Palazzo Fendi for women

I got an opened bottle of this one from a friend after asking her what perfume she wore. Smelled amazing. I would never have picked it out myself because it's quite strong. I am actually surprised I can wear it. Applied sparingly this is so gorgeous. Now my bottle is almost empty. I'm sorry its not available anymore.

Clean fresh jasmine floral; has some power to it as well. Smells sophisticated and expensive too. I like it because even thou it smells clean it gives a strong statement as a perfume. Something nostalgic about this one.....growing up in Europe as a child, everyone's always dressed up when out. Pretty much you look and feel great you want to smell amazing, you wear this luscious floral.
Excellent silage and quality.

Intense and warm, unfortunately discontinued.
It's caramel-sweet at the start, and then oranges give the illusion of freshness for a moment that lasts for abouf half an hour. Then the courtesy is over and Palazzo becomes a superfloriental.
After many, many hours, Vanilla announces the drydown.
Great for wearing with a (faux) fur coat.

Palazzo has a distinct waxy characteristic to me. It smells very much to me like rose-scented candles and peppery wood, which creates a faintly smoky effect. Very smooth, very polished. The wood sort of transforms into an earthy smell that defines the base, perhaps it is the jasmine or patchouli, or both.

Overall it is understated, elegant, mature, and refined.

Ice tea with rose petals...or cool marble with distant roses. I have the feeling that it really goes more harmonically with blonde women though that I usually don't categorize perfumes like that...

I only have a half sample of this my mother gave me, I rarely dare to test a tiny drop, but I absolutely love this. To me it smells expensive, and blonde, a cool, focused woman with money, it screams self control to me, almost haughty, but yet I love it. A perfume to wear when you need a little bit of a shield, it picks you up, straightens your back and polishes you up.

It's orange blossom and patchouli but in a fairly cold way, not your biker leathers patchouli here at all!
Others have mentioned Insolence which is interesting, another scent I would put on for exactly the same reason I would wear this. Yet I need to find something more similar, can anyone recommend anything?

I don't regret if this scent has been discontinued. I always thought Palazzo is too synthetic, too contrived (poor notes of jasmine, synthesized in a laboratory bum). A perfume cold and without heat (Ok, it has a beautiful bottle, but is it really important?- I don't think so!). I still got a full bottle of 50 ml, I can't use it. I dislike completly. Ughhh!

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* -(bottle)

Think it was a mistake trying this in summer.Sickening. Smells so cheap and plastic on me, it gave me nausea. Overwhelmingly floral, but in a bad way. I'm no blonde, maybe that's why...
Not sure if I'll try it again this winter. Hate this bold jasmin scent.

beautiful!!! rich rich fragrance.. a little goes a long way. i do smell the tangerine sandelwood and lemon/lime!!! it is sooo lux !! takes me back to the 80s.

I bought this perfume after falling in love with the warm woody notes. It was a very short love affair! The scent became overpowering and sickly. I now use it as a toilet freshner.

Beautiful, unusual bottle, beautiful fragrance! I consider myself lucky to have bought the body cream JUST before the fragrance was pulled.

I am wearing Palazzo today and it rings too many bells. This perfume has an older and more successful sister: Kenzo Flower. While Flower is drier, Palazzo is only its more feminine version - using heavier hand with flowers (hedione?), but I'm positive they are build on the very same structure. I might be wrong, maybe it is hedione, - the jasmine aromachemical substitute, which twists the entire composition and gives the impression of this transparent fruity woody base.. Meanwhile, I am digging deeper and voila! I found the great mother - Samasara EDT in its original formula (transparent bottle with red cap). The hearts and drydowns of Palazzo and Flower are so similar I can barely tell them apart, only they can't afford the mink coat their older relative wearing - the real sandalwood from East Indies and quality jasmine absolute. Maybe the unisex feel was what made Flower popular, a fashionable tag of the 21's century. While Palazzo is interesting, it is not entirely new, so to answer your questions - maybe lack of originality and aggressive marketing brought it to discontinuation.

