Cologne 4
Cologne 4
Antica Barbieria Colla
Antica Barbieria Colla has been Milan's barbershop since 1904, still run today by the Bompieri family.
Lemon, rosemary, and lavender open it - the three plants that define the Mediterranean scrubland, that you smell before you see it when the summer heat is on the hillside. This is what Cologne 4 is: a landscape in a bottle, and the lightest of the four by some distance.
The heart is neroli and jasmine alongside rose and orange blossom - the same florals that grow in that landscape, fuller and warmer as the scent develops. Cedarwood and coumarin anchor the base; coumarin is the compound that gives dry summer grass its particular sweetness. The whole thing is warm, herbal, and solar without being heavy.
It is their summer best-seller.
100ml. In a glass bottle. Hand-made in Italy.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Ingredients
Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Citral, Coumarin, Limonene.
About the barbershop
Antica Barbieria Colla has been on Via Gerolamo Morone in Milan since 1944 - and in the city, without interruption, since 1904. Dino Colla opened the original barbieria near the Duomo that year, modelled on the private gentlemen's clubs of London. The house survived two addresses and a wartime bombing; Francesca Bompieri, whose father Franco ran it from 1975, runs it today. The product line - hair, skin, beard, shaving, and four signature colognes - traces its formulations to Colla himself, each recipe passed down and quietly refined through the generations of ownership that followed. Everything is hand-made in Italy by specialists who work in direct contact with the house.
Exclusive to Australia.
