Yellow Diamond
The Versace Yellow Diamond Eau de Toilette Gift Set is a dependable present, because the scent inside it is a widely worn feminine fragrance that very few people have to be talked into.
It is built to be bright, and it stays that way. Citron opens it with a bitter peel sharpness, bergamot adds a cleaner citrus lift, neroli contributes a green flower quality with a soapy edge, and pear softens the lot with a cool watery sweetness. The heart is four light flowers: water lily, cool and aquatic; freesia, clean and crisp; orange blossom, soft and sweet; and mimosa, dry and faintly powdery. None of them adds any weight, which is precisely the point of choosing them.
The base is amberwood, palo santo and musk. Palo santo is the one to notice, a dry timber with a faint smokiness and a touch of sweetness to it, and it gives the ending a character that a fragrance this light does not usually manage to have. Amberwood warms it, musk softens it, and the whole thing settles down close to the skin. Eleven materials, and not a difficult one among them.
As a gift it is about as safe as fragrance gets. It is cheerful rather than serious, it suits a very wide range of ages and tastes, and it is light enough to be worn at work and in warm weather, which is where most people will wear it anyway. Nothing in it needs explaining, and nothing in it needs getting used to. The set is boxed and ready to give, which takes care of the presentation and the wrapping in one go.
The Italian house was Gianni Versace's, begun in Milan in 1978, and Donatella Versace took it over on his death. Clothes are only the start of its work, which also covers interiors, hotels and perfume.
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