{"title":"Black Friday For Her","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"jean-louis-scherrer-eau-de-toilette-50ml","title":"Jean-Louis Scherrer Eau de Toilette 50ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean-Louis Scherrer Eau de Toilette 50ml is a large, formally constructed perfume of a kind that is rarely made now, composed by Josette Ramisse and built across seventeen materials. It opens on aldehydes, which give it that distinctive soapy, slightly fizzy lift, bright and a little abstract. Hyacinth adds a green, watery crispness underneath, violet turns the top powdery, and blackcurrant brings a tart, faintly sharp edge that keeps the opening from going soft too quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heart is a full bouquet and makes no apology for it. Orris leads with a cool, dry, rooty powder, and around it sit tuberose, rose, carnation, jasmine and gardenia. Tuberose is the heavy one, creamy and almost narcotic. Carnation brings a peppery, spiced warmth that cuts through the white flowers, and gardenia keeps a green freshness in among the richness. It is a dense middle and it takes its time getting anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it dries down properly. Oakmoss gives the base its damp, earthy, slightly bitter floor, with vetiver adding a dry rooty smokiness over it. Sandalwood and cedarwood provide the structure, one smooth and the other sharp. Civet brings a genuine animal warmth, musk softens it, and amber rounds the whole thing off with a resinous glow. This is the part that lasts, and it is the part that marks the perfume as belonging to an older tradition. The 50ml is a practical size for something this strong, since a single spray carries a long way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe house was founded in Paris in 1962 by the couturier of that name and became known for elaborate formal eveningwear for a wealthy international clientele. 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In 1992, when this arrived, almost nothing on the market smelled that way, and a whole category of aquatic fragrance followed in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRose is the second material and it does the quiet work. It is pale and restrained, closer to petals than to perfume, and it keeps the lotus from reading as merely cold by lending it a soft, rounded warmth. There is nothing else in the row. No fruit, no spice, no heavy base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes it a short composition in the plainest sense: what you smell in the first ten minutes is what you get until it finally fades. The scent does not evolve so much as settle. Anyone expecting a journey will be disappointed and anyone who wants a clean, cool, instantly recognisable fragrance will understand immediately why it has lasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eau de toilette strength is moderate in both reach and longevity, which suits the composition well. It is at its best in hot weather, in offices and on long days, and it reads as unisex regardless of how it is marketed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssey Miyake founded his design studio in Tokyo in 1970 and the business was formally incorporated in 1971. 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This one is loud in a sunlit way instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExotic pitaya opens it and that is an uncommon choice. Dragon fruit has a pale, watery sweetness with a faint sourness behind it, nothing like the heavy tropical fruit that normally does this job, and it gives the first few minutes a clean, almost translucent quality. The middle is where the colour comes in. Cherry peony brings a red, jam like sweetness tucked inside a fresh petal smell, and red frangipani adds the thick, creamy, almost waxy weight of a real tropical flower. Together they are generous and quite sweet, and they do not pretend otherwise. Solar vanilla then closes it, and the solar part matters. This is not a bakery vanilla but a warm, salty, sun on skin kind of sweetness, the smell you associate with a beach towel and a bottle of oil, and it gives the drydown a hazy softness that lasts well into the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe composition is credited to Christophe Raynaud, Louise Turner and Quentin Bisch, and it reached the shops in 2025. As an eau de parfum it has real staying power and it projects generously, so go lightly. It is pitched at women, it is at its best in warm weather and on holiday, and it is a party scent rather than an office one. Anyone who found the rest of the house's output too dense should start here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolina Herrera is a New York fashion house named for its founder, a Venezuelan born designer who showed her debut collection in 1981. The Spanish group Puig has made its fragrances under licence since 1988 and bought the fashion division in 1995. 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It is a large volume of the same eau de parfum, sold to keep a bottle in service rather than to put another new one on the dressing table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe composition is short and makes no secret of it. Exotic pitaya opens, a pale and watery sweetness with a thin tartness behind it, closer to cold cut fruit than to anything syrupy. Cherry peony follows and does most of the work in the middle, crisp red fruit laid over a petal softness that keeps it from reading as a sweet shop note. Red frangipani sits alongside, thick and creamy the way tropical white flowers tend to be, and it gives the centre its weight and most of its staying power. Solar vanilla finishes. It is warm and bright rather than dessert like, sweet but stretched thin and polished smooth, and it is what remains on skin once the fruit has burned away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour materials in all, so there is no long unfolding to follow here. What you smell in the first few minutes is close to what you have an hour later, with the balance tipping steadily from fruit towards vanilla rather than changing direction. Some people want exactly that from a daily scent and others find it plain, so it is worth knowing before you commit to this much of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuying the refill is a volume decision rather than a presentation one. You get a great deal of liquid for the money because you are not paying again for a bottle you already own, which suits anyone who wears this most days and knows they will finish it. 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The flower is the first thing you meet and it shapes everything that comes after it, so this is a bottle for someone who already knows they like that sort of presence rather than someone hoping to be eased into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMandarin orange sits beside the tuberose at the opening and earns its place, giving the first few minutes a juicy brightness that stops the flower landing too heavily straight from the sprayer. That lift burns off inside a quarter of an hour. What follows is rose, full and a little jammy, with ylang ylang adding a creamy sweetness and daffodil cutting across both with a green, almost sappy edge. Iris runs underneath all of it, dry and cool and faintly chalky, and it is the reason the middle never turns syrupy. The last stretch is simpler and better for it. Sandalwood gives a soft, milky warmth and vanilla rounds the edges without reaching for sugar, so what is left on skin after several hours is quiet, smooth and worn close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt eau de parfum strength one spray goes a long way and two is as much as anyone needs. Apply it generously and it will fill a room, which may or may not be the plan. Evenings suit it, so do colder months, and it is for the person who wears perfume as a statement rather than as a background. At 112.20 euro this is the dearest of the ways we list the 100ml bottle, so treat it as the unhurried choice rather than the thrifty one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmanuel Ungaro is a Paris house, opened in 1965 by the couturier whose name is on the bottle and settled on avenue Montaigne from 1967. Diva was its first fragrance, released in 1983, and it has anchored the line ever since, joined by La Diva in 2016 and the men's L'Homme in 2018. 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The middle is a proper bouquet: rose at the centre, magnolia adding a lemony creaminess beside it, jasmine filling it out, and nutmeg running underneath with a dusty, warm spice that is the bridge into the base. Then vanilla arrives in quantity, rich and almost boozy, with amber behind it adding a resinous warmth that makes the whole thing glow rather than cloy. The reason it has lasted is the restraint at the top of it. A sweet rose and vanilla scent could very easily be sickly, and the green materials at the opening are the thing that keeps it elegant instead of cloying. The concentration is a toilette rather than a parfum, but the base materials carry regardless, so expect a few hours when it is unmistakable and then a long, warm finish close to the skin. Two or three sprays is about the right amount. It suits autumn and winter, it suits the evening, and it suits anyone who wants a sweet fragrance that still reads as thoroughly grown up. 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Carnation here is spicy and biting, with a clove like edge, and it is set against gardenia, which is creamy and white, while bergamot, neroli and peach brighten the first few minutes and rosewood lends a soft, slightly rosy warmth. The heart is a full classical bouquet: rose and jasmine doing the heavy work, violet adding a powdered sweetness, and rosemary cutting across all of it with a herbal sharpness that stops the flowers from turning plush. The base is where its age shows most beautifully, with iris bringing a cool, rooty, faintly dusty elegance, sandalwood and cedarwood giving a dry frame, and musk and amber warming the last hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Fabron composed it in 1948. Fifteen materials, blended rather than layered, so it reads as one smell rather than as a sequence, which is characteristic of the way perfumery worked at the time. 