Dama Bianca

This is the perfume that my inner child feels most happy when wearing. Last spring, I went through a period of self-reflection and transformation that led to deep inner child healing. I had the pleasure of meeting the little girl who’s been craving comfort, joy, and freedom her whole life and I learned to slowly build a healthy relationship with her and tend to her needs. This is what I wear when I want to reconnect to that innocent part of me, untainted by the external expectations. Dama Bianca is a safe space for pure expression. It doesn’t set standards for your way of being. You can be your true authentic self and never feel cringe because she is aligned with your highest version. The version that unapologetically exists but never proves. She doesn’t need attention, she is the divine feminine that lives within us all; wise, soft and receiving without guilt.

What @lilcherryperez said… if I had reviewed Dama Bianca based on the sample I would have agreed that it had no longevity whatsoever. But I own a full bottle now, the big bottle (because I knew I would need it) and I am smelling it hours later which I did not expect based on the sample. It is a scent that stays relatively close to the body though and is not screechy on me at any time. It’s soft-just divine and it does make me feel like an Italian princess when I wear it which is most days. It’s become a part of me the way certain wonderful scents do and when I smell it throughout the day it makes me so happy. Btw all the Casamoratis come in such handy boxes that I keep the bottles in them stored like books on a shelf of their own.

Dama Bianca isn’t powdery, milky, or ethereal. And yet, it feels like the perfect bridal fragrance for a wedding among wildflowers in a cereal field. It smells dry and sunlit, made for a late-summer afternoon. The violets are only present in the opening, fading within a couple of minutes before the scent settles into something much more distinctive, that florally sweetened malt. It’s beautiful, but also dense and dry, it's not airy nor powdery. It's more of a calm vacation perfume: quiet fields, warm light, linen dresses, dry cereals, a walk outside the village. It’s rural and rustic rather than elegant or sophisticated, and it definitely filled a gap in my perfume wardrobe.

So unique. The fruity, juicy kumquat and lime in the top notes ring out clear as a bell, and they're fascinating to me because it's so unlike any other fragrance I own. Then the vanilla malt (I sense almond too) comes forward to dance with powdery, delicate, & sweet purple florals; deepened by exotic jasmine. This fragrance is so positively Italian. It has a slight spicy bite from what I believe to be the combination of ambrette and cedar. Blended to perfection, but I can still sense each and every note throughout its composition. Dama Bianca does read a wee bit leathery/animalistic deep within its velvet sweetness. Do I pick up on an unlisted whisper of possibly saffron?

A lovely vanilla scent that is sweet but not overly gourmand or heavy. To me this overall smells like violets dusted with vanilla sugar served with a glass of crisp white wine. My husband agrees and really loves this scent on me. It’s also my daughter’s favorite and she says it smells like watermelon candies. I do find it lingers on skin and clothing most of the day but it is faint and soft. The dry down gets a bit toasty vanilla as the violets and floral citrus elements fade. I do wish it was a bit more musky and powdery, I will often layer it with a white musk oil. Still a beautiful perfume, high quality, although I’d never pay full retail price for it.