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john79 – :
ANOTHER amazing offering from Profumum Roma.
I get the notes as per the table however it reminds me of Atelier Vanilla Insensee which is better. gorgeous blend though it comes across as a little synthetic.
At first spray it reminds me of more so Super Sweet Vanilla and clove maybe and after 10 minutes it starts to evolve to a top note with a little bite of almond and more so coconut (with its shell) – at a cursory whiff it passes for vanilla – and tonka. The Heliotrope adds a refreshing airy brightness.
Nice for a novelty and delish but ultimately not top shelf for me as a whiff often gives a nice coconut smell with what comes across blended as vinyl sometimes spoiling it…
EDIT: After a refresher I found after 40 min the occasional vinyl effect disappears and it smells gorgeous – I’m thinking now Almond butter with coconut!
feis – :
This fragrance has this beautiful, sweet coconut and almond opening that is pure heaven. The first 20 minutes is what I love the most and to be honest, is the reason that made me buy it. There is no other house that makes gourmands like Profumum Roma. This fragrance has a truly edible gourmand smell, starts out with sweet almonds and ends up with lots of heliotrope with the scent of bitter almonds. My eight year old son told me pretty much instantly that I smelled like play-doh, can’t really argue with that. It does smell a lot like play-doh, not that I care. The only thing you need to be aware off is that this fragrance is cloying and can be a bit sickly sweet. Maybe not so suitable for work, and please don’t overspray, you might suffocate someone unintentionally. One spray of this powerhouse fragrance goes a long way and will last you for many hours! If you want to smell like a bakery filled with almond goods and marzipan, this is what you’re looking for! Truly delicious!
Барсик 1201 – :
Excellent, almonds and vanilla shout at you and it is a wonderful combo. Great sillage and longevity, one of my favorites and I would grade this an A. I believe day or night would work and even in an office although a casual environment is ideal.
rrjamesn8 – :
Profumum Dolce Aqcua is accurately, as its name suggests, “sweet water,” taking the sweet almond/vanilla mix found in Confetto and instead of making it powdery, it’s semi fresh and aquatic in Dolce Acqua. The tonka seems minimal in Dolce Acqua so it’s more nutty than powdery. It’s sweet, creamy, leaning toward a rich gourmand while at the same time not smelling like baked goods—certainly closer to candy and confection.
It’s the type of sweetness I find a little confounding, though, as it’s quite possible that I’m simply not a huge fan of almond, as I know I love vanilla.
I see this, like Confetto, as better-suited for women, though obviously men like myself that like gourmands could easily like this, even though it’s not particularly a hit with me. Heliotrope certainly makes this lean toward women, though I find the coconut perfectly unisex.
Still, the quality is obvious and it blatantly achieves what its name suggests, a sweet aquatic that is not too heavy. Performance is good, and it has the same standard pricing as other Profumum offerings. Not one I’ll likely smell again but it’s an honest name and some will understandably love it.
6 out of 10
drogan – :
Reminds me of Yves Rocher Fleur de Noël, a somewhat obscure fragrance from 2008 that I swapped away. In fact, it is the exact love child of Fleur de Noël and L’Erbolario Mandorla. This is what I expected Confetto from the same house to be. A fluffy sugary almond confection with a hint of marzipan doused in amaretto. It is irresistible. It almost knocks Reminiscence Dragée off the throne as my fave gourmand, and that’s saying something.
Gasan43210 – :
It’s like an “eau tendre” version of Etro Heliotrope.
A cocktail with coconut and amaretto, softened by heliotrope and with tonka as base.
Nice enough, but- true- not groundbreaking.
-=LiS=- – :
I thought this also smelt like super sugary water with cherries. I do get that it’s almond now when smelling the notes because there was something powdery about it. I can smell the coconut peeking underneath.
Overall this fragrance is very underwhelming for me. I think it’s too sweet for nothing interesting going on. It reminds me a little of the sugar water oil I’d buy at “it’s perfume oil!” when I was a young teen.
Blictcinc – :
My initial impression of Dolce Acqua is putting my nose to my wrist and JERKING my head back with my eyes open wide & recoiling in horror. *THE* sweetest, and most bitter almond liquor scent I’ve ever smelled in my life… and I really enjoy sweet scents. Profumum Roma never fails to make me question HOW sweet perfume can actually get.
Ten minutes later into the drydown, it’s much more pleasant. Heavenly, fluffy, almond-flavored angel cake!
The drydown is all Profumum Roma’s iconic “Chapstick” base which makes me want to jump off a cliff. If I could find something that was exactly like the middle part of the note progression, I’d be happy. However, that being said – I *DO* enjoy this fragrance, and you may too! I would categorize this as “Sickeningly sweet”, but in a delicious way nonetheless.
SculgeFug – :
Opening smells very much like doll in patisserie (plasticky/vanillic), but 10 minutes (and several hours) later Dolce Acqua is all about the nicest, almondy heliotrope I ever encountered; a hint of sweetness on a fluffy, almost edible heliotrope cloud. Angelic and asexual.
I really like it, but cannot imagine myself wearing it for various reasons; not into this type of fragrances, not into very longlasting/linear fragrances, not girly-girl enough… But, I wouldn’t mind smelling this on others 🙂
All in all – kudos to Dolce Acqua heliotrope.
sqwerty07 – :
I had a candle from Jo Malone, Pink Macaroons I think it’s called, I wished Jo Malone made a fragrance like that but alas, can be only obtained as a candle.
Here it is and it’s just so beautiful.
Perfect for those days when it feels I’m swimming to work, it’s raining so much the water is everywhere.
