, unfortunately nothing will come of it!

Unfortunately, the new Gritti fragrance did not convince me when I started spraying it on.
I would like to mention now that I don't find the texture overly malignant in principle, but for me it leans very much towards the feminine side. Here I could imagine the fragrance on one or the other lady, at the appropriate time of year away from the heat.

Right from the start, the purple poison is fruity-sweet, characterized by a powdery cloud.
The fragrance exudes little to no freshness, the bergamot barely opens.
I don't find neroli / orange blossom disturbing here either, normally these are notes that I like less and can quickly provoke a touch of "old-fashionedness".
Here, this is perfectly integrated and pleasant, the floral is in the foreground.
Probably also enhanced by cashmeran.
I search in vain for white tea here, but I am happy for the noses that discover it.

I attribute the sweetish, in parts perhaps slightly creamy, but mainly rather powdery basic structure, which runs from beginning to end, to the combination of sandalwood and amber. Osmanthus adds a fruity, slightly apricot-like touch. I miss the freshness here, the kick...

I can well imagine the fragrance on a woman with an elegant evening outfit in cooler temperatures in the fall and am also interested in how it would work there.
On me and for men, at least in my opinion, I don't like it very much.

Persistence quite potent, has been on my skin for a good 8 hours now, the silage is noticeable but still moderate.
The name and bottle are a 10, but in the end it's not enough to win by far.

I was completely unfamiliar with the Spiritica brand until I received a bottling. However, it should also be mentioned that the Italian brand is still very young. It was only founded in 2024.
It doesn't take long to understand where this brand wants to be heading.
Quirky, unusual, innovative, creative, abstract, provocative, different, these are all terms that popped into my head.
Partly, at least that's how I understood the brand, they also want to capture certain scenarios in a fragrance. The Leonarda is particularly quirky here ...

But now we come to Weon, which is certainly no ordinary fragrance, but is still easy to accept in its abstractness.
It tells a story from Chile. There, weon is a similar term to buddy or friend. The origin of the word can be traced back to the Indians.
And so notes that characterize Chile and the region can also be found in the fragrance pyramid. Pisco sour is a classic and well-known cocktail there. The lithium accord symbolizes the world-famous Atacama Desert, where lithium is heavily mined in parts. The Chilean wax bell is the country's national flower.
Incidentally, a country that I have actually wanted to visit for a long time...

Looking at the fragrance, I find the start in particular, i.e. the top notes, extremely weird and unpleasant in my nose.
They are quite sour and somewhat metallic, so my association was: "I don't know it like this, but it doesn't knock me out of my chair. If it goes on like this, I'll wash it off!"
But patience is not punished here, because instead of getting worse, it gets much better with a little time. A sweetish, slightly creamy cloud, which does not seem overloaded, increasingly takes the lead. A mix of very soft vanilla, clearly noticeable floral notes and a milky base emerges. Everything is enveloped by ozony, airy nuances so that, as already expressed, it has a rather loose overall structure.
Peppermint, which is normally easy to smell, is hardly noticeable to my nose here.

It really gets better and better from time to time, so that you can enjoy it.
In any case, it is worth testing and it is worth enduring the initially unpleasant phase.

To summarize, I would say you get a creamy-sweet, finely balanced fragrance that you certainly don't smell on every corner.
For 190 euros, you get 50 ml of the extrait de parfum with 35% fragrance oil.
The durability and silage are also exciting and well balanced. Weon is long-lasting, but despite its sweetish notes, it is not annoying with its overly strong silage and projection.
So I would say it is also wearable in spring. It is flexible to use and for me unisex wearable.

I was leaning between 7.5 and 8.0 points. Due to the horrible start, I then decided on 7.5.

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.