Byzantium

9 years before Cool Water, Fragonard created a fragrance that already anticipated the CW turning point by a relaxed 70% - and this with a composition that claims to draw on a medieval recipe. Did Pierre Bourdon know it? Rosemary makes up the predominant...

I try not to repeat what others have already written here. The sharp, tickling sensation in the top note reminds me, on one hand, of mowing down nettle bushes. Even more clearly (and I wonder why no one else has mentioned this...