Description
Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Garden comes out at the beginning of 2018 and opens a new chapter in the story of Dolce, following the original from 2014, Dolce Floral Drops from 2015 and Dolce Rosa Excelsa from 2016. Dolce Garden is a floral-gourmand fragrance that is said to radiate the pleasure of fun experiences. It is described as a fragrance of free thoughts and desires for fun experiences, inspired by shades of the gardens of Sicily in bloom.
Dolce Garden opens with white flowers, fresh and fruity notes (mandarin, magnolia, neroli), evoking Mediterranean sun. The heart includes petals of frangipani,ylang-ylang and coconut, which are said to create an ultra-feminine and sunny aura. In the base, the perfume turns slightly gourmand with vanilla, almond milk and woods.
The bottle of Dolce Garden is recognizable for the original shape, thick glass, curved lines and a cap sculpted in the shape of a flower, now in pink color. The fragrance is available as a 30, 50 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum.
The nose behind this fragrance is Violaine Collas.
kingas – :
I do like this one. I find it incredibly cozy, actually! I think I got lucky with this one – usually sweet scents go overly sweet on me, and it seems that has happened to other reviewers, but this is a fluffy, gourmand cloud and just feels right. This feels like a cashmere sweater on a cool (but not cold) autumn day, but there’s a lovely brightness to it as well. I may actually consider a full-sized bottle once my sample is gone…
manula1982 – :
Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama…
Oh hi, sorry I didn’t see you there right away, I was a bit caught up in an 80s TV show fantasy.
Frankly the marketing concept behind this is beyond me. The ad shows a Mediterranean garden (most likely Italy), the fragrance is called garden, so you’d expect lime, orange blossoms, some European gardeny florals maybe.
But nope, that’s not what this is. Unless by garden you mean you have a beach bungalow in Goa with some big imported Frangipani bush, you are sitting with a fresh glass of Nimbu pani (lemon water) while someone is grating a fresh coconut.
BUT even that picture is not quite correct as there is definitely a quite synthetic quality to its allover impression. While the coconut and Frangipani for sure are the most dominant throughout the whole experience, initially you get some zesty fruity sweetness as well. The longer you wear it the more you’ll be able to catch some vanilla and sandalwood too.
All the while with a clear synthetic vibe. It makes me think of everything ‘tropical’ scented I have ever smelled in the 80s and 90s. Do you remember those Barbies or My Little Pony toys with tropical scent? They keep coming up in my mind whenever I wear this.
Also somehow it conjures up memories of 90s and 80s TV shows in me, when they have an episode playing in Hawaii or on another tropical Island, people wearing open flowery shirts and flower garlands, sipping Pina Colada from real Coconuts with little paper umbrellas.
And I must say, I am kinda into it. I actually do like this. It’s somewhat nostalgic to me, it fits with the tropical weather I live in, I can’t complain about sillage. Longevity might be a bit better maybe. But yeah, I like this.
It’s sure no Italian garden or a real tropical one for that matter, but to me it is a good fantasy of it. It gives me earworms of every tropical themed song I knew as a kid.
I think Jamaican in the moonlight
Sandy beaches drinkin’ rum every night
We got no money momma but we can go
We’ll split the difference go to Coconut Grove…
benisch – :
Public restroom in a bottle.
The cloying synthetic vanilla reeks of toilet freshener. The second apparent scent
-coconut- reminds me of the fake tan my friends and I wore as young teenagers.
It is cheap, and not in a hot and skanky way…but in a scented loo paper way.
Do I sound mad? Maybe because it destroyed my sense of smell for a day after wearing it and heightened my sensitivity to vanilla to an almost unbearable level.
For those who enjoy a tropical scent, I suggest the body shop butters. I never fail to receive comments and compliments on how I smell when wearing one..
myp.kim – :
Pretty gourmand floral fragrance if you like vanillic almond and woody frangipani…The coconut here is not like a sweet, creamy, vanillic coconut that can be found in cake/candy, or desserts. It is rather raw, unsweetened and natural, also different for a change, compared to many scented coconut “sun tan” or “body lotions”. I like D&G Garden a lot.
advireere – :
This fragrance is almost wonderful. I just can’t figure out what to do with it. I find myself reaching to sniff the bottle several times a day and being so very happy smelling it. I adore it….but I find that when I put it on I’m very self conscious about it. I’m a shy girl, so perhaps its sillage is just too strong for me. I hope to find a way that I can wear it comfortably because I really do enjoy it immensely…in small doses.
