Fragrance Notes
Shiso Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml
Among the quieter things Roger & Gallet makes, Roger & Gallet Shiso Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml stands out simply because almost nobody builds a fragrance on this leaf.
Shiso is green and aromatic with a cool edge and a faint aniseed quality, and underneath that a savoury, slightly sharp character that no other herb in perfumery quite matches. It is the whole reason this exists. Petitgrain joins it with the bitter green smell of twigs and stems, which pushes the composition further towards the garden and away from anything sweet. Sandalwood is the third and final material, creamy and smooth, giving the two green materials a soft place to land and lending the fragrance the only warmth it has.
That is the complete list, and it behaves like the short composition it is. There is no development to follow and nothing emerges later that was not there at the start. Some will find that plain and others will find it a relief after a decade of fragrances that insist on telling a story.
As a fragrant water it is a light concentration, meant to be used liberally and reapplied without thinking about it. It sits close, it fades rather than settling in, and the 100ml bottle exists so that you are not rationing something designed to be used freely. It is unisex, it suits hot weather and daylight, and it works particularly well after a shower. At 100ml you can afford to be generous with it, which a scent of this kind needs.
Founded in 1862 by two brothers in law working in Paris, Roger & Gallet built its business on an older cologne house dating from 1806 and has made perfume and soap ever since, adding body and bath products from the 1950s.
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