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Rosemary and eucalyptus push that further, both cool and resinous, and bergamot sits over the top to keep it from smelling like a chest rub. It is bracing in the way a cold bathroom is bracing, and that is clearly deliberate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle softens without sweetening. Clary sage adds a nutty, hay dry herbal depth, geranium brings a green rosy sharpness, and cedarwood starts drying the whole thing out from below. There is no fruit anywhere in it and no flowers in the modern sense, which is why it reads as traditional rather than old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is quiet and well judged. Oakmoss gives a bitter, damp earthiness, tonka bean a soft powdered sweetness that takes the edge off the herbs, and musk a clean finish close to the skin. The concentration is light, three or four hours of it, and the stuff is meant to be used freely rather than measured out. 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It arrived in 2025. The opening is conventional and attractive. Bergamot gives the citrus lift, peach a soft fuzzy sweetness and pink pepper a rosy spark, and for the first ten minutes the fragrance behaves exactly as the bottle suggests it will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle holds rose and jasmine with raspberry pressed against them, so the flowers come across as fuller and jammier than they would on their own. Still familiar, still easy to like, and still some way short of being the reason to buy the bottle. Then the base changes the argument. Frankincense brings smoke and a cool dry resin, which is a serious material to put under fruit, and tonka bean adds a powdery sweetness that softens the join while white musk keeps the whole thing clean. The result is a scent that starts like a crowd pleaser and finishes with something to say for itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt holds on well at eau de parfum strength and projects moderately rather than aggressively. 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The scent is short and well made. Grapefruit opens it, dry and bitter with the rind doing the work rather than the juice, which gives the first minutes a clean, slightly abrasive brightness. Cedarwood lies underneath, dry and splintery like newly cut timber, and it holds the citrus in place for hours longer than it would last on its own. That contrast is the whole fragrance, and it is why the thing has never gone out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no sweetness anywhere in the composition, which matters a great deal when you are buying for somebody else. Sweet fragrances divide people sharply, while a dry citrus over dry timber offends almost nobody and suits almost every age. Boxed, it solves the wrapping and the card and the question of whether it will be liked at all, and at eau de toilette strength it is the version most men find easiest to live with from one day to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect clear presence for the first few hours and a dry finish that carries into the evening, in summer as readily as in winter. If he already owns a bottle, a spare is no waste, because this is a fragrance that gets used up rather than displayed on a shelf, and nobody has yet complained of having too much of it in the cupboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThierry Hermes set up as a harness maker in Paris in 1837, and the house has passed down six generations of his family without changing hands. 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Patchouli lies beneath it, earthy and cool, and the contrast between the sharp top and that damp darkness is more interesting than most citrus scents attempt. Cedarwood dries the base out and keeps it clean, with the sharpened pencil quality that keeps the whole thing from going soft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA three material composition does not pretend to complexity. This one works because the concentration carries the idea further than a cologne would: the citrus lasts hours rather than minutes, and the base keeps it company instead of letting it fall away. The 100ml bottle is the practical size for a fragrance you will use generously, which you will, since this is the kind of scent people reapply after a shower, after the gym and before leaving the house again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt suits heat, daylight, travel, and anyone of either sex who would rather smell clean than noticeable. Longevity is the point of the exercise rather than reach: it will not fill a room at any stage, and after the first hour it keeps to the wearer, which is what a working fragrance ought to do in a warm office.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt began in Paris in 1837 with harness and saddlery, took the Faubourg Saint-Honore address in 1880, and remains under the control of the founding family six generations after the first workshop opened its doors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290426138951,"sku":"BTS5110","price":90.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts5110.webp?v=1770409368"},{"product_id":"jean-louis-scherrer-scherrer-2-eau-de-toilette-100ml","title":"Scherrer 2 Eau de Toilette 100ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eScherrer 2 Eau de Toilette 100ml belongs to a kind of perfumery that has largely gone out of fashion, which is precisely why people go looking for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens on an unlikely combination. Pineapple comes first, tart and slightly fermented rather than tropical, and star anise answers it with a cool, sweetly medicinal bite that stops the fruit turning friendly. Bergamot and mandarin orange fill in around them, the first bitter and green edged, the second rounder and softer, so the top has both sharpness and glow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle is where it becomes properly rich. Jasmine and tuberose together are a lot of flower: jasmine heady and faintly animal, tuberose creamy and almost rubbery, the kind of white floral that fills a room rather than a collar. Honey thickens them, sticky and a little feral, and iris cuts across the lot of it with a cool, powdery dryness that keeps the composition from collapsing into sweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is soft and old fashioned in the best sense. Heliotrope brings a soft powdered sweetness with a faintly bitter edge, benzoin a warm balsamic stickiness, vanilla a rounded sweetness and sandalwood a creamy, steady finish. Twelve materials in all, and the structure actually unfolds, which is rarer now than it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis suits cold weather, evenings and anyone who finds modern perfume thin. As an eau de toilette it is less dense than its ingredient list suggests, so two or three sprays are reasonable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Louis Scherrer founded his Paris couture house in 1962, dressing a wealthy international clientele in formal, decorated eveningwear. Perfume followed at the end of the 1970s, with this scent arriving in 1986. The designer has had no control of the label for over thirty years: the Japanese group Seibu Saison took control in 1990, with Hermes holding the remainder, and he was replaced and forced out of his own firm in late 1992. 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Aldehydes open it with that sparkling, waxy, slightly soapy lift that older perfumery used to announce itself, and underneath them sit orange blossom, pineapple, lavender and bergamot, which is an unusual top: sweet fruit, clean flower and a herbal bitterness all at once. The heart is a full bouquet. Carnation brings a dry, spiced, faintly medicinal bite, tuberose and ylang ylang bring cream and flesh, jasmine and rose fill out the middle, and orris lays dry powder over the lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is the part that dates it, in the best sense. 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Violet arrives cold and powdery, lime cuts across it with a sharp, bitter citrus, and green banana adds an unripe, faintly starchy fruit note that reads more green than sweet. Those three together are unlike almost anything else on a shelf, and they are the reason this scent has kept an audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle softens but stays unusual. Magnolia brings a soft, faintly sharp petal quality, tuberose a creamy density, pink pepper a dry crackle, and violet returns, warmer and more powdered than it was at the start. It is a floral heart with a cool, dusty cast to it rather than a sunny one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last stage is where it gets serious. Sandalwood is creamy and dry, incense smoky and papery, myrrh darker and more bitter, and vanilla rounds the three of them into something warm and slightly sweet. Ten materials, and the journey from green fruit to smoke is a very long way for a fragrance to travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eau de toilette strength it lasts a solid five or six hours and sits close after the first. It suits autumn and winter, evenings particularly, and it is a women's fragrance that will appeal to anyone tired of straightforward prettiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe line was created for Jesus del Pozo, a Madrid couturier whose first shop opened in 1974 and who died in 2011. 