It’s definitely sweet, but there is something there that gives it a nice edge that keeps it from being just sugar. It makes me a tiny bit weak in the knees.
sergpanch – :
There’s coconut in this Garden! Synthetic coconut. And it’s toasted. There’s like an uber-sweet fruity note mingling in. Sillage is massive on me, and longevity is most of the day (unfortunately). This is unlike any garden I’ve ever been in, and—sorry to say—this may be the worst perfume launch of 2018. I can’t wait to take a shower.
rolllig84 – :
Now this is what I want when I wear a fruity-floral. It has a somewhat weighty, nectar-like sweetness. It’s not a thin, sugary sweetness, and still it manages to not feel too heavy–despite the presence of coconut, vanilla, and almond milk. I think the sunny tropical flowers brighten this fragrance, and the touch of citrus and white flowers cut the whole thing with a little bit of crispness. Its very pretty and unique. A happy and comforting scent that–despite having tropical notes–can be worn just about anywhere at any time.
Performance-wise, I’m very happy with it. It lasts all day, and it has a good bit of projection. Glad I stumbled upon this one.
mike7kot7 – :
One of my fave perfumes smells so good my fiance picked it out for me and i can be very picky with my perfume but i just loved it. Got loads of compliments to. It reminds me of been on holiday got a bit of a tropic scent would defo recomend.
dudashruslan – :
This is very pretty and fresh. It was funny when I saw it at the counter my mind went ‘oh it’s Dolce Rose’ then I thought hold on I think that already exists.. ‘it must be Dolce Rose Intense…?” it just has that instant Pink Rose impact judging from the bottle alone. But it is not that at all, it really is very garden like, a bit bitter at first spray but settles beautifully. Interesting choice for bottle, but very beautiful and unexpected.
katinez – :
A few weeks back:
Me: Smells woman sitting near me by a fountain. “What are you wearing? You smell really good!”
Young Woman: (delighted) “Dolce Garden. It has coconut in it.”
Today:
Me: Buys last rollerball at Macy’s, hurries back to the car where husband is waiting. Tears open package and rolls on sugary, slightly powdery, fruity sweetness.
Husband: “That smells good.”
Me: (shock. Usually he’s a complainer.)
Husband: “It smells like (bath and bodyworks) Pink Chiffon mixed with (body fantasies) cotton candy.”
Me: (shock again. Is he…ANALYZING NOTES?!)
My end-of-summer perfume.
I ordered a dress that looks very Dolce and Gabana.
I can’t wait to wear it with this perfume and feel all feminine.
UPDATE: this is one of those perfumes where the temperature and humidity and season has to be right or it smells like a chemical mess. This was sweet and beautiful at the end of summer. It’s now fall, and not working.
Dron.cor89 – :
This perfume is pretty in my honest opinion, although I’ll admit I didn’t enjoy it at first, as I found it to be too heady. I received a sample of this from a Dillard’s rep and while I usually don’t reach for such sugary fragrances like this, I’m kind of loving it.
This is certainly a youthful, VERY sweet fragrance. Dolce Garden opens with a fresh, tangy mandarin, and slowly morphs into coconut and white floral. The perfume finally settles on a nutty, warm vanilla base.
I find the the name, and overall bottle design to be very unfitting for this perfume. One would probably expect some kind of fruity floral just from those two factors alone (even though the bottle is adorable as others have noted). This isn’t too different from other perfumes I’ve smelled before but I actually quite enjoy this one.
nadjaefr – :
Coconut, almond, and vanilla. But there is an added citrus freshness to make it less cloying. Sweet, beachy. Perhaps too sweet. Reminds me of bum-bum cream. Piña colada.
It lasts at least 12 hours. By the end it smells like melted vanilla ice cream.
This actually is an interesting perfume to consider. I like it.
fanin.n – :
I wanted to love this Flanker & couldn’t even get pass the first spray.
Super duper sweet, sickly sweet. I smelled straight up sugary vanilla.
