Touch of Pink
Buried under the fruit in Lacoste Touch of Pink Eau de Toilette is a material almost nothing else on a mainstream shelf uses, and it is the reason this has stayed in production for two decades: carrot seeds.
Before they appear, the opening is all citrus and fruit. Orange and blood orange give two kinds of sweetness, the second deeper and slightly bitter, with peach adding a soft velvety roundness. Coriander and cardamom go in alongside them, coriander green and faintly soapy, cardamom cool and camphorous, and both are listed again in the heart, which is unusual and means the spice runs right through the fragrance rather than arriving and leaving. In the middle, jasmine supplies a warm floral depth, violet leaf a sharp sappy greenness like a snapped stem, and then the carrot seeds do their work: earthy, rooty, faintly sweet and slightly powdery, they sit under the fruit and keep the whole thing from reading as a simple sweet, which is a trick worth more than the price of the bottle.
Vanilla, musk and sandalwood make up the base, and they are the comfortable part. Vanilla is soft rather than thick, musk clean and skin close, sandalwood creamy and dry, and together they give a finish that lasts longer than the fruit above it. Domitille Michalon Bertier composed it, and it dates from 2004. As a toilette it is light: four or five hours, with a trail that stays polite, so apply it freely. It is made for women, it is best in warm weather and in daylight, and it remains an easy fragrance to wear around other people.
Lacoste is a French clothing company begun in 1933 by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste and the industrialist Andre Gillier, and the crocodile marked polo shirt turned it into a global brand. Its own account dates its first fragrance to 1968, and Touch of Pink is the name it is best known for among women.
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