Lavande Royale Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml
Lavender divides people more than almost any other material, and Roger & Gallet Lavande Royale Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml is firmly for the half that likes it.
Three materials, arranged in a straight line. Bergamot opens, bitter and bright, lifting the whole thing for the first few minutes. Lavender is the body of it, and it is handled in the traditional French manner: clean, cool and a little soapy, with the herbal, slightly camphorous edge that distinguishes real lavender from the sweetened version used in confectionery. Cedarwood finishes it, dry and sharp like a freshly cut pencil, and it is what keeps the lavender from drifting into the territory of a linen cupboard.
It is a short composition and it is not pretending to be anything else. There is no development to follow, no hidden warmth that emerges after an hour. What it offers is clarity, and in a material as familiar as lavender that is arguably the point. You are buying lavender done properly rather than lavender dressed up as something else.
As a fragrant water it carries less oil than an eau de parfum and behaves accordingly, sitting close to the skin and fading rather than settling in for the day. It is designed to be used generously and often, after a bath, before bed, or at any point when something cool and clean is wanted.
It reads as unisex, it suits every season, and the 100ml size allows for the free hand the format expects. The company goes back to 1862, when two brothers in law built a Paris perfumery and soap business around an older cologne house dating from 1806. That house's formula traced back to a preparation first recorded in 1693.
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