An incredible perfume. I have to agree with so many of the reviews - Elegant and Expensive, Warm and Smoky and a bit Aloof. She is not so much floral to me as the scent of worship and sacrifice. When I wear this I feel that am entitled and doors should just open for me. It has a transforming personality. I just love it and wish I could always wear it - but that would be a common and tasteless use of such a masterpiece and I would soon feel unworthy to possess it. So I shall savour the rare moments I spend in her presence, knowing the day will come when she, like her sister Fendi, will gently disappear, leaving me with the memory of having walked with a Goddess.

I received this as a gift recently.It is the most loved gift ever!!! from the beginning there is a soft woody floral scent that forms a base for the other notes to meld with.There is sweet pink pepper dusted on a bowl of juicy oranges that maintain that smokey earthy base.Shortly it morphs into the most lush,intense jasmine vines ever.
Huge deep,blood red roses drip their nectar into the tangle of jasmine.

The deep woody scent of this fume keeps it grounded throughout.Patchouli gives it an even woodier scent,smoky,sexy,rich and most of all a fume with substance.

Excellent sillage and lasts 8/10 hrs on me!!

This is one very pretty, very distinctive warm floral perfume. I love it! So sweet and bubbly. Has great sillage and is very long lasting.

I've been testing some fragrances this afternoon and made a little discovery. I had applied Palazzo on the back of my hand and Yves Rocher So Elixir on the inside of my elbow. They are very similar. I think So Elixir would be a great substitute for the increasingly hard-to-find and expensive Palazzo.

Hi.

PALAZZO is a Great creation by FENDI. Definitely Feminine.Elegant,Expensive, Classic,Floral,Special and Exquisite too.It smells Bewitch in a Right way.i bought it for my mother and she Loved it so much.

Sweet and Fresh opening makes a Great background into Floral heart.The base is Special and Soft.In fact this composition is Extreme Womanly and in my opinion it is not something That Girls adore it and probably due Patchouli and Pink Pepper.

This smells Gives you a Wondrous Mood.Truly Glamorous as The Bottle.I recommend it to those who love Long lasting&Luxurious perfume for SPECIAL occasions.Perfect for AUTUMN EVENINGS.Totally you can not regret buying it if you are a Dandy Lady.

Sillage?Nice as arouse curiosity.

Longevity?Remarkable on my skin.

7.5/10

Reminds me of Armani Code without the honey note--and it looks like they are both composed of similar notes. Which is better? I admit to having both in my collection. I find Code has a stronger vanilla drydown and the honey note is hit or miss with me. I think the Palazzo is a safer bet.

I am not sure how to review the fragrance since it develops differently under different weather conditions...
The first impression is of a fruit blast, not offensive, not intrusive, juicy sweetness. It only lasts for approx. 2 minutes and then, when I think it cannot get any more fruity than that, it suddenly changes and I can smell roses (for some reason the smell reminds me of roses growing in wild). After approx half an hour, when I put my nose to my wrist and close my eyes, the fragrance changes and all I can smell at that stage are dark cool chambers in Lincoln Cathedral. I cannot describe the feeling better than that I'm afraid and this is why I consider the fragrance a real genius amongst classy, sophisticated perfumes.
The drydown is very gentle, mild, woodsy and powdery to me.
Palazzo is a must have for an elegant woman who wishes to impress the others and see the heads turning....
I have an EDP and I wish the fragrance had better staying power but it may be due to me applying it very sparingly. Otherwise I might be marking territory whenever I go :-)
It is a shame it has been discontinued.
Dear Rose Lovers, I would say grab it while you still can :-)

Do you know what this reminds me of? You know those tiny lavender-filled hanging bamboo things that you get at festival booths? The same kind of booth that sells scented drawer sachets and incense?

Yup. Lavender. Not even listed in the notes. It's obviously an olfactory illusion.

