Parfums Isola Blu

This is inevitably on that same shelf of the "airport" luxury scents, but is unquestionably an essential; to be more precise, this is the ultimate Lemonish, Floral Soap scent, but isnt done simply as a soap scent, has so many floral details, and yet stays super clean, it makes you feels like you touched water. It is essentially what all the others in the commercial realm have been doing for decades, but done better, way better. Isola Blu seems simple yet is complex but very controlled, it does what it has to do in the first hour, and in the second one gets all the flowers out and lets them rest into this end "luxury cream for body" scent, and stays there as functional you can imagine, basically once you make a shower, dress and put this, you are golden for about 3hrs depending on what you do. The downside is that it doesn't last that long; it fades to the ultimate soap cream level and fades away. Maybe I didn't get it, but how is this an EDP? It should perform way better for this price, i hope it works way better in the summer.

This is a great scent, and while similar to others at a cheaper price point, this has its own touch of character and is done much better than the others! What I don’t understand is how no one has made the comparison to Mancera Intense Cedrat Boise?! It shares so many notes with Intense Cedrat Boise, with some of the notes in different layers of the scent profile for Isola Blu. Notably they share Citrus, Juniper, spices, leather, patchouli, oak moss, white musk, and others. Immediately at the opening, it is very different from ICB but you can still tell the similarity, but it quickly dries to a less abrasive ICB on my skin…to the point that Mancera ICB becomes redundant in my collection. To me it is closer to ICB than Sospiro Basso and any others it is often compared to, and just like the others, Isola Blu is done better IMO. This is an easy 8.5/10 for me.

Beautiful and multifaceted. At the start, a powerful fougère base with pronounced bergamot and lemon. Then a boundless and beautiful polyphony.

Received this in a batch of samples and it was the home run in the batch. Such an addictive scent, somehow takes me back to the green Polo bottle I wore in the 1980's. Wore it out with my gf and she agreed that it is really a great fragrance. Longevity is good, sillage is about perfect for me (I don't like to overpower a room) and it just performs. Will be ordering a full bottle when I find a deal.

This is peak summer vacation scent. Smells like an oligarch parking his yacht in Monaco. $200 for 50ml is a lot, yet I could not find a better citrus scent. Basso is the dollar-store version of this, don't bother. I really wanted to like Basso due to low price, but it just smelled of artificial cheap chemicals. This one smells natural and high quality. Also, nicest bottle and cap I ever seen.