Green Tea Lychee Lime Eau de Toilette 100ml

Lychee is the whole argument for Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Lychee Lime Eau de Toilette 100ml, and it is used generously enough to justify putting it on the label twice. Lychee pulp leads, and anyone who has eaten the fruit fresh will recognise it at once: perfumed, pale, a little floral and distinctly watery, sweet without the thick, syrupy quality of heavier fruit. Mexican lime essence cuts across it with a sharp, oily rind bitterness, and italian bergamot lemon broadens the citrus into something softer and rounder.

Egyptian geranium holds the middle, and it is the one material here with any edge to it, green and rosy and faintly metallic. A water lily accord keeps that cool and damp, while magnolia lends a creamy lemon floral lift. Then the lychee returns underneath as a base accord, which is unusual; fruit of this kind normally burns off in twenty minutes. Mate absolute is what stops the whole thing turning into squash, bitter and hay dry, with the herbal roughness of leaves rather than leaf extract. Rodrigo Flores-Roux built it, and it reached the shops in 2022.

This is a summer bottle and it behaves like one. Expect three or four hours before it needs refreshing, close wear rather than projection, and best results on skin still cool from a shower. It suits heat, holidays and daytime, reads unisex, and at 100ml there is plenty in the bottle for the sort of generous application the style invites.

An American house, salon born and still run from New York, Elizabeth Arden covers skincare and cosmetics as well as scent. Blue Grass is the perfume the name was built on. The fragrances are produced by Revlon, which finished acquiring the company in September 2016, rather than by an outside licensee.