Original
Hot weather is where 4711 Original Eau de Cologne 100ml earns its keep, and the heavier the day the better it works.
There is a reason cologne was invented in a climate with real summers. The low concentration means a great deal of alcohol and very little oil, so the first sensation is physically cooling, and the materials chosen are the ones that feel cold rather than warm. Lemon is the coldest thing in it, almost sour, and it arrives before anything else. Orange and bergamot soften that within seconds, orange sweet and rounded, bergamot with the perfumed bitterness that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does. Lavender follows and does the quiet work. It is herbal and clean, not floral in any decorative sense, and it holds the structure together while the citrus burns off. Rosemary is green and slightly camphorous beside it. Then neroli and petitgrain close the thing out, blossom and leaf from the same bitter orange tree, sweetly floral against dry and bitter, and between them they leave a trace that still reads as a fragrance an hour later rather than as nothing at all.
Apply it to the neck, the wrists and the inside of the elbows, and use more than you would of a perfume. Reapply whenever you want. It does not build up and it does not become heavy. Keep the 100ml bottle in a travel bag for long journeys, in a desk drawer through summer, or beside the bed for the first thing in the morning. It is one of the few scented things that is genuinely useful rather than merely pleasant.
The brand's name was handed to it by the French army. Cologne's houses were numbered during the occupation of 1794, the Muelhens building came out as 4711, and that figure became a registered trademark in 1875.
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