Cassiopea Tiziana Terenzi for women and men

This is nice but it basically smells like an only slightly elevated bath and body works spray. That said, I think the drydown is actually really soft, cozy and lovely and it’s where it smells a bit more complex or unique to my nose. I feel like it’s quite flexible in terms of ages, office friendly, fine for all seasons, day and nighttime.

Omg this is delicious. Flirty, feminine, and playful without being juvenile. I feel like a walking pitaya fruit bowl or smoothie but not in a hyper photorealistic way! It’s so hard to find something gourmand-esque but fresh enough for the warmer months, and this is IT. The passion fruit smells like it’s doused in whipped cream.

this is the exact type of chypre I am a sucker for. Juicy sweet fruity top, like a full-on berry jam, yummy. passionfruit quite distinct
delicate fleeting floral middle
and my all-time fav combo of musk, sandalwood and tonka bean base
very girly-girl perfume, not too complex or sophisticated, and nothing frustrating in it provided that you do like sweet fruity opening and sweetened musky drydown
Love it

This is a very weak perfume, on my skin it dont last more than about 1 hour, and no sillage
Im surprised that it has so many votes for long lasting.
It is not a very sweet scent, more a light shampoo scent / out of the shower.

This is beautiful but I can't smell it unless it's 1cm away from my know. Is there something wrong with me?

I'm usually good at predicting notes when I smell a fragrance for the first time. This is the only TT perfume I smelled at Harvey Nichols that I enjoyed. I thought there were creamy white florals but there is only lily of the valley. The tonka bean in this is prominent and enjoyable.

Very descent, desirable scent. Sensual and feminine. Combination of classy and extremely sexy. White floral, sweet in a harmonious, subtle way. Fresh but not citrusy or fruity fresh, more like fresh cut flowers or garden after the rain. Tonka and sandalwood unfold as it tries down. Cassiopea is an absolute beauty BUT ‼️‼️IT LASTS FOR 3 MINUTES. This scent simply disappears on my skin. If I hadn’t bought it in store at Saks 5th Avenue I’d think I got either a fake or a tester… Cassiopea has no SILLAGE whatsoever!! ❌ I don’t understand how Extrait de Parfum can be so WEAK! I want to know if it’s just me. Am I the problem? Do I have some kind of condition where my skin does not accept this particular scent? Makes no sense for a niche perfume to have such poor, poor performance… How utterly sad, because the smell itself is wonderful. Just wonderful

Fresh with a lovely opening that develops into a sweet, slightly tart scent. The depth/layers to this fragrance are great. I do get a little bit of a dryer sheet scent - but in the best, most luxe way. Its giving clean, put together pretty woman who at her core is a sweetheart. It was an immediate yes for my husband.

soo expensive but pretty passionfruit scent. i do get the "fantasy" comparisons lol. i think the bottle is worth the price though in the end because its very hefty. like an art piece with astrological elements

I want to love this one so bad... but I can't. In the air and on first spray, it's phenomenal. Soft, floral, feminine. But the second it dries down even a little, all I can smell on my skin is musk. On someone else it would probably be lovely. On me? It's giving "trapped in an elevator with a basket of grandma's potpourri."

This is 285€ retail. I got it for 100€ from discounters and I still feel robbed. It's a nice, fruity flowery scent, dries down musky with the same base as in Kirke and Erba Pura. Same synthetic, but a less screechy DNA. I mostly get the passion fruit and some cassis in the opening, it's a "white flowy dress" kind of vibe, but becomes boring and generic after 1hr. The performance is actually not that great, 4 hrs before it becomes a skin scent.
Out of the 3 that I've tried with the same DNA: Kirke is the cheapest smelling and has the lowest performance. Cassiopeia is in the middle, more feminine than the rest. Erba Pura goes into the fruitier direction and last longer, maybe 5-6 hrs. Still not convinced on keeping this one, I'll give it a last chance this summer.

its long lasting on me, but i got my half bottle of mecari and its real smells like the tester i got from so avant garde, its simply a sweet passionfruit with a powdery lipstick playdough feel , i like , but not love , if you can get a deal then sure but its blended well not too sweet nor too head ache but i only spray 3-4 times

For me this is the muskier version of Kirke, with a milky and more vanillic approach. If you feel that Erba Pura is too musky for you and Kirke needs something heavier at the base, maybe you’d like this. On my skin this smells amazing, it’s like a fruit milk and soapy at the same time. I don’t find a reason why anyone would hate this, so if you’re looking for something that’s mass-pleasing but has that niche-uniqueness, this is it.

