West Indian Lime by Crabtree & Evelyn

This newer West Indian Limes scent from C&E smells nothing like their sadly discontinued and much lamented East Indian Limes offering from a few years ago. That's not to say the new West Indian release isn't nice, it's just very different. The old East Indian Limes was, if memory serves (it's been a long time), an intense citrus with a dark spicy base that had its feet stuck more in the traditional lime scents of Trumper and Truefitt & Hill. The new West Indian is obviously aimed at a younger modern crowd and as such is lighter and fresher, but that doesn't make it any worse - there's a dominant traditional powdery note which accompanies the citrus all the way through to the dry down and the base seems to be light woods, thankfully preventing that powder from getting too sweet. I personally really like it and it's still quite different in its own way. Logevity is quite good - I still get pleasing wafts of it after 5 or 6 hours - but the sillage is not as good as most C&E frags, East Indian Limes included, presumably because it's lacking the base spices that make most other C&Es (with the exception of Uncharted) project quite well. But otherwise it's a very good fresh lime scent.