Collezione Privata - Viaggio d'Africa Pal Zileri 2010

Collezione Privata - Viaggio d'Africa by Pal Zileri

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7.4 / 10 55 Ratings

A perfume by Pal Zileri for men, released in 2010. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Gourmand

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Citrus fruits

Heart Notes

Iris

Jasmine

Base Notes

Vetiver

Tonka bean

Gaiac wood

Cedar

Ratings

Scent

7.455 Ratings

Longevity

7.243 Ratings

Sillage

6.342 Ratings

Bottle

7.140 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 05.08.2023.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/17/2020

7
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Smellavision
205 Reviews

Smellavision

I tried, but failed...

Gee, I received a decant of this from a fellow fragrance lover together with a decant of Zileri Cuoio which I LOVED instantly. Had very high hopes for this one as well, spices and vetiver - what's not to like ?

Well, reality can be a bitch... turns out this scent on me opens with a chemical smoky attack of spices, followed by a burnt cedary guaiac wood and a smell-o-rama of some dusty sour flowers mixed with a stingy soapiness.

I have a suspicion that the culprit may be the iris which I can see in the note pyramid that also ruins Dior Homme for me, but can't be 100% sure.
I can also tell from the reviews that I'm among the minority who doesn't adore this scent, but unfortunately it's a pass for me.

04/08/2018

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Smora
155 Reviews

Smora

4

Journey of mind and body

Scentrack: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

VdA by Pal Zileri is a scent of incredible beauty. It really represents a voyage of body and mind, like every journey always is.
It opens with just shy citruses and immediately jumps to the note of pale and powdery iris. Sweet tonka is perfectly paired with green vetiver resulting in new olfactive entity. After ebony coming into play the whole perfume changes seems to become a practical course on Maillard reactions. Some ghost of freshly roasted coffee now rules the whole composition.
This phantom coffee really takes me to viaggio, a voyage to East Africa and its coffee plantations in the mountains. A meditative yet cheerful place. And this perfume is the same... meditative, serene yet happy and delightful.
A wonderful journey of mind and body.

Rating: 7/10

08/21/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Very helpful Review 2

Distinguished cheapo!

There has been quite some talk about this fragrance, mostly for being allegedly a ten times cheaper clone of Hermès Vetiver Tonka. Since I happen to quite like Vetiver Tonka but nothing on Earth could ever make me spend that money for it, I decided to give Viaggio d’Africa a chance. If you want to skip the boring part: yes, it’s tremendously similar to Vetiver Tonka, especially for the opening phase. I don’t know if this means that Pal Zileri turned into a charity superhero to offer solid fragrances at cheap prices, or if Vetiver Tonka should cost ten times less its price; in any case, Viaggio d’Africa is just plain great. It has one of those openings that make you wish they could last forever: a warm, exceedingly sophisticated and smooth accord of vetiver, tonka and something powdery with a shade of cocoa, infused with earthy smoke, darker woods (guaiac) and some slightly musky coffee. Basically a true “brown”, rich and dusty fog; imagine the earthy-grassy texture of vetiver, the exotic sweet-vanillic dustiness of tonka, and a blurry, refined sort of powdery-coffee accord as if someone at 30 metres distance from you is wearing Rochas Man, with a faint echo of Dior Homme too. Both of you standing in the breezy middle of a desert. This is Viaggio d’Africa.

I admit Vetiver Tonka has a bit more vetiver (and a more elegant, rich and crisp one – shortly, more quality) while Viaggio d’Africa tends to drift more towards tonka and smoky-spicy-earthy territories; but nonetheless it’s really, really pleasant to wear. It feels elegant, warm, smooth without smelling formal or generic. It’s exotic, distinguished and mellow. And most important, besides being satisfactorily persistent, it’s decidedly unique for being a cheap mainstream. It obviously has some “cheap” nuances and if you smell it carefully you definitely get some usual aromachemicals you can find in many fragrances of the same price range (especially if you compare vetiver here with its Hermès more expensive twin); but the guys at Mavive were more than good in disguising them and bringing the best out of their budget. You can wear it and tell anybody it’s a niche scent, none will doubt it (and for once I won’t imply that this would happen because most niche scents are mainstream scraps in disguise). Recommended.

7,5-8/10