Palermo Don Corleone

8 reviews for Palermo Don Corleone

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   LESCUN – September 6, 2021

   Jérôme
   Ne vous arrêtez pas à la présentation que fait Dominique Dubrana de ses parfums, ce n’est qu’un éclairage. Un éclairage pertinent sans doute, qui a d’abord le mérite d’avoir été une source d’inspiration pour le parfumeur ; mais ce n’est qu’un éclairage. Les meilleurs sommeliers disent que, pour goûter un vin, il faut le faire à l’aveugle, sans prendre en compte l’étiquette (qui renvoie à une qualification, une cotation). Dans Basenotes Reviews, une commentatrice raconte que, après avoir senti Palermo, il lui semblait se retrouver dans un vieux club anglais, avec des fauteuils Chesterfield, une odeur de cigares non encore allumés, des boiseries tout autour : on est loin de la Sicile et de Marlon Brando !
   Palermo est d’abord un très grand parfum.
   Dans sa galerie, Dominique nous propose, soit des parfums facilement identifiables, excellents parce constitués de matières premières très pures qu’il sait merveilleusement doser, soit des créations olfactives originales. Palermo fait partie de cette seconde catégorie.
   La matrice proposée ici est rare : vanille-tubereuse-tabac. La senteur est extrêmement originale. La vanille (que l’on présente comme un balsamique doux et suave, avec des facettes boisées, épicées et tabac) est ici luxuriante, opulente, pulpeuse, capiteuse, sensuelle, généreuse. C’est un complexe liquoreux enivrant, composé de tonalités résineuses, florales et cuirées très surprenantes. On pourrait imaginer dans cet alliage des touches de patchouli, de génevrier, de gaïac, de laurier noble, de myrte rouge, de ciste, de castoreum. Mais la note de tabac, qui vient ensuite dans le sillage, tempère cette exubérance, apportant à la senteur une tenue, un maintien, un équilibre, une profondeur remarquables. C’est une performance de parfumeur. Du très grand art. Palermo est un chef d’Oeuvre.

2. Rated 5 out of 5

   Tony – April 15, 2021

   Palermo Don Corleone make you an offer to take a smell one of the most interesting part of Italy and its fascinating history. And this offer really is something exceptional! Sensual, soft, warm, deep, addictive, narcotic and rich scent with very interesting character of caring and danger mixed.

   I can smell tobacco and vanilla notes clearly, but also hints of tuberose and vetiver in the background. Overall this is heady dark vanilla tobacco scent with addictive deep character. For all natural fragrance this smoothness and deepness without any harshness is something magical.

   I can warmly recommend you to grab this offer!

3. Rated 5 out of 5

   ThePerfumeChronicles – July 30, 2019

   I had already reviewed it on my website but I never grow tired of this one. Potent and explosive, dry and rustling, of leather and of spices. Tuberoses, exotic, and tobacco, narcotic.
   A pinch of pepper, a punch of flowers – a vanilla sunny under a hot, fuming, Sicilian summer.
   Temperamental gourmand hiding in the shade of yellow palazzos, Palermo don Corleone is alike Sicilia itself – a blend of cultures, of Northern and Southern. It is colourful and bronzed, it is stern like the Normans and mighty like Byzantium.
   A vanilla at the crossroads of times and of realms, ageing in rum-soaked barrels, it reminds me of fleeting moments of my childhood in the Réunion isle where I beheld under a brazing sun, amidst the wet groves of mountainous jungles, a floor covered in vanilla beans roasting in the heat and perfuming the air…

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4. Rated 5 out of 5

   e. de sandre – October 15, 2018

   i have both bought this for myself and then introduced a friend to it. Palermo i have never visited, but this scent is Italia to me, and that includes the north, and the areas around Como as well as Rome. it is big, generous, but do not mistake and think it is ‘simple.’ This scent is deep.

5. Rated 5 out of 5

   Isaiah – May 16, 2018

   This is a WOW scent.

   I didn’t have to open the vial that I was already seduced by its colour : ambery, liquory, with hints of orange that remind me of an old Tokaji. This is the first part of the trip and I although I never went to Sicily, I felt like I had. I could picture myself meandering in a long street going uphill, with ocre-painted houses, the smell of fried dough and gelati invading the air…

   Then I opened the vial.

   The WOW happened.

   This is not your usual vanilla. This is wownilla. If anything, it’s not a vanilla at all. Or actually, it is THE vanilla as it should be known. It is dark, it is rich, it is exuberant, it is spicy. It is not at all what you would expect from a vanilla scent. Yes it feels warm and comforting, but it is not cloying, it isn’t really sweet at all. Rather, you get slapped in the face by too sensual a vanilla, strengthened by a strong tobacco note which acts as the perfect bridge between the vanilla and tuberose, both being round and sharp at the same time.

   An intoxicating scent, absolutely unusual but one I can’t imagine being unnoticed or un-liked.

   If you are into overly sweet vanillas and gourmand ones, beware : this is uncensored vanilla. You will get addicted. And you will definitely never, ever, go back…

6. Rated 5 out of 5

   Brunomario – March 16, 2018

   Wow, what a great scent.
   The name goes very well with this fragrance. I smell the tobacco and can only confirm that it is of the very best quality. I personally come from Sardinia, if the scent is to represent the Sicilian soul, you can not explain it better. Especially the transition with this great vanilla and then the tuberose , Fantastic.
   Thanks for the samples.
   Greetings: Bruno

7. Rated 5 out of 5

   Francisco – January 13, 2016

   This is the best vanilla scent I have ever smelled.
   Women love it and it’s perfectly unisex. Deep, complex and sweet.
   I like it very much.

8. Rated 5 out of 5

   Donald Sprague – July 30, 2015

   In my opinion, this is the very best product made by anyone anywhere.
   I have ordered this item multiple times and the quality is very consistent.
   Five stars is way too low, 100 stars is about right.