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punisher_gun – :
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Swimming in Lipari is a Light Blue Pour Homme meets Invictus Aqua to my nose. Now it isn’t as clean as Invictus Aqua, but the sea salt and ambergris give me an Invictus Aqua like vibe. That and this, Light Blue Pour Homme and Invictus Aqua’s main citrus is grapefruit.
As I mentioned before, Light Blue Swimming in Lipari’s three main notes are grapefruit, sea salt and ambergris. The mandarin orange in the middle is somewhat noticable but not as much as the top three notes. The rosemary offers some added spice too. The woody note is there and the musk is just there enough.
Light Blue Swimming in Lipari’s performance is not Invictus Aqua and more along the lines of Antonio Banderas Blue Seduction. Swimming in Lipari is not that strong but will project for about an hour to an hour and a half. From there it lingers for about four hours for about five/five and a half hours tops before it is virtually non existent.
Unlike Living Stromboli, Swimming in Lipari is strickly spring and summer. The spice isn’t strong enough to use in warmer early fall weather. It is a day scent again due to the lack of spice. Use wise is casual and work.
Overall Light Blue Swimming in Lipari is nice but can be a bit of a skip. I love aquatics and this is different enough, but if you own Light Blue unless you love the entire line, this can be redundant. I rate Swimming in Lipari a 7 out of 10.
Darksantinel – :
Better and more interesting than the original Light Blue. This one smells great and easy to wear, also garners compliments. Great scent for summer!
william13 – :
Just got some samples of this. Very light projection. I am smelling melon in the open, and then hints of cucumber (hate both of those). Yes, the salt is there and it is oceanic. There is some subtle citrus as well that is not unpleasantly sweet. But there is no beach grass, seaweed, or “water” scent. There are probably some seasides that smell this way, but I am looking for something a little different.
Could be a nice light summer fragrance to splash on linen, but not sure it’s worth hunting unless you are on a quest for a perfect beach and ocean scent like I am.
sportacus – :
I test it and I’m very dissapointed! With the first sniff I detect something very unpleasent, maybe the salt…I dont know..This is not a real marine or pleasent fragrance to me…no citrus…no sea…no sweetness…only this unpleasent smell which I meet in more modern fragrances…sorry!
Mebpq265bedyWelty – :
First of all sorry for my poor English! I am Italian guy..
well I bought it today after some tests in the shop and I liked it very much. I am in love with sea scents and this is a strong one… it smells like freedom. It’s ipnotic and electrique. I’m used to wear Armani White and Acqua di Gio, this D&G sounds like a mysterious scent and I am happy of my new purchase. Every time I wear this perfume It’s like to have a bath inside my mediterranean sea…such a crisp and clear scent! Salt and grapefruit are indeed the top notes! I’ve bought another 125ml bottle cause it’s no more produced. One of the best aquatic scents I smelled so far… 9/10
Ralfuck – :
Truly nice male scent. Refreshing, citrus, a bit salty and very relaxing. Good for all occasions.
stalkex – :
Light Blue Swimming in Lipari is very salty but it makes this perfume agreable and original. After some hours, it becomes slightly sweet. This perfume really reproduces the feeling of being at a beach. I’m sorry that it has moderate to poor projection. Among the salty-sweet fragrances, Nautica Voyage or Aqva Marine are preferable because they are stronger.
alenachka_m – :
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Swimming in Lipari is a saltier marine take on the original Light Blue. A very pleasant citrus/marine opening makes way to an oddly salty dry down. Projection and longevity aren’t special but it’s a neat departure, albeit not as clean as the original. Still, the dry down is slightly prohibitive in that it’s salty but slightly stale/rotten, not refined like the dry down of Every Storm a Serenade. Mediocre on the whole but worth trying if you are optimistic.
4 out of 10
filin27-23 – :
A great version for the summer
Excellent 7 hours longevity
mixture of fresh and sweet together Very balanced
Reminds me soft version of black XS
good Scent
Graglus – :
Anyone else think this smells similar to Calvin Klein Eternity Aqua?
zxxc – :
This fragrance smells great with it’s fresh aquatic opening. It’s a safe fragrance you can wear for a day at the beach or on Casual Friday. It lasts a moderate 5-6 Hours on my skin. It also smells very similar to Armani’s Essenza with a hint of salt added. I give this an 8.5/10.
boleembaway – :
Swimming in Lipari smells exactly like the user voting.
It is great in its ambergis note, which is its main captivating note. Then there is also its saltiness to it that rounds up its character. Some floral and citrus y notes making it a nicely done aquatic.