Also strongly sensing EVERGREEN -- the scent I smell when I'm camping or at a cottage.

And there's a hint of Avon's Skin So Soft oil, too.

Sillage? I'll say! Patchouli might be the reason.

Interesting, for sure, but not for me.

Only recently have I discovered Fendi scents, much to my dissappointment that they are discontinued. First, I tried Theorema and now got my hands on Palazzo. The bottle itself is beautiful and so is the scent.
It is an elegant, floral perfume. It is so warm, feminine and captivates you straight away. Even though the name is Palazzo, the scent is quite modern. Very good staying power.

I find Palazzo resembling the Trussardi Fresh for women (blue bottle). The bottles could not differ more, but the notes are very much resembling. I have them both and they give me the same white blanket feeling!!
:)

I thought this had been discontinued because I loved it and went to buy it , it was gone! My friend at the perfumery just told me it has been bought by another company and is coming back! Very happy! Beautiful scent!

I just wrote a revieuw of Bvlgari Jasmin noir.Well this story begins the same way..Wanna drink it and this bottle is really one of my favorites!!
Maybe it's because this was the first present from my husband..And I wore it in Rome last year,14 december at our weddingday!So, I like it a lot, and really wonder Fendi stopped producing it.Lucky me, I have three bottles left.Gonna use it every 14th of each month.(tissues!!!)

this smells soo good. Very feminine and fresh but has a nice sensual depth to it. I keep smelling my wrist and I love how it wafts around me.:-)

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

This is the opening line from 'Love in the time of Cholera' by the incredibly gifted Gabriel Marquez. You can go on to read many detailed pages of how one man died from gold cyanide, or you can just get the gist from sniffing Palazzo.

Like NLS, I too had unrequited love from this one. And like a bad date, it had to be ended early. I too am baffled, as my standard goodie ingredients are all here. Perhaps my sample was a pre-reformulated version?

Can't say I care enough to find out.

I really wanted to love Palazzo. It has so many great reviews by friendly Fragranticans whose taste is similar to mine. The bottle is gorgeous. A lot of the notes I usually love are in this scent. I love Fendi's Theorema and their original "Fendi" scent, too.

Alas, it wasn't meant to be.

Palazzo was the first "scrubber" I've encountered in quite some time. It smells like someone dumped my beloved Theorema all over the janitor's freshly-waxed floor. Very strong smell of industrial cleaning chemicals on my skin. I could detect a faint hint of creamy floral, and I waited and waited for it to emerge from the chemical haze, but it never blossomed. I couldn't stand it anymore and had to wash it away.

It appears I am in the minority here.

I hope to someday smell it on the skin of someone who wears it well. It might be one I can better appreciate from afar.

I'm picturing Black and White 45 degree
Dutch Angle moving image of a impeccable
dressed couple A buxom Proxide Blonde woman
hair fashioned in a Veronica Lake
Rita Haywoth Gilda-esque Hair. wearing a skin tight black satin Heartshaped
bodiced strapless Versace Gown. with long Black gloves. darkly handsome man
tall in statue Italian Armani tuxedo.
Walking slowly to their Open top sports
car. driving allover Rome late at night hair blowing in the wind going to a exclusive party an no hold bards with no rules sex alcohol drugs dancing mixure of wealthy Socialites Artists
Models in weird Aluminum Dresses
Eccentrics film producers a old man with fendi sun glasses well dress greets you with a pinch on the cheek
and offers a seat in the leather sofa in the lounge room. Muscular Men with
long hair Wearing Tight Black Leather Pants Dancing. Flashing Strobe lights
streaming until the music stops and a white spotlight shines on the woman
and the two Afro Cuban drumers start
beating on their drumes and she started dancing slowly on a plafrom until the beat becomes faster and shaking her whole body to the music and tossing her hair up and down her hips shakes her lover starts caressing her body.
Tranvesties in gold and silver on swings throw gold silver and bronze Glitter And Confetti over the lovers
and screaming
Happy New Year!!!!
And the Party last thoughout the night

Fendi is a party in a Bottle.

