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While Francis Kurkdjian might nowadays best be known for his delectably creamy and irresistibly sweet Baccarat Rouge 540, amongst beauty editors, he has long been known as the man who has the ability to bottle our wildest dreams and emotions. Aqua Media Cologne Forte is his best example of this to date. To catch you up, Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Cologne Forte collection is centred around the joy of light and freshness. Each of the four scents in the collection radiate positivity, elation and luminosity, and Aqua Media is the latest bottle to join the group.
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It takes you to a place where you have the time to lounge
under the midday sun,
in a herb-bordered garden,
sipping on icy infusions.
And while you might expect such notes to dissipate in no time at all, the beauty of
Aqua Media is in its depth and longevity. Mellowing musks and crystalline hedione
keep the fragrance airy and quenching on the skin for hours.
There is, quite frankly, no fragrance out there that tackles the senses in the way Aqua
Media does. Its citrus bite shoots straight to your mouth, the crunch of herbs is distinctly audible and the watery luminescence floods the nose with a cooling, sinus-clearing
freshness. And it is this rounded sensation that transforms a perfume from a scent to an
all-encompassing experience.
In a fragrant world of creamy gourmands and universally appealing florals blended with money in mind, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has, once again, proved that the true beauty of perfumery sits in the realms of emotion. Aqua Media makes you feel a kind of joy and elation you didn’t know was missing from your day. It takes you to a place where you have the
time to lounge under the midday sun, in a herb-bordered garden, sipping on icy infusions.
It is the perfume we wish we could be.
Maison
Francis Kurkdjian
Aqua Media
Cologne Forte
£175
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When days are stifling and life feels
too much, Maison
Aqua Media Cologne Forte is a quench
of
everyone desires.
Francis Kurkdjian
all-encompassing escapism
rancis Kurkdjian is the man who made the world fall in love with a £240 little red bottle. When Baccarat Rouge 540 went viral last year, global sales soared and niche fragrance went mainstream for good. But the power of Kurkdjian’s maison goes far beyond that. Having just been named Perfume Creation Director at Dior and after opening the Perfumer’s
Garden in the Palace of Versailles’ Trianon, there is no questioning that Francis Kurkdjian is the most influential perfumer in the world right now—and his latest creation, Aqua Media Cologne Forte, proves why.
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There is no denying that Aqua Media is a green, herby scent evocative of vivacious joy. When you first smell it, it beams a ray of bright light straight into your soul. “Aqua Media Cologne Forte smells like happiness and caring, vitality and energy, reassuring in its apparent simplicity. It puts me in a good mood, that’s all. I have nothing else to add, everything is already there, written in the formula,” says Kurkdjian.
Unlike other green fragrances which may be mossy and damp, Aqua Media is crisp, water-like and glassy. It’s a cooling scent that provides welcome relief on a hot summer’s day—like crunching a handful of juicy garden herbs in the palm of your hand before infusing them into a glass of icy water. The feeling of nostalgic luminescence ripples through you until you’re flooded with happiness.
The first spritz radiates juicy citruses and crunchy herbs, with verbena, sweet fennel and Calabrian bergamot. The citrus element that gives the scent its zingy, mouth-watering bite, is totally void of the creamy, sunny warmth you might typically associate with citrus scents. The concoction makes for a green, effervescent, sparkling top.
Like burying your nose into
the green leaves and crunchy stems of a lemon tree
Verbena accord
A smile-inducing,
biting citrus that fizzes
on the nose
Calabrian Bergamot
The crisp, green and herby
side of aniseed you might
not know existed
Sweet Fennel
rancis Kurkdjian is the man who made the world fall in love with a £240 little red bottle. When Baccarat Rouge 540 went
There is no denying that Aqua Media is a green, herby scent evocative of vivacious joy. When you first smell it, it beams a ray of bright light straight into your soul. “Aqua Media Cologne Forte smells like happiness and caring, vitality and energy, reassuring in its apparent simplicity.
It puts me in a good mood, that’s all.
I have nothing else to add, everything
is already there, written in the formula,”
says Kurkdjian.
Unlike other green fragrances which may be mossy and damp, Aqua Media is crisp, water-like and glassy. It’s a cooling scent that provides welcome relief on a hot summer’s day—like crunching a handful
of juicy garden herbs in the palm of your hand before infusing them into a glass
of icy water. The feeling of nostalgic luminescence ripples through you until you’re flooded with happiness.
The first spritz radiates juicy citruses
and crunchy herbs, with verbena, sweet fennel and Calabrian bergamot. The citrus element that gives the scent its zingy, mouth-watering bite, is totally void of
the creamy, sunny warmth you might typically associate with citrus scents.
The concoction makes for a green, effervescent, sparkling top.
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viral last year, global sales soared and niche fragrance went mainstream for good. But the power of Kurkdjian’s maison goes far beyond that. Having just been named Perfume Creation Director at Dior and after opening the Perfumer’s Garden in the Palace of Versailles’ Trianon, there is no questioning that Francis Kurkdjian is the most influential perfumer in the world right now—and his latest creation, Aqua Media Cologne Forte, proves why.
While Francis Kurkdjian might nowadays best be known for his delectably creamy and irresistibly sweet Baccarat Rouge 540, amongst beauty editors, he has long been known as the man who has the ability to bottle our wildest dreams and emotions. Aqua Media Cologne Forte is his best example of this to date.To catch you up, Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Cologne Forte collection is centred around the joy of light and freshness. Each of the four scents in the collection radiate positivity, elation and luminosity, and Aqua Media is the latest bottle to join the group.
The perfume we wish
we could be
Plural of Latin medius ‘middle’, with green representing the middle colour of the rainbow
me·dia
[ meh-dee-uh ]
noun
WORDS: SHANNON LAWLOR
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And while you might expect such notes to dissipate in no time at all, the beauty of
Aqua Media is in its depth and longevity. Mellowing musks and crystalline hedione
keep the fragrance airy and quenching on the skin for hours.
There is, quite frankly, no fragrance out there that tackles the senses in the way Aqua Media does. Its citrus bite shoots straight to your mouth, the crunch of herbs is distinctly audible and the watery luminescence floods the nose with a cooling, sinus-clearing freshness. And it
is this rounded sensation that transforms a perfume from a scent to an all-encompassing experience.
In a fragrant world of creamy gourmands and universally appealing florals blended with money in mind, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has, once again, proved that the true beauty of perfumery sits in the realms of emotion. Aqua Media makes you feel
a kind of joy and elation you didn’t know was missing from your day. It takes you to a place where you have the time to lounge under the midday sun, in a herb-bordered garden, sipping on icy infusions. It is the perfume we wish we could be.