I’d recommend it, as its one of the best aquatic designer scents.
zubik8731 – :
I’m glad I got the sample of this before buying the bottle, it’s an interesting opening, I get the citrus notes, but I get a sort of cucumber smell, reminds me a tiny bit of Clinique Happy for men, the opening sadly passes very quickly, then it becomes fairly nondescript, Summer fragrances are really important, and there are far too many lazy editions being offered in recent years, on that note I applaud Issey Miyake. This one’s ok, and just that 5/10, it’s a bit soft, doesn’t last amazingly well either, and who on earth can smell rock salt? Are seagulls and white sharks reviewing fragrances?
idn901InsuffBooni – :
I tried it yesterday `cause i thought it`s smell as good as Living Stromboli or even better ,but I was dissapointed 🙂 it`s smell very similar to many other perfumes as last YSL-ones.So I don`t like this new summer version of Light blue .
vipasss – :
Just sniffed this in Nordstrom and it’s a resounding ‘meh’. It smells completely non descript and just like all the Light Blue flankers that have come before it. Nothing about this is memorable or worth more than the effort to get a free sample.
I’d skip it…but that’s just me. 😀
djsaw – :
I am a fan of the first limited edition Light Blue by the name of Living Stromboli, so when I saw this bottle at Sephora I decided to try it out on the paper strip.. Swimming in Lipari opens up very fresh and aquatic.. I guess the aquatic vibe comes together with the combination of citruses and salt.. At first sniff I was reminded of Living Stromboli but soon that vibe started to change as ambergris made itself known.. The ambergris emerges rather fast and takes over this scent.. Swimming In Lipari is a lot more of a fresh aquatic scent but I cant help but to find similarities between Swimming In Lipari and Paco Rabbane Invictus.. Overall I still prefer Living Stromboli but Swimming In Lipari is definitely much better than last year’s Discover Vulcano which did not do much for me at all.. Fans of Living Stromboli and Paco Rabbane Invictus should definitely give Swimming In Lipari a sniff..
yabsa – :
I have a sample of this fragrance. I mean, it smells good, but nothing special for me .. is not among my taste, but not bad! Suitable for the summer definitely. I feel much salt in this composition .. after 10 minutes it becomes more woody with notes of musk and ambergris .. overall a good fragrance.
Sillage: 7/10
Longevity: 7.5/10
Scent: 6.5/10
Overall: 6./10.
канадец – :
This smells good on the back of my hand. Got compliments on this today, it is a killer summer scent, the best of the lot.
Deroxzdjrr – :
This is a unique scent to say the least, Dolce & Gabanna really did not play a safe hand here, and I think it worked well for them, but you need an open mind going into this fragrance. The opening smacks you with ambergris and sea salt. The sea salt is top note while the ambergris is in the bottom, but its AMBERGRIS ! if you do not know what it is ….look it up this will clear a lot up. So you are struck by a very oceanic scent in the truest sense like being in the middle of a salty sea with the seagulls too… I mean ultra authentic. I think that is what throws some people off is how honest of a scent this is, truly aquatic, pretty as nature is intended not by design. The woody, citrus notes dance around as well, but are so low in the blend I dare say this is a dual layered fragrance…Salt and whale excretion…sounds gross, but it works ! and I promise you will get compliments.
lizardnick – :
How D&G could turn something that is supposed to be a refreshing warm weather scent into something horrible is quite an accomplishment. The whole fragrance is dominated by some off-putting wood note that resembles cedar soaked in cat pee for years. I had to start scrubbing down like a surgeon after this.
Empty1234 – :
This had just today arrived to my local perfume shop and so I gave it a test. The opening is very nice, salty seabreeze with a hint of sweetness. Very fresh, and actually reminded me of the seaside, more than many other fragrances that I feel try to do that.
Longevity was pretty decent, about 5 hours, but the projection was not that good after a couple of hours. (It is -2 celsius here so that might have some effect on that.)
However, the dry down seems very boring: just musk with a hint of sweetness from the ambergris. Nothing to write home about.
Overall, after the first test I gave it, seems like a decent summer frag, and that salty sea air -note is actually pretty unique. Different enough from original Light Blue. I’m on the middle on this one after the first test.
krapiva75 – :
Got a bottle of this for Christmas. It smells in my opinion quite different to Light Blue. There’s a note in here that I’m not familiar with that I haven’t smelled before which I’m guessing to be ambergris, which to me is most prominent. But the saltiness is very much there. Nice and refreshing, reminds me of beach air. I think it’s also pretty inoffensive and if you like fresh/aquatic type scents a safe blind buy, though it isn’t really too unique. I quite like it. On my skin it doesn’t work in extreme heat like I would like it to, so for me more of a spring time fragrance.
Overall I give it a 7/10