Rose Tangerine
There is salt in Chloé Rose Tangerine Eau de Toilette 75ml, and that single unusual material is the reason this one stands apart from the flowery eaux de toilette it shares a shelf with.
Salt in perfumery does not smell of the sea so much as of skin and wet stone, a mineral dryness that makes everything around it seem cleaner. Here it sits in among peony, which is crisp and dewy with a faint pepperiness, rose, handled as cool petals rather than as rose oil, and violet, powdery and slightly sweet. The result is a floral opening with an odd, bracing clarity to it. Carnation deepens the middle with its clove like spiciness, the rose returns with more body, and cedarwood runs through underneath, dry and pencil sharp. The finish is the softest part: amber gives a low resinous warmth, benzoin adds a vanillic sweetness, and sandalwood smooths the two into something creamy and close to the skin.
As an eau de toilette it is lighter on oil than a parfum strength scent, which here is a virtue. It projects gently for an hour and then stays within reach for four or five more, making it easy to wear in an office, at a lunch, on a warm spring day or anywhere that a heavier floral would be too much. The 75ml bottle is a generous size for a scent you can spray freely. It reads feminine and suits daytime more than night.
Michel Almairac and Sidonie Lancesseur composed it, and it arrived in 2020. The house has made clothes since Gaby Aghion's first collection, dated by Chloé to 1952, opened its first Paris boutique in 1972 and launched its first perfume in April 1975. Its scents are made under licence, within the luxury side of Coty's portfolio.
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