d'Alba

d'Alba is a Korean skincare brand run from Seoul by d'Alba Global Co., Ltd., built on one ingredient: white truffle, which it says is extracted from Piedmont in Italy. Its skincare range is nearly all White Truffle — spray serums, a serum-and-cream jar, body mists.

The brand publishes specific things about how that ingredient is used. Its signature material is Trufferol: white truffle combined with tocopherol, which is vitamin E. The White Truffle First Spray Serum is described as carrying an eight-oil blend and a nine-herb complex alongside it. The Double Serum & Cream splits one jar into two named halves — an Aqua Serum built on ceramide NP, centella and panthenol, and an Intense Cream carrying what d'Alba calls its eight-blending oil. The brand says the two can be used together or separately.

Three of those claims are worth unpacking: what truffle paired with vitamin E actually contributes, what an eight-oil blend does to a formula, and what a jar you mix yourself buys you over owning two products.

Start with Trufferol. The vitamin E half has the track record: tocopherol is a well-studied antioxidant. The truffle half is harder to pin down — rare fungal extracts usually sit low in an ingredient list, so read it as a vitamin E formula with a good story. The afternoon cream mist below is where we'd start: niacinamide high, tocopherol present.

The eight-oil blend is a real formulation choice rather than a flourish. Plant oils slow water loss, and blending several spreads the fatty-acid profile, changing how rich a formula feels rather than how strong it is. A longer oil list is not the same as a gentler formula. The oil drop mist below keeps it to two — squalane and jojoba over ten forms of hyaluronic acid — and is the richer of the two mists.

The mix-it-yourself jar has the clearest everyday payoff: shifting the ratio watery in summer and rich in winter beats owning two products. The limit is that you adjust proportion, not strength. The jojoba serum-and-cream below works this way, spatula and a 1:1 start.

Worth noting too: none of these claims is about the sun step, which decides most outcomes. The tone-up sun serum below is the pick we'd defend hardest — organic filters, which is why it sinks in rather than sitting pale.

We don't carry d'Alba itself. For each of these jobs, though, we send an alternative we rate highly — the four picks below.

For d'Alba's White Truffle First Spray Serum there are three moments: before makeup as a prep step, during makeup onto the face or a sponge to smooth a cakey finish, and after makeup as a fixer — four to five spritzes close to the face, reapplied through the day. For the Double Serum & Cream it says only that the two textures can be used together or separately. The picks above follow the same logic: shake either mist until uniform, spray from twenty to thirty centimetres, press the serum-and-cream mix in after, sunscreen last.