This is such an attractive smelling sparkly perfume for spring and summer. Very fruity, but not in a juvenile or "just a smoothie" way, its really well blended with tonka, lasts ages and can be worn both formal/informal occasions. I think this fragrance would make such a perfect gift because I cannot imagine anyone dislike it (except those who only wear "niche" niche aka burnt latex with hay etc. ) Definitely nothing like Erba Pura which is rather unisex and can be unpleasant for many people.

Fruity, Fresh, Candied sweetness. Safe blind buy.

Strong fern note that overpowers all others for the first two hours. Dry down is meh. Definitely not a safe blind-buy.

I don’t get all the comparisons to Erba Pura (the TT scent that really resembles it is Kirkè not this one).
I list this amongst the “clean white shirt scents”. Light, fruity fresh and green opening (a bit of Cassis tartness) while drydown is more soapy and slightly sweet, at least on my skin. A perfume that feels like a gentle caress on your skin. Definitely a great inoffensive day scent which still manages to remain unique. Definitely a keeper.

This is one of my favorites. I love the way this evolves on my skin. Many fruity florals seem too young for me, but this one has a lovely complexity. My husband always comments favorably when I wear this.

The opening and heart notes are clean and fresh tropical-floral. The fragrance is still musk-dominant, albeit less than other TT creations. I have a difficult relationship with musks so am not enjoying the screechy dry down. It’s also too musky to me to be immature. I get the comparison with Erba Pura, I’d call them distant cousins. The golden lid won my heart. Tiziana has a divine taste when it comes to the design imo.

When I first got a sample of this I couldn't take my nose off the testing paper, however it wears terribly on my skin. I'm shocked there is no pear in this, after 2 hours it smelled of rotting pear (presumably the passionfruit) and just overbearing sweetness. Very juvenile and cheap smelling. Would not drop $375 on this in million years, wouldn't even drop $10.

Familiar scent.....Britney spears fantasy vibe! Not bad! But not mature enough for me!

Britney Spears fantasy but make it Italian, niche, and a long lasting extrait of perfume. Not an exact dupe but familiar. Cassiopea has more complexity and character. But the similarity is there. I love Cassiopea it’s my favorite from the Terenzi line. It’s so fruity, juicy, sensual, sexy. Gorgeous! Just stunning! One of my favorites no surprise there. Perfect year round also.

It smells like hair after you wash it with a shampoo for children. Clean, fruity, sweet. Very likeable!

This is definitely a familiar fragrance, so check your collection before splurging on a bottle. This smells VERY close to Simone Anderoli's Pacific Park. On my skin, PP is pear and caramel, while Cassiopea is a bit juicier, muskier. They both share lily-of-the valley, so perhaps that's what's triggering my scent memory here. On my skin this is lovely--well blended, juicy, sweet, bright--if you liked Victoria Secret's Lovespell, this is the grownup version, lol.

This smells 95% like Britney Spears Fantasy and lasts all day on my skin. Win, win.

Tried this on my wrist today omg the dry down is 100% identical to Kayali Yum Pistachio Gelato

9/10: This is a fruity and sophisticated fragrance that’s perfect for warm weather! It has a juicy passionfruit opening and then dries down to a sweet, tropical scent on my skin. It’s crowd-pleasing as well.

Don’t get comparisons to Erba Pura - which I can’t stomach - when it’s such a fresh fruity sweet scent, unlike the latter…Cassiopeia is very good, the passion fruit comes through quite realistic to me, there’s musk, there’s some Cassis, I think I can also catch white florals. It’s a pretty fruity/sweet/slightly floral scent niche quality. I’d say full bottle worthy if you can find it on sale. (:

This has been a hidden gem for awhile, but glad she's been getting the attention she deserves. This is the girly girl of the bunch when it comes to TT. I get no comparisons to Erba Pura bc of the polarizing musk. On the other hand, if you're able to get your nose on Sospiro's Erba Pura Magica it smells more similar to Cass (You don't need both imo). Both have a clean and toned down musk which makes it more wearable daily. This is def a grown up & fresher version of BS fantasy. It's a flirty scent imo.

