Domenico Caraceni Loren

Notes: White flowers, mandarin, berries, peach, coconut, prune, damsen, honey, heliotrope, amber, vanilla, opoponax

Named for and inspired by Italian screen goddess Sophia Loren, Domenico Caraceni's Loren is a voluptuous fragrance of heady white floral and fruit notes.  It's lush and gorgeous and absolutely appropriately named. 

The opening is all old-fashioned creamy white flowers, hugely fragrant with a bit of peach and berries in the background.  It's very much a dressed-up, powder and lipstick, high heels and fur coat scent - in fact, it reminds me of the smell of my mother's old evening bag with its ever-present dainty hankerchief and tube of Estée Lauder lipstick. In the drydown comes some amber and vanilla to calm the wild floral notes.  All told, however, this just isn't my kind of fragrance at all, but those of you who love a good white floral, and who appreciate the classics may adore this one.