Mercedes-Benz
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Rhubarb's tart, slightly sour character rushes forward with an almost aggressive freshness, accompanied by pale citrus that feels more synthetic than zesty. Within seconds, you're aware this isn't a particularly generous opening—the brightness is already beginning to feel stretched.
Aquatic notes bloom into focus, creating that distinctive ozonic soap-bubble quality that dominates the middle passages. Cardamom's warmth and juniper's green snap provide momentary complexity, but they're fighting against the transparent, almost watery nature of the composition. By the second hour, everything becomes increasingly diffuse.
What remains is barely substantial enough to warrant the term "dry down"—a faint sweetish tonka, muted ambroxan, and a whisper of patchouli that arrives far too subtle to matter. Within four hours, Club has largely abandoned your skin, leaving little more than a ghost of aquatic freshness.
Mercedes-Benz Club arrives as a curious contradiction—a fragrance that wants to be a crisp, modernist statement but settles into something altogether muddier. Olivier Cresp's composition opens with a tart rhubarb accord that immediately signals freshness, yet there's something slightly medicinal about it, as though you've stumbled into a high-end pharmacy rather than a sophisticated lounge. The citrus fruits that accompany it feel thin, almost diluted, struggling to gain traction against the fragrance's synthetic backbone.
What emerges in the heart is the scent's most interesting tension: aquatic notes that feel distinctly artificial—that ozonic, slightly soapy quality—play against cardamom's warm, almost peppery spice and juniper's piney green bite. It's these middle notes that give Club whatever personality it possesses, a brief moment where the composition achieves something approaching intrigue before dissipating almost entirely.
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