Lacoste Red EDT 125ml

Lacoste Red Eau de Toilette 125ml has outlived almost everything released alongside it, and the reason is a single odd decision: cedarwood is listed in the opening rather than the base. That is what you notice first. Apple arrives sweet and crisp and juicy, the way a sliced one smells rather than a cooked one, and cedarwood sits directly underneath it from the very start, dry and pencil sharp, so the fruit never has a chance to turn sugary. It is a distinctive beginning and it still sounds modern. Pine and jasmine make the heart. Pine is resinous, sappy and cold, the smell of a cut branch, and jasmine is warm and full and slightly heady, and the two of them have no business working together as well as they do. The jasmine keeps the pine from being austere and the pine keeps the jasmine from being soft. Patchouli and vetiver finish it, both dry and earthy, patchouli darker and a little damp, vetiver rooty with a trace of smoke. Six materials in total, and the fragrance ends considerably more serious than it begins. Annick Menardo composed it and it was released in 2004. As an eau de toilette it is generous rather than long lasting: five hours or so, with the base outlasting the apple by a wide margin, and 125ml gives you plenty to be liberal with. Autumn suits it best, it is aimed at men, and it works for daytime, for work and for evenings out in cooler weather alike. Lacoste is a French clothing company founded in 1933 by Rene Lacoste, a tennis champion, in partnership with the industrialist Andre Gillier, and it is known universally for the polo shirt with a crocodile on it. The company dates its first fragrance to 1968, and Red has become one of the longest serving names in its men's range.