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It takes about five minutes to arrive at the heart, and the heart is enormous. Tuberose leads it, thick and creamy and faintly rubbery in the way the real material always is. Gardenia sits beside it, ylang ylang adds a banana like richness, jasmine brings its warm indolic sweetness, and rose and orchid fill in whatever space is left. Six flowers at once is not restraint, and it was never meant to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat saves it from being merely loud is the base. Oakmoss grounds the flowers with something earthy and slightly bitter, chamomile adds a dry herbal edge that is unusual here, and sandalwood, cedarwood and patchouli build a dry structure under all that cream. Vanilla, amber and musk then warm the lot and push it well past the point most eau de toilette compositions give up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighteen materials, and you can smell most of them. This projects properly: a little goes a long way, one spray is a decision and three is an announcement. It lasts for hours and leaves a trail on fabric for days. Cooler weather and evenings handle it best, and it is unambiguously feminine in the way of its decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Beverly Hills opened in 1961 as a clothing boutique on Rodeo Drive and moved into fragrance twenty years later, with this scent arriving in 1981. The shop and the perfume business went their separate ways in 1987, when Avon took the fragrance brand on. Procter and Gamble acquired it in 1994, and it later came into the Revlon group, where Elizabeth Arden, a wholly owned Revlon subsidiary since September 2016, now sits behind the name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giorgio Beverly Hills","offers":[{"title":"30ml","offer_id":53290475127111,"sku":"BTS1707","price":34.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"90ml","offer_id":54425440682311,"sku":"BTS411380","price":54.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts1707.webp?v=1770410058"},{"product_id":"rochas-mademoiselle-rochas-eau-de-parfum","title":"Mademoiselle Rochas Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2017, Mademoiselle Rochas Eau de Parfum was the house's attempt at a modern signature, and the apple that opens it is the detail that made it work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Flipo uses that apple on its own at the top, with nothing supporting it, and it is a green, crisp apple rather than a sweet one. The effect is clean and slightly tart, and it gives the fragrance an immediate lift that does not depend on the usual citrus accord every launch reaches for. Underneath, the middle is a traditional floral arrangement handled lightly. Rose is the backbone, jasmine fills it out with a warmer, creamier white floral weight, and violet leaf runs through both of them with a cool green sappiness that picks up where the apple left off. It is the violet leaf that keeps this from smelling like something from thirty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is soft and skin close. Sandalwood brings a creamy smoothness, ambergris a dry warmth with a faint salted quality, and musk a clean, laundered finish. Seven materials, no clutter, and a composition that does not change dramatically once it has settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eau de parfum concentration gives it staying power without volume. It holds for most of a day while sitting near the skin, which makes it usable at work and in close company, and it is comfortable in every season rather than being pinned to one. It reads as feminine and it suits a wide range of ages, which is unusual for a scent built around a fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcel Rochas founded the house in Paris in 1925, having built a name dressing young women, and perfume became part of it in 1936. Helene Rochas ran the business from 1955. 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Coriander gives a cool, slightly soapy spice, lemon and mandarin orange brighten it, and pine arrives with a resinous, almost turpentine edge that smells of cut branches. It is a bracing start and it is nothing like a modern designer launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle turns herbal and quiet. Lavender is clean and a touch medicinal, tea is dry and tannic in the way of leaves in hot water, and cyclamen adds a cool, watery floral lift. Those three keep the scent austere, which is clearly the intention. The base is the softest part of it. Musk gives a skin close warmth, sandalwood is creamy and smooth, cedarwood dry and pencil sharp, and tonka bean adds a faint powdered sweetness, like the sugar dust in an empty tin. Even here it stays restrained. As an eau de toilette it is lighter than the eau de parfum concentrations that dominate the house's current range, so expect two or three hours of clear presence and a soft, close finish after that. Reapplication is part of the deal. It reads as unisex, it is good in warm weather and in spring, and it suits anyone who prefers clean and herbal to sweet and loud. A hundred millilitres is the standard size and this is a scent you can afford to use generously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaco Rabanne founded the fashion house and showed his first collection in 1966. 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It is thick without being sweet, and it dominates from the first minute to the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsmanthus sits against it and does the interesting work. The flower smells of apricots with something dry and faintly leathery behind them, and that dryness cuts the richness of the gardenia at exactly the point where the creaminess might become too much. Musk runs underneath both, warm and skin like, binding the two flowers into one smell rather than leaving them as separate ideas. There is no development to speak of. An extrait carries a high oil load, so what you get is not loudness but persistence: a close, dense, slow burning scent that stays on skin for a full day and on a scarf for considerably longer. It does not fill a room and it was never meant to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes it a useful fragrance for close quarters, for the office, for restaurants and for warm weather, where heavier compositions become difficult. It reads as feminine and as deliberately simple, and the 100ml bottle at this concentration will last years rather than months. Cartier opened in Paris in 1847 as a jewellery and watch house, took its first sales salon in 1853, and now sits within the Swiss group Richemont. It entered perfumery in 1981 and composes its fragrances in house rather than licensing them out, and this one takes its name from the panther motif the jeweller has used for over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cartier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290480959815,"sku":"BTS362723","price":127.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/a880d73c-aaae-43f8-a7e8-60172057024d.png?v=1782307794"},{"product_id":"rochas-madame-rochas-eau-de-toilette-100ml","title":"Madame Rochas Eau de Toilette 100ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eAldehydes are the first thing in Madame Rochas Eau de Toilette 100ml, and they tell you immediately that this is a fragrance from 1960 rather than one made last year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat opening is clean and almost fizzy, a soapy brightness with hyacinth adding a green watery floral, honeysuckle a sweet nectar quality, and neroli, bergamot, lemon and orange blossom filling it out with citrus and white flowers. The middle is a classical bouquet: rose, jasmine and lily of the valley, with neroli still present and sandalwood beginning to show underneath. It is unapologetically floral, built in a way few houses attempt now, and the flowers are given room rather than being dressed up with fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe finish is dry and long. Oakmoss gives a damp bitter green, vetiver a rooty earthiness, cedarwood and sandalwood the dryness and the cream respectively, with amber and tonka bean adding warmth and musk smoothing it all into the skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuy Robert composed it, which is a name worth knowing if you care about this period of perfumery. The scent has the elegance of its era and also the formality: it is powdery, soapy and composed, and it will read as old fashioned to anyone raised on sweet modern florals. Approached on its own terms it is very good indeed. Wear it in cooler weather, in the evening, or for occasions that call for something tidy, and use it sparingly, since an opening of this kind is loud for the first few minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcel Rochas started the house in Paris in 1925 and began making perfume in 1936. 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The middle is where it earns its name: orange blossom and neroli together, two faces of the same tree, the orange blossom honeyed and full and the neroli greener, cooler and slightly soapy. The base is light by design, white musk giving a clean skin warmth and cedarwood a pale dry edge, so the fragrance keeps its lift all the way down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlivier Cresp made it, and the year was 2022. Six materials, no complications, and a fragrance that does exactly what the label promises, which is more than the rest of this line can claim. Nothing in it has to be explained to anybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEau de toilette strength and a composition this airy mean three or four hours of genuine presence, worn close. That is the trade for how comfortable it is in heat, and reapplying is part of the deal. Spring and summer, daytime, and a younger wearer than the darker bottles in the range suit it best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoeur Joie, the first perfume this house made anything of, came out in 1946 in Lalique crystal, and L'Air du Temps followed two years later to become the thing the name is known for. Both came out of a department Robert Ricci created in 1941. The couture business behind them began in Paris in 1932, and Puig, the Spanish group, took ownership in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nina Ricci","offers":[{"title":"30ml","offer_id":53290487742791,"sku":"BTS309559","price":53.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"50ml","offer_id":54425524863303,"sku":"BTS310278","price":51.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"80ml","offer_id":54425524896071,"sku":"BTS309558","price":79.