Aqua Allegoria Flora Salvaggia

Flora Salvaggia is so, so gorgeous when first applied--the most intoxicating lilac, hyacinth, violet aroma imaginable, with sweet, melony top notes. I knew this would be très légère, as they say, so I prepped my spray-spots carefully with unscented petroleum jelly and oversprayed a bit (I think five sprays total). I want to score this as a love, but the longevity is worse than the average body mist. The skin scent is exquisite, but it fades much too quickly--much like a violet, I suppose, one of the more evanescent blossoms and scents. Honestly, I'm a fool for Guerlain, and I probably would have bought this anyway, even knowing that it would be short-lived. Especially since I scored a bottle at half price from one of the discount sites. Despite the relatively low cost, it was still a bit pricey considering how much you need to spray just to enjoy an hour or so of this impossibly delicate and wispy evocation of the French countryside. The bottle is gorgeous (although I also adore the classic inverted heart-stopper design of my cherished L'Heure Bleue). I'm pathetically besotted with the Guerlain fragrances I have sampled so far, but I think I require a bit more longevity from a fragrance. At the same time, I keep catching deep violet-shadowed whiffs of myself during the drydown, and I feel that I smell magnificent. At least for now! I wish Fragrantica offered a more nuanced emoji for me to select. I love this when I can smell it, and I'm sad when I cannot (which is shortly thereafter).

I don’t get any melon, though it’s definitely watery and ozonic. A delicate, ethereal scent, zero sweetness, zero citrus, zero green, zero woods. Just gentle, clean and airy…It smells like papaya fruit when first sprayed on, then after awhile it evolves into violet petals and wild flowers, and very light musk. People really like this one on me, I’ve gotten compliments that I smell nice and they think that this perfume suits me, eventhough I can barely smell it after 2 hours. It’s definitely a safe scent, good for the warmer months, and it’s different from the mainstream freshies so no one will smell like you…but it’s nothing special for me personally.

It's a stunning scent, a fresh dewy melon, aquatic and floral. I wish this profile was more common nowadays, it's a bright and watery fruity floral that's perfect for spring and summer. Sadly, it's also extremely faint, even freshly sprayed it doesn't have much sillage. And the longevity is absolutely poor. I know this is par for the course with the Aqua Allegorias, but honestly I didn't have this problem when testing Florabloom, or Mandarine Basilic. Those last a good 3-4 hours, which is a decent time and I don't mind re-applying. Flora Salvaggia is gone in 1 hour. I love love love the scent but cannot justify the performance for the price.

Flora salvaggia is a very fresh and dewy perfume. I see no lavender listed as a note but I can definitely pick it up. Very zen like. The violets are slightly sweet and powdery, and it goes very well with the watery notes. It smells like a dewy, early spring day with violets and jasmine in bloom. Maybe it's the solar notes that is causing that feeling?) I love it! I must say that it lasts quite long for being an edT. Doesn't project too much, but still detectable. I sometimes use it as a bed time scent because of the non existing (but soothing) lavender note.

When I initially smelled flora salvaggio, it was at the end of a sampling sniff session so it all blurred together and i was kinda meh about it. Now in at 1:30 am in the morning, I can finally appreciate this attractive wallflower of a perfume. So delightfully sweet, she makes me feel like a swooning nobleman catching a glimpse of a beautiful lady’s shoulder as she walks past. Literally i got past the opening sweet violet notes giving way to the powdery aquatic scents and she just made me swoon. This is definably butch bait perfume LOL.