David Beckham
David Beckham
78 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Violet leaf's green, slightly bitter spice crashes against pineapple's tropical tang, whilst the synthetic accords create an almost aquatic fizz that makes the opening feel effervescent and cool. The grapefruit adds citrus sharpness, creating a collectively bracing top that feels like the fragrance equivalent of cold water on skin.
As the volatile top notes dissipate, clary sage emerges with peppery herbaceousness, settling alongside the apple's soft, watery quality and geranium's rosy-green presence. The composition becomes noticeably softer here, losing its initial brightness and instead settling into a clean, slightly soapy phase that feels intimate and personal rather than projecting outward.
Cashmeran and patchouli arrive quietly, offering faint woody warmth and earthy grounding, though they struggle for presence at this concentration and longevity. Moss provides a barely-there vetiver-like greenness, creating a subtle, skin-scent finish that evaporates rather than lingers—the fragrance becomes a memory of freshness rather than a present reality.
David Beckham Classic Blue arrives as a deliberately restrained affair—a fragrance that whispers rather than declares. The violet leaf and pineapple combination creates something unexpectedly tart at the opening, the green spiciness of the violet leaf cutting through the tropical sweetness with an almost herbal edge that prevents the fruit from becoming cloying. There's a chemical brightness here, that synthetic quality manifesting as a crisp, almost ozonic airiness that keeps everything feeling summery and athletic.
The heart reveals the fragrance's true character: a herbaceous, moderately green composition where clary sage introduces a slightly peppery undertone that plays against the apple's watery sweetness. There's a distinctly fresh, soap-like quality emerging—not soapy in the cheap sense, but in the way a quality body wash might smell, with geranium's rosy-green facets adding gentle structure. This is distinctly unisex territory, leaning neither towards the feminine nor masculine, instead occupying that androgynous space of clean, grooming-conscious practicality.
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