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Key Notes
- Notes
- Mandarin Orange, Lemon, Lavender, Musk, Sandalwood
- Brand
- Kenzo
Five familiar materials, kept clean, is the whole proposition of Kenzo L'Eau Pure Eau de Parfum, and keeping them clean is harder to do well than it sounds.
Mandarin orange and lemon start it, the mandarin rounder and sweeter, the lemon sharp and a little oily at the peel, and together they give a few minutes of real brightness. Lavender follows and changes the direction entirely, herbal and dry with the slightly soapy, faintly medicinal calm that the material always brings with it. Musk and sandalwood finish underneath, the musk soft and worn close to the skin, the sandalwood smooth and warm without ever turning thick. Nothing in the arrangement fights anything else.
Five materials and no hidden turns. It is a short composition, and what you get in the opening is broadly what remains an hour later, worn down into a quiet warmth. There are no surprises waiting and that is the design rather than an oversight, so judge it on how pleasant it is rather than on how much there is to find.
At eau de parfum strength, however, it behaves better than a light scent usually does. The oil load means the lavender and sandalwood hold on for hours rather than evaporating with the citrus, so you keep a soft, clean trail well past the point where an eau de toilette of the same materials would have given up. It reads as unisex, works in daylight and warm weather, and will offend nobody in an office or a waiting room. Kenzo itself is a Paris fashion house opened in 1970 by the designer Kenzo Takada, who arrived from Japan and decked his first shop in the Galerie Vivienne out as a jungle. It belongs to LVMH, where the perfume side of the name is handled inside the group.
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