Dianthus Etro for women

Strong spicy and soapy floral.
1) Carnation
2) Tobacco
3) Geranium
4) Pepper
5) Wood notes
It is very dry type a scent. Definitely mature. Again, quite strong at first, however it soaks up nicely. This is a very familiar perfume from many years ago, my mom and her friends wore something like this; heck think I'm going to show her this one, quite sure she'll like it.
This scent has lots of potential, interesting..... excellent choice for evening occasions.

It was a blind buy, as I like to try different florals. This is a spicy carnation. I get these lovely notes lingering on my skin. They are not sweet, cloying and heavy, rather fresh, adequate for colder weather to remind me of the spring to come.

(Just wanted to mention here that Etro has re-categorized & re-marketed Dianthus Etro as a unisex fragrance.)

After searching online for a modern version of a carnation perfume (I love the spicy, cinnamon aroma of real carnations) I found that a lot of people who weren't "into" carnation actually came to love Dianthus by Etro. Others raved of how it has a more modern twist on carnation, because it added an "orange warmth". Carnation perfumes, to me, tend to have that "old lady", heavy baby-powder smell. What drew me in to trying Dianthus were the references to it's orange, uplifting warmth that other reviewers said did well in spring and summer as well as the colder months. A year round fragrance? Great! So I bought some online, sight unseen and smell unsmelled. I just got it a couple of days ago and... I really liked it... at first. All in all, it didn't seem to enhance my natural chemistry. It seemed to do exactly what I was afraid of: after dry-down, it became an old woman smell on me. It must be my darn skin chemistry! I'd imagine this can smell LOVELY on some people. God knows I love to just spray it in the room! It's a wonderful scent, just for some reason, not with my personal skin chemistry. Rats! :(

Here's the low-down: Upon first sniff of the bottle, I can immediately smell the light bourbon geranium mixed with spicy orange. I don't get any pepper when I spray it at all.. I sort of wish there were more pepper to it. When I put it on my skin, that spicy-geranium-orange lingers, then turns into a perfect mixture of geranium and carnation. The clove is lost in the mixture though. :/ The dry down is definitely a smooth concoction. Pure carnation lingers whilst creamed with dallups of vanilla and a smooth, bourbon-y musk that lends a smokey scent, too. It must be the cedar? Yum!

AND THEN...

About an hour later, after the love-at-first-sniff wore off, it turned into this very heavy, sweet-smelling elephant in the room. And it wasn't a carnation smell. Maybe it was the geranium? I'm not a big fan of obvious fragrances, and this was definitely obvious on me. My hubby got home and was like, "What IS that perfume smell?!" When I asked him what it reminded him of, he said, "it smells like I'm standing in a line at the airport" I'd have to say that the typical carnation perfume tends to make me smell at about the age of 90, whereas the Dianthus Etro carnation makes me smell about 55. (I'm 28...) But it may work for some! Don't completely rule it out.

Dianthus Etro reminded me -at first- of curling up with a good book with some hot buttered rum in my cup, sitting next to a freshly lit fire or wood-stove during an unusually cold spring. Come to think of it - I know exactly what it reminded me of at first. The next time you're out at a Thai restaurant, get a Thai Iced Tea. In the beginning of this fragrance, that is *exactly* the flavor of this EDT.

My big issue with the finish: the scent just flattened out and came up all mushed together making it a very cloying, heavy-sweet scent for me. I give it a 3 out of 5 stars, because I think this would actually smell REALLY good on someone else. I wouldn't mind smelling this on someone more my grandma's age or someone with a mature personality. All in all, test before you buy! It may smell better on you than it did on me. ;)

This one was a total surprise. I expected a carnation-based EdT to be so-so at best, but instead I have fallen in love at first sniff. I generally don’t like floral scents, but this one is more of a spicy oriental than a straight-up floral. However, it also contains some fresh flower-like notes that really round out the composition, making it lovely and natural.

Dianthus starts out with the promised carnation along with a spicy blend of nutmeg, clove, ginger, and vanilla. The spicy-floral blend is accompanied by fresh greenish notes that make the composition seem like a live flower. On the other hand, it could even be a luscious dessert. It’s also a little like the bouquet of a Muscat wine without the acidic notes and alcohol.

For an EdT, the scent is surprisingly emphatic, but never too much of a good thing. In fact, I could actually imagine spraying it on with abandon. I love it when a fragrance surprises me, proving once again that you never know until you test a scent - any scent - whether it will evoke love, hate, or indifference. I’m pretty sure that my sample of Dianthus will become a staple floral in my rotation.

Carnation and clove loom large in Etro DIANTHUS, an undeniably oriental floral composition reminiscent to my nose of Caron BELLODGIA, and every bit as powerful.

DIANTHUS is a compelling creation, provided that you really like both carnation and clove, as they sing through loud and clear from start to finish. The geranium is also detectable early on, and a touch of cedar in the drydown, but C&C dominate all the way. The other notes--including citrus, pepper, ginger, and vanilla--are but very subtle embellishments.

The very spicy, somewhat heavy texture of DIANTHUS make it suitable for cold weather, as the C&C complex is well-anchored in a musk-resin base. A caveat is therefore in order: Apply sparingly, as though this edt (!) were perfume! I applied maybe .3 ml, and found that this "edt" lasts forever and even penetrates sweaters!

I won't be adding DIANTHUS to my collection, as I already have a several lifetimes supply of BELLODGIA, but I can recommend it do those who do not already own BELLODGIA and who love carnations and cloves!

I dare say that Dianthus is one of the most sophisticated scent to me, so different, yet close and well known. Fresh is just as much as desirable, is not simple that I recognize all the notes in the perfume, because everything is so perfectly merged in a bunch and this is what I love most.I love good old perfumes, and less like new modern; charming old perfumes so chic,while modern perfumes work incomplete and somewhat empty to me. But Dianthus is a combination of "yesterday" and "today", just perfect for all seasons, not even slightly sweet or heavy, has the enviable power to linger on the skin and enjoy it all day.

At last I have Dianthus. I had intuition - it's wonderfull, very sound and longlasting. Carnation plays main role, but I feel paprika, imbir, pink pepper, cedr, wanilla too. Smell is very natural, deep, juicy, sweet, but simultaneously piquant. This carnation is energy, unhumble, joyful and inviting for flirt. Invitation must be accepted, because it simply unusually beautiful floral perfume. Many people gives me compliment for Dhiantus.

Composition of note this perfum, which I have read which in description in Fragrantica, name , history of name Dianthus, foto beautiful bottle so have sparked off my imagination, that I have wished Dianthus, though I did not have opening of it smell. I know other smells Etro - all are beautiful. So, I dream about Dianthus.