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03/09/2023
Elysium
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Elysium
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Endless Summer
Cape St Francis is a village in South Africa. It is located on a peninsula, and the wild side, with its rocky coast and rough seas, contrasts beautifully with the bay's calm waters. Besides, the Cape St. Francis sequence in Endless Summer is surf moviemaking's perfect sphere. When I tested the four elements of the new collection, Chapter No. 2, right from the start, this was the one that impressed me the most. I found Surfing Shipstern Bluff and Surfing Mullaghmore Head similar to past ZARA releases while carelessly neglecting Surfing Puerto Escondido. Then, as the hours passed, Puerto Escondido and Cape St Francis began to glow on my skin, making me want to have them in my spring rotation.
Let’s talk about Surfing Cape St Francis. First, the bottle is the same as used in collection Chapter No.1, this time with a pale-coloured glass, cobalt blue for this one, so simple yet cute. The fragrance is classified as fougére-marine and opens fresh, with citrus, bergamot and grapefruit leading the first minutes. I get creamy lavender and balmy cypress; the bland is aromatic and balsamic. I am facing an aquatic essence. The cypress wood is full of dewy nuances.
As the cologne grows, the marine notes expand while maintaining that sense of water that does not veer towards the fruity notes of melon or cucumber. Dewy, powderless violet blossoms come to the fore, but my skin doesn’t reveal the berry accord. But they are very evident on the strip of paper, so rough and wild. Above this composite floats the grated nutmeg powder, so hot and spicy.
In the dry-down, the fragrance keeps its freshness reinforced by green vetiver and modern patchouli, a bit earthy and dirty but not obnoxious. Instead, the leather is barely there, smooth and soft, without that tannery redolence. The resinous notes of the cypress did not disappear but moved to the back.
Surfing Cape St Francis is an aquatic fragrance that recalls the smell of a stream, a glacier, or a lake. It is not salty or brackish like the sea, and ocean water might be. It is something so particular, yet simultaneously so familiar, already known, already seen. For the entire fragrance duration, a resinous and balsamic background note remains, perhaps the characteristic of this perfume. It reminds me of those camphorated and mentholated balms and ointments that heal and relieve the pain of various kinds without that pungent note of eucalyptus. To some extent, it shares the same vibes with L'Eau Bleue d'Issey Eau Fraîche, just to give you an idea.
Surfing Cape St. Francis is an ideal fragrance for spring and summer days and evenings, right for the office, going out with friends, and not-too-gallant events. I don’t have enough data to judge the performance, which I would say is moderate at the moment. I hope to remember as soon as possible which fragrance it resembles because the more I smell it, the more I am sure I know it.
I'm basing my impressions and review on a bottle I've owned since March 2023 (BC 30270).
-Elysium
Let’s talk about Surfing Cape St Francis. First, the bottle is the same as used in collection Chapter No.1, this time with a pale-coloured glass, cobalt blue for this one, so simple yet cute. The fragrance is classified as fougére-marine and opens fresh, with citrus, bergamot and grapefruit leading the first minutes. I get creamy lavender and balmy cypress; the bland is aromatic and balsamic. I am facing an aquatic essence. The cypress wood is full of dewy nuances.
As the cologne grows, the marine notes expand while maintaining that sense of water that does not veer towards the fruity notes of melon or cucumber. Dewy, powderless violet blossoms come to the fore, but my skin doesn’t reveal the berry accord. But they are very evident on the strip of paper, so rough and wild. Above this composite floats the grated nutmeg powder, so hot and spicy.
In the dry-down, the fragrance keeps its freshness reinforced by green vetiver and modern patchouli, a bit earthy and dirty but not obnoxious. Instead, the leather is barely there, smooth and soft, without that tannery redolence. The resinous notes of the cypress did not disappear but moved to the back.
Surfing Cape St Francis is an aquatic fragrance that recalls the smell of a stream, a glacier, or a lake. It is not salty or brackish like the sea, and ocean water might be. It is something so particular, yet simultaneously so familiar, already known, already seen. For the entire fragrance duration, a resinous and balsamic background note remains, perhaps the characteristic of this perfume. It reminds me of those camphorated and mentholated balms and ointments that heal and relieve the pain of various kinds without that pungent note of eucalyptus. To some extent, it shares the same vibes with L'Eau Bleue d'Issey Eau Fraîche, just to give you an idea.
Surfing Cape St. Francis is an ideal fragrance for spring and summer days and evenings, right for the office, going out with friends, and not-too-gallant events. I don’t have enough data to judge the performance, which I would say is moderate at the moment. I hope to remember as soon as possible which fragrance it resembles because the more I smell it, the more I am sure I know it.
I'm basing my impressions and review on a bottle I've owned since March 2023 (BC 30270).
-Elysium
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