Pomelo Riviera
Atelier Des Ors (2019)

Probably the most citrusy thing I've ever smelled, short of putting my nose in a fresh tangerine peel - and it's divine. The note says grapefruit, but I get tangerine (like, huge amounts of tangerine.) In the dry-down, this never loses its potent citrus punch, but does soften into something like a soft marine breeze. Imagine an orchard of tangerines (or, I suppose, pomelos - but I cannot escape the idea of tangerine here) between the sea and you. A warm breeze blows the scent of the ocean through that citrus orchard before hitting your nose. That's where Pomelo Riviera lands for me.

What's going on here is the most photorealistic, pungent, sharp, tangy tangerine accord I've put my nose on. I'd almost call this a super freshie gourmand, it makes my mouth water. Totally unisex, might lean feminine if we're sticking with tired old traditional tropes of what people like (we shouldn't do that), but bottom line is it's really just a very pleasant, punchy scent for warm weather.

This is an extremely fresh zingy citrus note which somehow contrives to be "green". A natural kind of green very similar to the scent of cow parsley, the herb commonly found growing by the roadside, the hollow stems of which are used by kids to made pea shooters. That's why it puts me in mind of country walks. No doubt it's all down to various aldehydes but the freshness is incredibly natural. The nearest relative I can think of would be YSL Live Jazz, which has a similar type of aldehydic freshness in the direction of tangerine, but lacks the green connotation found here.