Pi Eau de Toilette 100ml

Givenchy Pi Eau de Toilette 100ml is the full size bottle of a men's fragrance that has outlasted almost everything released in the same decade, and the bigger format is where the value sits.

We hold three materials for it, which makes this a short composition, and the copy will not pretend otherwise. Mandarin orange begins it, the sweetest and pithiest of the citrus fruits, with a rounded juiciness instead of a sharp edge. Pine needles come in underneath and they are the signature, green and resinous and slightly bitter, the smell of sap on your hands after handling a branch. The two make an odd and rather good pairing. Benzoin is the base and it is all there is down there, a balsamic resin with a sweet, faintly dusty warmth, something like the inside of an old wooden box that once held sugar. It is the part that lingers. With no floral middle to speak of, the scent moves in a straight line from bright and green to warm and sweet, and it does not surprise you after the first twenty minutes. That is a feature for anybody who finds complicated fragrances tiring. Toilette strength means five or six hours and a moderate reach, generous enough for a cold day, never overpowering in an office, and the 100ml gives you plenty of room to be liberal with it.

It suits autumn and winter, and the kind of man who wants some warmth in a bottle rather than another aquatic. Alberto Morillas composed it and the launch year is 1998. The label belongs to a French fashion house of 1952 vintage, created by the couturier Hubert de Givenchy, LVMH owned today, whose scents come from a maison of their own.