It dried down to a coconut vanilla with a hint of almond (had to ask myself is that almond..something nutty)
Lasted 8 plus hours
Anaerakneed – :
Yes, Garden is too sweet as other reviewers have noted. A very synthetic vanilla, coconut cream and almond are pushed too hard in this composition, it ends up smelling like another generic, cloying mall perfume. It’s not terrible, but it’s not special either.
Super cute bottle though, so that’s a plus.
qhh190InsuffBooni – :
This is sickly sweet. I expected something fresh, like the other fragrances from that line have been. I sense vanilla, frangipani, magnolia and almond in it and all of it together is way too much.
I wouldn’t want to wear this one.
abbesalom – :
Judging from the bottle and name, I was expecting something totally different; maybe a fresh bouquet of flowers mixed with berries.but coconut and frangipani? If I knew about the notes, I would have tried it much sooner!
Maybe because of my prejudgment I thought I smelts a blast of red berries mixed with some sweet notes and a right dose of flowers. Of course orange and neroli are there to give it italian mood. My nose can not detect any almond nor coconut. Almond seems to be the new trend if perfume industry as I see it much here. What I can connect to almond note, is the creaminess I’m getting here which gets bolder by pass of the time.
Coconut always sounds tempting,but it perfumes doesn’t always smell good. Here it has worked great. It gives DG a beachy (not bitchy,lol) and exotic vibe which is quite welcome to my nose.
Overall, Dolce Garden was a positive discovery for me, as it was higher than my expectation. I liked dolce, but I like this one more.
evroset86 – :
All the good rewievs here made me courious to smell this one. It was fresh and sunny in the start, floral. Then five minutes and its completely gone. Skin scent is an underestimation…! But I liked this better than the original Dolce, although they are very similar. I have them both at each wrist no to test.
Lohengrin – :
I generously sprayed this all over my arm today at Ulta to see if all the glowing reviews were worth me springing for at least a 1.7 for $90 bucks! It’s flowers and coconut…big time coconut. And almonds, but not so much until the dry down. It starts off very Miami Glow, or Bronze Goddess (big coconut) and ends up Hypnotic Poison (almond). I have both, so I’m not sure that I need this (especially since I have a long list of other fragrances that I’d like to explore). I think the name is misleading, because when I think of a garden I think of something a lot less tropical. This is a beachy summer scent. I’d say a solid like.
EDIT: I broke down and bought a roller ball at Sephora!
shadowline – :
I love “Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Cream” scent and this D&G Dolce Garden smells very similar! Also the scent reminds me of “Dumle” sweets. My husband loves this one too. And the bottle is adorable <3
LIERRELTY – :
My plan was to give this to my neice as she is the recipient of all my unwanted fragrances but I decided to give it one more try and I’m glad I did. This opened up beautiful today in the scorching heat. It’s almost like the heat cooked the vanilla and coconut to produce this beautiful creamy coconut and vanilla concoction that I’m loving as well as the people that I’ve encountered. Ordered another bottle and straight to the top shelf this beauty went. I love it!!! The key is not to over spray. Longevity is 12 hrs plus and you will get noticed.
Edit- yes, this definitely likes to be heated up.
Ikd9lsmdSf – :
My newest Baby! Dolce Garden is deliciously addictive. I first smelled it while visiting Bloomingdales looking for Bvlgari Omnia Pink Sapphire. I saw the cute pink flower cap bottle and spritzed a card. I was so smitten I had to skin test. This juice is what I unknowingly really wanted. I did test Pink Sapphire too which is light and lovely on the other arm but this…was the newest addiction.
I love the Coconut mixed with the Almond and Vanilla accented by Plumeria, Ylang ylang and Magnolias. It reminds me of the original Banana Boat Suntan Oil with the Mink Oil which is dating me but whatever. I loved that oil. I actually got complimented when I used it. This little baby gets tons of compliments too. I have not been too impressed with the original Dolce or the Dolce Rose but Dolce Garden is the one in this line for me. Longevity is great and the sillage is strong then it becomes more moderate. Try it!
NiLssan – :
Summer sweet coconut smell, i dont get much floral. Last whole day on my skin. I think can be easy to overspray because its really strong. I like it and the bottle is absolutely gorgeous.
kameltrofi – :
Very fruity and coconutty but no where near childish. It’s sooo sexy. A very romantic summer scent. Not at all what I expected but instantly became one of my favourite scents ever.
