Mexx
Mexx
212 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The attack is all gleaming citrus—lemon and bergamot create an almost medicinal brightness, immediately sharpened by blackcurrant's tart edge. Within moments, you're enveloped in something that feels more like a fragrant splash than a composed fragrance, with the citrus notes occupying all available space.
The florals emerge tentatively around the 45-minute mark, with lily of the valley and jasmine introducing a gossamer-thin sweetness that sits uneasily atop the retreating citrus. Rose adds structure, though the overall effect remains gossamer—a pale floral arrangement that feels like it's slowly fading rather than developing.
By the fourth hour, Woman Mexx has effectively disappeared into skin scent territory, with cedar and sandalwood providing barely perceptible warmth rather than any substantive base. What remains is a faint, powdery sweetness hovering millimetres from the skin—intimate but ultimately forgettable.
Woman Mexx arrives as a decidedly breezy proposition—a fragrance that prioritises airiness over substance. The opening salvo of lemon and bergamot immediately establishes a crisp, almost austere citrus frame, with blackcurrant introducing a subtle berry tartness that prevents the composition from becoming merely soapy. What's intriguing here is how the top notes refuse to soften prematurely; they maintain their acidic brightness rather stubbornly, as though the fragrance is perpetually bracing itself against warmth.
The heart, when it finally asserts itself, presents a rather restrained floral arrangement. Lily of the valley and jasmine occupy the middle ground with polite discretion—there's none of the intoxicating density you'd find in more opulent florals. Instead, these notes arrive as whispers beneath the persistent citrus, with rose providing a delicate counterpoint rather than dominance. The interplay between the tart blackcurrant and the pale, almost ethereal florals creates a somewhat contradictory personality: simultaneously sweet and bracing, innocent yet vaguely sophisticated.
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