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Pucci Vivara eau de parfum

What does Pucci smell like? It smells like lounging in an Italian villa with the sun streaming through the windows and the scent of lemon trees in your nose. So where can I get that every day without having to hop a flight and marry an Italian prince? Pucci Vivara is a reformulation of the designer’s original Vivara fragrance from the 1960’s. The new version retains some of it’s original chypre attributes with citrus top notes and woodsy base notes, but becomes modern with an infusion of fresh, green, light notes. The eau de parfum comes in 50 ml and 80 ml and the perfumed body mousse ($80) adds essential oils of lemon, tangerine, and cotton extract. The bottle is given a Pucci Vivara print top and a green glass base. Having a bottle this beautiful sitting on my vanity makes me almost as happy as having a Pucci dress in my closet. Almost.

Top notes: galbanum, bergamot, amaretto
Middle Notes: orange flower, jasmine, narcissus
Base Notes: iris, vetiver, patchouli

What impresses me each season about Pucci is the way they continue to be modern while reaching back to vintage Pucci touches in their use of color, prints, and classic shapes.

For Spring/Summer 2008, designer Matthew Williamson went digging in the crates of classic Pucci and added swingy fringe, bold embellishments and chunky jewelry. One look that made me swoon was a gold mini-dress with a smattering of mosaic-like tiles at the neck and around the hem.

He paired more modern gold lame and sequins with the vintage shift and mini shapes and then remixed Pucci’s juicy color bursts of tangerine, aquamarine into feathered and fringed minis or one-shoulder maxidresses. Williamson’s suede shoulder bags carried geometric shapes, more tiles, and dreamcatcher inspired decorations.

Some posh girls might find these looks hard to wear in their everyday lives, but the Pucci girl is an eternal bohemian and this collection remained totally true to her.