Category: Galimard - 香水「L'été dernier」- 女性香水 -
The instant I sprayed this on, I was back on the Mediterranean coast—the sunscreen and warm sand combo is uncanny, not perfumey at all. It wears close to the skin and settles into a comforting, salty softness that lasts through a full workday.
The salt and iodine notes are so realistic it’s like stepping off a train onto a hot Mediterranean beach, and the sunscreen undertone brings back every summer of my childhood. I sprayed it on at noon and could still catch whiffs on my scarf past dinner.
It’s the kind of scent that takes me straight back to late August afternoons, and the salty, sun-cream warmth lingers on my skin for hours without ever turning cloying. The iodine and hot sand notes are surprisingly refined, not at all harsh like I feared.