Arancia Di Sicilia

Very beautiful, life like smell of oranges here. It's so incredibly fresh, citrusy, and real smelling. Then, on the dry down the sweet, gourmand-esqe notes come alive and complement the fresh, citrus notes so perfectly. There was a candy I remember getting as a kid and they were chocolate's shaped like an orange and each little slice created a chocolate orange and this fragrance reminds me of that candy. It becomes sweet, vanillic, slightly creamy and nutty. It's the perfect sweet gourmand type fragrance for Summer. I live in very hot weather so I'm anticipating getting plenty of use of this scent. It smells unique and different to most of the other citrus scents that I have. So far, I;m very impressed by this house. Ylang Ylang Nosy be is a yellow floral with uniqueness and incredible performance. Vanille de Tahiti is the best summery vanilla that I have and now I have the best sweet citrus scent I could envision. Very happy with my blind buy and glad I added this one to my collection. There are so many lemon forward vanilla's on the market but i don't know of many orange ones and PMC nailed it here.

I've always wanted a Perris Monte Carlo fragrance and a nice niche summer fragrance. My first choice was Arancia di Sicilia and, boy, what a stunning fragrance. At the beginning I get oranges, ripe and sweet, very uplifting and energizing. But soon after, a symphony of gourmand notes appear in the limelight. Vanilla, coffee beans, amber - a wonderful mix of delicious notes skilfully blended. Still, the fragrance stays airy enough to be worn in the summer's heat. A light orange dessert in a bottle. Wish it lasted longer on my skin, that's my only complaint. Now I'd like to try more of this house's fragrances cause I'm intrigued .

A winter citrus/summer amber. It's good year round. The opening is a nice sweet orange that turns into a bit of an orange soda vibe as the vanilla and almond kick in. The amber gives it some body and weight but it doesn't get too heavy in warm weather. This is one of my favourite orange perfumes. It's not as fresh and cooling as some citruses. If I just want something super refreshing, I usually reach for Mandarine Basilic, but this is perfect for when I want something orange with a little more heft, a little sultry from the amber. It's almost gourmand but not a literal orange cake, which makes it very versatile.

Such a bright, cheerful, stunningly real orange juice accord! Arancia di Sicilia really captures the tart, pungent sensation of cutting and handling oranges that it made my mouth water--I think it's the best rendition I've ever smelled. The supporting structure is also very pretty, with a nice floral amber to back it up . . . but that opening is just mind blowing. I kind of want some just to keep respraying it, because I have burned through my sample doing just that. Resistance is futile.

Arancia di Sicilia is my first try from Perris Monte Carlo. It’s one of the house’s more recent releases (from 2019) and, as best I can tell, one of the more discussed. On name alone, it sounds it should be a citrus-dominant mix, but the note breakdown is much more interesting, and the same can be said of the fragrance itself, which definitely has a prominent sweet-and-creamy citrus aspect to it, but smells far more of a blended dessert, with notes of almond, cinnamon, and coffee.