Flulgeaddella – :
OMG how lovely! Name is misleading but I bought it immediately after one test. A friend hugged me yesterday and she was like oh my god what are you wearing? I said , I know! Cream vanilla-almond-coconut with a white flower aura as well, blending so amazingly well. Perfect for my summer vacations! and spring as well!
lexus7198 – :
I really like this one! prob. my fav. from the Dolce line..it’s a summer garden by the beach, Tropical fruity floral with coconut & creamy vanilla. I’m sure I favor this one more b/c of the dominant vanilla tone (vanilla lover). Really nice for spring/summer if you’re in search for a new fragrance, deff. add this to your try list.
tezin31rus – :
*margerita ! Lime at first then beachy coconut coming through so yes I like this one ! And no garden here unless it’s on a beach at sunset sippin a margarita with a slight frangapani breeze in the air
DonHerbarni – :
Omg what a surprise , I think that should have been the name instead of garden because no garden here lol unless it’s on a beach at sunset sipping a coconut
drarmtaxpak – :
Om nom nom… Not quite sunscreen, or gourmand, or floral. A smooth blend of all of that, leaving me smelling delicious. Warm and beachy, but too dry to be cloying. Soft and sweet without powder or benzoin (I have enough of those). Almond is the strongest note on me, then coconut. The flowers are definitely present though, just creamy and almost honeyed. Very unique and summery.
1234ss – :
There are no flowers but still I like it. Garden by Gucci reminds me of my childhood. Picknick in an orchard, the smell of open basket (bread rolls with butter + apples) + big coconut + pineapple + something subtle dry and herbal?
It is very buttery scent. Long lasting. Not only for coconut lovers.
nikolas47 – :
Smells like burnt fake candle florals with sour fake milk spilled during a hot summer day …synthetic and very cloying
mumic2002 – :
This is easily the best in the entire Dolce line. I wasn’t expecting to like it since I have found the other Dolces underwhelming and fleeting on the skin, despite their beautiful bottles. Dolce Garden is entirely unique and stands apart with how sweet and creamy it is, while still being light and appropriate for warm weather (but it would be great any time of day/year). Does it smell like a garden? No, but if you love gourmands, coconut and frangipani, you will definitely enjoy this. It’s long lasting with decent projection.
muwerwsdd – :
Oh how I love this perfume! On me it is the perfect amount of coconut sweetness with a splash of floral! The sillage is good and the longevity is about 5 hours. My husband got me this as a Mothers Day gift from him and our boys and I could not be more pleased with this! I just wish it came in a bigger bottle!
busigin83 – :
Coconut suntan oil and jasmine mojito opening.
Once the mojito limey citrus fades (10 min.) this is not a tropical scent, even with the coconut sun tan oil. (I don’t get orange really, except at the very front of the opening, for about 30 seconds, then it turns quite lime-y). The jasmine is not quite ‘hot’ enough to read as tropical either imo.
The coconut suntan oil begs comparison with JF Soleil Blanc or EL’s Bronze Goddess. The coconut in the two former is more beachy and intense (sexy, nostalgic, beachy). DG Garden is lighter in coconut oil and sweeter. It strikes me as an odd market decision; the scent of that old-fashioned drug-store suntan oil can be so divisive. The suntan oil note runs the risk of seeming synthetic and cheap, and Garden does not totally escape that problem. The effect is a sort of mish-mash of fragrance goals, and for that reason I don’t think this scent really ‘works’. That the bottle and name don’t seem to match either is emblematic of the overall problem with Garden.
After about an hour or two Garden turned into an average vanilla, milky, sweet powdery scent on my skin. It’s an odd profile for an early summer-release scent. Not bad really, just out of season and a bit predictable.
SwawIntaste – :
No coconut or almond in this one for me…it is big tropical flowers and something really plastic, heavy, and artificial. I saw the notes and thought there would finally be a Dolce fragrance that I’d love, but nope. This one gave me a migraine in the first 5 minutes. It could’ve been beautiful, but they’ve put something in there that is so harsh that it makes it unwearable.
Save your money, there are better fragrances in this category out there.
