Valentino · 2026

Donna Born in Roma Ruby

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Valentino asks $198 for 100 ml
50 ml$160
100 ml$198

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Juicy strawberry over creamy jasmine, drying to warm Madagascar vanilla.

Valentino says

You’ll smell Strawberry Accord, Jasmine Sambac Absolute and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Infusion.

More from Valentino’s description

It also mentions Juicy strawberry accord, Jasmine absolute, Warm Madagascar vanilla infusion, Strawberry, Jasmine and Vanilla.

The house’s page

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The drawn Donna Born in Roma Ruby bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Donna Born in Roma Ruby’s scent picture, a draft: strawberry, jasmine, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, peru balsam, bitter orange drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Donna Born in Roma Ruby, when you spray it: Strawberry, Bergamot, Bitter orange, Carvone (spearmint)

As it settlesheart notes

Donna Born in Roma Ruby, as it settles: Jasmine, Isoeugenol (clove)

What staysdry-down notes

Donna Born in Roma Ruby, what stays: Vanilla (vanillin), Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Valentino names

Strawberry AccordJasmine Sambac AbsoluteMadagascar Bourbon Vanilla InfusionJasmine absoluteWarm Madagascar vanilla infusion

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.

2 citrus5 herbs & lavender9 florals1 woods3 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices2 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneBergamot oil

Herbs & lavender5

PineneLinalyl acetateCarvone (spearmint)LinaloolTerpineol

Florals9

Neroli oilBenzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalGeranyl acetateMethyl anthranilateFarnesolRose ketonesGeraniol (rose)Citronellol

Woods1

Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet3

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)Benzaldehyde

Amber & resins1

Peru balsam oil

Spices2

Isoeugenyl acetateIsoeugenol (clove)

Powder2

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)Anise alcohol
9 more lines on the label: 1 not yet in Ingredients, 8 not there for the smell

Not in Ingredients yet1

Beta-hexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateRed 4Ext. violet 2Pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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