FRECKLED AND BEAUTIFUL
Created with perfumer David Apel
The Memory Behind the Fragrance
Sweetness, sweat on upper lip, and freedom. Sneaking time to ourselves—time for sunshine, time for grass underfoot, sand between toes, hair blown back as our bicycle speeds ahead. Music lives in every limb, every movement. Branches in blossom, the fresh earth holding us. We don’t know what will happen next—that means we can stretch out and take up this entire moment. Come play! We would have so much fun.
Freckled and Beautiful® captures the moment when innocence and freedom felt endless. Inspired by the late 1960s—when postwar America still moved with confidence, neighborhoods were alive with children, and summer afternoons seemed to last forever—it recalls a world of green lawns, open skies, bicycles in motion, and bare feet racing through the grass. Seen from Yokohama beside American family housing, it was a childhood vision of joy, warmth, and possibility.
Notes
Top: Orange Flower Infusion, Neroli Blossom, Wisps of Honeysuckle
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Mid: Warm Milk and Pastry Crust (a la Petit Lu) ...Sunny Warmth of Salicylates
Drydown: Sandalwood, Vanilla Beans, Héliotrope Accord