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Eau de Rochas Néroli Azur
Six of the seven materials in Eau de Rochas Néroli Azur Eau de Toilette 100ml come from the same tree, which makes it less a fragrance with a citrus opening than a study of citrus from several angles at once.
Mandarin orange and blood orange begin it, the first soft and sweet, the second darker and slightly jammy with a faintly bitter edge. Then the composition opens out. Bitter orange brings the rind and the pith, sharp and genuinely sour. Petitgrain contributes the twigs and leaves, green and dry. Lemon cuts through the lot. And neroli, distilled from the blossom, supplies the floral part, clean and cool and a little soapy, which is what keeps the whole arrangement from reading as a fruit bowl.
Only amber sits underneath, warm and resinous, doing just enough to give the citrus somewhere to land and to stop it vanishing after twenty minutes. It is a minimal base by design and it is the reason this outlasts a traditional cologne.
This is not a fragrance with a long story to tell. It is bright from the start, it softens rather than transforms, and it asks to be reapplied, which is exactly what an eau de toilette of this construction should do. Heat suits it. Wear it on holiday, in high summer, in the morning, and expect it to read as unisex rather than as anything else. The 100ml bottle is the sensible choice given how freely it deserves to be used.
In 1925 the couturier Marcel Rochas opened his house in Paris, and by 1936 he was making perfume. His widow Helene took the company on in 1955 and turned fragrance into its main activity. A 2015 sale moved the brand from Procter and Gamble to Interparfums.
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