Diabolical creation. Either this or the sample I bought is fake.
If it is true then this is the worst Terenzi scent I tried, and unlike the richness of others but maybe it's just cold and snowy March day...
It is nothing on me. Like the cheap chemicals for a steep price you can smell in the Escentric Molecules abominations.. It smells like one of the mono-chem-lab particles they sell. Like pepper, dry air and hairspray's empty can... when just isobutane is there. The composition claims so many notes that I love yet I feel none. No other Terenzi scent made such a bad impression on me. It is masculine. Empty. Dry. I have a sample vial that claims ylang, bergamot, heliotrope, lilac etc though, unlike the notes listed here... anyway. None bloom on me today. It's ugly.

Clean, sweet almost soapy. This does remind me of Xerjoff’s Erba Pura however not just alike. I love Cassiopea’s scent but it’s too light. It’s giving skin scent, the Tonka bean dry down on my arm is good. Wish it were a bit more pungent lol

Beautiful fragrance. Very sweet up front but the sweetness subsides a bit in the dry down. Dry down is musky. Don’t smell sandalwood at all. I have tried several perfumes by Terenzi and they’re all very big scents. This is no exception.

It’s something I might wear to bed but at this price not FBW. I already have a bottle of Ana Abiyedh which smells very similar and is far less expensive.

I don‘t get the comparison to erba pura at all. This one is fruitier and sweeter than erba pura and not as musky but not beast mode like erba pura is unfortunately.
It also doesn’t smell like Kirke.
On me it lasts all day and I find it to be a great everyday scent or a signature perfume (in fact it is my everyday scent)
If you like fruity but feminine perfumes you will probably like this as well.

I don't know about Tizana perfumes, but we don't jive. I am not a fan of this house; the harsh use of notes in the opening and dry down are disappointing. I don't know if it is just me, but they all smell the same!! This perfume was beautiful initially; it was love at first sniff and one day wear, so I bought a full bottle through fragrance x ( a reputable fragrance dealer). What I don't remember is I wore it on my wrists, and I was washing my hands so much at work that most of the perfume had come off, so that was the reason for the whole bottle. Flash forward; I received the bottle, and like all my perfumes, I let them settle before wearing, opened the cap sprayed a spray, and let it sit. I wore this out one day, and yuk!!!! It opened beautifully. I loved this beachy jamaica smell. Absolutely gorgeous, and then the dry down hit!!! All that beauty turned into this sour amber note, almost feral. Where did this come from? I was on the beach and then transported to the zoo. I have found that all their perfumes are this way. I have more reviews to come on others. This is not a blind buy; please get a significant sample before purchasing. Thank God for Fragrance X's excellent return policy.

I'm sorry but this smells just like Amber Romance from Victoria Secret! Also a bit headache inducing, too sweet and mature for my personal taste.

I already own Erba Pura. This is nice enough, but would be redundant in my collection.

This reminds me of a very cheap fruity fragrance. It's extremely juvenile to my nose. I pick passionfruit and musk, but none of the sandalwood or tonka. Average projection, longevity is over an hour so far. Honestly, Im just going to go wash this off now.

I *LOVE* sweet and fruity fragrances and this was love at first spray. The passionfruit note got me hooked. Couldn't stop smelling myself. This is a gorgeous scent in a beautiful bottle and worth the money... or so I thought! The dry down was so disappointing! The fragrance lost its sweetness and turned into straight up cheap laundry detergent! In a nutshell, I'd describe this is as thinking you've found the love of your life just to find out that they're a total fraud.

I love the powdery aspects of a few perfumes by Tiziana. What I do not care for is vanilla. I tried Cassiopea and a few others. While I have never smelled Brittany Spears Fantasy, I read that it smells like cake and many compare this, to that. This is the reason that I usually run from vanilla scented fragrances. After trying Cassiopea, the dry down brings exactly that. For this reason I can not choose it.

Very fruity and syrupy sweet. If I do a few sprays I smell it all day. I didn’t like it initially but I’ve been using my sample every night before bed. It’s interesting that some people mentioned this was a bright fragrance… it doesn’t read that way to my nose.

Yumminess in a bottle! I just can’t get enough. To my nose, I smell a burst of passion fruit, but this is reminiscent to the scent of honey. It’s a warm, but bright fragrance that would go well on any tropical vacation, think luxurious villa with an ocean view. Very much yacht vibes. It’s the ultimate pretty girl fragrance. If you’re into sweet fragrances that don’t smell juvenile, you’ll love this❤️

Edit: I wish this projected more.

