L'Acquarossa
Lantana is the material to know about in Fendi L'Acquarossa Eau de Parfum 75ml, and almost nobody else builds a fragrance on it.
It is a small flowering shrub and it smells unusual, green and faintly medicinal with a sweetness that never quite settles into one fruit. Here it sits in the middle beside rose, magnolia and orange blossom, where the rose is soft rather than jammy, magnolia brings a zesty, almost creamy lift, and orange blossom adds a syrupy white flower warmth. The four of them together make a bouquet with an odd, bright edge to it rather than a familiar one.
Mandarin orange and bergamot do the opening, juicy and quickly bitter in turn, and they last about ten minutes before the flowers take over. Musk and patchouli finish it, the musk clean and skin like, the patchouli dry and earthy, which keeps a fairly sweet floral from becoming sticky.
Benoist Lapouza, Delphine Lebeau and François Demachy are credited as its perfumers. In wear it is a daytime fragrance with eau de parfum staying power, so figure on seven hours with a soft, close presence after the first. It is marketed to women, it suits spring and early summer, and it is a good office choice because it is distinctive without being loud. The 75ml bottle is the standard size for the line.
The house was founded in Rome in 1925 by Adele and Edoardo Fendi, starting with furs and fine bags and later run by the five Fendi sisters. Karl Lagerfeld gave it the interlocking F, the Baguette and Peekaboo bags gave it global reach, its first perfume appeared in 1985 and Theorema in 1998, and it has been part of LVMH since 1999.
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