Floral Collection Daisy
4711 Floral Collection Daisy Eau de Cologne 100ml takes the house template and sends it somewhere much softer and fruitier than the original, which is the reason to look at it if you already know the plain version and want a change.
Bergamot essence still does the opening work, but it shares the first minute with honeydew melon, and that melon is the surprise. It is cool, pale and slightly sugary, the smell of the fruit cut rather than cooked, and it gives the cologne a rounded quality where the classic has a sharp one. Freesia comes in alongside, peppery and watery, bridging into the flowers proper.
The middle is a straightforward bouquet done well. Daisy is the quiet one, green stemmed and faintly honeyed, and it is flanked by jasmine, which is rich and a little indolic, and peony, which smells of petals and cold water more than of anything sweet. The three of them sit in a register that reads as spring rather than as evening perfume.
Vanilla blossom and musk close it. Vanilla blossom is the flower rather than the pod, so it is airy and pale instead of being dessert sweet, and musk presses the whole arrangement down onto the skin. Expect a couple of hours of genuine presence from a cologne concentration and a soft trace after that, which is the normal and entirely reasonable behaviour of the format. Wear it in daylight and in warm weather. It is light enough for an office, inoffensive in a lift, and generous enough at 100ml that nobody need be sparing with it.
Its maker has sold eau de cologne under a number rather than a surname since the eighteenth century. The figure came from the Muelhens premises in Cologne, numbered during the French occupation in 1794, and it was secured as a trademark in 1875.
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