Angelo di Fiume Linari for women and men

Linari ANGELO DI FIUME is a very sweet floriental perfume, with much more caramel than flowers, in fact. Although it is classified as unisex, I'd be very surprised if many gents took a liking to this. I'd even go so far as to say that this fragrance bumps up against the limit of acceptable sweetness for many gals as well. The composition seems similar to a celebrity scent intended for teens, except that the quality seems a lot better than most of those.

Aside from the sweet caramel, I smell a fairly big dose of benzoin, which is always a good thing in my book, along with the sandalwood-vanilla combination so often featured in designer floriental perfumes. Here, I grant, it smells fresh, not sour or stale or synthetic and seems to last forever (I eventually took a bath...).

Nonetheless, all in all, when all is said and sniffed, this fragrance seems to me to be redundant, and I cannot imagine very many people wanting to buy such a scent at the asking price, unless they have become smitten with the fancy bottle, in which case I'd recommend seeking out one of the more distinctive perfumes of this line.

This is my all-time favorite second only to SDV and DHI Vintage. Beautifully done masculine, fresh and fruity and gourmand. Delicious!

I've to resign to the fact that Linari's fragrances are anything but distinctive or original. With the exception of Acqua Santa and Fuoco Infernale which, IMO, are the stand outs of the line, the rest of the offering is made out of trite and derivative designer compositions sold at high-end niche prices. Angelo Di Fiume is Linar's take on gourmand and strikes as a cloying and banal vanille/caramel combo that smells like a puerile deodorant for 13 years old. The worst news is that it's by one of my favorite perfumeurs of the new school: Mr Buxton.

Awful.

Rating: 2/10

Angelo di Fiumi (Google Translate says this means "Angel River?") is very sweet. I get kind of a sweet pipe tobacco or cigar element in this scent, though I don't see tobacco listed as a note. But yes, sweet smoke and cotton candy and fruits. Sort of an upscale, classier Pink Sugar, but much more polite and less "in-your-face" than that scent. It stayed very sweet while it lasted, but disappeared before I could detect the lovely base notes.

I'm not particularly interested in gourmands these days, but this is a nice example of this category if you enjoy these. It's youthful and very pretty overall, and I have a feeling men will enjoy smelling this one on a woman.

When I close my eyes, I see fairies. Flowers, candies, fruits but not silly at all, just elegant and romantic! I love it:)

Finally the Linari line hits Fragrantica! This is basically a Sweet smoky vanilla with lemon (or citrus really as per the notes), soft and beautiful.