Irina Shayk on Household and Dolce & Gabbana’s New Perfume

If Italian sensuality manifested itself in feminine kind, it could be Irina Shayk. It’s not that the supermodel is Italian. No, the viral clip of a 2014 interview on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, through which the mannequin and actress tasked the host with saying her correct final title (Shaykhlislamova), proves that she is totally Russian. But her ripples of espresso hair, divinely sculpted lips, and near-regal demeanor embody the torrid tales of Italian love tales, the heavenly options of Vesuvian frescoes, and the fiery spark of feisty nonnas. She shifts effortlessly between luxurious sophistication and scorching seduction.

It’s the identical intangible essence present in Italian actor Michele Morrone, who’s the bodily embodiment of Roman ruggedness; the textbook definition of tall, darkish, and good-looking; and Shayk’s costar in a newly released short film for Dolce & Gabbana. Yet by some witchcraft, the Italian style home managed to siphon this fantasy right into a photo voltaic, fruity gourmand so devastatingly romantic that it rivals the stuff of Hollywood classics. Meet my new obsession: Dolce & Gabbana’s Your Devotion Eau de Parfum Intense.

On a blazing afternoon beneath the Neapolitan solar, I walked into the cerulean-washed foyer of the De Bonart Naples to fulfill the storied supermodel forward of the night’s soirée. The social gathering, full with an all-black costume code (lace extremely inspired), was being thrown within the well-known Palazzo San Felice, the place a protracted string of mobster motion pictures and dramatic romances have been filmed, to have fun the launch of Your Devotion. Fittingly, the perfume’s marketing campaign movie—directed by Gordon von Steiner, scored by Gino Paoli’s “Sapore di Sale,” and starring a “will they, will not they?” Shayk and Morrone—could be projected onto flowing white bedsheets hanging from the windowpanes simply hours later.