Donna

Did they put crack in this?! I don't see it listed in the notes, but I've NEVER burned through a 3.4oz so fast. I was scrolling eBay and saw a bottle going for $60 from a well rated seller, needed a dopamine hit, so I bought it and weighed it against a real bottle. Down to the gram, and it was indeed authentic in every way one can possibly inspect. I even weighed the BOX against an authentic box. So I opened it and sprayed it and at first it opened really fresh and bergamoty and I had just bought 2 freshies (Bella Essence and Romance) and felt this one would be redundant. Wow was I wrong over the night I kept smelling my wrists like a fein as it transformed into the next phase and the next. I was scared "leather" would make it smell too masculine. I can't imagine a more feminine perfume. I LOVE this perfume. It smells like none of the current hits I have collected (how many vanilla orange blossoms does one woman need?! Pls, perfumers, pick another flower!!! And not Jasmine - again!) I have Goddess, I have Libre, I have Mon Guerlain and 3 flankers, but after I smelled this one open with the bergamot and slowly evolve into a brand new leather Valentino purse with luxurious powdered rose makeup inside with a hint of incense and vanilla and praline I was like Goddess? Why would I? Libre, where did that go? Mon Guerlain? Who's that? Been wearing this one out...I don't buy backup bottles. If they dc something, well, they've dc'd my signature scent before and then brought it back, reformulated to smell like Britney Spear's Curious....I LIKE Curious, ok, but Blue was downright majestic in 2008 and now? Shes a shell of her former self. Like if she died and her spirit left the bottle. THAT is what she smells like now, and it broke my heart, so I'm not usually scared something will get dc'd. I'll find another. But I immediately bought ANOTHER Donna for $60...then when I saw how fast I'd blown through one 3.4oz in a week? I ordered TWO backup bottles for $60/each. I don't go nose blind to it either. I can smell it alll day. It doesn't ever tap out but I do like to go through the note changes again and that 1st hit of bergamot mixed with the mid notes in the background? I wanna smell it again and again and again. I noticed a VERY popular perfume influencer I watch on YT made a very recent video with this one the other day and I was like OH NO now it's gonna sell out and the price is gonna go way up with eBay sellers. I like to buy/gamble on eBay, because I follow 2 channels on YouTube that weigh the most popular perfumes against fakes. It is VERY hard to get your product to look perfectly like the real thing AND weigh the same down to the gram or 2. (A gram weighs about as much as a small paperclip - so this makes counterfeiting significantly harder). I bought a $5 scale off Amazon, it was in the mail the next day, and I've been weighing my perfumes like a mad scientist and I will send it back for a refund if it doesn't weigh within 3-4 grams of the 'Real' version of the videos on YouTube. Best $5 I ever spent. If you like to gamble for great deals on eBay like I do, 1, you need to buy from a very highly rated seller that accepts returns, and 2, you NEED A $5 kitchen scale and access to YouTube. Just because the batch code matches the box doesn't mean anything. You think they can't steal batch codes? Of course they can. All you have to do is buy ONE real box, OR simply look at one real box and boom you have the batch code for your counterfeits. They NEED to start putting the batch codes sealed INSIDE the box with a lottery ticket scratch off type deal, and have every single perfume with its own code you can type into their website and see if its been used yet or not. I've read comments on that YouTube channel of Fake Cip busting fake perfumes, and ppl are commenting they're buying fakes off Jomashop. Which is supposed to be a legit site! I'm actually surprised at how many perfumes I've got for crazy good deals off eBay that ARE real. Ive only had one fake so far out of like 50 bottles this year. Black Opium, and I could tell it was fake just from looking at the bottle. The indentation on the bottom of the bottle was sideways and not flush perfectly with the bottle. YSL would never be so sloppy. Returned and refunded and I left a negative review with pictures showing why its a fake. I've read positive reviews on eBay from customers that got sold a fake and then got a refund and STILL left a positive review because the seller refunded them and made up a sad excuse that THEY were tricked. No. The buck stops somewhere and it should stop with the person who sold the fake to you. And do you think the seller took the fake item down after that?! NO! They kept selling the fakes! Leave a negative review with details and pictures! The counterfeiting has got to stop. There is another one on YT that's really good, but Fake Cip has nearly EVERY hit perfume weighed down to the gram on his channel. He'll weigh the whole box with everything inside then open it, weigh the box alone, weigh the cap, weigh the bottle. Inspect the box. Fakes are nearly always 20 grams OR MORE off from the authentic perfume. I don't care how well they did the box or bottle, if the scale doesn't come correct you have a fake as far as I'm concerned and need a refund. I've seen some perfume influencers on YouTube videos comment they knew they were buying a fake and still did anyway. Pls don't. Authentic perfumes are held to safety regulations. Counterfeits are not. They could've mixed your batch up in a rusty barrel in some back alley using whatever ingredients they want that have been banned. Don't buy it or use it. You don't know what chemicals are in it. Ingredients have been banned for a reason.

I love this! It came in today and I could smell it as soon as I opened the box! It is so long lasting , I can still smell it on the box on the recycling pile twelve hours later! It is rose but not a potpourri rose. I don’t even detect the leather note but there is a beautiful warmth to this and the dry down is absolutely stunning!! This is definitely scratching the itch that I’ve been having lately for a perfumy perfume! So many of the scents I’ve purchased recently have been incredibly sweet and dessert like, even the non gourmands still have a hint, that I’ve been resorting to more vintage scents that were new to me to try! This is along the lines of what I’ve been craving! I adore it! I tried La Vita the other day and loved it too so that makes total sense!! I’m so happy to have this! I will love wearing it!

I actually bind-bought this and this was the most successful blind buy ever. First of all, it lasts super long. Like when I wear this at 5-6 pm, I can still smell it very strongly when I go to sleep and my nose does not get used to it so whenever I move my hair, the smell finds me. It smells very elegant, timeless and it has a noticeable note of rose in it. This has been the closest perfume that could be my signature perfume. This smells like a very rich girl, feminine, strong, confident and kind. The perfume itself is kind of expensive at the price point but I guess you paying for the name "Valentino". Overall I love it.

I have a full bottle of Puig and another that is in the middle. I recently bought the new Loreal version. First I have to be thankful that they changed the sprayer, which on the old one,I find horrible. Regarding the scent, I think they are very similar, I could even say they are practically the same. Although it is true that the Puig version is more intense, it may be due to the age of the bottles. So, I have sprayed my new bottle, and I will let it rest to age. I usually do that with all my perfumes,I am a Guerlain lover and I can assure you that a few sprays and a rest in a dark place,make all the difference.

Valentino Donna smells like Bottega Veneta Bottega without the oakmoss but with smoother leather, an added sweet lipstick iris, and some fluffy but not powdery rose. I actually avoided testing this because I thought it would be a powder bomb. It's not. Very elegant and classy scent. Very rounded, not too dense and not too airy. Lasted around 6 hours. I really like this and don't think it's similar to Givenchy Irresistible Nude Velvet, which I couldn't stand as it was purely a powder puff. I also prefer this to Hermes Cuir d'Ange that's also a floral leather scent, with the leather being too dominating at times.