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Acqua Colonia Starfruit & White Flowers
Holiday fragrance is a real category even if nobody markets it that way, and 4711 Acqua Colonia Starfruit and White Flowers Eau de Cologne 50ml is one of the better examples of it. The fruit comes first and it comes in quantity. Lemon gives the top its sharpness, lychee adds a perfumed sweetness, mango is ripe and heavy, and passion fruit contributes a tart, slightly sulphurous edge that keeps the whole thing from turning into syrup. Guava carries the ripeness into the heart, where the flowers take over: jasmine full and heady, orange blossom clean and bright, lily of the valley cool and green. Plum deepens the middle with a darker, jammier sweetness that stops the flowers from feeling thin.
Amber, neroli, petitgrain and jasmine make up the finish, amber lending warmth and a soft powderiness, neroli and petitgrain pulling it bitter and green again, and the jasmine tying the base back to the heart. Composed by Dora Baghriche, it is a cologne in the proper sense: light, splashable, honest about lasting a couple of hours rather than a day. The 50ml size suits a wash bag, a desk drawer or a suitcase, and it is a sensible way to buy a fragrance you will mostly wear between June and September rather than committing to a larger bottle that sits unused all winter.
The 4711 name comes from a street number. French occupiers numbered the Muelhens house 4711 in 1794, and the figure became a registered trademark in 1875; the business itself dates its origins to a recipe said to have been given to the merchant Wilhelm Muelhens as a wedding gift in October 1792. Maurer and Wirtz launched the Acqua Colonia line in 2009.
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