L'Artisan Parfumeur
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Bergamot crackles immediately with a generous pour of rum absolute—warm, spiced, almost boozy—creating an initial impression of citrus-forward freshness with an unexpected alcoholic complexity. The combination feels slightly fizzy, almost effervescent, like the opening moments of a well-made daiquiri before tropical sweetness takes hold.
The pineapple emerges with tart, slightly green character, its natural acidity cutting through the remaining rum warmth whilst geranium unfolds with distinctive rose-leaf herbaceousness and a hint of green spice. This is where the fragrance reveals its true personality: fruity but emphatically not gourmand, with the geranium preventing any descent into candy territory and adding a sophisticated botanical tension.
Vetiver arrives quietly but definitively, its dry, slightly dusty-woody character anchoring the fading fruit and floral notes into something more grounded and earthy. Vanilla provides subtle warmth rather than sweetness, allowing the vetiver's mineral, tobacco-tinged quality to dominate, transforming Ananas Fizz into something almost savoury—a shadow of its former tropical brightness, but infinitely more intriguing.
Ananas Fizz occupies a peculiar corner of the fruity-fresh landscape—one where tropical abundance meets the crisp snap of citrus, mediated by the unlikely bridge of rum absolute. Anne Flipo's 2004 creation refuses the syrupy obviousness you might expect from a pineapple fragrance; instead, the opening volley of bergamot and rum creates an almost cocktail-like sparkling quality, as though someone's just muddled citrus zest into spiced spirits. The pineapple arrives not as candy or juice, but with a characteristic tartness, its acidity playing against the geranium's green-rose herbaceousness—a note that adds botanical restraint rather than sweetness.
What makes Ananas Fizz genuinely interesting is its refusal to choose between fresh and indulgent. The geranium prevents this from becoming a dessert fragrance, whilst the vanilla-vetiver base ensures it never tips into austere freshness. The vetiver, in particular, lends an earthy-woody undertone that grounds the fruitiness, preventing it from floating into sickly territory. There's an almost savoury dimension to this fragrance—the geranium's green, slightly mineral quality alongside vetiver's dry, tobacco-tinged character create an unexpected complexity.
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