Lis:) – :
I tested this today and the drydown smells like the Sol de Janeiro body lotion, the Bum Bum cream. Almondy-creamy coconut with the sweet floral frangipani and a hint of Mandarine orange. It’s playful, young, not something you would want to wear if you want to be taken seriously.
cjq745Diobtetty – :
Coconut cookies, I love it!
fedor 17266136 – :
Nothing like the insipid Dolce (don’t hate me, i love dolce packaging), and i understand complaints about the misnomer. However, i want to steer this review away from complaints toward appreciation. I love a tropical coconut scent, and am excited this one is not a suntan lotion beach scent but has some of the same elements. It’s much dressier than a beach scent, and has more depth. Now on my FBW list. But i don’t think i can wait for the next gift giving opportunity in my house to own this.
Ферхат – :
I kind of love this…
(I know this is a perfume review site and not a storytelling site but my feelings of this perfume require some backstory, so bear with me)
The past couple of days, my boyfriend and I have been getting settled into our new duplex apartment in the eclectic/artsy district of town. Our street is an offshoot of the main shopping strip of the area and everything we could ever want to go to is right within walking distance of our place, whether it be a coffee shop, a bar, a trendy restaurant, or a boutique. The street I live on is lined with picturesque Victorian houses accompanied by colorful gardens and it’s absolutely stunning to behold. I have enjoyed going out for walks just to admire the houses and there’s never a time that I leave the house that the neighbors don’t wave and smile.
I have dreamed of living in this part of town for as long as I can remember and it feels surreal to finally be living my dream with the man of my dreams. I’m feeling incredibly optimistic about life and it’s as though I’m floating on a cloud.
Yesterday, when I was on a shopping excursion, I discovered Dolce Garden’s rosy pink bottle sitting on a display stand surrounded by small pink flowers. I was immediately awestruck by its beauty much like I am awestruck by the beauty of my new neighborhood. And when I sprayed it on myself, I felt like it’s aura matched my feelings in this new stage of my life so perfectly.
It has such a sunny, lively, feminine disposition that radiates warmth and optimism. It opens with mandarin, neroli, and magnolia—refreshing and uplifting. The coconut, ylang ylang, and frangipani heart gives off a tropical vibe that reminds me of being on vacation in a foreign place with only possibilities lying in my wake. The almond and vanilla in the base lend a dollop of warmth to compliment the milky coconut and round out this sweet, spritely beauty.
I couldn’t resist getting myself a bottle.
When I wore this perfume today, I floated on my cloud of optimism with my perfume cloud of optimism encompassing me and I never felt more confident and beautiful and at home in my own skin. I walked down my Victorian-lined street with my head high and a smile etched on my lips and the neighbors must have noticed that I was feeling myself because one of them stopped me to give me a pink peony from his garden! I know that this scent will become special to me and serve as a reminder of happy beginnings and will remind me to stay humble and be grateful of what I have been fortunate enough to achieve in my life.
If there were an image to go with this perfume, it would be the image of a pink flower that’s been warmed by the tropical sun and is now opening its petals up to meet the sun’s rays, embracing all of its vibrancy and warmth. Much like a young woman who is coming to find her place in the world and is now drinking up all that life has to give. 😉
santilo1984 – :
Fresh and very nice at the beginning, but later there is also some cosmetic, creamy vibe. It smells like coconut milk body balm. Not bad, but I expected more.
beliexedo – :
I love it so much, I tested it yesterday for a second time just to reassure that this is my new perfume love. If someone has an unwanted bottle of this, please PM me for a swap!
erurlertyf – :
I love this perfume! I also agree that the campaign and name are very misleading, this should be called something among the lines of tropic paradise or tropical punch. The coconut in my skin is very predominant (gives me piña colada vibes). I like how it’s sweet and fruity, yet still fresh. This will probably be my summer scent since it reminds me of my home (the Caribbean).
hanna_2509 – :
I tested it today
Coco, some exotic friut and tan cream… summer in the bottle.. very nice… and finally little bit different from all others dg and designer fragrances
It is one which will get complimets
faintetammack – :
I love this perfume. Love love love it. It’s gorgeous on a woman. But the marketing is all wrong compared to what is in the bottle. The ads do not leave the audience with an idea of the notes, or what is actually in the bottle. Based on the add, you would expect a straight up garden-pretty- flowers vibe, and not the tropical nuances and sweetness this has. So there is definitely a disconnect and missed opportunity there. It makes me wonder who is in charge of this campaign? I understand DG have been shooting for this family values thing. So why cant a family have a picnic on a beach? A beach garden. This aint no garden your grandma planted, and this garden doesnt smell like a traditional family gathering. Lol
But good thing the perfume is beautiful.
