Fragrance Notes
Les Eaux d'un Instant Tea of the Night
Few fragrances are honest enough to be built from one material, and Angel Schlesser Les Eaux d'un Instant Tea of the Night Eau de Toilette 150ml is one of them, which makes the large bottle the only sensible size to buy it in. Bergamot is the material and the whole of the fragrance. It is the small green citrus grown mostly along the Calabrian coast, and it does not smell like the fruits it is usually lumped with: there is a bitterness to it, a soapy cleanliness, and a faintly floral sweetness under the sourness that no other citrus material quite has. Worn neat, with nothing underneath, all of that is unusually easy to pick out.
The limitation is obvious and worth stating plainly. Citrus materials evaporate quickly, and with no base beneath it this fades inside a couple of hours. A single material fragrance cannot do anything else, and pretending otherwise on a product page would be dishonest.
That is exactly why the 150ml bottle makes sense. This is a scent to be reapplied without thinking twice about it, splashed on after a shower, kept in a bag and used again at lunchtime, in the manner of a traditional cologne rather than a modern eau de parfum. Bought in the large size it becomes practical instead of frustrating.
It reads entirely unisex, suits hot weather and the first half of the day, and comes about as close to universally inoffensive as a fragrance can get without being dull. Clean lines and restraint are what the Madrid studio is known for. Angel Schlesser was one of the designers who established ACME in Spain, and the label has been shown on the Pasarela Cibeles from 1988.
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