Palazzo by Fendi is possibly one of the most elegant fragrances I've ever come across.

From simply glancing at the bottle, one suspects this will be a sophisticated and glamourous floral, and that is exactly what Palazzo is.

Opening with subtle citrus notes and peppery goodness, this fragrance is both bright and gentle on the skin. The heart of white florals however, really brings out the character in Palazzo.

This floral blend is rich, warm and inviting. The whole experience is rather exquisite. Palazzo has a very classic, French-feel about it which reeks of confidence and glamour.

The drydown tends to be quite musky and dense in a smokey sense. The patchouli is barely detectable here, so patchouli haters should be able to cope with Palazzo. This fragrance is bold and distinctive without being too strange for people to handle.

It's such a shame that the Fendi fragrance line has almost ceased to exist. For such an interesting and pleasant fragrance, Palazzo does not deserve to disappear from the market.

This is the most beautifil perfume I have ever owned. I'm gutted by the news it's been discontinued :(

This is soft and elegant, with excellent staying power! I am impressed by Palazzo....
The style is elegant, balanced on stiletto pumps, a bit ostentatious, but not loud or heavy or having any strange indolic or dark and dirty notes. This radiates, not in an innocent way, but with the sexy confidence of someone who never plays the seductress. I love Palazzo EDT, and I'm waiting for a bottle of it, but for now I have this Eau de Parfum from a swap, and I find it delightfully similar to the EDT, although not nearly as sublime. I was worried about the amount of patchouli, but this is my 3rd time wearing it-on my neck-and I feel no irritation of the nose. Palazzo is rather sweet, but the sweetness is necessary to make the fluffy rich bouquet just slightly more approachable-the sweetness seems to come from the citrus notes which lift the whole composition. I love Palazzo EDT because it is so clean-smelling, fresh, with a cool woodiness-the woodiness here is very subtle-this is not a wood fragrance. This is a very floral fragrance-and the citrus notes are neither juicy nor sour.

I guess I smell wood too, but the flowers stay for the ride. The pink pepper is hardly there on my skin, just an aldehyde-like lift and then it's big poofy flowers protecting me from a patchouli plant....
The model in the ad looks like Palazzo would fit her-arrogant, confident, elegant, and bitchy...But that is not me-I make Palazzo my scent, and you can make the feminine Palazzo yours, however different from (or similar to) that Fendi model you are....

This is superb.
For a long time now, I am trying to find a new signature scent, after years of 'opium abuse' in the 80's. Although I think I will never have just one signature scent again, this one certainly deserves a big chance. Got hold of 10 little samples on the net, and am terribly in love.
First impression: a bit harsh and loud, but after a couple of minutes it developes itself into a delicate yet firm, soft yet crisp, high society yet bold perfume.
Big ten !!!

Update 22/04/11
I am now the happy owner of a 50 ml bottle with box.
Thank you, Turquoise.

I tried it,, it was wonderfull, although it mainly smelled bitter almond, its not even mentioned in its ingredients,, nice..

Being in the mature bracket, and having had a passion for perfumes since as long as I can remember, I have sampled the delights of many a gorgeous scent. This, I have to say, is striking. I can't believe I have not had the pleasure of experiencing this perfume before. I was becoming rather jaded with all the scents that smelled the same. I yearned for something different, something that piqued my curiosity and offered something individual and a level of certainty that every other woman you encountered did not wear it. Palazzo is such a scent. It is a joy to wear and is as unpredictable as it is unique. I would urge you to try it. It may not be for you but I have no doubt you will appreciate its beauty and be captivated by its air of mystery. A true treasure and I hope that the powers that be will bring it back. In my opinion you can never have too much of a good thing so I will be wearing this morning, noon and night and enjoying every minute of it. :0)

If you like Fendi Palazzo and obviously its been discontinued,try estee lauder private collection as its really similar

I just discovered this and love it, only to find out it's been discontinued.
WHY? WHY? WHY?

