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diececifS – :
Plummy tuberose, with honey roses.
It’s a fruitti floral blend with doses of plums, tuberose, honey, carnations, & peaches under aldehydes and narcissus mix. Quite sharp fruitti and i think it’s with the chypre frame.
Impressive blend of sweet fruitti floral.
Kefaliy – :
This review is for the PARFUM – longevity is null
I have to keep reapplying, but I don’t really mind.
Vendetta is sO misunderstood. Really, she is not
about revenge, per say. Too sweet to be a femme
Fatale. Strong presence but this is NOT a power
Perfume, vulgar, or even assertive. She’s terribly
Suggestive but her strength comes from her self
Assured nature. Not shy yet not flamboyant crisp
without the slightest hint of green. Gives off this
Air of glamour and strength to the point of seem-
ing invincible. But at heart completely vulnerable.
The only “revenge” to be had is success, and the
only thing invincible is her determination. Peace
krikun – :
Another beautiful perfume that I can not understand why did they discontinue it. Strong. Daring. Rich. Sophisticated. Sexy. Bold. Self confident. Padded shoulders, red lipstick, high heeled shoes, backcombed hair…Smell it, and you have traveled back to the eighties, when women wanted to smell like women and not like lollipop cupcakes.
The bottles were pieces of art. Give me this back and forget all the boring Valentina line and its endless flankers.
gremlands – :
This is lovely and exotic, though quite sweet to me, it starts aldehydic and greenish but quickly develops into a heavy sweet honeyed fruity floral, the honey note is strong throughout and produce a pungent effect together with marigold and tuberose. Its creamy, sweet and potent and lasts for a very long time. To me, the best phase is the dry down which produces a softer honey note with a hint of jasmine and peach. I must admit I find the beginning rather overbearing, that could be the benzoin and honey combo together. All in all this is a well developed scent for those who love gourmands with excellent Sillage and enormous staying power.
urbarging – :
A tip for the die hard lovers of this one in the Netherlands. You can find the edt version online on parfumsuper reasonably priced.
puri125 – :
Vendetta was an unexpected purchase – my mother bought it cheap off Ebay wasn’t much of a fan, I tried it and wasn’t much of a fan and it sat on the shelf for a couple of years. Then one day I got it down and sprayed it again and I was in love. The most wonderful musky, sweet plum yellowy floral (marigold) with a beeswaxy burning candle/patchouli hippie incense note drizzled in dry sweet powdery honey. In a strange way it is a super sexy, powdery skin scent – dare I say ‘exotic/erotic’ version of Red Door to some extent and on me it was heavenly and in no way over-powering, men and women everywhere would comment on how good it smelled on me. It became my most loved fragrance of all time – but too bad as it was long gone when I tried to find a replacement. I held onto the bottle just to get a whiff but eventually gave in and threw it away as I realised I had to let go and find something new to love. I have been on a 6 year mission now to replace that damn perfume and I have probably bought 20-30 different perfumes which match the notes but nothing has come close except for Van Cleef which is very similar but not identical and I still will pine for this fragrance even though I have found another bottle but I will be hoarding this forever in fear of never getting another. I could wear this scent forever.
hsi666speagoessenda – :
Having never encountered Valentino Vendetta during its heyday, I am fortunate to have received a sample from a fellow perfumista. It is now discontinued and probably impossible to find. Based on this sample, I can report that the composition holds up over time–even decades!
Launched in 1991, Vendetta exemplifies the intensity of perfumes usually associated with the 1980s: big, heady, loud, extremely floral and very complex. Yes, there are lots of flowers here, with a notable marigold (tagetes) presence along with the usual suspects, including quite a bit of narcissus. Intense and beautiful, if sparingly applied, Vendetta may become intense and annoying–even cloying, given the honey note–if overapplied, which is rather easy to do given its extreme density (could be partly due to evaporation, of course, given the age of any remaining samples of this perfume).
Vendetta is a fine example of the sorts of perfumes which ushered in the age of abstraction and the “clean” anti-perfume fragrance movement. Now that consumers are being trained to believe that they should smell like sweet laundry, why should perfumers toil over creations of this complexity, when they can throw together a handful of aromachemicals and call it day?
