Plush Folly's first smell of the week for 2015 is Cucumber - fresh, crisp and full of the distant promise of summer, so a very lovely treat in cold, wet early January! Jo Malone's Earl Grey & Cucumber Cologne was an obvious choice for our Perfume of the Week - evocative of the classic British summer's treat, afternoon tea. Cucumber sandwiches and a lovely pot of Earl Grey, anyone?!
So here we are, floating around in a mist of Earl Grey in the office. Does it feel like summer? Well, it's lifted our spirits a little so that helps. Blended by Christine Nagel for Jo Malone, it doesn't, however, remind us much of cucumber sandwiches.
We all loved the initial smell - a blast of bergamot and fresh green notes that flood out; it is uplifting and lively and we were unanimous that we really loved it. Elaine detected a floral note (jasmine) alongside the gorgeous citrussy, green burst of bergamot and cucumber. We were all smiling.
The dry down, however, really changes the fragrance as the bergamot top note evaporates off very quickly leaving an intriguingly sweet smell smell that we were a little unsure about. Quite quickly, the fragrance seems to lose the bergamot and any green notes and we truly couldn't detect cucumber in there at all. The fragrance becomes a heavy, sweet smell that does, I feel, have an essence of tea about it but laced with honey and vanilla rather than being a light, zingy bergamot.
We all agreed that actually we liked the perfume but that it was not as we'd expected. Jo Malone, of course, promotes the idea of Fragrance Combining, layering perfumes to achieve the smell you actually want. I feel that I'd move from liking to loving this perfume if it could be a little fresher and could imagine it with Jo Malone's Grapefruit spritzed over the top.
Overall, a positive response. Would we wear it? Absolutely. In my case, with a blast of Grapefruit!
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