Description
“A bit of luxury every now and then cannot hurt!
Dukes, Counts, castels, lush gardens and magnificent dresses, jolly trips and idle pastimes, romantic encounters and love intrigues… Al these elements form the background to the melody of “The Dance of the Dragonflies” Operetta by Franz Lehar.
A fragrance to devote to yourself, when femininity cries out, claiming some time for frivolousness, cuddles and the gentle insouciance that all women deserve. With this spirit, La danza delle libellule, brings all the lightness necessary to soothe even the most troubled hearts.
Apple and cedar smooth vanilla in this composition which starts with Nobile 1942’s distinctive bergamot. A pinch of cinnamon, cocoa to make the ensemble truly gourmand. The unavoidable musk keeps the graceful tone of the fragrance” — press release of the brand. La Danza delle Libellule was launched in 2012.
pakhomov – :
Apple cheesecake (reminds me of a fresh out of the fridge/no-bake style cheesecake smell) – yum! Sort of comforting and nostalgic not too too gourmand – I tend to shy away from anything incredibly literal. This still has a “perfume” smell – it’s not 100% baked good.
Weld73 – :
This arrived today and it is gorgeous. I was recommended to try Nobile 1942 by Sad Muppet (huge hat tip to SM for this – I bought this, Sandalo Nobile and Chypre 1942 and all three are bloody awesome).
La Danza delle Libellule is a gourmand lovers’ delight.
The main notes on me are beautiful, fresh juicy apples, lightly dusted with cinnamon and creamy, musky vanilla. Cedar grounds this and prevents it becoming tooth-achingly-sugary-syrupy sweet.
I tried and tried to smell the coconut – a note which normally stands out to me; I love fresh coconut, both to eat and smell, but it’s definitely MIA from La Danza delle Libellule (The Dance of the Dragonflies – isn’t that a lovely name?).
I was puzzled by the missing coconut, particularly as I thought I could smell creamy milk chocolate (think Lindor – those wonderful chocolate spheres, filled with ganache), so I searched the internet for clues about where the coconut might be hiding.
Always go to the source! I checked Nobile 1942 website and sure enough – I was right (huzzah and lashings of ginger beer!); there is no coconut in LDdL; here are the notes, cut and pasted from their website:
“Apple and cedar smooth vanilla in this composition which starts with Nobile 1942’s distinctive bergamot. A pinch of cinnamon, cocoa to make the ensemble truly gourmand. The unavoidable musk keeps the graceful tone of the fragrance.”
Sillage and longevity are moderate – and I’d say this is a safe blind buy for any gourmand lover; it’s such a delicious but subtle perfume I honestly can’t believe that anyone would be offended by it.
As at 28 July 2018, allbeauty.com in the UK have 75ml of LDdL for £49.95; they have a range of Nobile 1942 on special offer – definitely worth checking out. The site won online retailer of the year recently from Which?, the consumer’s champion; their products are genuine and customer service is fantastic, too.
ETA After wearing this overnight, I am revising my comments about longevity, as I can still smell this – on my dry, perfume-guzzling skin – well over eight hours later.
The thing that keeps coming to mind wearing this is: Toffee apples!
ArrotaBripark – :
Very sweet and delicious. I do wish the apple came through stronger. Did not react well on my skin, Settled into a bathroom cleaner/soap smell. Didn’t like the coconut with these other notes.
shooter1985 – :
Oh, this is gorgeous! Sweet, sweet, sweet and delicious with just enough muskiness underneath to keep it from flying away to Sugarland. I loved it from the first spray, wherein the lovely apple scent underscored with vanilla and a touch of cinnamon came through, then as it warmed down, the vanilla became warmer and deeper and more evident. My husband says it smells like a Patisserie – and yes, it does smell like that. The joy of that whiff of vanilla and loveliness that you get as you walk by a patisserie, not daring to go in because you’ll gain 20 kilos just looking at everything. But the smell is enough and it brightens your day. Sheer loveliness. This is like happiness in a bottle.
Vadim58 – :
La Danza delle Libellule is a freshly baked apple tart. The tart has a warm crust made from scratch, the creamiest vanilla custard (made with just a touch of lemon zest), and apples baked to perfection. As the tart cools off, the apples are gobbled down till you can’t really taste it anymore. Because we always save the best for last, what is left is the creamy custard, savored with a warm glass of coconut milk. Once it’s gone, you can’t help but ask for seconds.
kononow – :
Delightful at first, but contains the kind of white musk that turns into the fragrance of clean laundry on my skin. If you have the same problem with some white musks, sample before buying a full bottle.
Леон – :
The dry down reminds me of Vaniglia del Madagascar I Profumi di Firenze, with maybe a little extra tartness! It’s quite pretty 🙂
zxzx.84 – :
The smell of a red apple farm in the fall!
