I’d taken myself off the Francesca Bianchi PR sample distribution list when I moved to Africa in 2023, but by coincidence, my husband discovered the brand all by himself while on a business trip to Montenegro. There, in a small perfume shop on the main drag of Podgorica, he stumbled upon what he called ‘one of the best smells he had ever smelled’ but couldn’t remember which one it was, so he ordered the full set directly from Francesca Bianchi’s site. All independently of me, of course, which is par for the course in my family.
Anyway, he went through all 15 (more?) samples in the set and was sadly never able to ID the perfume he’d fallen in love with in Montenegro. On the other hand, it allowed me to smell some Francesca Bianchi samples I hadn’t smelled before, hence this quickfire round of reviews.