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Absolute Deodorant Spray 75ml
Bruno Banani Absolute Deodorant Spray 75ml is a scented deodorant and not a perfume, which is worth saying plainly, because you use it differently: it goes on over clean skin after a shower, its first job is to keep you fresh through the day, and the scent is a pleasant consequence rather than the point.
It opens bright. Mandarin orange gives a sweet, pithy citrus, grapefruit puts the bitter rind edge underneath it so the sweetness does not turn into squash, and black pepper lays a dry crackle over both. That pepper is the detail that stops the spray smelling like a bathroom cabinet.
Through the middle there is violet leaf, which is green and faintly metallic and nothing at all like the powdery flower, and lily of the valley beside it, clean and white and soapy in the way that suits a grooming product. What stays on skin afterwards is warmer: tonka bean with a dusty sweetness nearer to icing sugar than to pudding, vanilla smoothing its edges, and amber sitting low underneath as a soft resin that keeps the trace from vanishing by lunchtime.
Dated 2014. A 75ml aerosol covers a lot of mornings and it is the least expensive way to live with this scent day to day, which is really what a deodorant in a fragrance range is for. Apply at a distance, let it dry, and expect the citrus to fade within the hour while the warm end hangs about quietly under your shirt.
Bruno Banani itself is a German clothing company, set up near Chemnitz in November 1993 by Wolfgang Jassner, and designer underwear for men and women is still its real trade, made at the company's own Chemnitz factory. The name is licensed out widely, from swimwear and sportswear to home textiles, and fragrance has grown into the largest of those licences. Coty makes the perfumes.
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