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Noizeeq – :
I don’t think this smells like Fève Délicieuse as previously mentioned. It may smell somewhat similar or in a similar vein, but not the same.
Anyways.. this basically smells like a vanilla scented candle with some spice. You know those glass candles with the glass tops? Yeah. Those.
Not a bad smell, but it does smell like a candle. And maybe somewhat like a Suave bodywash/shampoo/something as well.
If you think Tobacco Vanille smells like a candle, wait until you smell this!
nikishina – :
First blast – chocolate heaven.
But in only after ten minutes it settles into a sintetic cloying sweet vanilla-chocolate smell.
mosxxtrzcm – :
Smells like Dior’s Feve Delicious
DipClilmKic – :
I’m getting a strong bitter orange for the 1st 30mins – 1hr…
But after that, pure chocolate/vanilla butter.
Burmistr – :
Different, right of the bat dark chocolate melding into vanilla and orange with a woody background. I like it a lot and sillage/longevity is outstanding. More of a casual night fragrance than work or formal occasion. I thought it would be too sweet but the combo is just right. A keeper and one of my new faves.
tlefdndej – :
Sorriso smells like the most luxurious and delicious dark hot chocolate, very creamy, with just enough sweetness. To me, the association with hot chocolate is so real, that is one of the truest gourmands I’ve tried. If I struggle, I do sense a bitter orange flavor, only up close, I don’t notice it in the wafts I get from normal movements. The orange is not fresh, it’s like a thick syrup made from the peel because it isn’t juicy nor sweet. Dries down to rich, smoky vanilla with woody backbone.
Scent: 8/10
Longevity: 10/10
Projection: 8/10
shk438speagoessenda – :
Profumum Sorriso is a different direction for the house, a mix of chocolate, vanilla, and orange. Generally I find chocolate mixed with citrus to be a difficult combination to enjoy, whether in personal fragrance, room fragrance, or food, but in Sorriso the balance is tolerable, perhaps even slightly enjoyable.
Still, the harmony isn’t all that great, as the chocolate and vanilla are pretty subdued with the orange factoring significantly. I can’t say I want to wear it that much, perhaps not needing to any further, even if I had a bottle, so for that reason, I’m reasonably neutral toward the smell. I could certainly see how a fan of chocolate and orange could really love this, though, as it hits that spot effectively.
Sorriso’s performance is up to the usual high standard of Profumum, fitting of a fragrance of its price and quality. At $265 for 100ml, Sorriso is slightly more expensive than most of its Profumum kin (usually $250).
6 out of 10
timati092 – :
This is, by far, the best chocolate I have ever found and is going to replace Olympic Orchids California Chocolate in my wardrobe, which is also a chocolate orange – but so much sharper and less refined than this. The notes are straightforward and accurate and while this also does remind me of a chocolate orange, it doesn’t come off as sweet. As another reviewer below me said, this manages to be a gourmand without being sweet. The chocolate is dark like real cacao; the vanilla is a boozy bourbon vanilla – plus bitter orange and woods. It smells delicious. I can’t comment much yet on sillage or longevity because I’m still waiting for my full bottle, but this smells delicious.
Edit after getting my fb: I get nose-blind to this one pretty fast, not sure why, but it is definitely STRONG. Also feels oily. Slept in it and could smell it on the sheets when I woke up
lomyovave – :
It opens like Amaretto, it dries down like hot chocolate with vanilla and an almond touch. It can cause anosmia but you will receive compliment after compliment. Very good performances. On clothes, it will stay for ages. After a shower, it’s like the discontinued Gucci for men, I suspect a ambroxan or iso e super base. It’s a beautiful and different unisex gourmand.
I can’t detect orange.
andruhaq – :
I have to agree with b.gracious that it has a butter scent in there. This is also perhaps the most true-to-life chocolate note I have ever smelled. It isn’t a sweet fragrance per-se but is cleary edible.
Orange/vanilla creme, dark bitter chocolate, butter, and I would add that I get rare wafts of bamboo or something herbal-smokey to my nose that is out of place but not unwelcome.
Beautiful gourmand but I’m questioning where so many people get 24hr longevity and beast mode projection? I certainly don’t, and by a wide enough margin to question whether my decant is off or if other people are riding their own hype trains to exaggerationville. I have yet to have a Profumum last 12 hours on my skin in near ideal conditions so either the batches are wildly different, it performs wildly different on different people, or a lot of people are wildly overstating it’s performance…you decide.
Scent: 8.5/10 gorgeous, dense, edible, memorable.
Longevity: 7/10 detectable as a skin scent past the 5th hour mark for me but can go a full night out without reapplication.
Projection: 7.5/10 for the first 30 minutes to an hour or so. Drops to a 4.5/10 from hours 2-3 and down to a 2/10 past the 4 or 5 hour mark.
