Voluptuous Nostalgia is a scent made to lose yourself in, and it doesn’t matter how long the daydream lasts when it’s this much fun. Like all the sweet summer girls skipping down the side streets in Italy, Voluptuous Nostalgia knows well that the best memories are the fleeting ones. Voluptuous Nostalgia’s presence is in keeping with old, foreign movies also – the fragrance lasts for several hours and entertains you with its retro, coquettish charm just long enough for you to be smitten, but not bored. La Baia Di Napoli 1960 Vittorio De Sica Sophia Loren and Clark Gable Maria McElroy’s release of Geisha Amber Rouge from 2011 has this same, quiet, silky sophistication. There’s an elegance in the wearing of Voluptuous Nostalgia that is entirely compelling and unique. There’s a soft, sheer slip in the feel of this perfume as you wear it that is absolutely gorgeous. And this silken quality is what I most admire in Aroma M perfumes – they literally drape around the wearer, rather than blast aggressively off the skin or retreat into introverted, sullen skin scents. Aroma M perfumes all seem to carry this absolutely exquisite hand to them – like the hand found in a fine silk scarf. The opening notes are flirtatious and bright, and mask the serious commitment that young lad will have to come up with later on as this scent develops.īut perhaps the best thing about Voluptuous Nostalgia is its texture. This perfume begins with an abundance of floral joy that is immediately uplifting and playful, and draws you in with a wink and a flash of leg, before the more serious and sensuous violet/amber feel kicks in. Voluptuous Nostalgia also has a more modern, floral side – namely with the inclusion of a delicious gardenia and muguet opening that is to perfume what bright yellow sunlight is to a kitchen window. A woman who wears this scent feels like she can take on the world – provided the world is filled with Dean Martin’s music, Vespas, and late-afternoon Southern Italian sunshine. It’s a perfume with a very retro feel, but in all the best ways a demure, feminine but sweetly sensual fragrance can be. The violet/amber feel is coquettish and very enticing – in short, catnip for the menfolk. The effect is stunning – Voluptuous Nostalgia is a very aptly-named scent, because if a young lad might come across a whiff of this while travelling in a foreign country, well it might haunt him a good long while. It’s built on a captivating violet and amber combination wherein both notes are intriguingly uplifted rather than turning powdery and dully sweet. Voluptuous Nostalgia instantly paints your world in Technicolor washes, with each moment cast in a bright and breezy hue. But I do have the new release from Maria McElroy of Aroma M Perfumes, Voluptuous Nostalgia, which might be the next best thing. Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in The Pride and the Passion, 1957īut I’m not in Italy, with no plans to go, sadly. Places like Rome, Cannes and Naples, where Sophia Loren dance on moonlit cobblestone streets, her dress catching the wind. These films are always shot in a country where you long to be, but somehow is always out of reach. The ones filmed on esoteric film stock like Kinetoscope!, or SuperDeluxe-O-Vision!, where every frame is saturated in soft, pastel colors and the plot is watchably romantic. Pane, amore e…, 1959 film directed by Dino Risi: Sophia Loren Mambo Italiano
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