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Nina Gift Set
Three perfumers are credited with the fragrance in the Nina Gift Set, from Nina Ricci: Christian Dussoulier, Jacques Cavallier Belletrud and Olivier Cresp, which is a considerable amount of talent to spend on six materials.
Inside are the 80ml Eau de Parfum, a 75ml body lotion and a 10ml roll-on. The result is deliberately easy to wear. Lemon and lime give it a quick zesty opening, bright for a couple of minutes and no longer than that, which is all the brightness the fragrance has in it. Toffee apple is the centre of the thing, sweetness and tart fruit at once, unapologetically sweet, and gardenia supports it with a creamy, heady white flower that supplies the weight the sweetness lacks on its own.
Cedarwood and white musk finish it off, dry and clean respectively, and they are what keep a fragrance this sweet from turning sickly after an hour on warm skin. There is no complicated development here, just a slow fade over four or five hours, which is honest enough at eau de toilette strength and easy to live with. The first half hour is the only part that carries any distance. As a gift it is about as low risk as perfume gets. It reads feminine and young, it suits daytime, school, work and mild weather, and it is the sort of scent that gets finished rather than abandoned half full at the back of a cupboard. Presented in a box it also looks like a proper present, which a single bottle sometimes does not. Nina Ricci itself is a Paris house, established in 1932 and named for the Italian born couturiere whose son Robert ran the company and started its perfume business, with a perfume department of its own from 1941. It has belonged to Puig since 1998, and the fragrances are developed under that group today.
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