You've got to have an attitude to wear this. This an arrogant scent. It reminds me of glue but i don't want to give it bad credit.15-10-09

Very lady-like, heady but also very classic in a good way. Not an easy one, but not boring anyway and if you wear it you'll stand out for sure.

At the beggining is sweet and nice but the dry down reminds me a lot of Cacharel`s Eden which I hate a lot....

To be honest this is one of the worst perfumes I`ve ever tried but my friend`s sister bought it and love it

I am head over heels with this shrine of a perfume!I have never ever come across such a distinct scent in my life! It is most definitely classy, refined and very sophisticated. It is sweet without being cloying, spicy without giving you a headache. You would never dream of wearing it every day (that would ruin the magic...)It is made for those special evenings - and I would recommend it for winter use only. Its sillage is simply amazing!

After reading about the ingredients, I wanted to try Palazzo with impacience. And I did it, to my negative surprise. It was the smell of a washing powder factory. I don't want to be mean, but at a second try it was soap and low quality washing powder.
Conclusion is evaluating perfumes on the basis of their ingredients description may be deceiving.

I put this perfume on my nephew RD and compliment the entry receive :M-m, m smell of door lahash something nice, and it was he -Fendi Palazzo!

EDP - to my nose it is really sweet and heavy.. Don't really distiguishe a lot of flowers, but woodsy notes on drydown - yes. Now I realise, that name "Palazzo" very well fits this perfume (the way I imagine that) - quite pompastic and trying to impress everyone:) - how it sucseeds it is already other question;)

It's discontinued... so sad when that happens. :( I don't understand why, but after 18 months it was pulled. I love all the positive reviews! In every other site the reviews are mostly rude and obnoxious about this perfume. Basically a copy of each other and nothing original in the writing. Much better on here! It opens intense and alluring. Powerful but not overwhelming. It then smells familiar. Not like soap, but sort of like Navy by Dana. Only more refined and it wraps around you. Update: It's one of my favorites, but I use it lightly. This is a perfume that will last long into the night or be a statement perfume. It's unique and interesting. No wonder it was discontinued. All the generic fruity florals are popular because they are safe and bore me to tears. Palazzo is a sensual and a smoothly curvaceous woman in her finest dress on the town...

The scent has plenty of warm & comforting woody smell. It looks like its been spiced up by orange scent and it asks for a nice evening out or staying at home in front of the fire place watching an old movie with glass of wine in the hands. So comforting. So woody. Everyone should have some fragrance like that at home! :)

Oh, Palazzo is so different! It certainly stands out, you will never confuse it with something else.

The scent is gorgeous and seductive, it's taking you away. I love it!

It is realy nice...You can not say right the way what it smells like, but it is so fine.That is excacly what I want from a parfume!

I got addicted to the sample I got, that's how it started. I was sniffing it a couple of times a day. It belongs to this nice kind of perfume that changes along with your mood, you can make it either heavy and seductive (my version), or lighter. On my as I said it's somewhat heavier, smoky. Whenever I think of it I imagine XIX century boudoirs, actresses preparing for the stage in the first days of theatre, men smoking cigars during the antract, baroque architecture... Very intriguing.

Palazzo is something of a rarity for me - an extraordinary perfume I could wear every day. I found it hard to isolate the notes and that's a good thing. Sometimes I want a perfume to be an entirety in itself, not a procession of guessable ingredients.

The bottle is a curious rendering of a baroque italian palazzo, heavy and a little strange. It doesn't suit the perfume which is neither heavy or strange! Palazzo makes me feel like a modern European beauty, vivacious and elegant, the smiling princeza, the chic contessa who never has to try too hard because captivation is who she is.

Time to forget my other perfume plans and buy a bottle of this asap!

