Herba Fresca, with its beautiful gold-caged bottle, is a mainstay of Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria range. Launched in 1999, the Aqua Allegoria fragrances were introduced as a sort of entry-level, affordable step into the Guerlain world. They describe it as "a continuously renewed collection that pays homage to the wonders of nature and beautiful raw materials". A lovely idea and at around £45 they're a steal!
On a bright, Spring day, this was a glorious blast of outdoors in the Plush Folly office. Guerlain describe Herba Fresca as "the spirit of freshly cut grass and a note of green tea" but for us the overwhelming note is of spearmint, giving this fragrance a potent toothpastey smell. This is not a criticism - the mint calms to a whisper after its initial (very loud) shout and lets through an element of crushed, or freshly cut grass with a hint of lemon - but it is hard to describe this fragrance without using the word 'clean'!
There are florals somewhere in there - lily of the valley, cyclamen and pear flower - but for us these were masked by the spearmint. We couldn't pick them out but perhaps got a hint of the stems of flowers in the dry down.
We all like Herba Fresca very much - fresh, light and clean smelling, it is captivating and uplifting, like a walk through a summer herb garden after rain - a herb garden filled with mint! It would be wonderful post-workout shower gel and we decided we would like it as a room fragrance ... how about it, Guerlain?!
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