Bvlgari Aqua Amara

Mostly bright and zesty, like fresh orange or lemon peel. Underneath that, cool and wet, the note most people read as sea air or rain.

It opens on sicilian mandarin, moves through watery notes and neroli, and settles on olibanum and indonesian patchouli leaf.

• watery notes: a general wet freshness, invented rather than extracted
• neroli: the bright, just-squeezed side of orange blossom: green, clean and faintly bitter

It lasts well and carries into a room.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.