If you are looking for a cheaper dupe of this, you might want to test 5th Avenue NYC Limited Edition. The sandalwood, musk and tonka bean as base along with prominent cassis (blackcurrent) note in the top notes give a similar effect on my skin. I would call this perfume 'polite but assertive'. Definitely worth a try if you are looking for a decent quality cassis/blackcurrant scent.

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This was my favorite(actually tie with Tuttle) of the TT samples. That’s not saying they were great!

Of 9 TT samples, 2 were terrible, 2 were not bad, 5 were ok. For the price, an overall disappointing perfume house based on what I tested. So many of these fruity ones blurred together because they were so similar to each other. Strength and projection from this house was very variable too.

Here, I think it’s the passion fruit and peppery carnation that makes it interesting.

But again, many of these fruity scents fall into 2 categories, either intense sweet fruity candy with a harsh wood note or watercolor fruitiness that is lovely but disappears quickly and is replaced by that baby wipe lotion scent(musk?). The first is Tuttle, the last Cassiopeia.

7/10-lovely opening, but then comes the musk(so tired of this). Wish one of the perfume samples worked out! Moving on…

This scent is nice but leans a bit clean/soapy. I can see this as a very fancy tropical shampoo. (I don’t mean that in a bad way.) I don’t really get much passion fruit. I could see this being an interesting scent to wear to the office or the beach.

A sweet, fruity and feminine fragrance in my opinion. The musk in here gives a kick to it and makes it even a better perfume.

a stupendous blend with gourmands and zesty top notes blossoming so wildly in the opening, unified with impressive petals ,powdery and syrup like dates smell so stuttering here, the quixotic woodsy and balsamic elements are used in a very heartfelt and solacing consuetude through the cave of that olfactive temple, it hitches on so skillfully with musks and ambers in the ground stone facets that I need to say none of other semi-floral woodsy balsamic perfumes I used or tried so far , lead me that often to a day-dreaming as I was in the office or at I picnic party, as I was sniffing on this utterly superb piece of olfactive master piece

An astonishing aroma with mouth watering passion fruit and zesty lemin commencement trailed by outstanding fern ,the heavenly rose and mystic and carnation in the heart, which smell so invaluable here, the fancy invigorating mugue and the gourmand liquerish tonka are used in a very peculiar and alleviating manner through the pearl of the perfume, it coheres so efficiently with silky white musk and creamy sandal wood in the root notes that I have to admit this is the perfume I want to wear as the valet of the limousine carries me to the red carpet of a huge gala one day, it has its similarities with Erba Pura yes, but whenever I need a change from Erba Pura, this is definitely my first choice

The love child of Britney Spears' Fantasy and Tiziana Terenzi's own Kirkè, and Fantasy's genes are mostly dominant. This opens up with the same vibrant, fresh passion fruit and citrus accord as Kirkè does. Very summery and uplifting, a little like shampoo, but a good one. Thankfully it doesn't have one bit of the scratchy, harsh musk base that I hate in Kirkè, and instead smells a lot like Fantasy in the drydown. I love Fantasy, it's one of the great classics of celebrity scents, so this is not meant to be degrading in any way. Cassiopea feels a little fresher, more floral and more grown-up. Its sweetness comes from tonka beans instead of the white chocolate and cupcake notes in Fantasy. It still has a vanillic gourmand vibe, but nothing in this smells like literal baked goods. All in all it's less warm and more appropriate for summertime.

I like this a lot, I especially appreciate that this has THAT radiating passion fruit top note, but doesn't turn into a harsh mess in the drydown. Finally something Kirkè-esque I can enjoy!
But as Fantasy is available for a tiny fraction of the price, I don't see a reason to get Cassiopea instead. Even though it is a more balanced scent and would be a good upgrade to Fantasy, my immature, nostalgic self loves the full-on kiwi cupcake experience even more.

I had a chance to test this beautiful perfume since early 2022, finally got it from my sister.
It is very very beautiful fruity, and musky. I love it more than Erba Pura which I think it is too much.
The silage is great, I sprayed it after shower before bed and my brother asked me who used the perfume from upstairs.

This one smells like a beautiful dream; it's so creamy, woodsy and fruity that makes me fall in love.
I love the slight of greenness in the opening and the beautiful blend of the flowers. The dry down includes this sweet tonka which makes the fragrance deeper.
It's a clean, classy and elegant scent!

