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Spring Fling
Almost everything this house makes is named for somewhere, which makes Bond No. 9 Spring Fling Eau de Parfum 100ml an outlier before you have even smelled it. What is inside matches the title rather than a map. Lily of the valley opens it, green and cool and watery, with passion flower beside it giving a soft, slightly fruity sweetness that stays well short of tropical. It is a light, dewy start with nothing sharp anywhere in it. Honeysuckle and freesia make up the middle and both are bright. Honeysuckle is the nectar sweet one, with that sticky, sunlit quality you get walking past a hedge in June, while freesia is peppery and clean and keeps the sweetness from settling. Then jasmine and orris finish the job, the jasmine adding a little richness underneath, the orris powdering everything down to a cool, dry close.
Six materials, all of them flowers or near enough, and it is worth being plain about what that means. There is no wood, no spice and no sweet base waiting at the end, so what you get is a single sustained floral idea rather than a composition that travels anywhere. Anyone who enjoys following a fragrance through its stages will find this one static. Anyone who simply wants to smell like a garden in April will not care. As an eau de parfum it lasts respectably, five or six hours, sitting close to the skin rather than projecting across a room. It reads clearly feminine, belongs to spring and early summer, and suits daytime, garden parties and anything outdoors. It arrived in 2018.
Most bottles from this New York house carry the name of a neighbourhood or a landmark, a habit established when Laurice Rahme founded the business in 2003, so this one stands among the exceptions.
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