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04/19/2025
Rosini
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A daydream under the impressionist sky
There are scenes that you immediately associate with a movie - and for me it's the scene on the skyscraper in Vanilla Sky, where Tom Cruise stands on the roof and the famous call goes out: Open your eyes.
What Tom Cruise sees at this moment is a sky that could hardly be more beautiful: vanilla-colored, pastel tones, boundless, almost surreal. This sky is no coincidence, but consciously inspired by the impressionist paintings of Claude Monet. I just can't remember which one.
This is exactly the kind of sky I see when I smell Un Été Français by Celine: the most beautiful pastel yellow tones, merging seamlessly into an emerald green Mediterranean landscape - all flooded with light and full of vanilla harmony, as if Monet himself had wielded his brush as soft as butter.
When I smell the fragrance, however, it is not just a dreamlike impressionist sky that opens up, but a whole daydream. Un Été Français is more than just a fragrance - it is a journey back to the summer memories of childhood and youth.
And yes, perhaps it wasn't a vacation on the French Riviera, but afternoons in a dreary swimming pool, not a Mediterranean thicket, but the smell of freshly mown grass at the edge of the pool, not a salty sea breeze, but a slight smell of chlorine in your hair. And yet the feeling was certainly the same: happiness, lightness and light-heartedness - something that sometimes gets lost in everyday life.
It is precisely these memories that are brought to life by the fragrance: I perceive a subtle note of sun cream on warm skin, perhaps also a hint of coconut creaminess and a green, soft vanilla sweetness, which Celine does very well. The wheel is not completely reinvented here, but the fragrance is really beautiful to my nose.
I would like to end this review with a film quote from Sofia, alias Penélope Cruz:
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."
Perhaps this fragrance will also awaken beautiful daydreams in you and remind you to stay open to the special moments that life has in store - and the chance to make the most of them.
I hope you enjoy discovering it and say in closing: "Open your eyes."
What Tom Cruise sees at this moment is a sky that could hardly be more beautiful: vanilla-colored, pastel tones, boundless, almost surreal. This sky is no coincidence, but consciously inspired by the impressionist paintings of Claude Monet. I just can't remember which one.
This is exactly the kind of sky I see when I smell Un Été Français by Celine: the most beautiful pastel yellow tones, merging seamlessly into an emerald green Mediterranean landscape - all flooded with light and full of vanilla harmony, as if Monet himself had wielded his brush as soft as butter.
When I smell the fragrance, however, it is not just a dreamlike impressionist sky that opens up, but a whole daydream. Un Été Français is more than just a fragrance - it is a journey back to the summer memories of childhood and youth.
And yes, perhaps it wasn't a vacation on the French Riviera, but afternoons in a dreary swimming pool, not a Mediterranean thicket, but the smell of freshly mown grass at the edge of the pool, not a salty sea breeze, but a slight smell of chlorine in your hair. And yet the feeling was certainly the same: happiness, lightness and light-heartedness - something that sometimes gets lost in everyday life.
It is precisely these memories that are brought to life by the fragrance: I perceive a subtle note of sun cream on warm skin, perhaps also a hint of coconut creaminess and a green, soft vanilla sweetness, which Celine does very well. The wheel is not completely reinvented here, but the fragrance is really beautiful to my nose.
I would like to end this review with a film quote from Sofia, alias Penélope Cruz:
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."
Perhaps this fragrance will also awaken beautiful daydreams in you and remind you to stay open to the special moments that life has in store - and the chance to make the most of them.
I hope you enjoy discovering it and say in closing: "Open your eyes."
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