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The galbanum and blackcurrant bud combination hits with almost vegetal brightness, a tart green snap that catches you off-guard—it's simultaneously fresh and slightly tart, like biting into a spring leaf tinged with berry. This opening is decidedly aquatic in character, with that synthetic accord creating a crystalline, slightly metallic sheen that feels contemporary and slightly cool against skin.
As the composition settles into its middle movement, the florals—particularly the Rangoon creeper and tuberose—begin asserting themselves with a creamy, slightly narcotic quality that contrasts beautifully with the lingering green. The jasmine adds a soft, almost honeyed warmth without cloying, and here the fragrance achieves its most interesting phase: a delicate balance between green freshness and creamy florality, where neither fully dominates.
The base reveals itself sparingly, with musk and sandalwood providing only the faintest woody-powdery haze rather than a true anchor. By hour four, you're left with barely-there traces of creamy floral and a gossamer-thin skin scent that hovers just above the epidermis—it's become almost abstract, a memory of florality rather than florality itself.
Bloom Acqua di Fiori occupies an intriguing liminal space—it's a floral that refuses to be opulent, instead favouring whispered elegance over proclamation. Alberto Morillas has crafted something deliberately understated, where the galbanum's green bite acts as a sharp counterpoint to the blackcurrant bud's dark berry sweetness, creating an opening that feels more like tart green apple than traditional florality. The real tension emerges in the heart, where Rangoon creeper's delicate, almost fruity character plays against tuberose's creamy indolence and jasmine's gentle warmth—there's a restlessness here, a conversation between restraint and sensuality that never quite resolves into consensus.
What distinguishes this from typical floral freshies is that synthetic accord (64%), which lends an aquatic sheen that feels contemporary rather than cheap—think filtered sunlight through water rather than generic ozonic spray. The musk and sandalwood base remain deliberately soft, never anchoring the fragrance into weightiness; instead, they allow the composition to drift and dissipate rather than settle.
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