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Acqua Colonia Intense Refreshing Lagoons of Laos
Cucumber is the material that decides everything about 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense Refreshing Lagoons of Laos Eau de Cologne 170ml, and it is a genuinely watery, slightly bitter green smell rather than a sweet one.
Green apple and grapefruit arrive with it, the apple itself crisp and tart and the grapefruit bitter and faintly sulphurous, so the first minutes are cold and sharp in a way most colognes are not. The middle keeps that going by different means. Lotus is soft, aqueous and almost soapy, violet leaf is the sharpest material in the blend, green and raw and a little like crushed stems, and rose rounds the two of them off so the whole thing does not read as purely vegetal. Underneath, white amber provides a clean, slightly sweet warmth, sandalwood adds a creamy dryness, and musk keeps everything held close to the skin. The base is what stops this evaporating into nothing and gives it a soft finish once the cold opening has burned off.
Intense here means a slightly firmer concentration than the plain colognes in the line, though the character is still light and splashable. Expect two or three hours of real clarity, then a clean skin scent for a while after that, and treat reapplication as part of the design rather than a fault.
The 170ml size is for people who already know they like it. It is the best value per millilitre in the range and it suits a scent that works best applied generously, particularly in heat. Elise Benat is the perfumer. The brand is an eau de cologne house that traces its beginnings to a wedding gift recipe in October 1792, and whose number comes from the street numbering of its premises in 1794 rather than from anything in the bottle.
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