Mandarina Corsica

Three declared materials, a quality of mandarin that makes the whole subject, and a tiering that only a signed review sets out.

What the house declares

Mandarin, immortelle, tonka bean. The house glossary gives the species: Citrus reticulata for the citrus, Helichrysum italicum for the flower of the maquis, which in its words calls up sand warmed by the sun.

A fourth entry appears there, Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane, described as an amber and sugary dessert. That is what carries the boiled-sugar facet of the juice.

What the review says

The order is the one Clara Muller describes: mandarin opens, zest and flesh together, boiled sugar takes the upper hand without cloying, tonka bean brings its chocolate and almond facets, immortelle closes on a dry, salty note.

The coumarin of the tonka bean leaves, once the fruit has gone, a smell of toasted bread. The marine note is only a breath, and no material carries it by name.

What stays out

An excluded database serves a list of fifteen materials, with orange blossom, jasmine, cinnamon and sandalwood. The house does not name them, nor does the press at the launch: they stay out.