Valentino · 2023 · Amandine Clerc-Marie and Honorine Blanc

Donna Born in Roma Intense

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum Intense

A warm, ambery bourbon vanilla lifted by bergamot and blackcurrant, around creamy jasmine, deepened by sweet benzoin resin.

Valentino says

You’ll smell ambery and solar vanilla bourbon, bergamot, blackcurrant accord, trio of jasmine and benzoin resin.

More from Valentino’s description

It also mentions AMBERY & VANILLA, JASMINE, Vanilla, Blackcurrant and Benzoin.

The house’s page

The drawn Donna Born in Roma Intense bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Donna Born in Roma Intense’s scent picture, a draft: vanilla, bergamot, blackcurrant, jasmine, benzoin, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Donna Born in Roma Intense, top notes: Vanilla, Bergamot, Blackcurrant

Heartas it settles

Donna Born in Roma Intense, heart: Jasmine, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Donna Born in Roma Intense, dry-down: Benzoin, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

16 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.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender6 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins3 spices2 powder

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For about the same

Born in Roma Donna ExtradoseValentino · A few of its own wearers say it smells like Donna Born in Roma Intense$205 for 100 ml · about the same as Donna Born in Roma Intense’s $185

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Elysium Pour HommeRoja Parfums · shares vanilla, bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), jasmine and 1 more$380 for 100 ml · about twice Donna Born in Roma Intense’s $185
Born in Roma Donna ExtradoseValentino · shares vanilla, bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis) and jasmine$205 for 100 ml · about the same as Donna Born in Roma Intense’s $185
Alien Goddess IntenseMugler · shares vanilla, bergamot, jasmine and benzoinabout $135 for 90 ml · about the same as Donna Born in Roma Intense’s $185
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.