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L'Homme
Alberto Morillas composed Lanvin L'Homme Eau de Toilette 100ml, and it is a clean, herbal men's scent of a type that has quietly gone out of production almost everywhere else. Lavender opens it, and it is the point of the fragrance rather than a decoration: herbal, slightly soapy, calming, the smell most people associate with a well kept barbershop. Bergamot and mandarin orange brighten it, neroli adds a clean orange flower lift, and the opening is genuinely cologne like for a good quarter of an hour.
The middle is cooler and sharper than expected. Mint gives a real chill, sage a dry herbal bitterness, and then black pepper and cardamom come in with a spice that is dusty and green rather than hot. That pairing of mint and lavender is what keeps the fragrance from reading as old fashioned, and it is the best stretch of the whole wear.
The base is where it turns comfortable. Musk is clean and close, sandalwood creamy, vanilla lightly sweet and amber resinous, and together they take a bracing opening into something soft enough to sleep in. It was released in 1997 and has outlasted most of its contemporaries.
Expect four to six hours and moderate projection, which is normal for a toilette built on citrus and herbs, and spray it generously because nothing here is heavy. It suits daytime, the office and warm weather, and it is aimed at men, particularly men who want to smell clean and groomed rather than noticeable. The 100ml is the standard size and the sensible one.
Lanvin started in 1889 as a Paris hat shop run by the milliner Jeanne Lanvin. Fragrance has been handled by a separate company since 1964, while the fashion house itself now sits inside the Chinese owned Lanvin Group, which bought in during 2018. Arpege, composed in 1927, is still the perfumery's best known work.
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