If Italian sensuality manifested itself in female form, it would 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, in which the model and actress tasked the host with pronouncing her proper last name (Shaykhlislamova), proves that she is thoroughly Russian. But her ripples of espresso hair, divinely sculpted lips, and near-regal demeanor embody the torrid tales of Italian love stories, the heavenly features of Vesuvian frescoes, and the fiery spark of feisty nonnas. She shifts effortlessly between sumptuous sophistication and sizzling seduction.

It’s the same intangible essence found in Italian actor Michele Morrone, who is the physical embodiment of Roman ruggedness; the textbook definition of tall, dark, and handsome; and Shayk’s costar in a newly released short film for Dolce & Gabbana. Yet by some witchcraft, the Italian fashion house managed to siphon this fantasy into a solar, 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 sun, I walked into the cerulean-washed lobby of the De Bonart Naples to meet the storied supermodel ahead of the evening’s soirée. The party, complete with an all-black dress code (lace highly encouraged), was being thrown in the famous Palazzo San Felice, where a long string of mobster movies and dramatic romances have been filmed, to celebrate the launch of Your Devotion. Fittingly, the fragrance’s campaign film—directed by Gordon von Steiner, scored by Gino Paoli’s “Sapore di Sale,” and starring a “will they, won’t they?” Shayk and Morrone—would be projected onto flowing white bedsheets hanging from the windowpanes just hours later.