Morning Blossom

Description

Review courtesy of Perfumeshrine

Morning Blossom is built around the noble essence rendered through steam distillation of the flowers of the Citrus aurantium tree (Seville orange or bitter orange tree) which is blossoming under the Mediterranean sun in spring: Neroli.

This is the heavenly aroma that greets farmers as they begin another spring cycle and the one which puts me in a joyful, optimistic mood in the final long days of March when I gather the small white flowers to put in little glasses to aromatize the house with an uplifting dose of the coming spring. Discovered in the late 17th century and named after the princess of Nerola, in Italy, the relaxing pale yellow essence ‘whose perfume, sedative and relaxing, keeps off from us all material concerns’ is weaving its own magic with every intake of breath.

The inclusion of 25% Neroli in it renders it exceptionally true to the essence with its tangier, slightly more bittersweet, and thus “fresher” ambiance as compared to the fruitier, smoother, and an overall sweeter note of orange blossom absolute. Morning Blossom develops in a sheer, gauzy way with a brightness that highlights a child-like joy at the world, yet without frivolity; instead with the slightly nostalgic wisdom of an older person in retrospect.

There seems to be a garland of other floral notes of a white and non-white nature (some rose?) shooting through the greenness, a hint of the slight bitterness of Petit Grain. The whole is resting atop a lightly woody base (with what I perceive as creamy sandalwood inclusion) kissed off with a discreet warmth that progresses into sweetness the more the fragrance develops on the skin.

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