Sofía is the
debut fragrance of actress Sofia Vergara, which launched in 2014. She said then about the floriental composition created by perfumer
Bruno Jovanovic of
IFF that it bore the character of not only her personality but origins,
"I have orchids and roses because those are my favorite flowers, and they're Colombian. I wanted to bring a little bit of who I am, my ethnicity, where I'm from, and I thought it was very cool to be able to get flowers from Colombia actually into the perfume,"
The fragrance turns out to be more surely about her personality than an exotic, strange-smelling destination - the thespian does not like olfactory excess. This fact impacts the blend, which takes an easy-wearing French perfume as a model and makes it even easier to wear...
What you will get with Sofía eau de parfum is a spin-off of
La Vie est Belle by Lancôme, with some extra nuances and a simplified composition.
The blend reprises the idea of a floral perfume juxtaposing itself on a bed of candy floss, or ethyl maltol. But where the Lancôme proposition puts the spotlight on iris, Sofia devotes its floral motif to a tart rose accord, the one dubbed the "Columbian rose" one.
This aquatic, tart and slightly acidic rose is contrasted more obviously here than in its model with a counterpart of caramel. This is a more "readable" perfume if you will. It lets go of the intricacies found in the original inspiration.
The fresh rose is classic, young and "traditional" also in its use of a cedarwood counterpoint. The jasminey nuance is a bit raw and indolic, but not too much. The violet and orchid notes are best felt in the sweet velvety facet of the composition.
The fragrance evolves to smell sweet and fresh, vaguely creamy and vanillic. It evokes those chocolatey Sharry Baby Orchid accords found in several celebrity fragrances. Its persona points in the direction of a Victoria's Secret perfume, but without the coconut excess and sweeter tooth.
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