Ilene35 – :
Wow, Dolce Garden took me by surprise. This does not smell like any garden I know of, also I wouldn’t have put it into a pink bottle. And I don’t like the promo video at all. But the fragrance smells sooo good!
It’s super juicy and super creamy at the same time. I get much more fruit from the opening than the listed mandarin. There is also pineapple, passionfruit and a hint of grapefruit to my nose. And then there are the creamy, milky coconut and the airy tropical ylang ylang to warm the scent. When the fragrance dries down, it switches slowly from a tropical cocktail to an almond and vanilla cream dessert. Both with coconut and a breeze of sweet exotic florals.
This is a lovely summer gourmand, a delicious mood lifter. Not the most complex and refined scent, but not boring either, it just makes me happy to smell it.
Dolce Garden reminds me a little bit of the discontinued Benefit So hooked on Carmella which I had some years ago and loved. They have different notes, but Carmella also had that vanilla and Pina Colada vibe. It’s so nice to find something like that again.
diehard – :
Smelled this one by chance and it’s my new signature. Sometimes you smell a perfume and you just know it’s the one you’ve been looking for all along.
It’s like a coconut vanilla pineapple sitting in the sun – that sweet, dry heat smell.
It reminds me of lounging on beaches, sun cream and pina coladas.
I’ve had many compliments when wearing this!
LiganDeMorgan – :
I was so keen to try this. But alas I am not liking it very much. I usually quite like tropical coconut based scents, but this one did not win me over. It’s rather synthetic. I’m not picking up much in the way of florals and it’s just reminding me of a coconut body spray. I hate to say this, but it smells kinda ‘cheap’.
I have liked the others in this Dolce and Gabbana range, never enough to buy a full bottle though, because of longevity issues. I was hoping that this one would be full bottle worthy. With a name like Garden I was thinking that this would have more florals. Unfortunately I can only really pick up on the coconut and vanilla, and perhaps a bit of the frangipani. It does have good sillage though and lasts a long time, but it’s just too much coconut (not something I ever thought I’d say!).
I’d actually say this reminds me a bit of SJP NYC Crush, which I can get in the UK for £15 at Superdrug, and is a nicer coconut scent, in my opinion.
Anyway, I’m not a fan, and I expected more from this, especially for the price. Something isn’t working in the blend for me here, and I’m not sure what it is.
CheVoron – :
Magnolia, which isn’t my fav. note, overbears on me 2 hours or so (I can survive).
Then, finally, coconut and sandalwood, the reason why this afternoon I bought my 30ml bottle.
Not my style but not bad at all, really delicious.
@dinka.begić
my experience is really opposite yours… skin chemistry mistery…
Miha03 – :
i tried it on today it’s my weirdedt experience with perfumes so far.. would love to know if any1 else had a similar yhing going on. when i first sprayed it on it was AMAZING! the most beautiful summer tropical juice. after about 30min all i could smell was rusty metal in the rain. it was so disappointing i still can’t get over it. i don’t know what it was perhaps it doesn’t work well with my body chemistry or what.. 🙁 so sad..
Lepealurserge – :
This is very likeable, I find it has a nice mix of floral notes with fresh ones…now, I like it, but I don’t love it..I don’t get any coconut , mostly kind of a tropical white flowers vibe, mostly magnolia, smells nice, it is nicely done, feminine, and very easy to wear and to like…I will try it again, but I dont think I will buy it, as I am not so impressed with it..it isn’t anything that hasn’t been done before….still, if given a bottle, I definitely would wear it !
Kirdishov – :
I love Dolce Garden! Coconut with hints of vanilla and almonds! My favorite fragrance alongside Aerin’s Hibiscus Palm and Coral Palm and Elie Saab’s L’ Eau Couture and Rose Couture!
slava.svv2011 – :
I had hopes for this based on a scratch and sniff insert from an Ulta flier, so I ordered a rollerball version of this. When first applied, to me this reminds me of a ‘grown up’ version of Britney Spears Fantasy (yes, I realize the notes are not similar). This starts off fruity/floral/sweet on me. Not the soft floral/almond/slightly fruity scent I picked up with from the scratch and sniff flier insert, nothing remotely similar.
