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Legend
Legend is one of the most widely worn men's scents on any counter and this set is the straightforward way to own it. Bergamot and lemon verbena open it with a clean sharpness, lavender comes through immediately behind them with its soapy herbal edge, and pineapple is the surprise, bright and slightly sweet, the thing that makes the first ten minutes memorable rather than merely tidy. The middle is more grown up: geranium, green and faintly metallic, rose giving it body, apple keeping a fruited brightness going, coumarin adding a warm hay like sweetness, and oakmoss underneath with a dry, mossy bitterness that stops the sweetness running away. Sandalwood and tonka bean finish it, creamy and smooth against something softly warm and powdery, and that pairing is what people recognise on a jumper hours later. Olivier Pescheux built it.
Bought as a set it is a safe present, which is both its strength and the only real caution: plenty of men already own a bottle, so it is worth a quick check before wrapping it. Two sprays will do, since it carries further than most people expect, and it is at its best as a daytime and office scent in spring and autumn. It is a sound first serious fragrance for someone in their late teens or twenties, and equally at home on someone decades older.
Montblanc is a German firm, based in Hamburg, built on fountain pens and writing instruments before it moved into watches and leather, and it belongs to the Richemont group. Its fragrances are made under licence rather than in house. The perfume range is centred on Legend and its relatives, Legend Blue and Legend Spirit, together with Signature and the Montblanc Collection.
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