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L'Homme Rochas
Pineapple and juniper berry in the same fragrance is an unusual combination, and L'Homme Rochas Eau de Toilette is built on exactly that contrast.
It opens sweet and sharp at once. Blood orange gives a dark juicy citrus, pineapple adds a tart tropical sweetness handled dry rather than as a dessert, and cardamom runs through them with a cool green spice. The middle takes it somewhere more serious: juniper berry brings the resinous, faintly gin like bite that holds the sweetness in place, basil adds a herbal, slightly aniseed sharpness, and geranium a green rosy edge. Then the base does the opposite job, with tonka bean giving a soft, almost marzipan sweetness, patchouli supplying damp earth, and oakmoss a dry bitter greenness underneath it all. The result is a men's fragrance that can be worn in warm weather without ever becoming heavy, which is a harder trick to pull off than it sounds. The sweet materials are at the top and the dry ones at the bottom, so it gets drier as it wears rather than sweeter. Being a toilette strength, it is moderate and civilised. Expect three or four hours of clear presence and a close finish beyond that, and apply it to the neck rather than to a shirt collar so the base has somewhere warm to work. It suits spring and autumn, the daytime and the office, and men who want something bright with a little bitterness running underneath it. Bruno Jovanovic composed it, and it dates from 2020.
The Rochas name has been Parisian since 1925 and attached to perfume since 1936. The brand changed hands in 2015, when Interparfums bought it from Procter and Gamble, and perfume has been a separate business from couture for decades.
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