Dolce & Gabbana

Light Blue

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5

The houseFor women

Crisp Sicilian lemon and bergamot over creamy frangipani, settling onto warm ambery woods.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell Sicilian lemon, frangipani and ambery woods.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Light Blue’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, frangipani, ambery woods, bergamot, cinnamon, iso e super (pencil shavings on velvet) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Light Blue, when you spray it: Lemon, Bergamot

As it settlesheart notes

Light Blue, as it settles: Frangipani, Cinnamon

What staysdry-down notes

Light Blue, what stays: Ambery woods, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (new-mown hay), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

25 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 citrus4 herbs & lavender7 florals1 woods2 sweet3 spices2 musks

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

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateYellow 5Yellow 6Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yetPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yetCitric acid, not in Ingredients yetSodium hydroxide, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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