Imagine you are strolling amongst the trees and catch a strong blast of fresh, crisp red apples (think a more sophisticated version of B&BW’s Country Apple). Then, as you finish up apple-picking, you head towards the building where baked goods are offered, and the smell of apples fuses with a hint of cinnamon and a dose of heavy vanilla. As you take a bite of apple pie, the buttery goodness of the crust envelops you in warmth.
Although to some I may have just described a beautiful love affair, I do not love this one. While the scent itself is divine, it is something I would want in a candle or home fragrance for autumn – not on my body. It is just a bit too cloying, heavy, and gourmand for my taste. If it were fleeting I could tolerate it on myself, but who likes perfume with poor longevity?
aleksssei – :
Im male, so im not wearing it, but my girlfriend is and i must say this perfume is VERY VERY VERY good. Light, smells good. Fruity but not sweet fruity, refreshing fruity, but also not like teenage fruity perfumes that are sweet and makes you puke 😀
mathhs271 – :
I bought the extrait; at some point I’ll have to compare to the regular edp to see if there is a noticeable difference.
This is a beautiful scent. Delicious apple, vanilla, cinnamon and coconut. Almost like a coconut creme brulee with cinnamon apples on top. Not excessively sweet to me, but I tend to love gourmands. I am not getting the cedar note, but that’s a good thing since I’m not really fond of cedar in my perfumes. I’ve almost finished my bottle and plan to repurchase.
a-r-t-e-m – :
The opening is a fresh very realistic apple, with a hint of cinnamon .The dry down is a beautiful soft Vanillla/coconut. I don’t detect any musk. Its a very nice, delicate, youthful fragrance. The bottle is gorgeous as well. I have a full bottle and I would definitely repurchase .
saassa1133 – :
Ok, so there really isn’t any coconut in here. Fragrantica have made a mistake on the listing, it should be Cocoa. And it’s actually a lovely chocolatey fragrance, vanilla, cocoa and fresh citrusy bergamot with light apple, not so much cinnamon, but it’s a very well priced, well blended perfume. It’s got the sillage and longevity that many niche houses lack. This is a true diamond of a perfume, for those wanting cocoa and vanilla balanced well with citrus and apple to keep it from being overly sweet and sickly. I’m impressed with Nobile 1942, so glad I found them!
adupslula – :
Yes, aplle. Bit more of a caramel apple than spiced. I get no cinnamon, just sweetness.
jakobs – :
Parfum version:
If I had to describe the scent in one word, it would be: ethereal.
I’ve been wanting to test/buy this for years, however I always hesitated for some reason. I finally just bit the bullet and decided to do it…I’m happy that I did! The imagery that comes to my mind when smelling this is a crisp cozy autumn day (not yet cold), the air is softly touching your skin, the sun is about to set and I’m looking at the orange, pink and blue pours in the sky. In the distance, someone is baking an apple pie with the finest angelic cinnamon, sugar and chewy dough. This is slightly reminiscent of Amber Narguile and more like Loatmarch Lann-Ael. When it comes to frags, I’m a gourmand lover and extremely critical and I must say that I do love this perfume. It was a pleasant blind buy and when I run out, chances are I’ll buy another.
Юльчик – :
The most heavenly apple scent EVER. I feel like I could wear this and lose weight because it satisfies the sensation of eating an apple flavored donut or dessert. Dries down to a super sweet vanilla and lasts for ever (I have a sample of the exceptional edition). I could buy this with no regrets.
vkh207InsuffBooni – :
A blind buy because.of the beautiful listed notes… And not a good blind buy I have to say…
I do enjoy the beautiful opening of crisp red apple and cimnamon! Oh I wish it would last… As it dries down it becomes this buttery vanilla on me. Nothing else. Just pure vanila. Like vanilla oil perfume you can buy at body shop or anywhere. Nothing special. Quite dissapointing. Will not repurchase. Not even sure will use this bottle I own.
Longevity is amazing, but gives a headache as too strong… Sillage is good too.
kykan – :
I want to love this creation from the house of Nobile 1942 especially considering that it contains some of my favourite notes like Apple, cinnamon, cedar, vanilla. It starts with a very promising fresh juicy red apple blust and I want it to remain this way through the entire time but apple fades away fast giving a way to cinnamon vanilla duo. I guess it’s beautiful in a sense of easy grabber that is extremely versatile and any season appropriate. Will give it some more time to fully understand the beauty of this delightful fragrance
edc0 – :
Wow! This caught me so off guard and I kept sniffing my arm all night. It is so beautiful, warm, but also crisp. It’s December and it fits the mood perfectly–am not sure how well this will work once the weather becomes balmy and warm. But this exists as a perfectly feminine, noticeable, delicious scent for the colder seasons at least.