Sillage: 4.5/10 Im noticing a trend with Profumum’s that they seem to project well (at first) but don’t have a matching sillage. Whether you find that to be a bonus or not is up to you. I wish it projected and trailed much more then this.
Would I buy a full bottle: all my complaints about this considered…yes I probably will at some point. It is beautiful and knowing it won’t go atomic on me is acceptable for how much I personally like the scent. Don’t blind buy. Test it several times.
tamir147 – :
Scent – vanilla, chocolate butter.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one all year round, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, it garners compliments.
Longevity – I get 24hrs consistently.
#17
Dron627 – :
A dark chocolate indeed, a little bitter like cacao, delicious but beware, it’s very potent. It doesn’t feel like purely gourmand, as it has a great amount of patchouli and dry woods as well, especially in the dry down. The lasting power is very good. I prefer a bit sweeter, simpler and less sophisticated gourmands usually, but I think I will have to get a bottle of this. As it follows you around during the day, it’s really unique and comforting at the same time and grows on you.
Deroxtricg – :
The first 3 minutes it was a bit dirty / skunk!
And than a very, very well known scent appears, mmmmm jummy!
… I know this scent, maybe the apple shampoo of the eighties?( the one with the green round cap?)
NO… It smells like perfumed erasers!! Am i right? 🙂
KINGya1 – :
Earthy and woody like scent. Long lasting reminds me of autumn.
maxxxmyt – :
This one is perhaps, my favorite out of all the Profumum Roma’s gourmands. Having tried AeZ, Vanitas, Dulcis, Confetto and the Osswald exclusive Meringa. Like Dulcis, it has a synthetic opening but it quickly blends into a warm hot choco that stays all day.
Update.
The opening is very harsh though, I really wish they could tone it down.
jordon9090 – :
Blurry blend of synthetic and allegedly pleasant, sweet-smelling notes that – in all honesty – smell quite sharp and stale. The more I smell it, the less I can single out any of the notes listed above. Not one. Very, very strange stuff.
Ultimately, what’s the point? A house famous mostly for its top-quality gourmands to make something so unpresentable?
Very strange.
love love – :
update: i used up my sample, and liked it more each time i applied it. perhaps the first time i tried it (after which i wrote my earlier review about the harsh plastic blast) was an off day for my body chemistry and/or for my nose. Luckyscent introd this one to me when they included it in my Anne Pliska order, and i’m so glad they did. Sorriso is a quiet, mellow cocoa vanilla, but not in an in-your-face cloying sweet candy store cloud way. bonus: my husband loves it. i just ordered a fb.
Barigan – :
I prefer this over Dulcis. This has a bit more character and class. The woody base sets it aside from just be another cloying gourmand. I am sampling from a crappy dab on vial and 8 hours later it is still going strong.
yura50000 – :
On paper this smelles lovely of vanilla and cacao, but on my skin it developed into a wierd cacao-plastic smell. I quess it did not work out with my skin chemistry! I thought it smelled really bad on me, but funnily enough a friend of mine liked the smell:p I would not buy this for myself, and I think it is a scent you have to try on.
DraganaHubak – :
As a Profumum Roma worshiper in general I expected that I would love Sorriso. Although I do love Sorriso by the name, notes, longevity and sillage-wise, the scent was close to a disaster on my skin – unfortunately (lucky for my wallet though)! This altogether makes a bitter chocolate/orange as the notes indicated and I admit that the surprise is mostly on me because I had hoped for/and partly decided beforehand that this should turn out sweeter on my skin. If you are after a non-sweet dark chocolate mixed with bitter orange you’re in for a real treat, because it’s really true to that scent and it’ll stay with you until you wake up the next day. With Profumum Roma you really get what you’re promised and their scents are so damned potent – and sometimes you’ve gotta love a certain fume, and sometimes you just gotta leave it for someone else to enjoy. Nevertheless – I love this fragrance house!
The outcome of Sorriso not working for me is totally fine, because now I can indulge and buy the next Profumum on my list – Dulcis in Fundo because that scent (to me) is to die for! <3
UPDATE:
Tried Sorriso again a month later than my review above, and this time it turned out totally different! A lot sweeter this time around. It developed into more of a buttery milk chocolate with hints of orange. Pretty yummy and I sniffed my wrist quite a lot throughout the day. But all in all, I’m not sure if it’s my style.
dron7hp – :
I’m intrigued by and fascinated with Sorriso.
I have been on a chocolate crave/quest, testing a lot of chocolate perfumes, and Sorriso was one of many.
The first few times I tried it, I was puzzled by the opening. It smells weird, like artificially flavoured sour candy (the hard type) coated with chocolate. Really, how awful a combination is that? not very appetizing IMO.
Later on it changes into melting icecream with a hint of warm fluffy chocolate with a dusty powdery vibe to it. There is a slightly muddy note in there that drives me crazy, but it’s addictive in a strange way. I don’t know if it bugs me or if I like it, what I know is that I can’t stop sniffing my arm. And the dry down is ooooooh sooooo gooood. Too good not to be loved. I tried Sorriso for the chocolate note, but to me this perfume is all about the floral vanilla, I’m hardly noticing the chocolate these days. If you look for it, you can find it faintly present in the opening and early phase of the second stage.
