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Herbal Aquatica

2022

herbal notes
mint
sage
bergamot

green tea
aquatic notes
papyrus
lotus

amber
vanilla
brown sugar
sandalwood

Herbal Aquatica seems to get most often compared to Xerjoff Erba Pura (and its clones like Tiziana Terenzi Kirke), which is reason enough to keep this review short.

To me, it’s perhaps closer to Jean-Paul Gaultier Le Beau in the opening. Very sweet and aromatic at the same, which is a combination that I never get along with. This is like a sugar cube sucked up a cheap aquatic green fragrance. As it dries down, it becomes more of a mix with the Erba Pura DNA; fruity, musky. Bordering on unwearble for me personally.