Floris Pink Grapefruit
Pink Grapefruit is one of a few Floris scents not sold as gender-specific. I feel this is appropriate, as I could imagine it pleasing members of either sex.
The grapefruit is light and fizzy, a bit like one of those carbonated juice-flavored sodas. The grapefruit is neither bitter nor metallic as sometimes happens with this note. This effervescent citrus note is poured across a plank of sandalwood. The sandalwood strikes me as clean, for it contains a hint of what smells not unlike a creme cake soap.
In hot weather, the grapefruit abandons my skin with apalling briskness , leaving only an unsettling sour woodiness behind. I discovered to my dismay that this effect is rather nausea-inducing.
However, on cooler days, the grapefruit and sandalwood remain true companions, one never outmatching the other. The drydown imparts a bit more of the wood than the fruit, but Pink Grapefruit remains mellow without losing its tart citrus eponym. Floris suggests this should be refreshed every 3 or 4 hours, which is about right. I have found that since I only enjoy it when the weather is cooler, the staying power on me is more like 5 to 6 hours.
Like many Floris scents, it is simply composed, and I find Floris is sometimes unduly overlooked as a consequence. They excel at lovely soliflor based scents, and it is unfair to judge them for that when the execution is done nicely enough.