Edit: to add, this comes across as a more playful, cheerful version of Dior’s Addict. They share the same enigmatic green vanilla note.
maztak – :
This starts with a juicy red apple, I wouldn’t call it crisp or fresh but mealy and baked. It soon mellows down to become this milky, sweet and fruity vanilla. The vanilla is not raw, grounded, spicy, dry or powdery but buttery, innocent, sweet, a bit tart and childlike and has an airy quality to it. I agree this is reminiscent of unspiced applesauce. The cinnamon is non existent. If I could reconstruct the notes, I would probably list red apple, honey, milk and vanilla or such. It’s very similar to Lann-Ael, which I love and was the reason I found and bought this, except this has a more prominent apple throughout and has much better longevity and sillage. I highly recommend this to any gourmand lover, it’s very cozy and sweet.
lgbalabanva – :
I’ve tried this one at least four times and I just can’t get into it. Smells of fresh sliced red apples, unspiced applesauce, and a truckload of vanilla extract, drying down to coconut. No tang or spice to round things out; I barely even detect wood. I’m not getting cinnamon at all.
Clearly I’m in the minority here, so perhaps it’s my chemistry.
Lolimena – :
What a beauty!
Yes it’s gourmand but so elegant and joyful.
Cozy, bright, happy. Apple and vanilla.
It’s the little sister of Lann-Ael, but much more refined and less buttery.I agree with Monzeitia.
If you are sad, the weather is grey and cold or if you need to smile and feel playful… try la Danza delle Libellule.
The name is wonderful and perfect for the scent.
Based on the beautiful English and Italian reviews I ordered it blindly.
I often wear unisex fragrances, sometimes they are fresh, aromatic.. sometimes green and woody… sometimes they are really light even if I’m fascinated by complex and not easy to wear ones.
I’m a complicated person and nowadays my personality isn’t easy to love… well la Danza delle Libellule touches my heart giving a sweet and airy breath to it. This fragrance helps magically my mood.
Great job, really really a beautiful scent for who needs to take a break from many bad moments and feel carefree.
Ястреб – :
I do love the red apple with skin on, for a short while joined by some acidic note which then gets coated in sweet vanilla syrup.After about 8 hours the apple dissapears and I’m left with vanilla, much quieter one with musk. After wearing it for more than 14 hours I still feel the last notes. It is warm, sweet, charming, not cloying and gets creamy at the end. I would love to feel more cinnamon but it isn’t as spicy on me. Nevertheless it’s addictive.
Mikusha – :
I don’t get any cinnamon in this. It’s gourmand apple/vanilla/coconut. After about 30 minutes, it smells very similar to Agonist Vanilla Marble, although VM is much richer. This is pleasant and pretty but not full bottle worthy for me
Gogf – :
This is a review of the extrait.
Definitely not a run of the mill gourmand. On my skin, it smells like wax – like I’ve spent a whole night in a bedroom lit with beeswax candles. It must be the coconut and the cedar. I got absolutely no apple, which broke my heart. Not unpleasant, but not for me.
wdc752speagoessenda – :
Finally a fragrance that really stands out among a crowd! (A+ in terms of uniqueness, for sure!)
There are two parts to this scent, which is fairly linear in it’s progression. The first part of the scent is a CRISP red apple. This is not “Be Delicious” Apple. This is a REAL RED APPLE! Crisp, very crisp.
The second part is a fine, strong, and almost bitter powdered cinnamon.
Spliced together with a hint of something creamy, caramelized, almost vanillic. This fragrance is nostalgia and comfort in a bottle – the exact middle of the crossroads between “Home scent candle”, and “Gourmand dessert scent”.
What a treat!
maris222 – :
so pretty… the fragrance and the bottle and the name. it’s mostly fruit at first, but not little kid fruit punch fruity. later, it settles into a very gentle coconut with just enough of something dry and powdery to keep it from being sticky sweet.
zjuba – :
I bought it and noticed afterwards it smelled differently then when it was tested. I smells similar to LAnn Ael.
toungurrY – :
This was an immediate LOVE at first sniff and bought a bottle of it straight away.
Very well made, lovely scent.
It begins a fruity sweet apple with just a hint of cinnamon to remind you of apple pie…..then a creamy vanilla coconut delicious heaven comes through….and the dry down is all a creamy coconut vanilla dream!
Fabulous for HOURS too!
If you love Vanilla and Coconut — CHECK this OUT!
kozar1 – :
La Danza delle Libellule is a warm and cosy apple-cake, with fine cinnamon and much much vanilla.
I feel like a child on holiday at my grandmothers kitchen. Before going to bed, she told me some stories and the whole house smelled so wonderfull – nowadays I like this perfume to wake up those fine memories.
