Light Blue Pour Femme
The green apple is the whole trick, and in Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Femme Eau de Toilette 100ml it is used with more discipline than in any of the scents that copied it.
Apple here is sour rather than sugared, crisp and faintly stalky, and it is set against lemon, which is clean and bitter at the rind. Bluebell joins them at the top, cool and green and faintly watery, which is what gives the opening its particular freshness. The middle brings flowers in to soften the sharpness: jasmine with its warm sweetness, white rose cleaner and more papery, and bamboo adding a green, almost wet stem quality beneath them. The base is deliberately light. Cedarwood provides a dry clean floor, musk a soft skin warmth, and amber a quiet resinous glow, and between them they keep the fruit going for a few hours without weighing it down. Nine materials, composed by Olivier Cresp and launched in 2001, and the balance has not needed changing since.
At eau de toilette strength it behaves the way a citrus and green fruit scent should. The opening is bright and immediate, the wear is moderate rather than enormous, and it sits close enough to the skin to be worn in an office, on a hot afternoon or on a plane without irritating anybody. Two or three sprays, repeated later if you are out for the evening. It is marketed to women, and the 100ml flacon is the practical choice for anyone who wears it regularly rather than occasionally. In summer it is hard to beat.
The Italian label behind it was established in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, and the two designers still provide its creative direction four decades on. Perfumery is not theirs: since October 2016 Shiseido has held an exclusive worldwide licence across fragrance, makeup and skincare, which it runs from its EMEA headquarters in Paris.
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