Fresh doesn't mean just one thing. There is a cold freshness – citrus, sea salt, ginger, something that awakens – and a warm one, the kind that smells of fruit and sun on the skin. Blue Escape does the first. Blue Escape Paradise does the second.
The cold freshness.
Blue Escape is marine and dry. Bergamot, mandarin, and grapefruit in the top notes, sea salt and ginger in the heart, sandalwood and amyris with musk remaining on the skin. It is a fragrance that keeps its distance, and that is exactly what it should do on a Tuesday morning in June.
The warm one.
Paradise changes direction immediately. Pineapple and blood orange in the top notes – juicy, tart, not sweet – and in the heart, a riper fruit over something ozonic that keeps it airy. The base is amyris and oakmoss, dry and earthy. It is still fresh, but fresh on skin rather than fresh in the air.
”The pineapple does the work. The oakmoss ensures it stays.”
Why tropical is difficult.
Tropical notes easily tip over into sunscreen or dessert. The trick is to let the fruit be tart and place something dry underneath it – oakmoss instead of vanilla, no coconut, no sugar. That way, it becomes skin after a swim instead of baked goods.
Which one should you have.
Blue Escape for the office, the subway, and anything that needs to feel clean. Paradise when it is thirty degrees, when you are off, or when you want to keep the holiday feeling in November. If you have both, you will know which one you reach for before you are fully awake.
