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Aqua Allegoria Granada Salvia
Pomegranate and sage is not a combination anyone was asking for, and Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Granada Salvia Eau de Toilette is the better for it, because the result smells like nothing else on the shelf.
Blackcurrant, lemon and bergamot open the fragrance, tart and bitter and quick, the blackcurrant giving that green, slightly sulphurous sharpness that makes a citrus opening feel more interesting than it has any right to be. The heart is the point. Pomegranate is tart and faintly astringent rather than sweet, sage is dusty and herbal with a camphorous edge running through it, and the two of them together produce something dry and savoury. Rose softens the meeting point and cypress adds a cool, resinous green edge, so what could have read as a kitchen garden instead reads as a Mediterranean hillside in late summer.
White musk, oakmoss and patchouli take it out. The oakmoss is the important one, damp and green and faintly bitter, and it grounds a composition that would otherwise be all brightness and herbs with nothing underneath it. Patchouli adds earth, and the white musk holds the whole arrangement close to the skin rather than letting it drift.
As an eau de toilette it is a five to six hour fragrance with modest reach, which fits the kind of scent it is. It reads unisex and wears well on men in spite of the flower in the middle. Warm weather suits it, daytime more than evening, and it is a good choice for anyone tired of bright citrus scents that smell like everybody else's. Thierry Wasser put it together.
LVMH is the owner of this Paris house, which has been in business since 1828 and has put its name to well over a thousand compositions in the time since.
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