Byzantinian Garden Ucca 2024

I enter the garden through a wonderfully tangy yellow-green opening, spicy-tart with a sunny smile instead of citric acidity. Bergamot and basil can be clearly smelled in the first 10 minutes, and I wouldn't have been surprised to find a mint leaf in the fragrance notes. From the background, the concentrated sweetness of the white blossoms quickly comes to the fore: lots of jasmine and gardenia, some neroli - really, no tuberose? Mimosa makes the whole thing nice and fluffy, but it is already quite sweet. Luckily, cooler, blue notes flash up in between, otherwise I would be completely buried under the stream of flowers.
Funnily enough, during my first test, I suddenly get real indoor swimming pool-in-summer associations, including chlorine, sunscreen and accumulated heat under the glass roof. On my second pass (with more sprays) I don't have that, now the balance between white and blue is better here. Very slowly, the floral sweetness creeps out and gives way to a soft, light woodiness.
This fragrance bears its name quite rightly - clearly a large, sunlit garden in full bloom on the Mediterranean. What makes it special for me is the skillful depiction of the blue, cooler parts, which I would like to be even more pronounced. I would like it even more if it were a little less bloomingly sweet.