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Acqua Colonia Intense Refreshing Lagoons of Laos
Heat is the condition 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense Refreshing Lagoons of Laos Eau de Cologne 50ml was built for, and it performs the trick that cold, watery scents do well, which is to make you feel a few degrees cooler than you are.
Grapefruit and green apple start it, bitter and tart together, and cucumber comes straight up between them with its wet, faintly bitter green character. That combination is the whole appeal of the opening and it is unusually convincing. Lotus then takes the middle, aqueous and clean with a soapy edge, and violet leaf gives it a raw green sharpness that keeps the scent from turning bland. Rose is there in a supporting role, softening rather than perfuming. The finish is where the comfort comes from, with sandalwood lending a creamy dryness, white amber a clean low sweetness, and musk pulling it all onto the skin.
Fifty millilitres suits this better than a large bottle for most people, since it is a summer scent rather than a year round one and a bottle this size can be kept in a bag, a desk drawer or a suitcase. Elise Benat composed it, and the Intense label places it a step above the standard colognes in the line for staying power, although it still asks to be topped up during a hot day.
Men and women both wear it, and it is as good after sport or a shower as it is before going out, which is not true of heavier scents.
As for the house, it is one of the oldest cologne makers trading, its trademark number taken from the figure 4711 that the French assigned to its building in 1794. The Acqua Colonia collection came much later, a Maurer and Wirtz addition dating from 2009.
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