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5dim – :
Auch.
I kind of like most of Hilde Soliani perfumes, but this, oh..this is utterly sweet and sour, makes me sick, I am sorry.
I am by no mean denying its uniqueness or quality, but don’t really understand how anyone could be confident by smelling of almost espired boiled milk, supported by a retro-taste of rancid butter.
Fragranceland mistery to me…
Tina36 – :
Hilde Soliani Crema di Latte takes the concept of coffee and renders it milky, a notable departure from the coffee scents with which I’m most familiar, including Mugler A*Men Pure Coffee, Kerosene Follow, Sebastiane Expresso Royale, among others.
The only listed notes in Crema di Latte are milk, sugar, and cream, but there certainly at least seems to be a notable coffee accord–perhaps not downright espresso, but something at least coffeeish–and perhaps even caramel.
Again, it’s the creaminess that sets CDL apart from other coffee scents, so it perhaps scratches the dessert itch more so than other coffee scents, it being plenty sweet as well as creamy.
It’s delectable and richly so. Performance is solid, the blend being cold-weather-leaning but delicious enough to have a place in anyone’s day throughout the year, just perhaps not in the extreme heat.
7 out of 10
sqk702speagoessenda – :
Crema di Latte is a gourmand that doesn’t hold back. it smells like a very realistic rice pudding made with heavy condensed milk and a dash of cinnamon up top that makes me want to sneeze sometimes. Whenever I wear it out which I don’t do very often people around me find it to be ‘too much or too sweet’ some of those people enjoy gourmands themselves but not Crema di Latte they said ‘it’s too cloying’ so beware I however love it I find to be extremely comforting and unique. It’s an unapologetic fragrance that doesn’t care about boundaries or limits you want to smell sweet go ahead who cares about what others might think paired with this attitude you and Crema di Latte are a match made in heaven I on the other hand wear it mostly for myself in the comfort of my own room hehe. I get excellent performance with Crema di Latte in both longevity and projection.
MAKSKON – :
Worm sugar vanilla milk! This is extremely delicious! it’s like eating “Frosties” cereals with worm milk in the morning! it just reminded me of my childhood 😀
The drydown brings the roasted almonds up coated with vanilla and sugar.
Interesting.
JQRalph – :
Reading other reviews of this scent, I can see that many Fragranticans have very strong associations between Crema di Latte and other aromas. I am no exception! I recently tried horchata for the first time, and as soon as I put this fragrance on, that experience is immediately what popped into my mind. My second thought was that it smells like the milk in your bowl after you eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The milk, sugar, and cinnamon are extremely realistic. I do feel like I literally smell like a creamy cinnamon beverage. I have a dabber sample from LuckyScent, but the application method doesn’t stop Crema di Latte from projecting and lasting on me. Today was a day for errands, and even under my coat and scarf in the cold weather, I could smell it wafting up to me. Very nice and cozy with the nip in the air. This scent remains fairly linear on me from start to finish. I could see it being one where it might strike people more as a food flavor than a perfume. If that’s what your after, though, and you want to smell like actual food dessert, then Crema di Latte will be exactly what you need.
васяиндахаус – :
Fatty, wow. Lavish lactonic dollops of cream, condensed milk and caramel. At no point do I get any kind of citrus, nor cinnamon. Does what it says on the tin.
sanias53 – :
Super-sweet, creamy/milky gourmand. This is literally the smell of walking into a very fancy European cake and pastry shop. The type where u know the cakes are going to be super-sweet, rich, and super-lemony.
Too sweet, too pretentious, and too overtly gourmand for my tastes.
geoneo – :
It smells like heavy cream and a freshly opened bag of vanilla pipe tobacco. A heavenly and nostalgic fragrance for me. It was an instant favorite and signature fragrance worthy! I could bathe in this stuff! Fortunately it’s a very high quality concoction with nice projection and staying power, so I don’t need an awful lot of it.
It also reminds me of “Black Coconut” oil blends from Auric and Kuumba Made. Those scents are much heavier and concentrated but still quite similar.
SeplyBlup – :
Predominantly a sweet milk fragrance. I get no cinnamon or lemon. An addictive, delicious gourmand.
Djassi – :
Sour buttercream blended with warm milk and melted butter. Tart, sweet, very realistic, and might be nauseating to some people. The scent itself is very true to life, a bit nostalgic and comforting. If you are curious about this kind of scent, you should get a sample of Au Lait from Alkemia.
EDIT: This perfume continues to be a conversation topic among me and my friends. One said it smells like cheese, one said it smells like strawberry milkshake. Anyway it’s very special. I only put it on when I’m going to stay at home. It’s my guilty pleasure.
