Summer Hill Crabtree & Evelyn 1988 Eau de Toilette

For starters, have you seen what private equity vc brand zombification has been done to the C&E website? Horrifying. I'll be the first to disclaim that my bottle could be suffering from age but one spray lasted about 4 hrs with moderate projection. The opening is freesia-heavy and dries into a white floral bouquet. The dry down has notes of dried papaya and dried apricot with a hint of wood. Pleasant, inoffensive, and clean in a way that I associate with 90's white florals. It reminds me of the gardenia bath and body spray but much classier and dressier, a cheerful, nostalgic scent meant to be paired with a Lilly Pulitzer dress and a Vera Bradley wristlet.