L'Homme Lacoste Intense
Seventeen materials go into L'Homme Lacoste Intense Eau de Toilette 100ml, and six of them are in the opening alone, which makes this the busiest fragrance the house sells.
That opening is a fruit bowl with a citrus press beside it. Rhubarb is tart and green and stalky, quince adds a sour, slightly floral note with a hard fruit skin about it, and then orange, grapefruit, mandarin orange and lemon pile in together, four citruses doing four slightly different jobs: the orange round, the grapefruit bitter, the mandarin sweet, the lemon sharp. It is a loud start and it is meant to be.
The heart is where it earns the Intense name. Ginger and black pepper bring heat from two directions, one bright and lemony, the other dry and dusty. Pineapple adds a tart tropical sweetness, almond a soft marzipan like creaminess, and jasmine a warm floral depth that holds the spices and the fruit together.
Six materials make up the base and they are all about staying power. Vetiver is rooty and smoky, cedarwood dry and sharp, amber and amberwood supply warm resin and a smooth dry warmth respectively, vanilla sweetens without taking over, and musk fixes the lot to the skin. Michel Girard composed it and it dates from 2018. Performance is the point of this one: eight hours is realistic, projection is strong for the first two, and it leaves a trail on clothing. Keep it for cooler weather and the evening, because in heat all that fruit and spice becomes heavy going. It is aimed at men and suits anyone who wants to be noticed without wearing something sweet.
Lacoste is a French clothing company dating from 1933, founded by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste with the knitwear industrialist Andre Gillier, and its crocodile marked polo shirt is known everywhere. By its own reckoning its first fragrance appeared in 1968, and L'Homme has become one of the pillars of its men's range.
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