Verbena Deodorant 50g
L'Occitane En Provence Verbena Deodorant 50g is a grooming product rather than a perfume, and it is scented with the same three materials the house uses across its verbena line.
Lemon comes through first and most obviously, sharp and clean, the smell of rind being grated rather than juice in a glass. Lemon verbena is the herb behind it, and it is a different thing entirely: leafier, drier, with a green stalk quality under the citrus, closer to leaves steeped in hot water than to fruit. Geranium is the third, and it is the one that stops the pairing from being simple, bringing a green, faintly rosy smell with a cool metallic edge to it.
Three materials, and in a deodorant that is exactly right. This is not a composition that needs to develop, it needs to smell clean on skin at close range, and it does that without leaving a strong trace behind.
Use is straightforward: applied to clean, dry skin, usually in the morning, and it sits comfortably under a fragrance from the same range rather than fighting with it. The scent on a deodorant is a background thing, noticeable when you move and gone otherwise, so do not expect it to perform like an eau de toilette. It is most welcome in hot weather, which is when citrus grooming earns its place. Fabrice Pellegrin is named as the perfumer behind the scent.
L'Occitane En Provence has been making beauty and fragrance products since 1976, when Olivier Baussan set it up in Provence and sold oils he had distilled himself from a market stall. Its formulas still lean on plants grown in the south of France, and its laboratories and factory are at Manosque. Its best known scents are built around a single Provencal material.
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