Light Blue

Light Blue is a Mediterranean summer captured in a bottle. Launched in 2001 by Dolce&Gabbana, it draws its inspiration from Sicily, a land dear to designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana: sunshine, crystal-blue sea, sun-warmed skin and lemon trees.

Perfumer Olivier Cresp — who had created Angel a few years earlier — composed a fruity floral of great luminosity. Sicilian lemon and green apple open the fragrance brilliantly; jasmine and white rose shape its heart; cedar, amber and musk bring a soft, sensual base. A fragrance simple in appearance, but with a rare and lasting freshness.

Its success was immense, carried by campaigns that became cult classics: a man and a woman in white swimsuits on a boat off Capri, with the sea as far as the eye can see. These images shaped the very idea of the Italian summer for a whole generation.

Twenty years after its creation, Olivier Cresp described it as a fragrance with a universal concept: love. Light Blue has since inspired a men’s version, Light Blue pour Homme, and many flankers.