Dolce & Gabbana · 2024 · Olivier Cresp

Devotion

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum Intense

Hazelnut over orange blossom, drying down to vanilla.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell hazelnut, Orange Blossom and vanilla.

The drawn Devotion bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Devotion’s scent picture, a draft: hazelnut, orange blossom, vanilla (vanillin), sweet orange, lemon, bergamot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Devotion, top notes: Hazelnut, Sweet orange, Lemon, Bergamot, Carvone (spearmint)

Heartas it settles

Devotion, heart: Orange blossom, Ylang-ylang

Dry-downwhat stays

Devotion, dry-down: Vanilla (vanillin), Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

23 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

6 citrus5 herbs & lavender7 florals1 woods3 sweet1 musks

12 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Gourmand Orange BlossomDossier · shares hazelnut, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla$26.10 for 50 ml · about a quarter of Devotion’s $190
ClassiqueJean Paul Gaultier · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla
Your Devotion IntenseDolce & Gabbana · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla$190 for 100 ml · about the same as Devotion’s $190
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.