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Love Me Gift Set
If you are buying for somebody in their twenties or thirties who wears fragrance daily rather than ceremonially, Tous Love Me Gift Set is the sort of present that gets used up.
Inside are the 90ml Eau de Parfum, a 15ml spray and a 4.5ml miniature. The scent is bright at the start and dry at the end. Pink grapefruit leads with a bitter, zesty snap, pink pepper adds a peppery dryness without warmth, and lychee rounds the two of them out with a sweet, faintly floral juiciness. Then the flowers: peony, cool and crisp as paper; centifolia rose, the many petalled perfumery variety, fuller and gentler than most; and jasmine, which brightens the whole heart and gives it some polish. The finish is deliberately unsweetened. Cedarwood is dry and sharp, cashmeran is soft and warm with a trace of spice, and oakmoss brings a damp, bitter earthiness that reads like moss on stone.
There is no long evolution to wait for and that is a virtue in something worn every day. The shape is clear within ten minutes and holds. As a gift it has the advantage of looking like more than one thing without you having to guess at sizes or formats. It reads feminine, it suits offices, weekends and evenings equally, and it is forgiving of a heavy hand. The dry close is the part that makes it feel grown up rather than girlish, and it is why the fragrance holds up on somebody in their forties as readily as on somebody half that.
Watch repair came first for Tous, in Manresa, Catalonia, where the company is still headquartered. Salvador Tous Blavi and Teresa Ponsa built a jewellery business out of it, a start the firm dates to 1920, and the bear it uses has been recognised ever since. Perfume followed in 2000, a long way down the road.
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