Original Pour Femme Intense Eau de Parfum 100ml

Lacoste Original Pour Femme Intense Eau de Parfum 100ml is the full size bottle, and it is for people who already know they want this one: a sweet, fruited floral with real weight to it, bought in a quantity that makes it a long term commitment.

Raspberry and pomegranate open it, and they do different jobs. Raspberry is jammy and tart at the same time, the fruitier and rounder of the pair. Pomegranate is sourer and thinner, with a sharp brightness that cuts across the raspberry and keeps the first minutes from being merely sweet.

The heart softens without changing course. Jasmine is full and warm, with the faintly animal quality the flower always carries, and rose petal is lighter and cleaner than a complete rose, so the floral middle supports the fruit rather than replacing it. The composition thickens rather than turning.

Then the base does the work the word intense is pointing at. Vanilla is handled dark and smooth, with none of the powdery quality it often brings, and tonka bean sits beneath it, dry and faintly bitter, keeping the sweetness in check. Six materials, composed by Adriana Medina-Baez, Louise Turner and Sonia Constant.

Expect strong projection for the first two hours and a close sweet trail for many more, which is why one or two sprays is the sensible dose from a bottle this size. It belongs to cold weather and to evenings, and it is aimed at women. Lacoste the clothing company dates from 1933 and the partnership between René Lacoste, who had won at tennis, and André Gillier, who could manufacture. The crocodile marked polo shirt is their legacy, and fragrance followed in 1968 on the firm's own reckoning.