4711 Original Eau de Cologne Splash - 100 ml

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An absolute triumph of sour citrus notes of juste pulvérisé fused with a fresh and lively floral blend of lavender and neroli, with lively aromatic notes of rosemary, widely perceptible. Mostly older) people who really like it might use it after shaving or their morning wash up too for that extra boost. Its lack of sweetness is wonderful as an antidote to rich fragrances, and sometimes one craves something simple and clean. There was always a bottle of one or the other sitting on the bathroom counters where anyone in the family could splash themselves with it after a shower or bath, or just to cool off. A single vial of this aqua mirabilis ( Latin for miracle water) cost half the annual salary of a civil servant.

I have told my brother that you agree with my view that he has a great nose, therefore it must be true! Hamamelis: Thank you for mentioning this biography, I am very happy that on this blog besides perfume occassionally other life enhancing pleasures can be found, I am reading a very enjoyable detective that one of the contributors mentioned in the book question some time ago, and will look at this Napoleon book. When free trade was established in Cologne by the French in 1797, the success of Eau de Cologne prompted countless other businessmen to sell their own fragrances under the name of Eau de Cologne.I wanted to have a fragrance with some historical value and I suppose I was prepared for how weak this stuff is by the reviews but smelling or rather lack of smelling is believing. I recommend trying it at least once, as it's hard to go wrong (if you dislike it, it'll be gone before you know it -- and if you love it, it's remarkably affordable)! I think that a quick swirl or spray of Blue Grass in the mouth would probably do a reasonable job as a breath freshener! In this tale of ancient shores and sun-soaked dreams, 4711 Cologne stands as a testament to the past, a fragrance that whispers of cool breezes, fleeting as the memories it invokes. In fact, I think my wife thinks that I have a problem because she keeps finding bottles of 4711 stashed around the house.

A few years later my curiosity won out and I painstakingly scratched off all the paint from the cap with a pin. It was a staple in our household back then in my childhood but an absolute taboo to me – 4711 was an old lady scent!He says it disappears within 5 minutes, which he minds (as he leaves for a full work day every day) and I don't (because I'm studying from home). There is a touch of bitterness here that stays light-handed and doesn't go into deeper, oily bitterness (I'm thinking cocktail bitters). Now I remember how after one time I was sick I couldn’t stand the smell of kolonya for a very long time. is a nice substitute and much more affordable by comparison, but if you’re looking for something stronger, richer, and lasts longer, then consider Colonia.

As others have mentioned, it's not super potent, and, IMO, it has better longevity in the summer than winter. That's it: when people recognize neroli in the air, they never say something so ridiculous as 'wow I can smell tangerine orange peach apricot blah blah', what is uttered is simply 'wow it's neroli', even though neroli can vaguely remind them of tangerine orange peach apricot and so forth. We are talking about women who lived through or were born during the war so nothing would be wasted.

It was 4711, but a slightly sweeter, slightly less spicy version with another name I cannot remember. Within another couple of years I had been given a bottle of 4711 as a gift, and, with much delight, I recognized it as the fragrance from my lucky dip bottle.

Worth having just for the historical significance and as a quick splash on for no real reason other than to wear it. Then she would dab or spray perfume on her handkerchief that she had made including the lace edge and the embroidery, then into her apron pocket.Supposedly, Bonaparte used it but there are other claims from various houses so the poor man must have simply drowned in cologne. The hand-wipe sachets in restaurants would be limon kolonyasi, and sometimes there’d be a man with a bottle of it at the ready for an after-lunch clean-up. In 1811, the continuous house numbering was changed to a system of numbering streets separately, as is common today.