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L.12.12 Blanc
Buying for a man who already owns a bottle of something is a common problem, and Lacoste L.12.12 Blanc Eau de Toilette Gift Set solves it by being the fragrance he probably owns already.
Begin with the base, because it is the part that explains the scent's long run of popularity. Suede is the finishing material, soft and dry and faintly tanned, the smell of the inside of a new jacket rather than anything animal, and vetiver sits with it, rooty and a bit smoky, giving the whole thing a dry backbone. Above that, tuberose and ylang ylang are used sparingly, two creamy white flowers providing weight rather than any kind of floral sweetness, which is why nobody reads this as a feminine scent despite what is in it. The opening is the famous part: grapefruit, bitter and juicy, cut with cardamom, which is cool and green and slightly camphorous and turns an ordinary citrus into something more considered.
Six materials, a toilette concentration, four or five hours of wear and a trail that stays polite. It suits warm weather, offices, travel and more or less any daytime occasion, which is exactly why it makes a safe present for somebody whose taste you do not know in detail. As a set it is a tidier thing to hand over than a bare bottle, and the fragrance itself needs no explanation to anyone who has walked past a fragrance counter in the last decade.
The house behind it is a French clothing company dating from 1933, founded by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste with Andre Gillier, a manufacturer of knitwear, and known for the crocodile marked polo shirt. Lacoste places its first fragrance in 1968, and the L.12.12 series is now the most prominent part of its scent range, running from Blanc through to Noir.
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