Light Blue Pour Femme
One unexpected pairing of materials made Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Femme Eau de Toilette 100ml famous when it launched in 2001, and it has stayed that way ever since. Lemon opens it, clean and sharp, with bluebell beside it adding a cool green floral note that keeps the citrus from reading as soap. Then comes apple, and it is the apple that made the scent famous: tart, green and crisp, a fruit note handled sour rather than sweet, which in 2001 was not what a women's fragrance was expected to do. The middle softens the edges without blunting them. Jasmine adds a warm floral weight, white rose a cleaner and more transparent one, and bamboo keeps a green, watery freshness running underneath. The base is restrained by design: cedarwood dry and clean, musk soft against the skin, amber giving a faint resinous warmth so the whole thing does not simply evaporate.
Nine materials, and the composition's success lies in how little it tries to do. Olivier Cresp made it, and it has been imitated more than most. Eau de toilette is the right concentration for a scent built on citrus and green apple, because those materials want brightness more than they want weight. Expect a vivid first hour, then several hours of soft presence close to the skin, with more staying power on clothing than on a wrist. Apply generously; it forgives it. It is aimed at women, it is most at home in warm weather and in daylight, and the 100ml bottle is the size most regular wearers end up with.
Dolce & Gabbana was founded in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who remain its creative source, and it has stayed an Italian fashion house throughout. Its perfume comes from Shiseido, holder of an exclusive worldwide licence for the brand's beauty categories since October 2016.
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