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Acqua Colonia Starfruit & White Flowers
Anyone who wants something openly pretty rather than clever should start with 4711 Acqua Colonia Starfruit and White Flowers Eau de Cologne 100ml.
The fruit comes first and it is tropical without being thick. Lychee is soft, rosy and watery, mango brings a warm sweetness, passion fruit a sharp tangy bite, and lemon keeps the whole lot from settling into syrup. Guava carries the fruit idea into the heart, soft and slightly green, and plum adds a deeper, winey sweetness beside it.
Then the flowers arrive, and they are the better part. Jasmine is rich and heady, orange blossom cleaner and more innocent, and lily of the valley cool and green, so the middle manages to be lush and light at once. Jasmine is the only material listed in both the heart and the base, so it runs straight through the wear, and it returns there alongside amber, which provides a soft warmth, and neroli and petitgrain, which cut back in with a bitter green citrus edge that keeps the sweetness in check right at the end.
At cologne strength this is a generous, easy scent rather than a powerful one. It gives you an hour or two of bright fruit and flowers and then a clean floral warmth close to the skin, so reapplication is part of the bargain. The hundred millilitre bottle is the sensible size for something you will want to use freely in summer.
It is a feminine leaning scent for warm days and daylight hours, and a good choice for anyone who finds proper floral perfumes too serious or too heavy to wear in the heat. Dora Baghriche composed it. The brand is a cologne house of long standing, and the Acqua Colonia collection that this belongs to is a relatively recent addition, introduced by Maurer and Wirtz in 2009.
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