Lemons in the night

The lemon has long been a most versatile fruit - on its own, the small citrus isn’t much to consider, but when harmoniously united with other ingredients, the lemon’s properties become unparalleled. In its most basic duty, lemons added with sugar will give us refreshing lemonade, while adding the juice to baking soda provides a natural cleansing agent. A lemon can even give us light (a funny science experiment where by attaching electrodes to the fruit will generate electricity).

Edibles and experiments aside, I have long loved Fresh’s Sugar Lemon fragrance, which I pull out every year when the temperature warms up. The scent is summer to me and smells brilliantly like a fizzy lemon beverage, Lemongina if there was one. Somehow the summer heat also has a way of magnetizing the scent, enhancing it even more. Therefore when I heard about a new fragrance by C.O. Bigelow simply called Lemon, naturally I ran to test it out. If Sugar Lemon evoked a crisp lemon soda, Lemon was its grown-up counterpart: a complex lemon infused cocktail. I loved it immediately. My wrist suddenly had the essence of lemons in the night (which is the only way I can describe this wonderful new smell).

Later while I was in another store, I kept smelling what I thought to be a burning Diptyque candle. After poking around the entire store, I realized there was no candle. Yes, it was my wrist. A Diptyque candle (it doesn’t matter which scent) has an elegant complexity that is incredibly hard to place. Even though you have smelled a rose a million times, you have never smelled a Diptyque rose. Which is exactly how this new fragrance responds. Lemons, this scent is simply not. Again, it is the smart lemon that blends itself (white musk with green lemon leaves), turning a common piece of produce into this distinctive lemonade.

Tags: C.O. Bigelow, Diptyque, fragrance, Fresh, lemons, perfume, scent, Sugar Lemon, Summer, white musk