Part of Creed’s Acqua Originale Collection – a fragrance journal of holidays and adventures. Fresh, radiant scents that conjure the joy and energy of travel. From Java to Tuscany, India to Sicily, let this collection take you to some of the most exquisite locations around the world via scent.
Zeste Mandarine is a tangy, heartwarming fragrance that transports us to Sicily. The infamous Sicilian fruit; the glorious scent of citrus that takes us on idyllic summer holidays. This fragrance smells the way sunshine feels on your bare skin mid-holiday. Joyful, vibrant, and filled with positive energy. Created with the nostalgia of romantic holidays in mind, Zeste Mandarine remembers sharing fruit, picking flowers together and the feeling of blissful love – the happiest of times.
NOTES
Top: Lemon, Orange, Petitgrain
Middle: Lemon, Mandarin
Base: Orange Blossom, Orange, Patchouli, Petitgrain
PERFUMER
Olivier Creed
HOW IT WEARS
Zeste Mandarine is the perfect citrus, fizzy fragrance if you want to feel uplifted! It’s not an incredibly sweet mandarin fragrance, super realistic, there is a little sweetness and a little tangy tartness in there. Almost like sherbert, Zeste Mandarine creates a lovely sharp quality with a smoother base in the dry down. An EDP, this collection has great longevity for such fresh and bright scents. We get around 6 – 8 hours on the skin generally with a medium silage.
LORE LOVES
We love the happy childhood memories of peeling back a delicious, juicy mandarin. In one bite it’s sweet, in the next, it’s tart – you never know what you’re going to get, but it is ultimately delicious and juicy and incredibly satisfying. It conjures that feeling of happiness and joy, it smells like the colour orange as it is so vibrant and bold. And if it were a feeling it would be that moment you get to your holiday destination, you’re tired and a little disheveled but you pop your swimmers on and go to the empty and gorgeous pool (this is in our imagination so the pool must be empty), the sun is shining on your skin and it is that moment that you dip your big toes in the cooling water – bliss.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Spanning seven generations thus far, The House of Creed’s ethos is in creating the highest quality fragrances with the purest elements from around the world. Each scent is weighed, mixed, macerated and filtered all by hand in the highest tradition of the House’s founder, James Creed. Renowned for providing commissioned fragrances to royal houses, celebrity clientele and the political elite all over the world, it was in the 1970’s Creed made their fragrances available to the public to purchase in their Parisian boutique.
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