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Néroli
Fabrice Pellegrin had three materials to work with on Roger & Gallet Néroli Eau de Parfum, and the discipline of that shows in the result.
Neroli leads, as the name promises. It is distilled from orange blossom and it smells cool, clean and slightly green, with a soapy brightness and an edge of bitterness underneath that keeps it from being sweet. It is one of the most recognisable materials in perfumery and one of the hardest to improve on.
Orange blossom follows in the middle, which is the same flower treated differently: warmer, rounder, more powdery and noticeably sweeter, so the two together give you the material from two angles rather than repeating it. Immortelle sits underneath. It is dry and faintly burnt with a hay like sweetness and a slightly savoury edge, and it is the unexpected part of the composition, grounding a bright floral in something far more unusual. Without it this would be a pleasant and ordinary white floral.
As an eau de parfum it carries more oil than a cologne would, so it lasts well while staying close to the skin after the first hour. There is no drama in how it develops. It is a short composition, it is recognisable within minutes, and it stays that way. Three materials used this precisely do more than ten used carelessly.
It reads as unisex, suits warm weather and daylight, and works for anyone who finds heavy florals difficult but wants something with more presence than a cologne. The company began in 1862 under two brothers in law working in Paris, who bought a cologne house dating from 1806 and built a perfumery and soap business around it. Body and bath products followed from the 1950s.
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