Perla
by Farmacia SS. Annunziata

It's lovely, but a little too simple i think. If you are looking for a straight and balanced lemon vanilla thing, you'll like it. It smells like lemon sugar flowers, scented with a little bit of plummy florals and a soft vanilla. On me the longevity was 6 hours and the sillage short. Not bad, but it could be better.

19th January, 2012.

With Perla, vanilla is king… or queen as the case may be. Its vanilla dominates the fragrance as much as vanilla dominates in Givenchy Pi. This form of vanilla is neither the burnt nor the wood version of – this is straightforward and refined, but it is not really a cloying version of vanilla. Besides the vanilla, I can determine a definite amber note, but that’s all the divergence I can find from the pyramid-listed lemon and osmanthus, I can only take their word on it. Those notes are probably there but I can’t separate them out from under the dominant vanilla and the diminutive amber. Linear, moderate sillage, and moderate longevity, Perla just doesn’t have enough to it to compete with all the good to excellent vanilla offerings available.

10th May, 2010.

An elegant sweet ambery vanilla. Has touches of a ylang-ylang or neroli like accord (sometimes it smells overripe banna and sometimes it's orange blossoms). Very much like current designer scent offerings in the "sweet floral candy" realm of things along the lines of Nina and Viva la Juicy (not as woodsy). Perla does it a little better by using somewhat more "natural" feeling ingredients. Bright and cheerful and very decent.

31st May, 2009.