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts309559.webp?v=1770410223"},{"product_id":"lorenzo-villoresi-teint-de-neige-eau-de-toilette","title":"Teint de Neige Eau de Toilette","description":"\u003cp\u003eChoosing between the strengths matters here, and Lorenzo Villoresi Teint de Neige Eau de Toilette is the easier of the two to live with day to day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe composition is identical in spirit to its stronger sibling and simply arrives with rather less force behind it. Jasmine, rose and ylang ylang make a soft, blurred opening, sweet and slightly creamy, with no bright material anywhere to sharpen the edges of them. It smells less like a vase of flowers than like the memory of one. Heliotrope is the centre of the composition and the reason the bottle exists at all. It is powdery, sweet and a little medicinal, the smell of face powder and old sweet shops at once, and it is the most distinctive material in this house's entire catalogue. Tonka bean lies underneath with a dry sweetness that keeps a faint bitterness in play beneath the powder, and musk gives it warmth and keeps it close to the skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix materials in all, no development to follow, and at toilette strength a gentler and considerably more manageable version of a scent that can otherwise fill a room on its own. Expect six or seven hours and a close, soft trail rather than a carrying one, which makes it usable in an office or a restaurant where the eau de parfum would simply be too much for everybody else. Dating from 2000, it suits cold weather, daytime and anybody who finds most modern perfumery too loud to enjoy. It reads unisex. 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Sharp, warm and over fairly quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heart is where this version separates itself, because there are seven materials in it. Lily and jasmine give the white floral body, rose the depth, peony a watery pink crispness, and pink pepper a dry peppery edge on top. Violet leaf runs green and stemmy through the middle of them, and blackcurrant adds a tart, almost metallic bite. It is a busy bouquet and it stays cheerful rather than becoming heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is where the toilette really differs. Oakmoss gives a damp bitter green, palisander rosewood a dry, slightly peppery wood, white musk a soft laundered cleanliness, amber a low sweet warmth, vanilla a smooth sweetness and praline a toasted, nutty sweetness that tips the end of the fragrance towards dessert without quite getting there. Six materials, and the result is a longer, sweeter, more decorated finish. A toilette concentration wears lighter, so expect five hours and a trail that stays near. That suits a fragrance this busy. Spring and summer are the natural seasons, and it works for daytime, for work and for an unremarkable evening. The bottle is pitched at women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name comes from Barcelona, from a family knitwear business that turned into a fashion label in the 1980s and showed its collections in Moscow and Paris as well as in Spain. 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Heliotrope then softens everything into powder, with the faint marzipan sweetness that material always carries and a chalkiness that reads almost like cosmetics. The musk underneath is thick and slightly animal, not the laundered kind, and it is what gives the bottle its name and its weight. Suede finishes it, dry and matte, with the particular smell of brushed hide, and it is that dryness which stops the powder becoming cloying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour materials only, so do not expect a performance with acts and intervals. It deepens rather than develops. Sonia Constant composed it, it appeared in 2021, and at eau de parfum strength it behaves the way short compositions usually do at that concentration: hours of life, kept within a close radius, and a trail on wool and scarves that outlasts the skin by a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvenings in autumn and winter are its natural ground, and it suits somebody who likes being asked what they are wearing. It is sold as a women's fragrance and it is dry enough to be worn by anyone who finds powder interesting rather than old fashioned. Anybody who wants the house's cleaner side should be looking at the Pure Musc bottles instead; this is the deliberate opposite of those.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fragrances carrying this name are made under licence by Beaute Prestige International for an American fashion house that has been trading since 1997. 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The middle is where it departs from expectation: rose gives it a classic floral weight, lavender brings an unexpected herbal coolness, and almond turns the texture creamy and faintly bitter, like the nut rather than the flavouring. The base is the sweetest part. Cherry returns the fragrance to fruit, musk makes it skin close and soft, and sandalwood provides a creamy dryness underneath. Lily of the valley is what keeps the opening green rather than sugary, and it is the reason this edition reads lighter than you might expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine materials and a clear shape. It is sweeter than most florals and more floral than most sweet fragrances, which is a fair summary of why this line has lasted. Almond and cherry together are the signature of this version, and anyone who knows the line will spot the difference straight away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing a toilette rather than a parfum, it stays light enough for daytime and for warm weather, lasting around four hours before it settles close to the skin. It is aimed at young women, it is uncomplicated, and it is meant to be enjoyed rather than studied. 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Grapefruit is bitter and bright, with tangerine, lemon and orange crowding in behind it, and for two or three minutes it is sharp and almost fizzy before the sweetness arrives. Then the middle opens up. Apple is crisp and green, peach is soft and ripe, and strawberry is jammy and sweet, with jasmine and rose beneath them supplying a floral body that keeps the fruit from reading like squash. It is an obvious pleasure rather than a subtle one and it does not pretend otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is sweet and soft. Caramel is the material that decides the second half of the wear, thick and buttery, with vanilla alongside it, cashmeran lending a dense wood underneath, cedarwood keeping a dry edge, and white musk smoothing everything to a clean finish. This is where the scent spends most of its time and it is extremely easy to like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect long wear and a noticeable trail, especially in the first couple of hours, so restraint pays. Cold weather and evenings are where it belongs, although plenty of people wear it year round. It reads feminine and young, and it is a reliable gift for anyone who likes sweetness. Antoine Maisondieu, Nadège Le Garlantezec and Natalie Gracia-Cetto are credited with it, and it dates from 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoucheron is a jeweller first, the work of Frederic Boucheron, who opened for business in 1858 and whose firm has traded at 26 Place Vendome since 1893. 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Bergamot gives a flash of brightness, then cinnamon and nutmeg come in warm and dusty, and within two minutes the fragrance has moved on to the part people buy it for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDates are the material that makes it. Sticky, dark, concentrated and sweet in a way no European fragrance uses, they give the middle a chewy, almost dried fruit density, with praline adding toasted nuttiness beside them. Tuberose and lily of the valley are also in there, and their job is to keep air in the composition so the fruit and the sweetness do not become suffocating. It works, just about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is six materials deep and it explains why the fragrance performs as it does. Tonka bean gives a sweet, powdery warmth like the crust of a cake, benzoin a resinous stickiness, myrrh a cool bitter smoke, akigalawood a peppery dry resin, amberwood a resinous glow, and vanilla rounds the whole thing off. It is dense, sweet and extremely long lasting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve hours is ordinary for this and a sprayed shirt will still carry it after a wash. That is not an exaggeration, and it is the main complaint people make about it. Two sprays is the correct dose and three is too many. Cold weather and evenings suit it; in heat it becomes cloying. It is marketed as unisex and worn by everybody, which is rare for something this sweet. 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The caramel is the cooked, slightly burnt sort rather than the soft toffee sort, milk gives it a cool creaminess that takes the edge off, and sugar is simply sweetness with no pretence about it. Honey is the only thing in the middle, and it moves the sweetness from the kitchen towards something waxier and more floral, with that faint animal warmth honey always carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is where a little restraint arrives. Vanilla deepens and rounds everything above it, praline adds a toasted nut warmth that gives the sweetness some texture, and musk softens the finish so the last hours sit close to the skin rather than hanging in the air. Seven materials and no detour. This is a short, direct composition and it is meant to be smelled rather than studied, which is precisely why it sells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is sweet enough to be worn carefully. One spray is a decision and two is a statement, and in a warm room it will fill the space. Cold weather suits it, evenings suit it, and it is at its best on a jumper rather than on bare skin. Expect eight hours, more on fabric. Released in 2024, it is marketed to women and worn by anyone with a taste for this register. Anyone who finds dessert sweetness tiring should walk straight past it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man who founded Lattafa came to the Emirates from Pakistan and learned perfume behind a relative's counter, and the house now sells this kind of thing worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lattafa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290505142599,"sku":"BTS377897","price":47.