Another boring, familiar, sweet, musky scent with an ambroxan edge. Totally unoriginal.

Smells like a fruit punch, sweet and juicy. It reminds me of the more feminine and soft version of Bal d'Afrique Byredo or the more expensive version of Ever Bloom Sakura Art Edition Shiseido. They all have different notes, but in general the vibe is the same - inoffensive, cute, juicy and sweet fruity perfume.

This is beautiful!!! Such a soft, sweet and fruity scent! This is refreshing. Perfect for spring and summer. Performance is AMAZING. This is a very pleasant scent, clean and well blended. Tiziana Tarenzi is slowly becoming one of my favorite fragrance houses.

This is gorgeoussss! This is being compared to Britney Spears fantasy which I hateeee. However, imho this one is wayyy better it’s a beautiful sweet fragrance! It’s very refined. Definitely going to be my go to summer fragrance lol.

pretty and blended softly. smells like a refreshing summer drink.

This is a very young, fresh, fun fragrance. It’s the epitome of a summer holiday but without the suncream. It’s not your usual coconut sort of summer fragrance, it’s a fruity summer scent with some fresh leaves and doesn’t have a tonne of depth.
I pick up a sugary tea rose, sweet Lily of the valley and a sharp passion fruit, grounded together in a sandalwood and very delicate musk. I get the fern giving it that fresh leafy element.
It really is a very pleasing smell. Very easy to wear in the summer, more of a day scent.
It is a bit like a beautiful smelling shampoo, which is why I wouldn’t put it in my top ten, it’s lovely but it’s not a very unique smell, you will get wafts of women who’ve just washed their hair and you will smell similarities.
It’s a like, not a LOOVVEEE.

Very screechy Not pleasant. No sweetness in this at all. Smells just like Erba Pura, screechiness and all. Hard pass.

Got a sample size version of this. Decided that this was ok, just not for me. Personally, I mostly smell powdery sweetness. I've noticed many TT perfumes have passionfruit in them, which gives the perfumes an interesting fruity twist. I could smell it in Cassiopea as well, but the powdery sweetness was overwhelming. After it's mostly worn off, I do smell the soapyness that some reviews mentioned. Smells somehow similar to Dove bar soap. Not a bad scent, just that the full size bottle is quite expensive, not worth it for the scent. Glad I didn't buy full size.

to leeyah87, i have experienced same with cassiopea! my mother bought this perfume from authorised store and it smells like a dream: creamy, woodsy, gourmand, and reminds like you mentioned Britney spears fantasy. I fell in love with this perfume and bought from person which bought it in Portugal and we with my mom compared both perfumes, mine smells more like Kirke, more fresh, less sweet and it seams to have green notes - similar but different! I have heard that Creed Aventus does smell different depending on different batches, maybe it is same with Cassiopea.

I have two decants of Cassiopea purchased from two different online vendors and they smell completely different from each other. One decant smells similar to Britney Spears Fantasy (gourmand fruity cupcake) and the other decant smells similar to Xerjoff Erba Pura (loud fruity molecule scent). This would explain why there are votes for Cassiopea smelling like both Fantasy and Erba Pura even though those two fragrances are so different. Both online vendors supposedly sell authentic Tiziana Terenzi fragrances, but my decants smell completely different from each other, so I'm very confused! They both smell nice, but they can't both be Cassiopea 🤔

UPDATE 11/13/21: Mystery solved! I purchased a manufacturer's sample and can confirm that Cassiopea smells like Britney Spears Fantasy, but without the sharp kiwi note. I've been looking for a fragrance similar to Fantasy without the harsh kiwi note and Cassiopea is it 🥰 If you have a decant of Cassiopea that smells like Erba Pura or a super strong and loud fruity molecule scent, it may have been filled with the wrong perfume like what happened to me.

A fruity floral carbonated drink—passion fruit and tonka forward—with good projection in the opening. I’m sure Cassiopea would work on the right person, unfortunately, it’s too sweet for me. Not a downvote but a pass.

I adore this scent, it is a fruity fragrance that is so refined. It was between this and Erba Pura. I’ve been sampling both for a very long time and thought the creamier Erba Pura was the winner but the musk in that became too sharp for me, so Cassiopeia won. This fragrance sneaks up on you and projects more the longer it settles on the skin. Love the airy, slight greenness in the opening. Also that rose tea elevates the blend from just your regular fruity sweet scent. The dry down has this creamy Tonka which deepens the fragrance and the musk is not sharp. This reminds me of a mix of Killian Princess only because of that addicting airy tea note and Xerjoff Erba Pura because of that strong clean fruity note. I was thinking of getting both but no need because I have this now. It’s a love! #1 spring/summer fruity fragrance in my collection, but is also beautiful and crisp in cooler weather.

