Goutal's Eau du Sud: Wow. How have I missed this?

So while trying out some of the other new releases at the local Bloomies (Roadster: hideous toothpaste hell, Varvatos Rock: bottle weighs 1000 pounds, juice is a lightweight version of the original), I decided to try a spray of Annick Goutal's Eau du Sud, which has obviously been around for a while but i've never tried before. Now, i'm a big fresh / green / citrus guy. My favorite mainstream frags tend to be stuff like Mugler Cologne, Paul Smith Story, V&R Antidote, etc. So when the SA wen't "oh, this is a salty, dry lemon scent, you might like it", I went "hmmm". But the conversation between me and Eau du Sud went something like

me: *spritz*
EdS: Why, hello there, what took you so long?
me: What do you mean, Eau du Sud?
EdS: I've been waiting since the 1990s.
me: For.... me?
EdS: Of course, silly. I'm your favorite fragrance you never knew about. Love me.
me: You are quite nice. Lemon, but *not* Lemon Pledge, or Lemon dish detergent. Very dry, and salty, just like the SA said. Man, you are crazy nice. What is your drydown going to be like, anyway?
EdS: Shhh...shhh... let's not talk specifics. You'll see my basenotes soon enough.
me: Did the lights just go down a touch in here?

Of course, they didn't have any bottles at the male frag counter, so the SA had to run over to the women's store (which is actually an entirely separate store at the other end to the shopping center) and bring a bottle back. So I didn't get the somewhat plain looking "male" Annick Goutal bottle, instead I have the ribbed female bottle. But who cares, the juice inside is the same!

So, needless to say, I am currently in heavy infatuation with Eau du Sud. May this hot weather we've been having keep on keeping on!

Yeah, It definitely works in hot weather, but I like your line of thinking aaz. I could see wearing it on one of those strangely still days after a big snowstorm has come through, blanketing everything in white.

I love it because it really nails the salty/dry/lemon. Most of my other citrus scents go 'green' (lime notes, grapefruit notes) or go 'orange' (tangerine, neroli, etc), but most of the other citruses I know that go for Lemon end up smelling like lemon pledge or lemon dishwasher detergent (l'eau par kenzo, for example).

Eau du Sud doesn't smell like pledge or detergent. And wearing it again today, it lasts much longer than most other citrus scents i've tried. I don't think it has massive sillage, but it has massive staying power.