Elite Floris 1979 Eau de Toilette
Citrus rinds rasped over cool stone — petitgrain's bitter twig and grapefruit pith leading bergamot and lemon — set this one's first ten minutes squarely in the British men's tradition of the late seventies.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
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- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readCitrus rinds rasped over cool stone — petitgrain's bitter twig and grapefruit pith leading bergamot and lemon — set this one's first ten minutes squarely in the British men's tradition of the late seventies. The opening reads almost severe in its aromatic dryness.
A single sweep of lavender bridges to a dense base of oakmoss, vetiver, leather, amber, patchouli and musk. Once the citrus burns off, what's left is essentially a structural chypre: bone-dry, slightly animalic, with leather giving the dry-down its weight and moss its bitter-green spine. It wears like an after-shave that has aged into a serious cologne — best in cool weather, suited to office and evening alike.
Scent twins
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