Update 20Apr2023: Have to use up within Best by range or less, else it will start to smell like vinegar.

Clean scents aren't always a bad thing. This would smell lovely on a woman. It reminds me of those Herbal Essence shampoos from the 90s, but more luxurious and refined. In other words, like a clean, classy, elegant woman.

smells like pantene shampoo

I've had like 2-3 bottles of this perfume until now which I think speaks to how much I enjoy this perfume. I really enjoy light floral sweet scents and the combination of all the notes is just perfect. I've gotten a lot of compliments on it and I feel it isn't too light or too strong of a scent. I wear this all year round but I'd say it is most suited for summer/spring. However, the price is pretty high for perfume but as someone who wears this every day (or nearly everyday), I think it is worth it. The bottle is also beautiful and so is the box it comes in. It also lingers lightly on clothes but it isn't too overpowering. Definitely will buy again if I run out.

A sweet and creamy, musky fruity shampoo/body wash in the best possible way. With hints of tropical fruit, delicate flowers, and a very slight woodiness to balance it out. The vanilla and Tonka provide a beautiful base that carries the fruits throughout the perfume's moderately long longevity.
Not everyone's cup of tea; if you are not a fan of prominently sweet, vanilla synthetic-fruity scents this one might not be for you.

This fragrance instantly takes me back to my teenage years. Other reviewers mention Britney Spears Fantasy as being nearly identical to Cassiopeia. I also think I wore a Victoria’s Secret body spray that was similar to this. Although I believe this is a lot more complex and grown up than either of the aforementioned scents. It’s fruity but very tropical and sultry. And the lasting power is terrific. I can still smell it after 10+ hours.

Do I feel like a bit of a fool for spending £200+ on a fragrance that reminds me of something I wore as a teenager and could be had for a tenth of the price? Yes. Am I a sucker for an insanely beautiful bottle and an equally beautiful scent inside? Also yes.

smells like hair spray. Nice, Clean but nevertheless, still hair spray...

If you like Clean laundry scents, give this a try.

I 've worn it 2 days.
Resembles BS - Fantasy too much for me to invest 10 times more money.

I can't even say it develops much better or has a better dry down... i had high hopes, i really want to fall in love with any of the Luna collection

Fruity, gourmand for me. Its summer now and its not cloying.
It lasts but silage is faint, stays close to skin.
A beautiful perfume but i feel its over-hyped, i'd rather spend money on adding something more unique to my collection. Its very girly


update: wow i trashed it a little bit, didn't I? Just smelled the tshirt i was wearing on that day and it still smells beautiful few days after. I think this could easily be a signature if i were one of those people who have only one perfume at a time. Very beautiful perfume. I was just expecting smth a bit more edgy and mysterious.

Fresher version of Erba Pura. It's very likeable but nothing exciting. Moderate longevity and sillage.

Trying my sample today. Wow, to me this fragrance smells so clean, crispy, soapy, laundry clean. Beyond doubt it is beautiful, I find it very feminine, also to me this is one of the fragrances I would wear with a good quality cotton white t-shirt and jeans, or pure white linen top and jeans. Yes, this is my style mainly, actually, snowy white tops and skinny jeans+quality fragrance.

The fragrance opens with a delicious note of passionfruit, it evokes a mix of tropical fruits and some flowers. Its initial projection is very good, the opening is aromatic, a great combination of passion fruit, lemon, and some flowers. The cassis adds a sweet, vanilla-like aroma that enhances the opening; the fern adds a soft green and earthy tone. The lemon adds an important fresh/citrusy accord, important to avoid a fragrance that otherwise would be too sweet. The floral tones listed as mid notes come up immediately after the initial application, they balance the fragrance that otherwise would feel just fruity and sweet. After a few minutes, Tiziana Terenzi Cassiopea reaches its dry-down, here the sandalwood adds a soft woody touch that adds depth to the scent; the tonka bean adds some more sweetness and the must enhance a bit the lemon note of the opening. Once the fragrance has reached its final dry-down, it can be summarized as a sweet, passionfruit, and lemon fragrance with some floral, woody, and faint musky accords. The fragrance feels delicious, unique, modern, unisex, and very pleasant.