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts377897.webp?v=1770410451"},{"product_id":"tous-les-colognes-concentrees-eau-de-toilette-90ml","title":"Les Colognes Concentrées Eau de Toilette 90ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eTous Les Colognes Concentrées Eau de Toilette 90ml opens on a flower rather than a fruit, which is not how most things calling themselves a cologne begin. Benoist Lapouza composed it and it dates from 2016. Peony leads, cool and faintly watery, with the crisp snap of petals that have not quite finished opening. Green mandarin arrives alongside it and the green part matters: this is fruit taken early, so it reads tart and leafy instead of sugary, and it keeps the flower from drifting anywhere near candy. The middle is classical and unhurried. Rose supplies the fuller, deeper body while jasmine brings the bright clarity that stops rose sitting heavy, and the two of them hold the centre for a long stretch. The close is quiet. Musk rounds the edges off both flowers and sandalwood dries the whole thing out, lending a smooth, faintly milky warmth that reads clean rather than rich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix materials, arranged plainly, and the pleasure is in the arrangement rather than in any sleight of hand. At eau de toilette strength it carries less oil than a parfum version would, so it stays close and behaves politely. Expect a few hours of genuine presence and a soft trace after that, which is the right behaviour for a bottle you reach for every morning without thinking about it. It reads feminine and it is easiest in daylight: spring and early summer, offices, lunches, long warm afternoons where something heavier becomes hard work. The 90ml bottle is the size to buy once it has become a habit, and at this strength a generous hand is not a mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTous is a Spanish jewellery company that dates its own beginnings to 1920, when Salvador Tous Blavi was serving an apprenticeship in watchmaking. He and Teresa Ponsa grew a small watch repair workshop in Manresa into the business, and Manresa is still where the head office sits. The name is known first for jewellery and for its bear, and fragrance became part of the range from 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tous","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290505797959,"sku":"BTS80202","price":47.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts80202.webp?v=1770410465"},{"product_id":"rochas-man-eau-de-toilette-100ml-gift-set","title":"Man Eau de Toilette Gift Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eRochas Man Eau de Toilette Gift Set is a sweet fragrance for men that got away with it, and buying it boxed is the easiest way to put it in somebody else's hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix materials make the whole thing, so there is no great mystery to unpick. Lavender and bergamot open it, the lavender clean and herbal, the bergamot bright and slightly bitter, and for about a minute it behaves like a conventional men's scent. Then raspberry arrives and that changes. Raspberry here is jammy and a little tart, fruit rather than sweet shop, and jasmine beside it adds a soft white flower roundness that keeps the fruit from reading as a joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanilla and sandalwood finish it, and this is the part that made it last. The vanilla is thick and creamy, the sandalwood dry and milky underneath, and between them the drydown is warm, smooth and faintly edible without turning into pudding. Maurice Roucel composed it, and the balance between the herbal top and the sweet base is the reason it is still bought twenty five years on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn wear the toilette strength keeps it comfortable. It is not quiet, exactly, but it sits closer than the concentration suggests and it lasts a good part of a day. Autumn and winter suit it, evenings more than mornings, and it works on younger men without looking like a first fragrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a present it is a good one for somebody who claims not to like anything sweet, because this is the scent that usually changes their mind. Rochas opened in Paris in 1925 under Marcel Rochas, who was known as the couturier of youth, and moved into perfume in 1936. His wife Helene took the business on after his death in 1955 and built up the fragrance side. 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Bergamot and neroli sharpen the start, peach and honeysuckle soften it, and lily of the valley adds a green dewiness that runs right through into the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heart is enormous and deliberately so. Jasmine and rose are the backbone, ylang ylang adds a creamy, banana sweet richness, iris brings cool powder, geranium a green rosiness, camellia and lily a clean white quietness, and coriander a dusty warmth that keeps the whole bouquet from being merely sweet. Flowers in this quantity are what perfumers mean by a floral bouquet, and almost nobody builds them any more because of what the materials cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is long and soft. Sandalwood is creamy, benzoin resinous and balsamic, vanilla gently sweet, amber warm, patchouli earthy, vetiver rooty and bitter, and musk holds everything to the skin. Andre Fraysse and Paul Vacher composed it between them. In this concentration it lasts all day and marks clothing for longer. One spray is the correct dose. It is formal, it is feminine, it is far better in cold weather than in heat, and it suits an evening, a wedding or anyone who wants to smell like a grown up rather than like a dessert. It is also a history lesson you can wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe house opened in 1889 as Jeanne Lanvin's Paris hat shop before she turned to dressmaking, and Arpege was composed for her daughter Marguerite. Its perfumery was placed in a company of its own in 1964 and has stayed there, while the couture side became part of the Chinese owned Lanvin Group in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lanvin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290526802247,"sku":"BTS8454","price":51.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts8454.webp?v=1770410658"},{"product_id":"lattafa-khamrah-qahwa-eau-de-parfum-100ml","title":"Khamrah Qahwa Eau de Parfum 100ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee is the point of Lattafa Khamrah Qahwa Eau de Parfum 100ml, and the name says so plainly: qahwa is coffee, and the material sits right at the bottom of the fragrance doing most of the work. The opening is a warm spice run rather than a bright one. Ginger brings a dry peppery heat, cinnamon a red sweetness, and cardamom the dusty green spice that Gulf coffee is actually brewed with, which makes the reference more literal than usual. It is warm from the first second and it never cools down. Praline occupies the middle alone and bridges the spice and the base neatly, a toasted nutty sweetness that reads as something cooked rather than something sprayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is where it settles and stays. Coffee here is roasted and bitter rather than milky, which is what keeps the whole composition from drowning in sweetness, and tonka bean sits warm and dusty against it, folding into the vanilla underneath. Benzoin adds a resinous stickiness and musk softens the join. Most of that base is sweet, and the coffee is the only thing holding the line, which it does well enough to make this the most balanced of the sweeter flankers. That balance is the reason it has lasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformance is as strong as the rest of the line. Ten hours is normal, projection is considerable for the first two, and a single spray is genuinely enough. Cold weather, mornings included, and it is one of the few sweet fragrances that makes sense before noon. Unisex, and worn by both. It came out in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lattafa name travelled on two bottles, Yara and Khamrah, and the flankers of the second have since grown into a line of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lattafa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290535485767,"sku":"BTS372567","price":44.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts372567.webp?v=1770410763"},{"product_id":"narciso-rodriguez-for-her-eau-de-toilette","title":"For Her Eau de Toilette","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidered beside the eau de parfum rather than as a thinner copy of it, Narciso Rodriguez For Her Eau de Toilette earns its own place, because the lighter version is recorded with a different and more interesting opening. It was released in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsmanthus is a small flower that smells of apricot skin and tea at the same time, soft and slightly leathery, and it is rare in mainstream perfumery because it is expensive to use well. Orange blossom sits beside it, clean and white and faintly honeyed, and between them the first half hour is brighter and fuller of flowers than the eau de parfum ever is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it does what this line always does and becomes a skin scent. Musk is the whole middle, soft and warm and close, and underneath it amber adds a low resinous warmth while patchouli gives a damp earthy depth that keeps everything from turning powdery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive materials, so there is no complexity to unpick. At eau de toilette strength it is lighter and shorter than its sibling, four or five hours, sitting close to the skin throughout. That suits warm weather, daytime and the office, and it suits anyone who finds the eau de parfum too insistent. A top up in the afternoon is no hardship at this strength. Christine Nagel and Francis Kurkdjian composed it. Anyone who knows only the eau de parfum should try this before assuming the two are one scent at two strengths, because the recorded materials say otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarciso Rodriguez opened as a label in 1997, the work of a Newark born designer of Cuban parentage. Beaute Prestige International manufactures the fragrances under licence. Its range now extends well beyond that first bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Narciso Rodriguez","offers":[{"title":"30ml","offer_id":53290541121863,"sku":"BTS9197","price":54.