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First Class
If you want a daily fragrance that will not get you into trouble in an office, Etienne Aigner First Class Eau de Toilette 100ml is built precisely for that job and makes no attempt to be anything else.
Apple leads, crisp and green rather than baked, and it is sharpened straight away by bergamot and grapefruit. Grapefruit is the one that gives the opening its character, bitter around the edges and slightly rindy, which stops the apple sliding into anything syrupy. It is a bright, clean start that lasts around twenty minutes before the middle takes over.
Melon carries that freshness forward with a cool watery sweetness, pink pepper adds a dry rosy prickle over the top, and jasmine provides just enough floral body to keep the whole thing from reading as a shower gel. None of these push hard. The heart is a bridge rather than a destination, and the scent is clearly heading somewhere drier.
That destination is the base, which is the most interesting part of the bottle. Patchouli brings dark earth, vetiver adds a dry rooty green, oakmoss contributes a damp bitterness, and amber warms all three into something comfortable. The result is a fragrance that begins as fruit and finishes as earth, which is a lot of travel for an eau de toilette at this level. Expect moderate projection and a working day of wear if you apply enough, which is about as much as an eau de toilette should be asked to do. It is aimed at men, suits spring and autumn particularly well, and it is inoffensive in close company without being characterless. The 100ml bottle makes it the kind of thing you keep by the door and use without thinking about it, which is a more useful quality in a fragrance than most people admit.
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