A very pleasant surprise!!
dmitrii25 – :
I bought a sample a while ago as I found the name of the perfume La Danza delle Libellule so wonderfully pretty. I thought this perfume would make a nice gift for my daughter. However, when my daughter smelled it she said she dislikes it but thinks it smells pretty when I wear it. So I put the sample in my box. Finally the summer arrived and I remembered the sample. I gave it a new try….and I discovered that this is a heavenly scent. It is not sexy. It is just so pretty…vanilla, apple, little cinnamon, light musc and a bit coconut to give the scent a vague tropical feeling. It fits a woman of any age I think.
Insangavy – :
I tested this. I love the opening: a fresh, sweet apple. I feel like really great fruity perfumes have this kick to them, not a flat sweetness, and that’s exactly what this opening has here. After a while this begins to thin out, until you are left with this sweet vanilla smell. And that’s where my love affair kind of ends: I think the contrast between that really delicious, bright opening doesn’t sync well with the vanilla drydown. For me, vanilla is an over powering scent that tends to steam roll over everything else around it, so if there’s anything left in the drydown, I don’t smell it.
spiker13 – :
This is pure bliss. One of the best perfumes I have ever smelled. So playful, but never too girly or innocent or silly. Simply divine.
It opens with apple and bergamot, the combination really resembling the tart flesh of an apple, but then it transforms into a boozy apple (calvados?), almost caramelized, with hints of cinnamon. Then there is vanilla. Sweet and delicious, but very much like the real thing. The woody boozy aspect of real vanilla pods is definetely present. The vanilla never becomes too cloying or even too substantial. It remains somehow airy, without being too light or transparent.
Laced through the vanilla is a certain buttery accord, making this fragrance all the more delectable. But even in its most vanillic phase, the true star of the fragrance remains the apple accord. Strikingly realistic, like smelling a sweet red uncut, whole apple. The scent of apple peel/skin.
Wearing this, I just can’t stop smelling myself. This is gourmand done right. It’s beautiful in every part of its development and it stays forever on my skin.
sany555 – :
An interesting mix of fresh and fruity and sweet and warm. At first it is a blast of apples but soon settles with vanilla, apple and a little spiceyness. It is interesting and delicious.
hmnu8603 – :
Usually, it is normal to make a link between Italian fragrances with freshest aromas, citrus, of clear and natural aspect, as if it was impossible to produce beautiful floral, chypres or gourmands with this nationality. Here is a proof that this is possible. This beautiful fragrance is gourmand and liqueur!
The official notes are: bergamot and apple, in the output; Cedar and cinnamon, in the heart; musk, vanilla and cocoa (not coconut, as stated in some websites) at the base.
From the moment it touches the skin, it is possible to notice a slightly fruity aspect, in which the apple appears as a liquor, plus an appetizing vanilla. Although it was created for the female audience, I know many men who would love to wear this perfume, since it has an output of nuances very similar to the modern sweeter fragrances from nowadays, which have been marketed to men, like Black XS L’Excès or Diesel Only the Brave Tattoo, for example. And over time, its evolution doesn’t lose in any aspect for some fragrances of exclusive lines from Guerlain, which are rich in vanilla and sold as unisex. Therefore, if you are man, fond of perfumes with vanilla and you don’t care about labels, do not hesitate to meet this wonder.
The relationship I make with the name given is the lightness of the Dragonfly over water, beyond their mating ritual, when the female and the male writhe and fit, forming a heart.
A beautiful Eau de Parfum with huge projection and longevity.
dimasskins – :
Absolutely fantastic! This perfume is worth all the money it costs.
Vanilla, cinnamon and apple are the sweetest juicy protagonists there. Cedar and musk balance the sweetness with a little bit of balsamic flavour and cocunut brings melody back into the sweet world.
All ingredients are natural and NOT synthetic. And you can smell the huge gap of quality between this jewel and the mass market products out there.
“La danza delle libellule” is the Italian for the “The dragonflies dance”. Magic.
Give it a try!
Nara1mail1ru – :
An absolute winner.
Extremely well balanced enyable perfume. Very soft dry down and long staying power.
ToveSpoof – :
I LOVE everything about this except maybe the drydown. The opening is sweet fresh apples, the middle adds some cinnamon and vanilla to the apples. By the time it gets to drydown the vanilla gets sooo sweet. During the top and the middle parts, I was searching frantically online for a full bottle, but at drydown..I kinda stopped looking. I’m gonna have to wear this sample more, and make sure I can handle the sweetness of it. sillage is pretty good, and longevity is great!
Panovan – :
It really reminds me of Lann-Ael (but no hay note)
sfy069JeomiWogkig – :
..i have a little sample of this fragrance and i sip it!..when i wear this parfume i feel good..it’s amazing! so sweet…fascinating…charming…i feel like a little girl without heavy thoughts! and its name is wonderfull!
AfforoReiboub – :
Very very similar to Lann-Ael but more sophisticated and less sweet.