Bath & Body Works
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Aldehydes crackle across the skin like ozone before a thunderstorm, cutting through the initial sweetness of neroli with surgical precision. Lily of the valley emerges as a pale, green-tinged floral, immediately established as the architectural backbone rather than ornamentation.
The rose-ylang ylang-jasmine blend settles into a powdery, almost soapy softness, with that peculiar earthy undertone creating an unexpected complexity. The fragrance becomes remarkably linear here, hovering between fresh and gently sweet without surrendering either quality.
Vanilla and vetiver establish themselves as austere custodians, the sweetness turning increasingly mineral and dry. The powdery floral DNA remains detectable but fades into a barely-there whisper, becoming more impression than presence—a gentle reminder of what came before rather than a bold final statement.
Together Weather arrives as a peculiar artefact of mid-nineties floristry—a scent that positions itself at the intersection of powder-soft femininity and crisp, aldehydic clarity. Jacques Polge constructs something deliberately restrained here, eschewing the bombastic tuberose maximalism of the era in favour of a whispered conversation between lily of the valley and aldehydes that shimmer like static electricity across the skin.
The opening volley of aldehydes creates an almost metallic sheen that refuses sentimentality, preventing what could have been a cloying floral soup from ever materialising. Instead, the rose-ylang ylang-jasmine trinity in the heart develops with the precision of watercolour bleeding across damp paper—never aggressive, always diffuse. There's a curious notation of "rot" in the composition that adds an earthen, almost fermented quality; whether intentional or a data transcription error, it lends an unexpected verdancy to proceedings, grounding the powdery accords in something genuinely green rather than purely cosmetic.
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