Gentleman Cologne
Four materials, no complications: Givenchy Gentleman Cologne Eau de Toilette 50ml is the lightest and simplest thing in the Gentleman family and it never pretends otherwise.
Rosemary opens it and effectively defines it. It is the herb at its most aromatic, green and camphorous with a clean resinous edge, the sort of smell associated with cut herbs and clean skin rather than with perfume, and it is unusual to find it so exposed at the top of a composition.
Iris follows as the only material in the heart. Cool, powdery and faintly earthy, it takes the sharpness off the rosemary and gives the fragrance a smooth grey calm in the middle, which is what stops it reading as a barbershop splash. Vetiver and musk close it. Vetiver brings a rooty, slightly smoky dryness and musk a soft skin warmth, and between them they keep the herb and the powder in place for a few hours. It is a plain finish, and in a composition of four materials there is nowhere for anything to hide.
This is a short composition and a light concentration, so expect three or four hours and a modest trail: a scent for a hot morning, a clean shirt and a working day rather than for an evening out. Nathalie Lorson and Olivier Cresp are credited with it and it dates from 2017, and the 50ml size suits something you will apply liberally and finish quickly. It reads masculine but only just, and anybody who likes rosemary will find it wearable regardless. The perfume maison operates separately from the fashion house that gave it the name, both of them under LVMH, and the men's catalogue runs from this through to Gentleman Society.
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