LiuShen Florida Water 六神花露水

I feel obliged to comment on this old friend of mine. It's green (oui, très vert), and floral as well, featuring mint, borneol, honeysuckle, musk, and some other confidential ingredients. The scent is usually too elusive to be put into precise description. It's definitely unisex, and for all ages. Every Chinese people knows this and every family owns a bottle. The original version is the best. The only drawbacks are that one needs to re-apply frequently and that it may stain clothes. I have an ancient bottle whose mint is completely gone. It now has a completely different characteristic that's freshly sweet and slightly medicinal. 🤔 I think I've just found a peculiar way to use this cologne! It's obviously niche as it's a genre all on its own. But it's also an antonym of niche since it's used by over a billion people. (The undertone is that if one wears this anywhere other than China, it's the most niche-est of all.) Besides, "it smells like Florida water" by a Chinese is a praise, not a shame. It figuratively means "it nice and a bit strong".

This stuff is HARD to get ahold of in the UK! As someone who is very familiar with the more widely spread Florida Water, I really wanted a Chinese version as my family are cantonese. When I FINALLY got my hands on it in a large asian shop, I grabbed a bottle. This fragrance is the definition of chinese baby talc! Powdery, soft, gentle, and leaning feminine. It may also be connotation, but my dad smells "Chinese grandma's home" and I do see my 婆婆 rummaging her bathroom when I smell this aha! I don't personally feel like the mint in this is predominant but depends on person to person! The purpose of this isn't for perfume specifically, but the scent is good enough to use as a weak cologne. Although, it tends to leak when the paper seal is open!

Chinese summer in a bottle, it's a magical concoction sold as mosquito repellent, but is much more than that, is ever so powdery and minty, notes listed in the label are borneol,mint, honeysuckle , and phellodendron bark, it smells classic and definitely niche for non Chinese noses like mine.

for 3-4 usd you get a big bottle, huge proyection solid longevity fresh mint, eucalyptus, sage, thyme, all mosquito repellent notes combined got me a compliment from an Asian baddie with daddy issues, the scent reminded her dad

The most classic, well-known, and prevalent fragrance in China, lol