I also don’t need to have a warm body temperature for this to project, which means perfect for this time of year as well when I’m constantly walking around being cold. Hey, Irish winters and buildings are HARSH, this gives me a soft, fluffy, marzipan edge to my life and for this I thank it.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Even though this is up there with the best, this is only no.2.
Number one is Platino from Omnia Profumo. It smells even more like marzipan but with more coconut. And it’s half the price. It will be my pink macaroon HG for winter 🙂
leikat – :
i tested this last night. it was overwhelmingly Necco wafer candy, baby powder, and plastic. maybe a full day’s wear of it will be more accurate.
Chipchap – :
Holy coconut! I had really been hoping that, by testing more expensive vanilla-based scents, I would find a few that work better with my chemistry, but no, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
This opened with a charming sparkly/fuzzy note of heliotrope and some almond, which lasted about a minute on my skin chemistry. Very quickly the coconut note emerged and drowned everything else out. As usual, the coconut note was sharp and almost plastic on me, but I understand that’s just my personal chemistry. Unfortunately, it was the only note I was left with and it was overwhelming. I felt there was some tonka in the background, but it was not easily identifiable on my skin. I really had to sniff for it, and that gave me a headache, considering I was smelling mostly sharp plasticky coconut up-close.
For anyone who loves vanilla-based fragrances and can wear coconut notes well, I highly recommend trying this one!
ghost_s63 – :
I might really love this one, because I love the bitter almonds, like the ones H poison DIor used to have, so I should try this one again more carefully; last time it seemed to me there were just sweet almonds there and heliotropine; reminded me a lot Etro’s Heliotrope.
I already have Battito d’Ali for PFR and i love it more that any other now.
фомич – :
The first reaction I got when I tried Dolce Acqua on this cloudy, rainy morning as I walked into the kitchen, was that it smells like Play-Doh.
My own first reaction was that it smells like a very decadent almond desert. Desert, perhaps, that LOOKS beautiful, but is not designed to be eaten, as though covered in impeccably delicate and intricate marzipan-y art and encrusted in gold, it is most likely poisonous really. 😀
Even though “dolce” means “sweet”, to me this is not sweet at all, apart from the initial, minute blast of sugary water (indeed!) but it is full of bitter, bitter almonds and the amazing, dangerous heliotrope is strong! While this certainly contains much more than just the notes listed here, there is no coconut in there for me.
So here goes – what appears to some to be sweet, innocent, childlike concoction, can be poison for others.
I personally have a weakness for Profumum fragrances, being awed by their sillage, quality and longevity again and again and Dolce Acqua is no different. While this fragrance has a lot of “dignified” presence during the first hours, it becomes softer, soothing and very comforting later.
-jane- – :
this is mostly Heliotrope! There is much heliotropine in there, it’s very almondy soft, powdery, like marzipan, really a nice and gentle “pendant” to Hypnotic poison, or Confetto, which are more bitter almond. But for me it’ s too simple, too tender, sweet, a bit like baby powder, too kind maybe, it lacks IMHO that “something” special, I prefer much more Battito d’ali, which seems tender & innocent but give also a quite sensual, mysterious feeling too.
goleshukvladimir – :
While similar to the other vanilla-noted frags from this house (Vanitas, Acqva e Zucchero, Dvlcis in Fundo), this one, I think, is quite distinct- not only in the coconut-almond section, but also I detect a mixture of vetiver and tobacco leaves- which reminds me of Odori’s “Tabacco” very much. Anyway: this one is a stunner- a mysterious gourmand and one of my new favorites from the house. Lasts 24+ hours.
nenexpafe – :
When I first put some on the pleasure centres in my brain lit up because coconut, almonds & cherries are three of my favourite scents. Unfortunately a few minutes into the drydown I detected a chemical plastic-like odour that reminded me of the australian gold spray on you get in the drug store. Nevertheless it’s still quite delicious but doesn’t warrant the price. Also, it’s definitely more on the feminine side. Try Hilde Soliani’s Sipario for a near perfect coconut-based fragrance instead & save yourself 40 dollars.
Voigo – :
A delicious and very rich almond confection scent. Perfect for gourmand lovers like myself. It is very long-lasting and dries down beautifully, increasingly smelling like baked goods as it unravels. I don’t get any cherry, but the coconut is creamy and the almond is doughy with almost a butterscotch scent. I get no playdoughy feel from this like I do with many almonds. The vanilla is similar to the other vanillas in this line (vanitas, especially). My fiance really likes it. I haven’t found anything like this and I really love it, great job again from this line.
cccckkkkkss – :
This one is beautiful !!!! No cherry-ish smell , no powdery , just almond , vanilla and so creamy . I love it.
UPDATE : Now I got the full bottle. The box presentation is gorgeous.
At the first spritz , you get a divine smell of a well blended and creamy licor , coconut , almond and vanilla .Nothing has an artificial smell here . What caught my attention was exactly that creaminess , hard to describe , so beautiful , smooth , tender. The dry down is also creamy , nothing powdery , never cloying. The staying power is also great.
I totally agree with maelleinrome and if you are a gourmand lover you must give it a try , “bellissimo” .
pulya762 – :
YESSS!!! It was finally added to the database!!! I was waiting for this… 🙂 I don’t care for most of Profumum Durante: I find them the expensive copies of more famous fragrances (Confetto –> Hypnotic poison: Acqua e zucchero –> Pink sugar; Soavissima –> Teint de neige etc.). But this is so beautiful, I love it so much!!! At the first spritz, you can smell a sweet, creamy, so natural note of coconut; after a while, you are embraced by the most wonderful union of almond and vanilla. So sweet, but not sickly, only tender and creamy. Maybe Dolce acqua is what Confetto should have been in my mind! If you like this kind of fragrance – vanilla or almond based – you will surely love Dolce acqua. It’s also so powerful! 🙂