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Sculpture
Nikos Sculpture Eau de Parfum 100ml is the richer concentration of a name most people know from the men's toilette, and it is one of the better value bottles on this shelf.
The opening is a full citrus chord rather than a single fruit: orange blossom gives it a clean white floral brightness, bergamot cuts in with a bitter edge, lemon sharpens it further and mandarin orange rounds the whole thing off with something sweeter and more peel like. The middle turns properly floral, with jasmine warm and full, lily of the valley dewy and faintly metallic, and geranium adding a green, crushed leaf bitterness that keeps the flowers from going soft. The base is where the money shows. Tonka bean brings a sweet, powdery warmth like the inside of a biscuit tin, benzoin adds a balsamic, syrupy resin, amber glows underneath, and cedarwood dries it all out.
Alienor Massenet composed it. Eleven materials and a proper three part structure, which is more composition than most bottles at this price attempt. At eau de parfum strength the citrus burns off faster than the rest, and what you live with for most of the day is the floral middle over that warm resinous base. Expect a good six to eight hours, with real presence in the first two.
It suits cooler weather and evenings, and it is the sort of fragrance that works at a party rather than in a quiet meeting. The 100ml bottle is the standard size and the only sensible one to buy, since there is nothing precious about the way it is made or sold.
Nikos is the label of the Greek born designer Nikos Apostolopoulos, who built his business in Paris and first became known in the mid 1980s for men's bodywear and intimate apparel. Fragrance was run as a separate business from the clothing, and it is the part of the name that lasted: the clothing line has long faded from view while the scents carry on selling.
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