Continuing fruits week, today I am reviewing Téo Cabanel Méloé, which doesn't really classify as fruity. Hey, there's citrus in there, so I'm going for it, stretch or not.
Téo Cabanel has this to say about Méloé:
In the heat of long-awaited summer days, the Méloé woman has found a fresh haven. Her elegant summer signature is underlined by her light, green, fruity eau de perfum.On me, Méloé is a citrus-y green turned aquatic concoction. I primarily get a strong lime note on application, but that lightens up pretty quick, and it gets grassier. After about twenty minutes it becomes more aquatic as the floral notes pop through a bit. It also lightens up considerably and has low sillage, so it feels like a scent you'd be able to splash on to cool down throughout the day without knocking anybody down with your sillage after the third application.
Méloé's Epicurian symphony generously draws its top notes from citrus and spices. Bergamot from Calabria, mandarin and lemon from Sicily, lavender and basil play their part in perfect harmony. The sparkling citrus notes linger until a dainty floral bouqet of Neroli from Tunisia, orange blossom and jasmine with just a touch of nutmeg comes to full bloom to make up the heart notes. Unexpected sensual base notes of musk, amber and just a hint of woody notes. Lavish elegance and mystery, Méloé: the modern woman in you.
As for the spice notes, I'm don't get much of them, which is too bad because a stronger basil note might have made Méloé a more complex summer scent. Still, Méloé is a well-made scent and would make for a delightful cool down on a hot summer day. (Or hot any-day here in SoCal.) At the same time, it doesn't I feel like anything I haven't smelled before. Don't get me wrong, it's a really nice citrus-green smell, and it holds its niceness, so if you like that sort of thing, this is a good choice.
I do wonder why it is so hard to create a genuinely citrusy note that seems to last, though. There are a whole lot of citrus scents that smell, not like citrus fruit, but like 'citrus flavored' candy, which is about as much like real citrus fruit as a plastic pony is to a real one. Then there are the scents that manage to capture the experience of delicious and juicy cirus fruit, but the lovely note is usually something that occurs when the scent is in transition to its final olfactory destination. I really like citrus and always have, so I find myself trending toward the good citrus-noted scents like Méloé and reapplying them often to recapture that scent. I wish I knew of more high quality realistic citrus scents out there, and if you readers can think of some, please feel free to leave them for me in the comments.
All that said, I do like Méloé enough that come the hottest days of summer I can imagine myself reaching for it again and again, and I would certainly consider buying it when the 100+ degree days set in next summer because at $78 for 100ml you get enough to be liberal with the application and still have the bottle last you a while.
To buy Téo Cabanel Méloé, try LuckyScent and other online purveyors.
"Let's go home to the world
and eat our share of fruit.
An unknown race,
A hole in the loop of my dreams,
eating lemons and limes...
- "Lemons and Limes," Ben Holmquist
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