Toy 2 Pearl Eau de Parfum Gift Set

Moschino Toy 2 Pearl Eau de Parfum Gift Set is the quietest present in the Toy family, and the short note row is the reason why.

Six materials, and the fragrance behaves like a short composition rather than a long story. Lemon starts it, clean and sour, and oregano comes in beside it almost at once. That is the unusual pairing: oregano is dry, herbal and faintly bitter, the smell of a kitchen rather than a flower shop, and it keeps the lemon from reading as soap. Jasmine and freesia carry the middle, jasmine with the heavier, richer weight and freesia with a thin, prickling brightness that stays light. Vetiver appears early here rather than being saved for the end, rooty and dry, and cypress finishes it off with a cool, green, slightly resinous edge. There is very little evolution to follow here, and no third act waiting at the end of it. What the wearer smells in the first ten minutes is broadly what they will smell an hour later, which some people much prefer and others find plain, and it is worth knowing before the box is handed over.

That simplicity is also what makes it a safe gift. It is crisp, it is clean, it is not sweet, and it sits closer to a cologne in character than to a dessert, so it suits warm weather, daytime and anyone who dislikes heavy perfume. Domitille Michalon Bertier composed it.

Moschino's clothes have come out of Milan since Franco Moschino launched the label with a womenswear collection in 1983, with Rossella Jardini taking the creative lead after he died in 1994. Its perfumes come from Euroitalia, the licensee since 1987, which in September 2024 bought the Moschino perfume and cosmetics trademark from Aeffe.