Batch reviewed: 2020
Wow Rating: 10/10. A delicious, tropical, citrusy fragrance with some soft floral accords.
Dislike Rating: 3/10. The fragrance may feel too fruity or too sweet to some people.
Uniqueness: 9/10. Not too many fragrances feature passionfruit as the primary note.
Mass Appeal: 10/10. A sweet fruity/citrusy fragrance; it will please the crowds for sure.
Projection: 4/10. Moderate, about four feet around the wearer.
Sillage: 5/10. Moderate, about five feet around the wearer.
Application: For atomizations will suffice.
Longevity: 5/10. Moderate to very good, this is an Extrait de Parfum.
Seasons: Spring, fall, and winter. Also colder nights or climate-controlled environment.
Occasions: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, home, romantic, dating. This is an office-friendly fragrance.
Versatility: 7/10. Other than the warmer months, this is a very wearable fragrance.
Gender: Unisex. The two main notes of this fragrance are passionfruit and lemon, both are unisex. All other notes can be classified as woody and softly floral, both notes balance each other creating a unisex fragrance.
Ages: Any.
Recommendation: This is a fantastic fragrance for those looking for tropical scents, Cassiopea brings two notes in a very pleasant fragrance. This is a great buy.
Blind-Buy: No, the fruity notes are unique and strong, therefore sample it first.
Similar: Alfred Dunhill Desire is affordable citrus, vanilla, fruity, fresh, and green, however, its performance is very low; Carolina Herrera - 212 VIP Men EDT also features passionfruit, and lime, additionally, it contains ginger and boozy tones; Hugo Boss - Hugo Just Different Men EDT contains green, fruity, and woody accords; Paco Rabanne 1 Million Lucky EDP contains grapefruit, plum, and honey notes.
Summary: A sweet, passionfruit, and lemon fragrance with some floral, woody, and faint musky accords that feels delicious, unique, modern, unisex, and very pleasant.

4/10

Reminds me of Britney Spears fragrances, maybe Fantasy with the bitterness of the cassis, and more longevity.

Absolute stunning.
Scent: 9/10
Sillage: 7/10
Longevity: 8/10

I have to rewrite my previous review, now I have a bottle and can delightedly smell, breathe, and fully enjoy this beautiful perfume! That is certainly a gorgeous perfume. Honestly, the passion fruit is very shy, but it balances well the tonka and sandalwood who play the main role. The result is a creamy, cloudy vanilla scent, a clean but dusty vanilla (dusty sandalwood?)...hard to describe. Just love it! It does not project much but longevity is great. Still exploring more perfumes from this House as some are just outstanding!
NB Getting a lot of compliments on my perfume !!

A vanilla jasmine fairytale fragrance accented with the citrus leanings of passionfruit. Adults can wear this.

I love Cassiopea. It may seem like one of those tutti frutti fragrances, but actually it is not in my opinion. I enjoy the opening with cassis, lemon and the main character passion fruit but still, I appreciate its development even more with tonka bean, musk and sandalwood surrounding the passion fruit. It’s not a complex perfume but apart from being a lovely well blended juice, it has its own elegance and purpose in terms of likability and adding cheerfulness in one of those grey sky days. I am sure I will wear it for a long time without getting tired of it.

I agree that smells very casual and everyday fragrance with a very steep price.
But I don’t think perfumes have an age.

I will say this opens as a very soapy vibe. I get the passionfruit, cassis, and lemon at the beginning. Then the tonka and sandalwood come out making it a smooth jammy rose and fruits. The dry down on my skin is interesting.On my skin the drydown is like fuity jammy smooth rose with a bite of green. I think it is the carnation or fern at play. It takes the smoothness and sweetness and cuts it.

It reminds me of cutting fresh flowers. Like you are in the kitchen, after showering with some fruity soap and you are cutting some jammy roses over the sink. Your toddler takes the green stems and proceeds to mash them to bits near your feet. So there you are fruity jammy creamy rose with this bright green aromatic scent cutting through.

I would say 25+. Strikes me as a more mature fragrance. I would say leans more feminine in tone. More of a casual fragrance but definitely business professional as well. I imagine a mom doing some housework and then out for a small walk in the woods with family.