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"100ml","offer_id":54425523749191,"sku":"BTS9061","price":82.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"150ml","offer_id":54425523781959,"sku":"BTS9190","price":122.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"50ml","offer_id":54425523814727,"sku":"BTS9060","price":74.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts9197.webp?v=1770410830"},{"product_id":"lolita-lempicka-mon-premier-eau-de-parfum-gift-set","title":"Mon Premier Eau de Parfum Gift Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eCherry and licorice is not an obvious pairing, and it is why Lolita Lempicka Mon Premier Eau de Parfum Gift Set is an easier present to give than most sweet fragrances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening is bright and slightly odd: cherry, sweet and a touch syrupy, star anise lending a cool aniseed snap, and ivy adding a green, bitter, almost stalky edge that keeps the fruit from becoming a sweet shop. Then licorice takes over, dark and salty sweet, with violet going cool and powdery against it, orris adding dry earth and powder, and amaryllis a clean floral lift above the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is the comfortable part. Praline brings its toasted confectionery sweetness, vanilla rounds everything off, tonka bean adds a soft biscuit tin warmth, musk keeps it close, and vetiver runs a dry rooty thread underneath so the sweetness has a floor to stand on. Twelve materials, and the trick of the composition is how long it stays interesting while remaining easy to like. Annick Menardo composed it, and her hand shows in the way the sweetness is always cut with something dry or bitter rather than allowed to pile up unchecked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBought as a set it solves the two usual gift problems at once: it is instantly likeable, and it arrives looking like a proper present rather than a purchase made in a hurry. It suits a woman who enjoys sweet perfume without wanting to smell like a pudding, and it is at its best in autumn and the colder half of winter. Lolita Lempicka began as a French ready to wear label before fragrance became the larger part of what it does, and its perfumes have kept a storybook, faintly theatrical character since the first one in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lolita Lempicka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290566156615,"sku":"BTS376747","price":71.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts376747.webp?v=1775851673"},{"product_id":"narciso-rodriguez-narciso-poudree-eau-de-parfum","title":"Narciso Poudrée Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003cp\u003eNarciso Poudrée Eau de Parfum takes the Narciso Rodriguez signature and softens its focus, and the name is not marketing: this really is the powdery one. Jasmine leads, and it is a warm, slightly indolic jasmine rather than a soapy one, which gives the opening a fullness that the plainer Narciso bottles do not have. Rose sits with it and deepens the floral centre without turning it sweet. Musk is the heart of the matter, as it always is here, but in this composition it is dosed to blur rather than to warm, so the flowers lose their outlines and the whole thing takes on the texture of face powder. Cedarwood underneath keeps it from being soft all the way down, lending the base a dry, splintery finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAurélien Guichard built it, and it reached the counters in 2016. Four materials, carefully balanced, and no dramatic arc: it opens powdery, stays powdery and fades powdery, which is precisely what the people who buy it are after. A short composition like this lives or dies on the quality of its materials rather than on structure, and the jasmine here is good enough to carry it. Expect most of a working day from it, worn close, with a soft trail rather than a visible one. It suits cooler weather and daytime, and it is a good choice for anyone who likes the idea of the original but wants something gentler on the nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong its siblings it sits between Cristal, which is cooler and sharper, and Ambrée, which is far richer. 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It reads as hot milk and roast rather than as anything sharp or bitter, and it hands the flower a soft, slightly powdered edge. Pear blossom keeps the first minutes watery and pale, while violet leaf cuts across everything with a green, faintly metallic sharpness that stops the sweetness arriving too early. White suede sits alone in the middle, smooth and a little dusty, and it is what gives the mist its skin like quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sweetness comes later. Marshmallow is soft and powdery without turning sticky, rum brings a boozy warmth behind it, and tonka bean lends a dry, faintly bitter edge under the vanilla. Palm leaf is the surprise in the base, green and papery, and it keeps the sweet materials from closing over the top completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fragrance mist is a lighter proposition than an eau de parfum by design. It is meant to be applied generously over skin straight after a shower or over clothes during the day, and put on again whenever you want it back, so 250ml is a sensible quantity rather than an extravagant one. It is aimed at women, and the balance of rose, cappuccino and sweetness suits evenings best, which the name rather gives away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLingerie made the name, but beauty has always been part of the business. The American retailer opened in 1977 and was bought in 1982 by The Limited, the group run by Leslie Wexner. August 2021 brought the break with L Brands and left it a company in its own right. 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The middle is a proper floral arrangement in the old manner: rose, jasmine and ylang ylang, with carnation and clove adding a dry, peppery spice and iris bringing cool powder, while rosemary runs through it with a herbal sharpness that stops the whole thing becoming syrup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it dries down, and that is where the character is. Oakmoss gives the damp, bitter green quality that the great mid century perfumes were built on, leather adds a tanned firmness, and patchouli brings damp earth to the end of it. Benzoin, amber, vanilla and musk supply the sweetness and warmth that hold it all together, so the trail is rich, dry and a little animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a modern fragrance and it should not be approached as one. The fruit is cooked, the flowers are unapologetic and the finish is mossy rather than clean, which is exactly why people who love it tend to love nothing else quite as much. Try it on skin and give it an hour. Expect long wear from an eau de toilette built this way, and use a light hand, because two sprays are genuinely enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmond Roudnitska was the perfumer. 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Guava is the reason this one is recognisable: sweet, a little green, with the slightly funky tropical edge that keeps it from smelling like boiled sweets. Blackcurrant adds tartness underneath, and jasmine and freesia thin the fruit out into something properly wearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusk alone finishes it, soft and clean, so the fragrance stays close and comfortable rather than building to a big finish. That short base is also why the eau de toilette concentration suits it. There is nothing here that needed extra oil to hold it up, and the lightness is part of the design rather than a compromise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven as a set, it works best for someone heading somewhere hot, or for a summer birthday where a dense evening perfume would be the wrong gesture entirely. It is aimed at women, it reads young, and it is forgiving enough that you do not need to know the recipient's taste in any detail before you buy it. Expect it to be used on holidays and weekends rather than saved for occasions. Buy it in May rather than November and it will be half finished by August.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe house is Italian, founded in Milan in 1978 by Gianni Versace, and has been under the creative direction of his sister Donatella ever since he died. 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The middle brings in two flowers and keeps them restrained. Rose is soft and faintly jammy, geranium is greener and more metallic with a bruised leaf bitterness, and the two together act as a bridge rather than as the centre of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the title finally earns itself. Musk arrives warm and skin close, not the clean laundry kind but something softer and slightly animal, and around it sandalwood lays down a creamy base, vanilla adds a light sweetness, brazilian rosewood brings a sweet peppery resin, amber gives a steady glow and oakmoss keeps a bitter, damp green thread running underneath so the warmth never turns sugary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1995, it holds six or seven hours at toilette strength and sits close to the skin from the first hour onwards, which is the right behaviour for a fragrance built this way. Autumn, spring, daytime, offices, and anybody who has been disappointed by musks that smell of fabric conditioner. It reads unisex. 