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Passionfruit and orange over musk
California Love is Memoirs Of A Perfume Collector's newest release, from perfumer David Chieze, a bright, tropical-citrus fragrance built to feel like the first hour of a vacation. Passionfruit, orange, bergamot, and lemon open it with sun-on-skin brightness, a mojito-and-blackcurrant heart adds minty, sugared-lime, cocktail-bar energy, and it settles into clean musk, ambroxan, and a whisper of oakmoss for a warm, skin-close finish. It's an aromatic-fruity summer fragrance in the classic sense, light, upbeat, and built for daytime rather than an evening statement piece.
Scent Character As the newest release in the catalog, we've drawn the notes and character below from cross-verified fragrance references rather than our internal scoring, which hasn't caught up to this release yet.
Fragrantica classifies this as an Aromatic Fruity fragrance, and that tracks with the note list: bright citrus and passionfruit up top, a minty-sweet mojito-blackcurrant heart, and a clean musk-ambroxan-oakmoss base. It reads lighter and fresher than the house's oud- and amber-heavy city fragrances, closer in spirit to the Cologne Intense releases (Pacific Grapefruit, Indian Vetiver) than to New York or Abu Dhabi.
Fragrance Pyramid Top: Passionfruit, Orange, Bergamot, Lemon
Heart: Mojito, Blackcurrant
Base: Musk, Ambroxan, Oakmoss
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FAQ What does California Love smell like?Bright and tropical, passionfruit, orange, and lemon up top, a minty mojito-blackcurrant heart, and a clean musk-ambroxan-oakmoss finish. It's classified as Aromatic Fruity and built for warm-weather, daytime wear.
How long does it last?This is the newest release in the catalog and doesn't have a proprietary performance score on file yet. Based on its citrus-musk structure, expect moderate wear typical of a fresh fruity Extrait rather than the longer-lasting amber and oud fragrances in the rest of the line.
Is it a men's or women's fragrance?Unisex, the citrus-mojito-musk build is designed to wear on any skin.
Who is the perfumer?David Chieze, the same nose behind this release; it's his first credited fragrance in the Memoirs Of A Perfume Collector catalog per our research.
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Common questions about this fragrance, and how to try it before you commit.
California Love Extrait is a fresh fragrance built around citrus, fresh, fruity, musky accords. You'll pick up passionfruit, orange, bergamot, lemon, mojito, blackcurrant, musk, ambroxan. The surest way to know if it suits you is to wear it: sample a decant first.
California Love Extrait suits daytime, office, versatile. It's at its best in spring, summer. Not sure it fits your rotation? Try it as a decant or build a sampling box of any five.
California Love Extrait is sold as Extrait. Concentration is how much fragrance oil the formula carries, which shapes how rich it smells and how long it lasts on skin.
As an extrait de parfum, it is one of the most concentrated formats: expect strong, long-lasting wear from a light application. A decant is the low-risk way to see exactly how it performs on your skin before you commit to a full bottle.
Yes, 100%. Every decant is hand-poured from a genuine, retail-bought bottle: never a tester, clone or copy. Read our Authenticity Promise.
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