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Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia
Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia Eau de Toilette is the gentlest thing in the Aqua Allegoria range, and it is aimed squarely at people who find most florals too emphatic.
Watermelon opens it, which tells you the register immediately: watery, cool, barely sweet, more a sensation than a smell, and over in a few minutes. Calabrian bergamot comes in alongside to give the opening some bite and stop the opening from going soft and synthetic.
Cherry blossom is the heart and it is a reconstruction rather than an extraction, because the flower gives almost nothing up. What perfumers build from it is a pale, powdery, faintly sweet floral with a cool green edge, and here it is handled with restraint. Pear adds a juicy transparency and rose fills in underneath with just enough depth to stop the whole thing floating away. It is a delicate middle and a well made one.
White musk and violet finish it, the white musk soft and clean, the violet powdery and slightly candied, and the pair of them leave a trace on the skin rather than a trail of any size. Nothing in the drydown works hard, and in a fragrance of this kind that is the intention rather than a shortfall. This is a four hour fragrance with modest reach, and that is what it is for. It suits daytime, spring, hot weather, offices, and anyone who wants to smell pleasant rather than present. It reads feminine. Thierry Wasser is the perfumer.
Jicky, released by this house in 1889, was the first fragrance to combine synthetic and natural materials in one formula, which is the sort of decision Guerlain's reputation is built on. The business has been Parisian since 1828.
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