Instead, the also much-abused pink pepper joins hedione to add some thickness and effusion to the center, which starts getting creamy in more of a musky fake sandalwood kind of way than anything confectionary, then the fuzzy nose-twitching amberwood takes over while I ask the waiter for the check please. Now, before you go making jokes about how silly it seems to stuff gelato (basically ice cream) notes into a men's aquatic, let me assure you this does not smell like something you get from Cold Stone Creamery.
In practice, this equates to the familiar salty aquatic fresh citrus opening from the original Light Blue pour Homme, saddled with some fruity calone sweetness that D&G chalk up to green apple and apple gelato notes. That being said, Love is Love adds a hefty amount of indoor-friendly sweetness to the Light Blue pour Homme DNA, beefening up the base as well with the dreaded "amberwood" amalgamation of ambroxan and synthetic woody aromachemicals that started replacing ambroxan alone after the end of the 2010's as the base du jour. Getting to the point, this new limited Summer flanker couldn't have arrived at a worse time, with most of the first world plunged into the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and likely to remain primarily indoors for the remainder of the year, with no cash to spare for dalliances like limited edition seasonal flankers to common mall fragrances thanks to the paused economy. Yeah, that title is pretty long, hence why I waited until the end of the last paragraph to even name the fragrance I'm reviewing here, and I suspect that I won't be typing that one out (or saying it much) afterward. Since K became the new pillar for the house on the men's side of the aisle, the wish for a sweeter more Paco Rabanne Invictus (2013) or Versace pour Homme Dylan Blue (2016) type of experience has diminished among buyers anyway thanks to the glut of late coming redundant options filling the shelves, but D&G finally answered the question once suspected to be asked with Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue pour Homme Love is Love (2020). Dolce & Gabbana K (2019) ended up being the long-awaited masculine pillar, and it went in more of a Creed Aventus (2010) approach to citrus, deviating from the norm in decidedly un-sweet Mediterranean fashion and a nice pimento that while not mind-blowing, makes a good solid platform for another decade of commercial exploitation. The flankers throughout the years (some seasonal, some not) have tweaked the formula with little drops of thematic embellishment while all staying recognizably "Light Blue", even though they have all remained more or less in that late 2000's aquatic style. Light Blue pour Homme itself seems to have capitalized on the legacy of Dolce & Gabbana pour Homme (1994) via its bottle shape, delivering an experience that sits at an uncomforable angle from Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giò pour Homme (1996), mixing in some sea foam from Bvlgari Aqva (2005) as well, becoming a dry and salty but uninteresting 2nd generation aquatic as a result.
DOLCE AND GABANNA LIGHT BLUE POR HOMME SERIES
It seems D&G has toyed with both bits of added sweetness and added "blueness" to the Light Blue pour Homme (2007) range with a series of successive flankers, but never both. I know some people throughout the 2010's were wondering when Dolce & Gabbana were going to cave and give the market a sweet "blue fragrance" masculine pillar to replace the aging The One for Men (2008), since literally every other designer that sees their perfumes stocked in major department stores had done so.
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