EDIT: I actually put this on and was delighted by a warm, sweet, comforting milky vanilla. I don’t experience this as very sour at all anymore. Actually it’s growing on me and I kinda love it. Still careful to wear this in public, though.
dimasy7 – :
@aquafern and Mila Luckyscent is where you can find this fragrance and they even have samples. I do not work for and am not affiliated with luckyscent. I am simply helping to provide information on where I have purchased this fragrance from. (Since my last post/review was not posted) My wife has been after this fragrance for a while, I ordered her a few samples and will post our findings once we receive and test them.
rtj561speagoessenda – :
If anyone knows where I can get this, or if you have a bottle or decant to swap or sell, please message me. I had a decant and I love this so much, but cannot find it anywhere now.
shiman – :
at first – a hot drippy cinnamon roll. then, after 30 minutes – warm milk with honey. now – 2 hours later, i get all those Jelly Belly Buttered Popcorn references of the previous reviewers. haha… spot on. i honestly don’t know if i’d ever wear this, but it isn’t *entirely* unpleasant. though, at this price point, i’d have a hard time justifying a fb.
vanvanov – :
If someone has a bottle of this and does not enjoy it, I will gladly take it off your hands. My swap list is in my profile and I’m willing to swap 2 of my niche perfumes for a bottle of this heavenly milky juice.
открыточки – :
Was roaming through my “notebook” and had a laugh when I saw what my first impression was of Crema di Latte:
“OH GOD, IT’S BUTTERED POPCORN JELLYBEAN IN PERFUME FORM. MY NIGHTMARE”
Surprisingly this echoes a few other reviews, so I’ll leave it at that mildly hilarious one-liner. Definitely a perfume that was a big NO! right off the back, too terrified to even test again, because there are no words for how much I loathe buttered popcorn jellybeans.
FoX32 – :
This perfume smelled like rancid buttered popcorn jelly beans on my skin and lingered for what seemed like an eternity. I expected to love it, but instead it made me gag.
cdrr – :
Received this today from Zelda. It smells very much like screaming yellow zonkers, that candy coated popcorn from the 80’s, not caramel but buttery, sweet coating. While that was my favorite sweet of the time, I’m not sure I want to smell like it.
It is a nice scent, but one that will cause me to overeat goodies because it smells so good. I will wear this, but only after meals.
konstantin64 – :
I never thought I’d say this, but it’s too sweet for me. Too sweet, too milky, too much.
sheri – :
suffocating cloying buttery popcorn smell. you know how those Jelly Belly poporn flavored jellybeans taste? How they taste is how this smells but magnified 50x. This is the 2nd Hilde I’ve tried that I’ve hated. I think that does it for me…no more. UNCLE!!!!! I give up. Someone give me some noseplugs and a Silkwood shower please!
denkomoza – :
This is the exact smell of spoiled condensed milk with some sugar on top, not really a bad thing if you’re into that kind of smell. It’s very very foodie, I wouldn’t want to smell like this at all.
EDIT:
I’ve literally ordered a sample of this 3-4 times, and it grows on you, to the point of falling in love. But, obviously this fragrance is not to go out in, but to enjoy it at home by your self, with a cup of coffee in the morning, or a cup of tea before bed, very cozy, soft, motherly dare I say. It smells very natural.
texinp – :
This has got to be the most richly lactonic perfume I have ever smelled! Crema di Latte is a huge dollop of fatty, full-cream soft serve with a really thick texture.
It starts off intensely milky with excellent projection and “boils” on the skin by getting gradually sweeter and sweeter until it begins to smell like one of those chewy milk bottle candies. As it dries down, the caramel and cinnamon notes begin to appear but I also get this strange leathery smell – unexpected but not unpleasant – which I only get faint whiffs of.
This scent is pretty linear but if you like milky scents then this is your dream come true. Excellent longevity and moderate projection.
simov-11 – :
vanilla Flan!
nikvan58 – :
Since there are so few reviews, I had to add that, on me, it has a distinctive hot buttery caramel popcorn smell. If I close my eyes, I imagine a faint whiff of cinnamon somewhere, but it’s mostly melted butter on me.
kalach73 – :
Pay all this money to smell sweet boiled milk. No way Jose ,,,,,!!
Zmir – :
Absolute pure vanilla lusciousness.
adri – :
I received a sample of this. Nice scent. I can smell the milk, sugar, caramel, and vanilla. It comes across a little vanilla cupcakey on me, but the notes I listed are exactly what it smells like. It’s gourmand and delicious, but very linear. On a positive note, sillage and longevity are good.
If this was $50 or under, I would probably purchase a bottle. However; for the hefty $200 price tag, I think it’s a little too linear for my liking. I’m going to enjoy my sample, but will not be purchasing a bottle.
trefoleg – :
Majestically well done, original to the extreme!
A unique aroma, with a gourmand chord of caramel, milk, sugar, vanilla, all these create a scent sugary milk cream, tasty, a dessert based on condensed milk, all this and more.
What brings me back is what Hilde describes, to achieve that aroma of milk boiled in a perfum, is for a few, so a masterpiece, unique and distinct.
I want to drink, to eat, anyway, Hilde hit the spot
Rating: 10/10