Inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Acqua Fiorentina celebrates the art and culture of a golden age. Imagine the dawn of a summer’s day in Tuscany. The sky is purple and gold, heralding the break of another long, lazy day. In the distance, the gentle contours of a hill, caressed by the fickle breeze… and on that hill, an orchard, tucked beneath the walls of a thousand year old village. The sun rises and everything is bathed in a shimmering renaissance light, harbinger of harmony. The earth smiles back, newly touched with beauty. You sleep on in your linen sheets. But now, delicate tendrils of sunlight tickle your eyelids, and your senses stir. You reach down to the blue glass bowl on the floor beside the bed. Feeling around, your fingers close over a ripe plum. As Paul Eluard said in his poem: “And now the sun is set free” ...Acqua Fiorentina: a promise of harmony from Creed.
The top notes are, unusually, plum and greengage, until now rarely used in perfumery. Renaissance roses, pink carnations, Calabrian bergamot and Sicilian lemon evoke the artistic energy of the period and form the heart of the fragrance, while in the base, cedar wood and sandalwood are the sculpted wooden frame for this particular work of art. The bottle recalls Renaissance style with embossed silver roses tumbling down its shoulders. The juice is light pink in colour, gently stained by the ingredients.
Acqua Fiorentina is a fruity floral scent: head note : plum middle note : rose, Indian carnation, bergamot, lemon back note : Virginian cedar, Indian sandalwood
