Touch of Pink Pour Femme
Twenty years on a shelf is a good sign, and Lacoste Touch of Pink Pour Femme Eau de Toilette has managed it by being cheerful without being childish.
Two kinds of orange open it. Plain orange is round and sweet, blood orange is darker and faintly bitter, and peach softens both with a velvety fruitiness. Coriander and cardamom come in with them and then appear again in the heart, so the spice is present from the first spray to the middle of the wear: the coriander green and a little soapy, the cardamom cool and green with a camphorous edge.
The heart adds jasmine and violet leaf. Jasmine is the warm, full flower that gives the fragrance its body, and violet leaf is the opposite, sharp and sappy and green, the smell of a stem broken in half, and it keeps the fruit honest. The base is simple and well judged. Vanilla is restrained, musk is clean and holds everything near the skin, and sandalwood adds a dry creaminess underneath. Ten materials in total, arranged so that nothing dominates.
Domitille Michalon Bertier is the perfumer, and the fragrance was released in 2004. At toilette strength expect four or five hours and a soft trail, which is why it works so well in the places a heavier scent would be a nuisance: offices, lecture halls, hot buses, family lunches. It is made for women, it suits spring and summer best, and it is one of the easiest gifts to give somebody whose taste you are unsure of.
Lacoste is a French clothing firm dating from 1933, founded by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste with Andre Gillier, an industrialist in knitwear, and famous above all for the crocodile marked polo shirt. The company dates its first fragrance to 1968, and Touch of Pink sits in a range that runs through Booster, Essential, Red and L'Homme.
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