Original Deodorant 75ml
This is a deodorant, not a fragrance, and 4711 Original Deodorant 75ml should be judged on how it performs under a shirt rather than on how it opens on a blotter.
What it gives you is the house cologne accord in a format you apply to clean dry skin every morning. Lemon, bergamot and orange are the first thing you notice, bright and slightly bitter, with the lemon doing most of the lifting. Lavender arrives almost immediately behind them, and in a deodorant it is doing double duty, smelling of clean shirts and old fashioned barbering while reading as hygienic in a way that most modern sticks do not. Rosemary is the unusual inclusion. It is green, resinous and a little camphorous, and it keeps the citrus from going soft. Neroli and petitgrain finish it. Neroli is sweet and white flowered, petitgrain is sharp and stemmy, and between them they give the dry down the faintly herbal, slightly bitter character that makes this smell like a cologne rather than like a toiletry.
In practice the scent is close and it is modest. It will be gone from the surface within a couple of hours, which is correct for the product: a deodorant is not meant to announce you, and it should not fight whatever else you are wearing. If you also use the cologne, the two layer without any trouble at all. The 75ml size is a sensible single purchase that will see out several months of daily use, and it is the obvious thing to try if you have worn the eau de cologne for years and never thought to look at the rest of the range.
The number on the front is a Cologne street address. French occupiers numbered the Muelhens house 4711 in 1794 and the business eventually took the figure as its name, registering it as a trademark in 1875.
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