Top Notes 
Bergamot
Mandarin orange
Neroli
Orange
Heart Notes 
Bergamot blossom
Mock-orange
Base Notes 
Cedarwood
Musk
Oakmoss
Sandalwood
06/24/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
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Lumberyard woodgrain alcohol disguised as neroli and orange blossom
The opening is a mixed bag - there's a a stunning neroli note that's been turned inside out so that it smells (initially) more like the bitter tonic water you add to a G&T and less like the bathroom soap neroli usually turns into on my skin, but it shares the room with a rough Iso E Super or plain lumberyard woody chemical that I just can't stand. Immediately past the topnotes, the bullish woody note flattens its ears just enough to let the golden neroli slide past and occupy center stage. The neroli is like that badly behaved little cousin of yours who manages to keep up a good show for all of five minutes before lapsing into his default mode of being a little shit, i.e., it suddenly drops all its white t-shirty, summery G&T freshness and turns into, well, you guessed it, a bar of bathroom soap. Sadly, this gives the screechy woody aromachemical permission to return, so the rest of the scent is really just cheap neroli guest bathroom soap duking it out with woody ethanols. If you like a natural-smelling neroli or orange blossom scent, you can get it in half litre bottles in any Southern European country (not just France). At over 150 euros, Thomas Kosmala is brazenly up-charging (call it niche snob tax if you like) for the addition of some Iso E Super sloshed into neroli supermarket cologne.
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