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Acqua Colonia Intense Pure Breeze of Himalaya
What makes 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense Pure Breeze of Himalaya Eau de Cologne unusual is that it spends almost nothing on sweetness and almost everything on cleanliness.
Pink pepper opens it with a dry, rosy prickle, and bergamot and mandarin orange come up underneath, the bergamot bitter and the mandarin orange softer and juicier. None of it lasts long, which is deliberate, because the point of this one is what happens next. Lily of the valley is the central material, green and watery and slightly metallic, the smell of cut stems rather than of a bouquet, and rose sits behind it adding a light floral roundness without any jam like heaviness. Then it goes mineral. Musk, ambroxan and cashmeran make the base between them, and the combination is what gives the scent its polished, laundered quality. Ambroxan is dry and faintly mineral, cashmeran has a soft, slightly powdery warmth with a dry grain to it, and musk ties the two together and pushes everything close to the skin.
The Intense label means a little more concentration than the standard colognes in the line, and in this case that buys steadiness rather than volume. It sits quietly and stays put, so it is well suited to offices, hospitals, aeroplanes and anywhere a strong scent would be unwelcome. It is clean to the point of being unisex by default, and it works all year without ever feeling seasonal. Fanny Bal composed it.
The house is a long established eau de cologne maker that dates its origins to October 1792, when the merchant Wilhelm Muelhens is said to have been handed the aqua mirabilis formula on his wedding day. Maurer and Wirtz added the Acqua Colonia range, this scent included, in 2009.
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