Fragrance Notes
Les Aventures Amande Persane Wellbeing Fragrant Water 30ml
Roger and Gallet Les Aventures Amande Persane Wellbeing Fragrant Water 30ml is not sold as a perfume and should not be judged as one. It is a fragrant water, a light scented mist of the kind you use for the pleasure of the moment rather than for a day of wear.
This is a short composition and it behaves like one. Almond is the lead and it is the soft sort, closer to marzipan and warm milk than to the bitter kind used in old liqueurs. Mandarin orange lifts it, sweet and a little zesty, keeping the almond from sitting flat. Tonka bean sits beneath both, powdery and faintly bitter, the smell of the inside of an old biscuit tin, and it is what makes the whole thing read as comforting rather than merely sweet.
There is little development to follow and nothing much happens after the first quarter of an hour. What you get is a soft almond sweetness that is strongest in the first ten minutes and gently present for an hour or so afterwards, more noticeable to you than to anyone else. Used as intended, that is a feature: it is meant to be misted on freely, on skin, on a pillow, after a bath, whenever you want it. Thirty millilitres suits that use, small enough to live in a drawer or a bag and to be used without ceremony. It reads unisex, works at any time of year and is particularly good in the evening, when a full strength fragrance would be too much to live with at close quarters.
Roger and Gallet is a Paris perfumery and soap house established in 1862, long resident on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, which has produced bath, body and wellbeing products alongside its perfumes since the 1950s.
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