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For someone who doesn’t like rose perfumes the Acqua di Parma Acqua Nobile Rosa comes up roses

April 22, 2016 Paris B 9 Comments

When it comes to perfumes, I’m often vocal in my dislike for floral scents. Show me a rose infused fragrance and watch me wrinkle my nose in disdain. My nose doesn’t like roses in general.

Yet, you know what they say about Murphy’s Law. I never thought the day would come when I’d wax lyrical about a rose perfume!

acqua nobile rose acqua di parma perfume

The surprising scent is the Acqua Nobile Rosa by Italian perfume house, Acqua di Parma. I actually picked this up sight unseen, and unsmelled. It’s a very risky thing to do, and not something I’d recommend. I’ve picked up duds this way too! 😛

For some reason, I picked this up, despite the floral name and knowing that it would come up smelling of roses, and it turned out that I was pleasantly surprised 🙂

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Acqua di Parma Ginepro di Sardegna: One of the softest wood and spice fragrances to comfort the senses

September 26, 2014 Paris B 9 Comments

If I can’t drag myself to Sardinia and the beautiful Mediterranean sea, I can jolly well pretend! At least I can try to ease myself into this mindset of glorious blue waters and bright sunshine with fragrance; and when I want that mindset, my fingers find themselves reaching for the crystal clear blue glass bottle of the Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo scents.

acqua di parma blu mediterraneo ginepro di  sardegna

One of my favourite perfumes is the citrus whiff of Arancia di Capri that brings to mind sun-ripened oranges. Friends I’ve introduced it to have happily embraced it as well, which makes me happy of course. I have a rather strange nose for scents and what I like doesn’t always sit well with everyone.

The newest inclusion in the Blu Mediterraneo range of scents is Ginepro di Sardegna or Juniper of Sardinia. I’d tried a juniper based scent before this from Penhaligons and I can safely tell you I ran screaming in the opposite direction. So I approached Ginepro di Sardegna with a lot of trepidation. But my fears were for naught because I love this one!

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Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo in Arancia di Capri : Breathe in the scent of sun-ripened oranges

August 16, 2012 Paris B 21 Comments

Bella Italia!

A while ago, I was taken on a tour of the Aqua di Parma flagship counter at Parkson Pavilion KL. I was quite keen because you see, I am slowly but surely leaning towards wearing fragrances from the niche perfume houses – proper perfume houses. Acqua di Parma started out in Parma, Italy as a little perfume house and still remains a perfume house, albeit having spread out to encompass other lifestyle elements that one associates with luxurious fragrances – spas, candles, bathrobes even leather goods! Their signature scent is Colonia and harkens from 1916! Like many niche perfume houses, they don’t segregate their scents into male and female scents. Just wear whichever catches your fancy! I love that 😀

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One of their younger lines, the Blu Mediterraneo or Blue Mediterranean range recently got a face lift to standardize the design of the bottles with the rest of the line. I used to wonder why the bottles looked different (uglier in my view) but they now sport that sleek slightly trapezoid cylinder shape that we see in all AdP bottles. There are 5 fragrances in the range symbolic of the scents of Italy – oranges, figs, cypress to just name a few; of which Arancia di Capri is one of my faves because of the lovely citrus note that opens the fragrance.

The bottle is a translucent deep blue that evokes the blue of the Mediterranean sea. The bottles come in nestled in round cardboard cylinders wrapped with paper, which are apparently still hand wrapped, and the labels still hand pasted in a perfumery in Parma, Italy. I’m not very good with talking about notes and base notes and the nuances of the perfume so I’ll just tell you what this evokes for me.

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