What is it: a 50 ml bottle of Tauer L’Eau, used lightly for testing.
How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment on the website telling me that you live in the US (or that you can provide a US mailing address). Then tell me either a) your favorite fragrance from Tauer, or b) your favorite summer lemon fragrance, or c) something else you’ve been dying to post in a comment.
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I love summer. Yes, I’ll complain about the heat like everyone else, but I’d rather bake than freeze any day. Plus, the fruit! Even if you don’t like summer, you have to admit that the abundant variety of fresh fruits (that haven’t been flown in from another continent) is worth a little extra sweat on your brow. Here are 9 reasonably new-ish (all came out within the past 5 years, and most of them within the last 2 years) fruit fragrances to help keep you feeling cool and lighthearted, plus one veg, because you have to have your veg…
Hey, how come nobody told me? Here are Tauer's new Room Perfumes, in three flavors: Rose Nip ("The queen of flowers - rose - artistically sublimated to perfume your home"), Cedar Ride ("Cedarwood - from the Atlas Mountains - graced with floral ambergris to perfume your home") and Ylang Calm ("Ylangylang - tropical ecstasy - in splendid harmony with lemon blossoms to perfume your home"). They're all micro encapsulated in water, and they come in 175 ml, CHF 59 (about $60) each, with free shipping.
Tauer Perfumes has done citrus fragrances before, most notably with Orange Star (2010) and Cologne du Maghreb (2011). Based on the name, I thought the newest, L’Eau, might be the first Tauer riff on a citrus classic cologne for hot summer days, but no, that’s not what it is. It is about citrus — it was reportedly “inspired by a lemontree in bloom on Andy Tauer’s veranda in crisp Zurich morning air”, and the notes follow suit: bergamot, lemon, orange, lemon blossom, iris flowers, musk, ambergris, timber and sandalwood. And L’Eau does start with a nice sparkle of lemonade, and it does start bright and cheerful.
But L’Eau has more heft than you’d expect from a classic cologne, and the “classic” citrus sparkle / juiciness is short-lived, as L’Eau moves quickly into something more modern and diffuse…