FWIW, I do not pick up any coconut from the flier insert nor the rollerball. Then after wearing this for less than about half an hour, this unfortunately dries down very cloying and synthetic smelling on me. I guess this one just does not play nicely with my skin. But even in sniffing just the rollerball itself, it smells very cloying and synthetic (although I never base a review on the smell of a bottle or rollerball alone, I still find it a little significant to mention it here, as it is not just my skin picking up the cloying/synthetic aspects here).
As this dries down even further, it gets sickeningly sweet to my nose/on my skin. At best, this is a very average cloyingly sweet fragrance. To me this smells like a cheap dime store fragrance (sorry). Longevity is also not great, I get only a couple hours before this poofs. Perhaps the spray bottle lasts longer.
Disappointed. I kind of expect more and better from D&G. I am glad to see some enjoy this one, though. But I would say test this one first. But for me, this one is going into the donation pile. Hopes for this one..dashed!! 🙁
morok6000 – :
Just out of my office work and waiting for my husband at the local shopping center.
I tried Dolce Garden only few times but I remember an awesome drydown on me. I can’t stop myself from thinking about it; perhaps my first “tropycal-vibe” full bottle? Who knows!
Persuade me please before he arrives…
SEYTER – :
Reminds me of Anais Anais Premier Delice, but with coconut.
Strangely, the coconut in this almost smells figgy.
acerneoffed – :
This is amazing! I was not expecting this. It’s a soft, sweet almond and coconut. I’m getting much more almond than coconut. Very sweet nutty but still somehow fresh. It’s nothing like Bronze Goddess which is all citrus and vetiver on me. My experience was closest to both of Germany’s reviews below, but I smelled the almond a bit more I think. I love it!
prof101 – :
I love this! To me it’s like a mix of Bronze Goddess and Miami Glow. It starts out as a Miami Glow type of fragrance and the drydown is like that of Bronze Goddess just a bit more sour fruity and less spicy.
sisalik – :
I can’t get enough of this one. It’s like the summer version of Hypnotic Poison. If you look it has all the same base notes including the coconut ,vanilla almonds and sandalwood. It’s hypnotic poison without the spice and some sweetness and tropical vibe added with the fragapini and orange . I love the red / pink bottle and everything about that creamy nutty scent , along with the new coco mad intense ,my favouurte release of the year so far.
Super addictive !
данилов11 – :
Just purchased this after testing in Ulta! I love it <3 It has a very tropical vibe going on which makes it perfect for the summer! Coconut and ylang ylang are very prominent but as it developes I can detect almost every note. By the end I’m left with a hint of coconut but mostly vanilla! Also I just realized it smells SO similar and has a lot of the same notes as Mariah Carey Lollipop Splash Vision of Love. I would say If you couldn’t afford a bottle of this but wanted an almost dupe go for Vision of Love!
klimovskih – :
The almond milk goes sour in this..after 1 hour of wear….others can smell the sour but you won’t. Dont sweat with this on….a disaster!!!
Джон4ик – :
I have stopped buying all the perfumes I just like. I just have way too many and started to sell lots of them ,i only want a few and the few have to be a LOVE for me. So I haven’t been on a hunt lately at all and have missed a lot of new releases ,,,, went on a little sniffing spree the other day and DOLCE garden was the one that stood out and I couldn’t say no to,,,, instant love and addiction to me. Nothing like other mainstream perfumes ,very unique and niche feeling.
This warm nutty vanilla helow ,warm like the sunshine and airy like a cloud, captured my attention and heart on the spot. The drydown is pure addiction to me with its gourmand smell of a vanilla coconut cake ,,,, i haven’t been into gourmands for some time but this isn’t just gourmand it’s just so well done with its creamy smell of nutty delight. It’s not sticky sweet but airy sweet due to the nuts , vanilla and sandalwood ,this perfume has such a warm edge to it. The flowers give it lightness. It’s a unique creation and smells like Summer in so many ways. My son said this morning , mom you smell amazing !
It’s a little like the confetto profumum ,yes but it’s fresher , better and less $ , i just love it !
I have to add that I don’t understand why it was named “garden” ? Sure it starts juicy and fresh like an Italien garden ,but with garden I associate flowers and green.
quality310 – :
I actually like this one, it definitely surpasses the previous versions. It has silage and longevity, which the other Dolce’s lacks. I th