Aqua Media Cologne Forte

Aqua Media Cologne Forte is a citrus eau de parfum by Maison Francis Kurkdjian, launched in 2023 in the Cologne forte collection. Francis Kurkdjian gives it green, the middle color of the rainbow. Bergamot opens onto hedione and sweet fennel, set on a base of woody musk lifted by a touch of patchouli.

Brand: Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Launch year: 2023
Perfumer: Francis Kurkdjian
Gender: Unisex
Olfactory family: Citrus
Secondary family: Aromatic
Concentration: Eau de Parfum

Published November 9, 2026

Where to buy

Aqua Media Cologne Forte was released in June 2023 and joined Aqua Vitae, Aqua Celestia and Aqua Universalis in the Cologne forte family of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, fresh eaux de parfum whose common thread is bergamot.

Green, the middle of the rainbow

Francis Kurkdjian assigns each Cologne forte a color; Aqua Media’s is green, the middle color of the rainbow prism, which he associates with balance in motion. He describes a fragrance that smells of happiness and caring, vitality and energy.

The launch film shows a boundless green landscape, wild grasses swaying in the wind beside clear running water. The house offers the fragrance in 35 and 70 ml, and a large 200 ml size also exists.

Olfactory pyramid

Top notesThe first minutes
- Bergamot
Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
- Hedione
- Fennel
Base notesWhat lingers
- Musk
- Patchouli

Composition

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What critics say

Katie Berohn, writing for Who What Wear, and her partner have been fighting over it since the first spritz; she smells the Côte d’Azur in it, he smells the ocean.

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