On one of my early testing days I thought I smelled a banana sort of note in the drydown, maybe ylang ylang? I can’t smell it anymore or maybe I’m just not paying enough attention anymore because the drydown is too divine for words and my brain goes numb every time I smell it.
I have been applying Sorriso at night layered over TBS Chocomania body lotion, and when I wake up in the morning the smell on my arms is pure bliss (in other words I’m sleeping through the phase with the note that bugs me, LOL). This gorgeous heavenly vanilla stays put for the longest time, and serves as a delicious base for anything else I may want to wear that day. Usually I just reapply Sorriso though.
So yes, I HAD TO get a full bottle. Scr#w the euro/yen conversion rate, I couldn’t wait any longer and bought it.
Sorriso. Smile. Yes, this brings a smile to my face. A smile of pure bliss. An idiotic rolling my eyes to heaven kind of smile.
atrorse – :
Out of my recent samples from this house I actually thought I might like this one the most. But in fact I think it might be the most disappointing.
Although it wasnt a beast in terms of projection(which dont misunderstand this. As this like all others that ive tried from them, performance wise it did well)the first couple hours or so of this for some reason kinda put me off. I felt a little sick like it was to much, or maybe just the mix wasnt right.
After it gets a little softer it was more enjoyable, but the entire time I just sorta felt like… “thats it?” like I was waiting for some big payoff that never happened.
The smell overall was just ok for me. Nice but nothing more. Ive seen it compared to a few things namely…
1. cupcake
I didnt get this in the slightest.
2. Chocolate/vanilla milk shake
Sounds great but I didnt really get this either. More like perhaps just the froth or foam from one maybe. So you get a hint of something smelling good, teased a bit, but then you come in closer, and thats all there is. No great pay off.
3. Fudgesickle
This I can see more so. As the bitter orange perhaps it is giving it a bit off a tingle/chill to the slight chocolate smell. Tricking my nose into thinking it smells like this…
I get all the notes in this, although it is smooth. But none really stood out to me as being delicious while wearing this. And of course this is very pricey.
For me personally for the main vanillas from these house I really think dulcis in fundo is the way to go personally. These others I just cant justify at least on my skin.
Anamorfoza – :
This is something I would have never chosen to sample. Judging by the notes, this should NOT be my thing. Lucky Scent included this with my purchase, so I sniffed without expecting much. This opens with a rather boozy cocoa note. I am not really a gourmand fan, I don’t really want to smell like food. To my nose, this is not foody although there is no missing the cocoa /orange notes. I also don’t find this to be sweet, nothing like Acqua Zucchero’s stickiness. This reminds me of Dead Sexy by Tokyo Milk, but much smoother and without that “sneezy” edge. This is a lasting comfort scent….and I just ordered my FB :-))
popugai – :
Being on an orange binge at the moment, I was sorely disappointed to not detect any. The cocoa is more noticeable in the first couple of hours but is drowned out before and after by a marshmallowy vanilla. There is a fruity note that brings to mind cherry hiding in there as well.
All in all, it reminds me of a chocolate covered cherry on a slice of pound cake. It also reminds me of just about every dessert-themed candle and plugin in existence.
It has oomph though, I’ll give it that. Lasting power is in excess of eight hours and the sillage is not unimpressive either. If I were asked to recommend a long lasting marshmallow scent, though, I’d probably point someone at the more affordable ‘L’ de Lolita Limpicka. Just my two cents.
chekatilo – :
If Dulcis in Fundo can be called a magnificent orange dreamsicle, then Sorriso can sit beside it in the freezer as a magnificent Fudgesicle.
It’s a prominent, yet soft, cocoa on a creamy vanilla base, tempered by a touch of popsicle stick. I get no orange here (certainly nothing like Dulcis in Fundo).
I find it gentle and appealing, something I would be happy to wear. I would be tempted to go for a full bottle if I had not already invested in Gourmand Coquin. Gourmand Coquin is *in your face* divine, while Sorriso is more reserved. They don’t serve quite the same purpose, but it would take a budget bigger than mine to justify owning both.
маркшвейн – :
What? Are they serious? Considering the name of the fragrance, I don’t think so. Italian word *Sorriso* stands for english word *Smile* but I think at Profumum they understimated the hilarious power of this stuff. It would have probably better be labelled as *Laugh* or, considering how juvenile this stuff smells, even *LOL*.
A cheap and vile concoction of cacao and hyper-sweet vanilla with a tad of the sweetest sandalwood thrown in. It would suck even in the I Tesori d’Oriente’s range. Meh!…with a laugh.
Rating: 3/10
rooooby – :
OMG, I so excited for this, I cant wait to try!