Acqua di Sicilia Santa Maria Novella 1997
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Sun and Shadow
A few years ago, I visited Sicily for the first time and was captivated: by the beauty of the cities and the landscape, by the Roman ruins, and especially by the view of the sea. Our holiday home was situated on a hill, and every evening I watched the setting sun.
Santa Maria Novella's Acqua di Sicilia captures this mood. Almost perfectly.
Of course, for really hot days, only a cologne is suitable for me anyway, and in Sicily it can get so hot that, even with the proximity of water, one can nearly be grilled at noon in front of the cathedral of Noto or at the Fonte Aretusa in Siracusa. For this reason, a rather unecological custom of artificial mist has developed in Italy: from nozzles, usually above sun umbrellas, a fine mist of cool water emerges, making it wonderfully bearable to stay in hot places. When, as a light-skinned Central European, you have made it with your last strength from the amphitheater of Taormina down below Etna to the barely cooler streets of the old town, you might be grateful for such a typically Italian invention, which we hope we won’t need in Germany for a long time despite the dramatically advancing climate change.
Well-crafted colognes can convey exactly this impression on hot summer days: standing in the midst of a cool spray. Acqua di Sicilia can do that too, as Petitgrain, bergamot, lemon, and neroli do their part, a shady herbal nuance joins in, but at the same time, the subtle resinous note creates the impression of a sun-drenched landscape that begins to cool down slowly after the heat of midday.
Santa Maria Novella rarely disappoints me, but I am truly enthusiastic about this scent.
One must like colognes with a dark shadow. Then this one is just right.
Santa Maria Novella's Acqua di Sicilia captures this mood. Almost perfectly.
Of course, for really hot days, only a cologne is suitable for me anyway, and in Sicily it can get so hot that, even with the proximity of water, one can nearly be grilled at noon in front of the cathedral of Noto or at the Fonte Aretusa in Siracusa. For this reason, a rather unecological custom of artificial mist has developed in Italy: from nozzles, usually above sun umbrellas, a fine mist of cool water emerges, making it wonderfully bearable to stay in hot places. When, as a light-skinned Central European, you have made it with your last strength from the amphitheater of Taormina down below Etna to the barely cooler streets of the old town, you might be grateful for such a typically Italian invention, which we hope we won’t need in Germany for a long time despite the dramatically advancing climate change.
Well-crafted colognes can convey exactly this impression on hot summer days: standing in the midst of a cool spray. Acqua di Sicilia can do that too, as Petitgrain, bergamot, lemon, and neroli do their part, a shady herbal nuance joins in, but at the same time, the subtle resinous note creates the impression of a sun-drenched landscape that begins to cool down slowly after the heat of midday.
Santa Maria Novella rarely disappoints me, but I am truly enthusiastic about this scent.
One must like colognes with a dark shadow. Then this one is just right.
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Recently, there was a mist wall set up in a square in front of my house in Vienna-Mariahilf. It was a hot day. I sat there for a long time and enjoyed the coolness. Unfortunately, the mist wall was gone the next day. Maybe for environmental reasons.