Eros Gift Set
The house's standing in men's fragrance rests largely on this name, and the Versace Eros Gift Set is the boxed way to buy it. What makes it work is a single contrast. Mint sits over lemon and mandarin orange with a cold, almost crystalline clarity, and apple supplies a bright bitten sweetness against it. Cold and sweet at once is an unusual opening to get right, and this one has been copied often enough to prove the point. The apple is the part of it that dates least.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 10ml spray and a toiletry bag. Geranium and clary sage occupy the middle briefly, one green with a bitter rasp, the other dry and herbal, and they exist to move the fragrance along rather than to be noticed. The base is warm and dry together. Cedarwood and vetiver give it a rooty backbone, patchouli adds earth and depth, sandalwood softens, and vanilla rounds the finish into something that stays comfortable for hours. That is eleven materials, weighted towards the end of the wear. That is why a fragrance which opens cold is described by almost everybody who wears it as warm.
It suits cold weather and evenings best, and it is as much a going out fragrance as an everyday one. Used lightly it is perfectly fine at a desk, and used heavily it will follow you around, so the restraint is yours to apply. Seven or eight hours is normal, and the sandalwood and vanilla at the end are what people remember of it. As a gift set it suits a man who wears fragrance without being precious about it, and the name alone does most of the explaining. Nobody has ever been disappointed to unwrap this one.
The label is Milanese, dating from 1978 and founded by Gianni Versace. Donatella, his sister, has led it since he died, and fashion, furnishings, hospitality and fragrance all belong to it.
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