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Paraíso Escarchado
Coconut is the material that decides what Devota & Lomba Paraíso Escarchado Eau de Toilette 100ml is for, and the answer is warm weather and bright daylight.
Green apple opens it, tart and crisp, with bergamot alongside bringing a clean citrus sharpness, and the two of them burn off quickly, as both materials tend to. Orange blossom and jasmine take the middle, the orange blossom white and sweet, the jasmine heady and rich. It is a pairing that would be entirely traditional if the base did not take the scent somewhere else altogether. Coconut is soft and creamy and only lightly sweet, more like the flesh of it than a sun cream, amber adds a low resinous warmth beneath that, and musk smooths the whole thing into the skin so the finish sits close rather than drifting.
Marion Costero is credited as the perfumer. Seven materials, with the interest concentrated in the contrast between a sharp, green opening and a creamy finish, and no attempt at anything more complicated than that.
As an eau de toilette it sits lighter than a parfum strength fragrance would, which is the sensible choice for a composition built around coconut, since that material becomes heavy very quickly at higher concentrations. Reckon on three or four hours of clear wear, then a soft, creamy trace for a while after that.
It reads as feminine, belongs to summer, holidays and hot afternoons, and is one of those scents that works best on skin that has been out in the sun all day. A 100ml bottle is the right size for a scent you will apply liberally and often rather than save for best, and at eau de toilette strength you will get through it.
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