This is gorgeous scent. Smells expensive and stands out. Woody notes are present at the beginning. I'd personally would like to wear it in winter, because it's really warming. Luxurious woody scent it is. So demanding it requires a dress code, like black tie.
Unfortunately it can cause headache, so for me it's occasions only.
About champagne... nooo... it's not sour, but idea is close.
Why does it have to be discontinued? I think for this reason I'll get the 3.4 oz bottle. T_T

Palazzo! It's got Pizazz, so pop open the champagne but don't drink it wear it! This effervescent scent is the Dom Perignon of perfumes. Both jeca and scarlett5stam are right on the money about this one, it's champagne all the way! It's sparkling, bubbly, smells expensive and is one of a kind. The pink pepper in itself will make you feel the effects of happiness just like your first glass of champagne. The feminine floral heart renders the pure essence of a woman with fine taste with it's two roses, the Bulgarian and the Turkish. The warmth of the base withs its three cozy wood notes, specifically the guaiac wood with it's tea rose scent will enhance your mood to no end. The only intoxication you will feel is pure bliss. This is a great evening scent because of it's strength, but less is more, so apply sparingly. The elaborate golden 17Th century style bottle is well designed to hold this unique cocktail of notes. This Fendi masterwork is a fragrance to experience, a serious staple in my perfume wardrobe.

I have a sample of the EDP. It goes on quite strong (must be the patchouli), but the drydown is just lovely; upscale, assertive, warm, and graciously extroverted. It is *definitely* a colder weather fragrance, and for evenings, rather than daytime/work use. I agree with jeca's "gold and champagne" analogy.
I want to add -- this scent is the impeccably stylish and sophisticated hostess at the VIP party raising a champagne toast to her guests. Not a romantic fragrance, unfortunately -- my female friends LOVE it, but it's gone ignored by men. Lasting power is EXCELLENT.

It could be a sibling of Donna Karan's Gold; not in exact notes, but in spirit.

It reminds me of Insolence, not much by the notes (though they have the orange blossom note in common) but the character itself and I want it to take over when I am short of the Insolence bottle. There is the same bright independent essence, it is not for the faint-hearted, you have no choice but smell of a challenge: "catch me if you can..." The scent is provocative and gives a hint to some status as well as Insolence with all that it implies....

I have the edp version and thought I was not going to like this at first because it reminded me of Avon's Skin So Soft (original formula) initially. But I agree with others that as time goes on it is strangely captivating. It really is different than Avon's SSS. It is very rich, warm, comforting, even nostalgic, I think from the woodsy notes, but at the same time energetic and intense, from the peppery and fruity notes. A wonderful and very different combination! It was created to capture the spirit of Rome and I think it pulls this off very well as I do think of Rome when I was there with beautifully sunlit architecture, sipping capuccino at an quaint outdoor cafe with my husband all the while noticing an alluring mediterranean sort of aroma. Enchanting!

It is soapy on my skin but there is something underneath it that is so captivating. It's feminine and interesting is a great word for this scent...There is something clean and sexy about it that make you want to keep smelling it. I really like this one alot-I'm a fan of Fendi perfumes in general, but I find this one to be very lovely.

strange one, find it too sour, flowers not so distinguished, I guess, for me it smells like white stationary glue with lemon..

I first smelt Palazzo in a magazine, and had to have it; it smelt so sophisticated and sweet. I own it now and the fragrance lasts and gets noticed all the time.

It's the most seductive feminine perfume I have found yet! I love it! I was stuck on angel for a long time and I am happy I found another perfume that is amazing and modern!

I got this perfume as a present. I'm wearing it only to show to make the buyer happy but I find this perfume quite average. It's too sweet for me and not floral at all... it's kind of like a slightly soapy orange juice. Because it's so orange-y I cannot detect the rose... It is very long lasting though and a bottle is nice too!

I must have it, it is one of the most interesting modern fragrances for me at the moment ;o)

White flowers with fine tartness of fruity note, like champagne, so thin and refined, so intensive.

I have tried it, it smells like gold and champagne ;o)
I add it to my wish list, i really like it.