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Acqua Colonia Intense Floral Fields of Ireland
Osmanthus is the reason to look twice at 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense Floral Fields of Ireland Eau de Cologne 50ml, since it is not a material that often turns up at this price. Osmanthus is a flower with a sweet, slightly fruity character and a dry, astringent edge to it, and here it opens the composition alongside mandarin orange and lemon, both of which keep the first minutes bright and sharp. The heart is a soft white floral arrangement rather than a loud one: mimosa is powdery and gently sweet, orange blossom is clean with a bitter green thread, and jasmine gives the middle its fullness and a little heat.
The base is short and deliberately understated, with cedarwood for a dry, pencil like structure and sandalwood for smoothness. Eight materials in total, which keeps the fragrance legible from start to finish and makes it easy to decide about in a shop rather than needing a week of wearing. Nelly Hachem-Ruiz composed it. As an Intense cologne it carries a little more body than the standard versions in the line do, giving three to four hours of clear presence before settling close to the skin, and it should still be applied with a generous hand.
It reads as feminine, suits spring and early summer, and works for daytime, for offices and for anywhere that a heavier floral would simply be too much to sit next to. The house behind it dates its origins to October 1792 and a recipe said to have come to the merchant Wilhelm Muelhens as a wedding gift; the 4711 of the name is the number the French occupiers put on his house in 1794, trademarked in 1875. Maurer and Wirtz added the Acqua Colonia line in 2009.
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