Santa Maria Novella · 2024
Acqua EDP
Longevity
Long-lasting5-8 hours
Projection
CloseArm's length
Polarising
Mixed
fresh
aquatic
uplifting
skin-close
Snapshot
The full profile.
About This Perfume
Santa Maria Novella Acqua comes across as Cool pear and floral petals with soft musk. It opens with pear, moves into lotus and freesia and settles on musk. It reads unisex.
This eau de parfum is best in spring and summer and is a daytime scent. It suits the office. Released in 2024.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something fresh and aquatic for the office.
- Sample first if: floral is new territory for you.
- Skip if: you dislike fresh fragrances.
Around $429.
Explore more: Fresh perfumes · Pear perfumes · Lotus perfumes · Freesia perfumes
The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Office
The Brand
Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is represented by 31 perfumes here, from about $122 to $440. The picks mix a smoky tobacco and vanilla, a spicy green rose and a peach-and-orange floral; Melograno and Angeli di Firenze are colognes. It is a Florence house with roots going back to 1612.
What the top Santa Maria Novella picks smell like
The Santa Maria Novella perfumes that stand out in community discussion are Tabacco Toscano, Melograno and Angeli di Firenze.
Santa Maria Novella Tabacco Toscano, listed from 2008, smells like smoky tobacco and leather softened by creamy vanilla, opening on Tuscan tobacco and bergamot and drying to vanilla, cedarwood, musk, gaiac wood and sandalwood.
Melograno (EDC, 1965) reads as green rose petals and citrus zest over soft powdery musk, with bergamot, bitter orange and spices above oakmoss, musk, labdanum and patchouli.
Sunlit peach and orange with clean marine florals sum up Angeli di Firenze, a 2006 EDC with peach and orange at the start and musk, sandalwood and vanilla beneath.
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FAQ
Common questions.
It smells like Cool pear and floral petals with soft musk. It opens with pear, moves into lotus and freesia and settles on musk.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in spring and summer. It is a daytime scent. It suits the office.
It reads unisex.
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