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Milestone (already overgrown with green)
Sisley's 'Landwasser' is, for me, a significant standout fragrance that I think anyone interested in "exploring the fragrance universe" and anyone who likes green, fresh scents should have tried.
Eau de Campagne is an early work of the now highly famous perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, a kind of olfactory Jeunehomme concert. In it, all the skill of the master is already apparent; indeed, I would say that I like this early style better than many later works. Thus it has been remarked, not without reason, that Country Water bears a certain kinship to, say, 'Un Jardin sur le Nil': But I find Eau de Campagne more rugged, bold, original and natural.
The brand, and indeed the fragrance as a product, used to be much more significant than it is today. You can guess how popular and commercially successful 'Eau de Campagne' once was by clicking through the pretty advertising images visible here on Parfumo. The fact that the perfume has become more of an insider tip today can be read very nicely in Serenissima's review. In any case, it's great that the fragrance hasn't been discontinued yet, even if it's no longer a real sales driver. One more reason to try the fragrance while it is still there!
In its striking, utterly distinctive, unique interpretation of the colour 'green', Eau de Campagne comes closest for me to Cacharel's Eden, released some 20 years later; that too a fascinating and utterly special fragrance (albeit more difficult). There are even certain similarities in fragrance character and note pyramid. There is a kindred spirit to these two "green brushed against the grain" waters! - Even if Eden is more like a suffocatingly sultry jungle full of poisonous plants and Eau de Campagne is more like a freshly mowed golf course framed by woods and vegetable fields after a long spring rain (well, I've never been to a golf course, but I'll take a chance on the picture).
Country Water is a mysterious, sophisticated, highly complex green scent with ever-surprising new nuances (and therefore, although it pretends to be so rustic-freshly simple, it's also infinitely far from a cologne). On the one hand, it has a dreamy, playful, almost escapist quality. On the other hand, it has a tart, subdued-matte, serious, almost sad side.
The green notes - probably primarily represented by galbanum, grasses and basil, as well as by the very special tomato leaf, which I'll get to in a moment - dominate the stage of this fragrance throughout, in which I perceive less a clear fragrance development than an ever-changing. A whole panopticon of floral, fruity, earthy and fresh notes creates but always new counterpoints, without even a moment to question the unity and straightness of the fragrance.
The fact that I really, really like the fragrance (and Mrs. von Spee as well) may also be due to the fact that it contains a good shot of lily of the valley (we both love that) and probably also a hefty dose of the (rather unpopular with many) tomato leaf. I like its characteristic note and must therefore sometimes think with this fragrance here also of Lacostes Essential, in my opinion a blatantly underrated fragrance, in which this note is strongly pronounced.
But even setting aside those two particular preferences: Sisley's Eau de Camapagne is a magnificently composed fragrance and truly a landmark!
Eau de Campagne is an early work of the now highly famous perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, a kind of olfactory Jeunehomme concert. In it, all the skill of the master is already apparent; indeed, I would say that I like this early style better than many later works. Thus it has been remarked, not without reason, that Country Water bears a certain kinship to, say, 'Un Jardin sur le Nil': But I find Eau de Campagne more rugged, bold, original and natural.
The brand, and indeed the fragrance as a product, used to be much more significant than it is today. You can guess how popular and commercially successful 'Eau de Campagne' once was by clicking through the pretty advertising images visible here on Parfumo. The fact that the perfume has become more of an insider tip today can be read very nicely in Serenissima's review. In any case, it's great that the fragrance hasn't been discontinued yet, even if it's no longer a real sales driver. One more reason to try the fragrance while it is still there!
In its striking, utterly distinctive, unique interpretation of the colour 'green', Eau de Campagne comes closest for me to Cacharel's Eden, released some 20 years later; that too a fascinating and utterly special fragrance (albeit more difficult). There are even certain similarities in fragrance character and note pyramid. There is a kindred spirit to these two "green brushed against the grain" waters! - Even if Eden is more like a suffocatingly sultry jungle full of poisonous plants and Eau de Campagne is more like a freshly mowed golf course framed by woods and vegetable fields after a long spring rain (well, I've never been to a golf course, but I'll take a chance on the picture).
Country Water is a mysterious, sophisticated, highly complex green scent with ever-surprising new nuances (and therefore, although it pretends to be so rustic-freshly simple, it's also infinitely far from a cologne). On the one hand, it has a dreamy, playful, almost escapist quality. On the other hand, it has a tart, subdued-matte, serious, almost sad side.
The green notes - probably primarily represented by galbanum, grasses and basil, as well as by the very special tomato leaf, which I'll get to in a moment - dominate the stage of this fragrance throughout, in which I perceive less a clear fragrance development than an ever-changing. A whole panopticon of floral, fruity, earthy and fresh notes creates but always new counterpoints, without even a moment to question the unity and straightness of the fragrance.
The fact that I really, really like the fragrance (and Mrs. von Spee as well) may also be due to the fact that it contains a good shot of lily of the valley (we both love that) and probably also a hefty dose of the (rather unpopular with many) tomato leaf. I like its characteristic note and must therefore sometimes think with this fragrance here also of Lacostes Essential, in my opinion a blatantly underrated fragrance, in which this note is strongly pronounced.
But even setting aside those two particular preferences: Sisley's Eau de Camapagne is a magnificently composed fragrance and truly a landmark!
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