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Pink grapefruit and sicilian bergamot are bright and bitter, blackcurrant adds a tart green sourness, and then mint cuts through all three with something cold and almost medicinal. Hyacinth sits in there too, green and watery and slightly soapy, which is an odd thing to meet at the top of a fragrance and part of why this one stays in the memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle is a classical bouquet given a spiced edge. Carnation brings a peppery spiced heat, rose and jasmine fill it out, and lily of the valley keeps a dewy green line running through the flowers. It is rich without being heavy, and it moves quickly towards the base. That base is the real character of Roma. Myrrh and amber give it a resinous, faintly smoky warmth, singapore patchouli and oakmoss make it earthy and damp, civet adds an old fashioned animal note that modern perfumery has largely abandoned, and vanilla, sandalwood and musk smooth the whole thing into something soft and close. It smells of another era of perfumery, when scents were expected to have some weight to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt lasts well for an eau de toilette and projects moderately after the first hour. Cooler weather suits it, it was built for women, and it works for evenings, theatre, dinners and anyone who prefers a fragrance with history behind it. 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It is the crisp, watery, slightly green kind rather than a jammy or candied treatment, and in the first ten minutes it is startlingly literal, closer to a bitten piece of fruit than to a flavouring. Ambroxan sits underneath it, dry and mineral, and its job is to stop the fruit evaporating and to give it a clean, almost laundered warmth. Musk finishes the job, softening the edges and keeping the whole thing on the skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a short composition and it is sold as one. There is no development worth waiting for, no hidden second half, and anyone expecting an arc will be disappointed. What you get is a single clear smell that lasts a surprisingly long time for something so transparent, and that transparency is precisely why people reach for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eau de parfum concentration matters here more than usual, because it is what allows a thin, bright material like pear to survive past the first half hour. Expect it to stay close and audible for most of a day. It reads unisex, it is an obvious choice in spring and summer, it is easy in an office, and it layers well under heavier scents if you want to brighten them. Romano Ricci is credited and the release is dated 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Kurkdjian composed the two fragrances this house opened with in 2006, Lady Vengeance and Miss Charming, and both were sold through one Paris address, the concept store Colette. 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The aldehydes are the first thing you notice, and they give that lifted, slightly soapy, almost effervescent shimmer which defined elegant perfumery in the middle of the twentieth century. If you have ever wondered what people mean when they say a scent smells expensive and a little old fashioned, this is the quality they are describing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJasmine and rose do the rest. Jasmine is the creamier and more sensual of the pair, rose the rounder and more familiar, and together they sit inside that aldehydic brightness rather than underneath it. There is no development to follow and no base to wait for. It is a short composition and a confident one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an eau de toilette it is lighter on skin than a modern eau de parfum and considerably more polite than its reputation suggests, giving four to six hours and a quiet trail. Three sprays will not be too many. It is unmistakably feminine and it reads as formal, which is why it suits daytime, work and occasions where you want to look composed, and why it has been bought by the same people for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe firm goes back to 1837 and a Paris harness maker called Thierry Hermes, and his family controls it still, six generations later. Saddlery was the trade, 24 Faubourg Saint-Honore the home from 1880, and perfumery an addition of 1951, when Edmond Roudnitska composed Eau d'Hermes. This one followed about a decade after that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290663149895,"sku":"BTS284278","price":112.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts284278.webp?v=1770411936"},{"product_id":"juliette-has-a-gun-not-a-perfume-superdose-eau-de-parfum-100ml","title":"Not a Perfume Superdose Eau de Parfum 100ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea behind Juliette Has a Gun Not a Perfume Superdose Eau de Parfum 100ml sits in the name: the same single material, considerably more of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe material is ambroxan, used alone. Nothing has been added, nothing has been rebalanced, and the composition is still one ingredient with no top or base to speak of. What has changed is the dose, which pushes the dry, mineral cleanness of ambroxan further out from the skin and makes the first hour genuinely noticeable rather than private. The character is identical; the volume is not. Whether that counts as an improvement depends entirely on what you wanted from the original. If the appeal was its near invisibility, this is the wrong bottle and the standard version is still there. If the appeal was the material itself and the frustration was that it vanished too early, this is the right one. It is also much the better of the two for layering under something heavy, since it has the strength to be felt through a dense floral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongevity is long and the character is flat in the best sense: no development, no surprises, no seasonal limits, nothing to think about. It reads unisex and it will do for work as easily as for an evening, provided you are sparing in a small room. Dated 2019, it sits in the line as the louder sibling of a scent from nearly a decade earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brand is a French niche house founded in 2006 by a descendant of the couturiere Nina Ricci, and it works between Paris and Grasse. 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It is a material that does not do restraint. Mimosa follows, and the pairing is clever, because mimosa is powdery and honeyed with a soft nuttiness that rounds off the gardenia's sharper corners and gives the whole thing an old fashioned gentleness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith so little in it the fragrance stays where it starts. There is no third act to wait for, no clever drydown, and what reaches you after half an hour is a softer version of what you smelled at the start. For a fragrance built on two flowers of this strength, that is less of a limitation than it sounds, but it does mean a light hand is essential. One spray is a statement and three is an announcement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominique Ropion composed it and it launched in 1991. As an eau de toilette it is lighter on the skin than a parfum strength would be, though with materials this assertive the difference is smaller than usual. It is marketed to women and it suits evenings, cooler weather and any occasion where being noticed is part of the point. Longevity is good, as it tends to be when a fragrance rests on flowers this dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fragrance comes from a Paris couture house that Hubert de Givenchy started in 1952 and that LVMH owns now. 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Putting it in the base of a feminine floral alongside cedarwood, musk and amber was a genuinely odd decision in 2000, and it is what keeps the drydown from being the warm sweet cloud that most of its contemporaries settled for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe top is generous. Frangipani leads, thick and creamy and tropical, with jasmine giving it depth, bergamot adding citrus sharpness and eglantine, the wild briar flower, contributing a green and slightly tart floral edge that keeps the opening from being cloying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the middle, dried plum is the interesting one. Dark, sweet and a little winey, it pushes the composition towards something richer than the opening suggests, while raspberry adds tartness beside it and lotus a cool, watery transparency that holds the whole arrangement open rather than letting it close up. The combination was more adventurous than the marketing of the time let on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has good longevity at this concentration and moderate projection, and it suits evenings and cooler weather better than a hot afternoon. The 100ml bottle is the practical choice for anyone who already knows they get on with it. The house is Italian, founded in Milan in 1978 by Gianni Versace and creatively directed since his death by Donatella Versace. 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That first impression lasts a few minutes and then the flowers take over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRose is the recognisable one, soft and a little fruity in this treatment. Hawthorn is the oddity, a hedgerow flower with a dusty, faintly musty sweetness that reads nostalgic rather than modern, and lotus is the cool one, watery and clean with a green undertone, which keeps the middle from becoming plush. The three together make a heart that is pretty without being obvious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is the warm half. Vanilla sweetens quietly, amber adds a soft resinous glow, patchouli brings earth and a trace of ink, and white musk smooths the join so the last hours sit close and comfortable on skin. Michel Almairac composed it, and it dates from 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an eau de toilette it is moderate by design: four hours or so, a soft trail, nothing that fills a room. That makes it easy to wear at work and through the day, and the 75ml bottle is a sensible size for something you reach for regularly rather than hoard. Autumn and spring suit it, and it reads feminine and quite grown up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMontblanc is a German luxury goods maker based in Hamburg, known first and foremost for fountain pens and writing instruments and later for watches, and it operates as a division of Richemont. 