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Amande Persane Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml
Bitter almond is the material that makes Roger and Gallet Amande Persane Wellbeing Fragrant Water 100ml worth a second look, because it is handled as something dry and faintly nutty rather than as a sweet dessert.
The opening is simple citrus. Bergamot gives the bitter edge and mandarin orange the sweeter, peelier side of it, and between them they last about ten minutes. Then the almond arrives and the fragrance changes character: bitter almond has a marzipan quality but also a sharp, slightly medicinal bite, and iris sits against it, cool and powdery and a little root like, which is what keeps the almond from turning into cake. The end is soft and dry, with tonka bean adding a gentle sweetness that reads closer to pastry crust than to sugar, and atlas cedar underneath giving a dry, resinous, pencil sharp finish.
A fragrant water is a light concentration by design, so judge it accordingly. It is meant to be used generously, over the arms and shoulders and the throat, in the manner of a cologne rather than a perfume, and it will keep its place on the skin for an hour or two before wanting another pass.
That makes it a good warm weather product and a good one for the part of the day when a full fragrance is too much, after a bath, in the morning, or on a long afternoon. The 100ml bottle is sized for that kind of free use.
Roger and Gallet is a French perfumery and soap house. It was founded in Paris in 1862 by two men related by marriage, who had bought an older business, trading since 1806, along with the eau de cologne it had been making. Body and bath products became a major part of it from the 1950s.
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