People who are coming to perfume only in the twenty-first century will likely find Vendetta and perfumes of its ilk to be overwhelming and disagreeable, but it’s a lingering representative of a genre which before too long will disappear completely from the world of perfumery. For those not lucky enough to have the remains of a bottle of Vendetta on hand, there are a few available marigold perfumes still around, including Van Cleef & Arpels Van Cleef, Moschino Moschino (the original), and St. John St. John. They, too, are all complex and rich, but not quite as intense as Vendetta…
Some reviewers have compared Vendetta to Chloe Narcisse, which I have not tried (I gather that it has been severely reformulated anyway). Others have cited Natori Natori, but I myself find very little overlap there.
vva71 – :
I remember someone in my family gave me half filled bottle with this when I was a teen in the early 90’s ..It smelled like NOTHING else I have ever smelled .. So strong , beautiful , flowery & loud but in a wonderful way . I couldn’t resisit it back then and sprayed a bit strongly on a hot day , while going to get a carton of milk 🙂 ..Imagine a teen with all the baby fat wearing oversized T-shirt over a denim skirt in 30 c something degree , wearing this womanly fierce scent ..crazy?..Suuuuuure ,but I would never forget that neighbour of ours who said : ” Your perfume is soooooooooooooooo lovely & strong ” …Wish I can get it again :'(
obito100 – :
Today I’ve become a proud owner of boxed vintage Vendetta purse spray 15 ml. I am not intending to use it, but just to feast my eyes and nose on it from time to time.
Heareegaubs – :
This perfume is SO hard to find, has it been discontinued? It is wonderful, I wore in the early 90’s and was often asked by men AND women what lovely perfume I was wearing… it is not too sweet, but womanly, leaves an impression of flowers, fruit and honey mixed with cedar. A strong-spirited perfume that doesnt take no for an answer! It lasted ages on my skin. The bottle is beautiful, fan-shaped but what does this have to do with the name of the perfume? Revenge? Due to the bottle-shape I would have re-named this great perfume “Flamenco Nights” LOL. I imagine a lovely Spanish dancer dressed in black lace wearing this perfume …
phiguitatot – :
thanks and kisses to Norgirl for the sample 🙂
this is quite a unique fragrance. it has lots of honey – still it avoids to be toothachingly sweet and it is powdery, too. It is quite a homogenous scent otherwise – with the rest of the notes quite undistinguishable.
I find it a well-done fragrance – so hard to find such attention in today’s fragrances unfortunately.
i was thninking – why such a beauty was called
revenge – but now i have an idea – maybe because it is sweet and also because it seizes your heart ? 🙂
sooner or later i will go for a full bottle for sure, it is masterpiece.
for the visual types – you sit on a terrace having breakfast the early sun is just on the verge of burning your skin but it is still bearable – you have a bunch of flowers in front of you at the table and a jar of honey in front of you. As you new love is soon to appear you would get your mirror out of your bag and instantly powder up your nose.
and then he appears and then all the environment melts together – you , the powder on your nose, the flowers – the jar of honey and the morning sun
toureggg – :
Ricordo che negli anni ’80-’90 lo portava mia madre, in inverno (tipico profumo “da pelliccia”) e quando si era in macchina insieme dovevo aprire i finestrini sfidando il gelo…la sua scia, così penetrante, era per me insopportabile, quasi nauseabonda!
Troppo opulento per i miei gusti.
hgd35 – :
Imagine yourself in 7 or 8 years old and you’re living in the mid 80´s.
So you go to school and the headmistress of the school is on your side exuding authority. Surely this woman is using “Vendetta”.
I think this could also be the scent of the “Queen of Hearts”.
master582 – :
This one is very similar to Guy Laroche´s “Clandestine” which i really like!!! But if both would be surfaces, then “Clandestine” would be a bit uneven surface with bumps on the road (there is a bit sharp note in it), then Vendetta is more like a polished surface, like a highway. Moderatly sweet, very warm and comforting it is also very alluring. This one definitly becomes one of my new loves!
In general this is very complex fragrance (just tale a look at the notes) but the whole composition is based around very prominent nacissus note mixed with honey and hyacint. Somehow i can smell also a dominanting marigold note. Patchouli is more present in the drydown. I also liek that the tuberose is here only as a shadow, not overpowering at all.
And this is the BEST Valentino to my nose from all i have had or tested (and i think i smelled them all for now) by far!!!
This review is based on EDT experience both Clandestine and Vendetta, so EDP or pure parfum concentration might be different.
ilshat1994 – :
Headache in a bottle..it isnt a bad scent but it is very very strong and even though it is an ok scent,it kills your senses.To strong to wear,it should have been a bit lighter.
sergeybayrak – :
Nice,very elegant and classy smell.It is really for speciall ocasions and mature women…U feel very beautiful and special wearing it.By the way all the men that i asked if they like it or not they told me that they like it a LOT:)
VadimShestakov – :
My favorite one for these special occasions. Very sultry, sexy but not too sweet. Definitely not a perfume for everyday use, kind of killer. Like a name suggest… Spare use recommended as they are very strong. For mature women, conscious of their sex appeal. Perfect fragrance for femme fatal 🙂
Really hard to find, lovely fan bottle shape.