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Mandarin orange lifts it, pink pepper adds a prickle, lily of the valley brings a cool green cleanliness, and water jasmine gives a thinner, dewier version of the flower that keeps the top from clogging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle opens the flowers out properly and it is rich with it. Jasmine opens out heavy and slightly indolic, orange blossom turns it brighter and more soapy, and ylang ylang pushes the whole thing towards banana skin and custard. Tolu balsam and vanilla are already present at this stage, which is why the flowers never read as a garden; they read as dessert with flowers in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it settles. Coconut returns alongside sandalwood, which is creamy and smooth rather than dry, sugar makes the sweetness explicit, and musk keeps it close to the skin for hours. This is a heavy composition and it behaves like one: two sprays go a long way, it is far better in cold weather than hot, and it is made for nights out rather than offices. Quentin Bisch composed it, and it dates from 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe company behind it is a Spanish one trading under a French designer's name. Paco Rabanne's first collection appeared in 1966, Puig set up the perfume arm in 1968 and released Calandre in 1969, and in 1987 Puig took over the whole brand. Lady Million and Olympea are its best known women's names, and the house dropped the Paco to trade as Rabanne.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rabanne","offers":[{"title":"50ml","offer_id":53290702176583,"sku":"BTS150644","price":53.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"80ml","offer_id":54425546424647,"sku":"BTS150642","price":98.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts150644.webp?v=1770412286"},{"product_id":"hermes-terre-d-hermes-deodorant-stick-75g","title":"Terre d'Hermès Deodorant Stick 75g","description":"\u003cp\u003eStick deodorants suit people who travel, and Hermès Terre d'Hermès Deodorant Stick 75g is the version of this grooming line that goes in hand luggage without argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo materials are recorded for the scent, grapefruit and cedarwood. The grapefruit is tart and slightly bitter, the smell of the peel being broken rather than the juice, and it reads bright for the first few minutes after application. Cedarwood sits behind it, dry and clean with the pale, papery sharpness of plane shavings, and it gives the whole thing a grown up finish rather than a sporty one. It is a two material scent and it does not pretend otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApplied dry, a stick puts the product exactly where you want it and leaves no mist in the bathroom. Two or three strokes per side is the whole job. Let it settle for a moment before dressing, and it will go unnoticed for the rest of the morning, which is precisely what a deodorant is meant to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a deodorant and should be judged as one, so questions of how long it lasts or how far it carries do not really apply. What it does is keep a trace of the range on you through the day, and it layers neatly under the fragrance if you wear that too. The perfumer recorded is Jean-Claude Ellena and the year held against it is 2009. At 75g it will comfortably see out several months of regular use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe house was established in Paris in 1837 and began with saddlery under its founder Thierry Hermès, taking the Faubourg Saint-Honoré premises in 1880. It has been making perfume since 1951 and is still controlled by the founding family, six generations after it started.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290712203591,"sku":"BTS280676","price":49.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts280676.webp?v=1770412406"},{"product_id":"carolina-herrera-good-girl-bowtastic-eau-de-parfum-80ml","title":"Good Girl Bowtastic Eau de Parfum 80ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpecial presentation, familiar contents: Carolina Herrera Good Girl Bowtastic Eau de Parfum 80ml dresses a well known fragrance in a one off bottle, and the scent inside is the one the house launched in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat scent remains one of the most distinctive sold at this level. Almond opens it with a dry, nutty bitterness rather than any sweetness, which surprises people who expect sugar from the packaging. Sambac jasmine and tuberose then arrive together and they are not shy: the jasmine is warm, heady and a little animal, the tuberose thick and creamy with a cool rubbery edge, and between them they give the fragrance its loud floral centre. The base is the clever part. Tonka bean brings a soft sweetness with a chalky, biscuit like quality, and cocoa is used dark and unsweetened so the finish is bitter as much as it is sweet. That tension is why the composition has lasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive materials, and all of them legible from the first spray to the last hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eau de parfum concentration it is strong. Eight hours or more is usual, projection is generous, and two sprays is genuinely the limit in company. It is at its best in cold weather and after dark, it reads feminine, and it suits evenings, parties and winter days out. Eighty millilitres is the standard full size, and in a special edition bottle it also makes an obvious gift for anybody who already owns the scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fashion house that owns the name was built in New York from 1981, the year its Venezuelan born founder showed a first collection. Perfume came seven years later on a Puig licence, and in 1995 the clothing side passed to the Spanish group as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carolina Herrera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290729308487,"sku":"BTS400129","price":119.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts400129.webp?v=1770412581"},{"product_id":"rabanne-ultraviolet-eau-de-parfum-80ml","title":"Ultraviolet Eau de Parfum 80ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eRabanne Ultraviolet Eau de Parfum 80ml arrived in 1999 and still smells like the end of that decade, which is now a selling point rather than a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacques Cavallier Belletrud built it around violet, and violet is a difficult material: powdery, sweet, slightly metallic, with a cold edge that can read as makeup or as sweets depending on what surrounds it. Here it is set against rose and jasmine, which give it body and stop it going thin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening is sharper than the heart suggests. Black pepper and coriander come first with a dry prickle, apricot adds a soft fuzzy sweetness underneath them, and Brazilian rosewood brings a pale, slightly peppery warmth that bridges into the flowers. It takes about fifteen minutes to arrive at the violet proper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe base is where it earns its money. Vanilla and amber make a smooth warm floor, patchouli puts something earthy and faintly damp into it, and cedarwood keeps the edges dry. The result is a perfume that reads as futuristic in the way the late nineties imagined the future: clean, synthetic in the best sense, and a little cold. It lasts well and projects moderately, which makes it workable by day as well as at night, and it is better in cooler weather where the powder does not turn heavy. The 80ml bottle holds a great deal of perfume for the money, and anyone curious about the period it came from should start here rather than with a modern reissue of something older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabanne itself is French by name and Spanish by ownership. The designer whose name it carries showed a first collection in 1966, after which Puig built the fragrance division in 1968, launched Calandre in 1969 and acquired the entire brand in 1987. The house is now simply Rabanne, and its modern pillars are 1 Million, Invictus, Lady Million and Olympea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rabanne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290731077959,"sku":"BTS6483","price":60.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/bts6483.webp?v=1770412600"},{"product_id":"jimmy-choo-eau-de-parfum","title":"Jimmy Choo Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe one that started the house's fragrance range, Jimmy Choo Eau de Parfum arrived in 2011, was composed by Olivier Polge, and is still the bottle most people mean when they name the brand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive materials, which is short for something this well known. Pear opens it, cool and juicy with a clean watery crispness, and mandarin orange brightens the edges of that. Orchid holds the middle on its own, and it is handled as a soft, slightly powdery floral rather than an exotic one, giving the scent its rounded centre and keeping the whole thing civilised. The base is the part that makes it memorable. Toffee is an unusual thing to put in a perfume of this kind, and here it is buttery and caramelised without ever becoming a dessert, because patchouli is sitting directly underneath it with its earthy, dry, faintly bitter weight. That tension between something sweet and something distinctly not sweet is why the scent reads as grown up rather than girlish, and it is the main reason it has outlasted almost all of its generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEau de parfum strength gives it real staying power. Expect a strong first hour, then a long settled phase where the toffee and patchouli dominate and sit close to the skin. Two sprays is the right amount. It works in cold weather and in the evening far more naturally than on a hot afternoon, and it suits women who want something sweet with a real edge left on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimmy Choo was founded in London in 1996 as a luxury accessories house, best known for women's shoes and now selling bags, small accessories and men's shoes as well. 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