Fresia Solar
Simplicity is the selling point of Adolfo Domínguez Fresia Solar Eau de Parfum Gift Set, and it makes it an unusually easy present to give to somebody who does not wear much fragrance.
Most perfume gifts fail because they are too much: too sweet, too heavy, too insistent. This one holds three materials and does not shout. Anyone who finds department store fragrance overwhelming is likely to get on with it without any difficulty at all.
Freesia is the flower at its centre, cool and watery with a peppery edge and a green stem quality, and it is one of the cleanest smelling florals in perfumery. Bergamot opens above it, perfumed and faintly bitter, lasting only a few minutes before stepping aside. Cedarwood runs beneath, dry and sharply pencil like, giving the flower a frame to stand in. There is nothing else in it and nothing hidden away. The scent does not develop in stages, it simply becomes quieter over the course of five or six hours, which at eau de parfum strength is rather longer than the delicacy of the thing would lead you to expect.
Give it to someone starting out with fragrance, to a teenager, or to anyone who has said they do not like perfume, because what they usually mean is that they do not like loud perfume. Mention that it is best applied in the morning and best suited to warm weather and daylight hours. Boxed as a set it presents well and asks nothing of the recipient beyond opening it.
Adolfo Domínguez began as a Spanish fashion house in 1976, with roots in a tailoring business the family had run in Ourense since 1950. The founder lent his name to a perfume in 1990, a first for a Spanish designer, and Puig produces the fragrances under licence.
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