Note Pyramid
Pink Grapefruit
Wild Blackberry
Pour Femme
John Richmond Pour Femme Eau de Parfum 100ml is fruitier and more playful than its label suggests, which is a pleasant surprise from a designer whose clothes trade on biker jackets and denim.
The opening is all fruit, but not the sugared kind. Pink grapefruit gives it a bitter, slightly peppery citrus snap, juicy pear adds a cool watery sweetness, and wild blackberry brings a darker, winey note with a touch of the bramble about it. Together they read as tart and ripe at once.
The heart is where the fragrance turns formal. Magnolia is lemony and creamy at the same time, a white flower with citrus running through it. White sand lily is softer and cleaner, and jonquil brings something greener and drier that keeps the bouquet from becoming polite. It is an unusual trio and it gives the middle an odd, memorable texture.
Underneath, sandalwood is smooth and creamy, patchouli adds its damp, earthy darkness, and amber supplies a warm resinous glow. Nine materials in total, properly structured, moving from bright to floral to warm over a couple of hours.
At eau de parfum strength the base does the lasting, so expect the fruit to go early and the warmth to stay into the evening. It suits autumn, and it suits someone who wants a fragrance with some weight behind the sweetness.
John Richmond was born in Manchester in 1960, graduated from Kingston Fashion School in 1982 and started his own label immediately, keeping design in London while production moved to Italy. The clothes draw on rock and roll and street culture, and the denim is what the name is built on, from the RICH logo to the Seven Deadly Sins prints. Bryan Adams shot the lookbook for the X collection in late 2000. The Luxembourg company Fashioneast acquired the intellectual property for several of the lines in 2015, and the brand joined the Arav group in 2017.
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