“Even chaps who turn their noses up at perfume tend to be able to do business with a cologne; especially, Acqua di Parma Colonia, created in 1916. Between the 1930s and 1950s, its herbaceous refinement was the very scent of Hollywood, championed by Cary Grant, David Niven, Ava Gardner and Audrey Hepburn. Acqua di Parma Colonia Pura was launched in 2017, and makes for a stylish relative. Technically a woody musk, it is clean, airy, elusive and heaven on a neck. I'll be giving it to friends who live for the original, to my beloved who imagines he doesn’t do scent, and swiping a flacon for myself.”
Hannah Betts writes for The Times and is senior contributing beauty editor at Harper's Bazaar