I like it personally, but dont know if it is full bottle worthy just because its more of an everyday scent and price is pretty high.

Heavy Sticky-Fruity-Woodsy Sweetness
Warm-Aromatic (which means it's more suitable for colder weather)
High Quality and Well-Blended but nothing special and new here.
Formal and Special Occasion use
Longevity and Sillage Moderate to High
A little bit repetetive and familiar and dead-ringer of other mainstream Designer Frags,this doesn't mean its bad at all!it mean many will like it!
It's not unisex,Completely Feminine IMO

FB Worthy?Maybe

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6.5/10

Bought this for my wife and erba pura for myself. This is a nice and soft version of the erba pura.
Both are perfect❤️❤️

Edit: it has som flowers added to it, in comparison to erba pura which is pure fruits.
Erba pura is a little offensive and harsh, but i can drink this one.

I'm a lover of leathery, woody, oudy scents, but for some reason I became drawn to this, and it is one of the most complimented of my perfumes.

From my perspective it works very well with cold, classy, official look - then it adds a little bit of softness, playfulness - suggests, that there is something more to this.

I tried layering it with strong oudy/rose scents and it works very well!

Beautiful, creamy floral with a little spice! All of the TT fragrances are lovely in very special ways. I wear this one the most.

Very beautiful and very similar to Erba Pura :)

Cassiopea is another fruity floral from Tiziana Terenzi. Lot of notes listed but the dominant ones are a fruity passion fruit and citrus notes in the top and heart along with some florals and a musky tonka bean in the dry down. More on the feminine side of unisex but anybody who likes fruity frags can rock this. The usual high quality of ingredients and blending like all TT frags. Projection and longevity are good as well. 8/10

To me it's a fresher soapier version of Erba Pura, with less of that sticky smoothy vibe.. I think I prefer the heavier one

This was love at first smell from the bottle cap. I was completely taken with the scent of expensive shampoo / hair conditioner and I absolutely love that smell. Maybe it's the passion fruit which gives this effect, I noticed it as well in other shampoo-like perfumes, but this is the best. Longevity is not bad, 4-5 hours. I just wished it came in smaller bottles, but oh well, there's no such thing as perfection, apart from how perfect this smells to me.

Update: after trying Erba Pura as well I have to agree they are very much alike to my nose. Perhaps Cassiopea turns more gourmand and sugary towards the end and Erba Pura is more linear.

This is like a sweet tonka bean of a red sheer silky sheet, quite the sexy frutti fragrance on that red satin sheet. This fragrance mostly used by playful male or female, cheeky, devilish, and naughty ones, some sort of role playing person, but be sure that this fragrance is NOT dirty or animalic, it is sweet and cheeky, creamy fruitti with a slight teeny tiny bit of a hidden animalic note.
This one is good after all but the price tag doesn't help it unfortunately.

i received it as a gift
it is beautiful , fresh and clean fragrance and little bit different than many today

as @Cereza wrote, i feel there peach too, strong one .. one they use in creams and in shampoo
it is very sweet and powdery, i don't feel there nothing balsamic
its clean sweet fragrance you will never go wrong with that one no matter where you go; office, city, wedding....
Definitely female fragrance
little bit similar to bon bon from viktor and rolf
190 Euro.

Before writing my toughts on CASSIOPEA I will let everyone know that this retails for 210 EUR per 100ml.
That said:

CASSIOPEA is very likeable. Given the notes, I get a very powdery sweetness, I could swear there is peach. This perfume feels very light to me, not "light" as non detectable, but mostly "light" as blonde female with blue eyes, this is very innocent even though it projects very strongly. This is the scent of naked feet and tropical beaches. When the citruses hit in, I'm struck with a very clean, crisp freshness, together with the flowers it does smell a bit like fruit shampoo.

This is set here as "unisex", but in my opinion - this is so very girly that very rare man would find the need to wear this. Longevity is mediocre, like many scents of this kind - 5 to 6 hours.
This is also set as "chypre floral", but there is nothing chypre like here. This is a floral fruity in my books.

Non offensive and very likeable, almost commercial, nothing ground breaking, but pleasing nevertheless. And now get back to my first sentence - FREAKING 210 EUROS FOR A SHAMPOO SMELLING DESIGNER-LIKE SCENT? No way!


I'd give 5/10 for this non offensive thing, but I have to give 3/10 for the funny price tag. The regular line by Tiziana Terenzi which was less expensive was so much more promising.