The exoticism of the L’Homme Water Splash fragrance. While Luna Rossa told us grandiose masculine adventures and Candy played on gourmand femininity, the house of Prada made the rather bold choice of launching in 2016 L’Homme and La Femme Prada, delivered together to be inseparable yet also interchangeable.
In 2016, the house of Prada gave birth to the fragrance L’Homme Prada, inseparable from La Femme Prada, the two forming a couple representing the quintessence of Prada perfumery. Then, in a more singular register, Prada decided to transform its fragrance to create L’Homme Prada Water Splash, an intoxicating yet spicy juice, intended for men of character. More specifically, it is a more dynamic composition than its predecessors, preserving the nobility of iris while making it more contrasted and spicy.
Iris, star of the L’Homme Prada Water Splash fragrance
Also nicknamed the blue gold of perfumery, iris is one of the most prestigious ingredients in the perfumer's entire palette. Here, it merely underscores the natural prestige of the Prada brand. A true olfactory treasure, iris evokes the rice powder that once adorned feminine perfumes. Less exuberant than jasmine, iris is a mark of refinement and nobility. Yet it takes perseverance to discover the full richness of its scent… Freshly harvested and dried, iris gives off no scent at all. It takes three to six years for this flower to unfold its full character within L’Homme Prada Water Splash. After this long wait, iris reveals its many facets. Thanks to it, L’Homme Prada Water Splash becomes a complex fragrance, at once powdery, woody and delicate, whose lingering scent recalls somewhat that of violet. Here, paired with ginger, iris takes on a more peppery scent, which only lends more character to this composition.
The very luminous opening of L’Homme Prada Water Splash
L’Homme Prada Water Splash is also a very refreshing and invigorating fragrance. Its spicy side embodies all the drive of today's men. To accompany them in their daily lives and give them more vitality, L’Homme Prada Water Splash rests on luminous and lively top notes. Neroli, derived from orange blossom, here reveals its most suave, floral and citrus facet. Paired with mandarin leaf, it gives a green and zesty edge to this fragrance. Cardamom, for its part, makes the whole more camphorous and anisic, while remaining a cool spice much appreciated in the openings of fresh fragrances.
The more enveloping and warm base of L’Homme Prada Water Splash
In contrast with its very refreshing top notes, the base of L’Homme Prada Water Splash is much rounder and warmer. Thus, the emblematic iris of the Prada collection gains more depth, moving from an icy bite to an incandescent shiver. Amber and sandalwood make the whole more sensual and creamy. It is almost as if L’Homme Prada Water Splash rested on a cottony cloud. Its masculine and virile side, meanwhile, is highlighted by a woody touch of cedar.