Lorenzo Villoresi

I love powdery perfumes specially the ones with domininant vanilla,heliotrope or almond,rose and musk(for refrence Kenzo Amour,Armani Lei/She ,Alaia Blanche,Narciso Poudre,Dior Poison Girl,Lolita Lempicka Blanche,Britney Spears Intimate Fantasy,Valentino Donna,Dior Jador Voile,JPG Classique EDP and EDT, Xerjoff Dama Bianca and Prada Candy Kiss are some of my favorites) so I knew Villoresi Teint de Neige is a must have for me Before buying this,I thought Guerlain French Kiss is my romantic,girly powdery babe but Teint de Neige manages to be romantic and girly AND elegant at the same way.this masterpiece is luxurious,yet calming and comforting.it's pure feminity in a bottle.what's girlier than face powder and marshmallows,baby powder and macaroons.it's a warm,fluffy cloud made of makeup powder and sweet treats that embraces me and takes me to a fantasyland that I dreamed of since I was a little girl I read in one of reviews here(which by the way was an amazing review) that this is not sexy.I agree with all the points mentioned in that review except this one.I think it IS sexy but not in a vampy,smokey eyes and red lipstick kind of way.I think nothing can be sexier than warm,sweet,simple,girly and clean and these are the code words here Long story short,I love this effortlessly gorgeous,sweet powdery heaven.it's a blend of powdery vanilla,powdery rose,powdery heliotrope,powdery musk and powdered sugar.clean without being sterile,yummy without being edible,and warm without being hot.I even love it's name..it really makes me think of the color white because I always think of wearing this one as my bride perfume. I highly believe it shows it's true beauty when it's sparingly used.I'm a heavy sprayer but not with this one.two sprays is enough for it to hug you for hours.if I wasn't a perfume junkie this could be a great signature perfume option.I'd love my future kids to always remember me with such a pure,cuddly,comforting scent of roses,vanilla,sweetness and powder

Superbly blended. This is considered Villoresi's masterpiece, and for a reason. It's the contrast/balance between the edible and non-edible elements in this scent that make it so tantalizing. As a reviewer has accurately pointed out below, a rich vanilla note anchors this scent. I think Luca Turin described Kenzo's 'Amour' as a fascinating interplay between 'eat me' and 'don't eat me'; Teint de Neige does the same thing. Yes, it is powdery, with rose and heliotrope notes. But the whole thing is so seamlessly managed and blended that it stands head and shoulders above other powder fragrances. By comparison, it makes Talco Delicato seem thin, Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum overpoweringly sweet, and L'Artisan's Drole de Rose a little too screechy. One thing you can count on with Villoresi's perfumes is the evident quality of their base materials. But they are also clever: this is a well-thought-out scent. More suited to cold weather than warm, but for Spring and Summer there's always the gorgeous Iperborea...

Teint de Neige is one of those fragrances that requires a certain demeanor or personal aura to pull it gracefully. Whatever it is, I must be lacking that as the perfume sits above my head like my own huge cumulus cloud of fluffiness, making me very conscious of releasing olfactory messages within a two-mile radius. Yes, it is that big. A lot of people, including the maker, liken Teint de Neige to powder and I can see why, but I think it's more creamy than powdery on me. And sometimes I think that it's a smell-alike for Johnson's baby lotion in that old pink bottle - I'm not sure if they still make it. On my mother, it's a whole different story, so present but at the same time so elegant, so radiant. It becomes a part of her and I can notice almonds, iris, rose, some wonderful creaminess. It's one of the those fragrances that I'm left to appreciate on other people.