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Eau de Rochas
There is a kind of fragrance that gets bought every year without anyone ever calling it a favourite, and Eau de Rochas Eau de Toilette Gift Set is one of them.
Its durability comes down to the composition. Nicolas Mamounas gave it four citrus materials at the top, and they behave differently from one another: lemon is sharp, bergamot bitter, mandarin orange rounder and sweeter, and lemon verbena dry, leafy and herbal. Together they read less like a fruit and more like a cologne of the old school. Daffodil holds the middle with its cool green bitterness, jasmine fills it out, and lily of the valley gives it a laundered cleanness. Underneath, patchouli and oakmoss bring earth and damp, and myrrh adds a resin that dries the sweetness out entirely. The gap between the sunlit top and the shaded base is the reason it has never dated.
Wear it in daylight and in the warmer half of the year. It is comfortable in close company, which is not always true of fragrance, and it has never been a scent that announces itself. Expect a few hours of real presence and then a close, soft finish that holds into the evening.
In set form the decision is mostly about the occasion. It is a present for someone whose tastes you respect but do not share, and that is a more common situation than the fragrance counters admit. It is also an easy thing to wrap, which matters more than people tend to say.
The couturier Marcel Rochas opened in Paris in 1925 and added a perfume arm in 1936. Helene Rochas led the house from 1955 onwards and expanded that side of it substantially. The brand passed to Interparfums, who purchased it from Procter and Gamble in 2015.
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