Lavanda Barocca Strega Del Castello for women and men

For value for money it is probably the best lavender scent around. Realistic but not too pungent, straightforward, very English...rather than baroque, I'd say "spirited" and with pleasant talc/sweet hints, but not sweetish. Stellar quality of notes, excellent blending, slightly "stony/mineral" counterpoint from the ambergris but without smelling of car interiors or various and sundry stables. No strange aftertaste: the hay note does neither herbal tea nor "wild" effect. Cleanliness, candor, rigor, elegance: it's a dry scent, androgynous but in the way I like it (the kind you put on stilettos and a balconette bra anyway) and invigorating. A tendentially feminine lavender that recalls Chanel's Jersey at a tenth of the price. But it is also romantic in its own way: it retains that fairy-tale allure of all Castle Witch perfumes. To date, all the ones I've smelled I've rather liked.
Heavy, nauseating? For those who haven't smelled real super-concentrated lavender extracts, maybe. No, indeed, it is a rounded lavender and not particularly pungent. The talc counterpoint is also not as borotalcous as in Chanel's jersey: it does effect talc but not in such a forthright way, I don't know how to put it. This for me makes it even preferable to the expensive maison perfume! (But I'd like to hear from Boy, too, before I draw any conclusions).
I guess there is nothing else to say except that for me it is a "must have" and I will make it into the spring 2024 perfumes for everyday use, for a white shirt and a pair of light-colored jeans or to give character to a black jacket and pants suit. You know, sometimes the "enfant terrible" or "gamine" aesthetic works: if you know how to wear it, it makes you more feminine by paradox effect.
It doesn't have a great evolution, but on the other hand, it persists a lot!
Highly recommended.

Lavender Baroque is a scent on which I prefer to remain neutral because although it is great as a fragrance it is also something that is not for me. It's too much. Too much everything.
It's called Lavender but I don't consider it a lavender scent.
Certainly it's an interpretation of lavender that escapes the more typical lavender genres, namely the somewhat British masculine tradition dry lavender water and the (fake) sweet vanilla lavender of more recent years.
Nor does it resemble the plethora of laundry, household and deo-environmental detergents. Fake.
Witch of the Castle, despite its popularity in ecobio stores, is not an ecobio or even an aromatherapy brand.
I would say it's a relatively artificial/pharmaceutical brand that gets its way with nostalgic smells, good, well-made, sometimes whimsical but also traditional with apt marketing, even if it ends up at the checkout in those stores amidst the balsamic candies and organic cocoa butters, kind of thrown in there.
I also don't think it helps keep the testers in good condition, because from what I've seen they are also scents that tend to change over time once opened, taking on different shades than they started out with.
If you don't like classic lavender too much but like powdery, talc notes and precisely Venetian baroque atmospheres as has already been written about, try it.
To me it reminds of a Gloria Vanderbilt genre but less articulate, less modern glamour and much more loaded with heavy scented powders. It's the kind of somewhat cold, sharp talcum powder that on my cold skin never shines, never explodes into that heated, elegantly frivolous and simultaneously somewhat promiscuous cheerful ladylike warmth that makes for very low-cut parties in 18th-century costume films.
Perhaps even she reminds me of Blue Fern in a much more refined version.
It also reminds me of the original Lolita Lempicka without the gluttonous black cherry part.
Lavender Baroque is not gourmand.
I'm not crazy about it as a scent even though this brand's scents don't cause me any physiological discomfort, so it really comes down to personal preference.
I think it might work best on naturally warm skin, the kind of skin that makes the talc notes explode into a brassy but sensual cloud.
Nice, but not for me.
For a whimsical, clean, dreamy lavender I prefer Chanel's Jersey and for a knockout talc I prefer Chanel's Misia, probably not mixable with each other.

Let me preface this by saying that I love Strega del Castello, I often buy its perfumes and I find them very valid, but today we are going to talk about this one.
A few months ago, precisely in September 2022, through an advertisement I was captivated by this perfume: the girl advertising it spoke so highly of it, calling it a "scent reminiscent of vintage scented soaps" that I wanted to buy one right away! The problem is that here where I live it's not that easy to find a Castle Witch perfume, so I decided to drive the miles to go buy it at an herbalist shop quite a distance from me. When the saleswoman let me feel that scent on my wrist, I immediately thought "that's right, it's really the scent of the soaps that grandmothers used!" and I immediately decided to buy it. The love towards this perfume then lasted for about a month or so, when I took public transportation it was just me with this lingering clean scent and people liked it. Then I got a little bored with it and decided to give prioriety to other scents and then promised myself that I would reuse it months later in the spring since it seemed more suitable.
A month ago all happy I decided to re-spray it after months, and horror! That scent on me now smells like a highly chemical lavender floor cleaner mixed with some disinfectant, I don't understand... in a panic I had my mother spray it and on her it smells like soap, but now on me it doesn't have that effect it used to have! Could it be that my skin pH has changed? All I know is that now I avoid spraying it like the plague, I've tried 3-4 spraying it on myself and nothing, on me now unfortunately it feels awful. I'm so sorry...