It's hard for me to review this one objectively, because every time I spray it, I'm thrown back to a very specific memory:
Orange slices on the beach.
Not a resort beach. Not a beach somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, nor a beach lined with stone under overcast skies. Instead, I'm thrown back to an Australian beach - rugged, a line of sand hugging both the ocean and coastal bushland behind it. The sun is blazing overhead, the sky so blue it's almost blinding - a dry heat, high thirties, the hole in the ozone layer promising trouble to anyone who isn't wearing sun protection. You've walked out of the waves, the salt drying on your skin almost instantly - it has a particular note, does sea-salt-on-hot-skin, and the air around you is filled with the scent of the bush in the sun. You collapse on the sand, and someone offers you a container full of orange slices - kept cool under shade, bright wedges of colour, and when you bring it up to your nose it all comes together. Salt on skin, bitter orange opening, woods in the background. This one to me is a summer fragrance through and through, but like I said, it's hard for me to separate this one from the memory it's tied with, so eh. Forever a favourite, and definitely unisex.
