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Fresh Couture
Moschino Fresh Couture Eau de Toilette is a tidy seven material piece of work, and it is lighter and greener than the rest of the house's output.
Bergamot and mandarin orange open it, the first sharp and clean, the second sweeter and rounder, and ylang ylang arrives with them rather than waiting its turn. That is the decision that makes the top interesting: ylang ylang is creamy, rich and almost custard sweet, and putting it against citrus from the first second gives the opening a softness that a straight citrus start would not have. The middle is fruit and flowers in equal measure. Raspberry is bright and jammy, peony is crisp and watery with a green bite, and osmanthus supplies the unusual turn with its fruit skin and dried leaf character. The heart is where the fragrance is most itself, and it lasts well.
The base is a single material. Patchouli closes it, damp and earthy with a dark bittersweetness, and because there is nothing else down there it has to do all the work of anchoring the fruit and flowers above. It does, and the result is a drydown that is cleaner and less cluttered than most. As an eau de toilette it is light on skin and sociable rather than assertive, lasting a solid afternoon. Spring and summer are its seasons and daytime its moment. It reads as feminine and young in spirit. Alberto Morillas composed it. Moschino began in Milan in 1983 with Franco Moschino's first womenswear collection, and Rossella Jardini took over the creative direction in 1994 after his early death. The fragrance side has always belonged to Euroitalia, maker of the perfumes since 1987 and owner of the cosmetics and perfume trademark since buying it from Aeffe in September 2024.
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