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Acqua Colonia Intense Floral Fields of Ireland
Spring is the season 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense Floral Fields of Ireland Eau de Cologne 50ml was clearly made for, and it is one of the very few floral colognes on the market that does not end up smelling of talc. The reason is the way the flowers are kept dry. Osmanthus leads, sweet and faintly fruity with an astringent edge, and mandarin orange and lemon sharpen the opening around it. Mimosa follows, soft and powdery and quietly sweet, orange blossom adds a clean bitterness at the stem, and jasmine gives the heart its weight. There are only eight materials in the whole composition and each one is doing a clear and separate job.
Cedarwood and sandalwood make the finish, the first dry and sharp, the second smooth and quiet, and between them they stop the florals from drifting off the skin after half an hour. Neither material is pushed forward, which is the right decision for a fragrance of this kind. Nelly Hachem-Ruiz composed it, and the Intense label means this is a stronger concentration than the standard Acqua Colonia bottles. Three to four hours of clear wear is a fair expectation, with a soft floral residue beyond that, and at 50ml it is an easy size to keep in a bag for the afternoon top up that any cologne benefits from.
It reads as feminine, works for daytime, weddings and offices, and is an unusually grown up floral for the money. The house dates its beginnings to October 1792 and a recipe for an aqua mirabilis, said to have been a wedding gift to the merchant Wilhelm Muelhens. Its name is the number the French occupiers gave his building in 1794, and Maurer and Wirtz added the Acqua Colonia line in 2009.
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