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Nina Deodorant Spray 150ml
Nina Deodorant Spray 150ml does the job a deodorant is bought to do while smelling of Nina Ricci's best known scent rather than of nothing much, and that is the whole proposition.
Six materials, and they are arranged the same way as in the spray it accompanies. Lemon and lime give it a sharp, zesty first impression, which on a deodorant matters more than it does on a perfume because that is the moment you notice it. Gardenia brings a creamy white floral softness behind the citrus, and toffee apple is the material that makes the thing recognisable: cooked, sugared, slightly buttery fruit, the smell of a fairground rather than an orchard. Cedarwood dries the finish and white musk keeps it soft and clean against the skin.
Used on dry skin after a shower it holds for the better part of a day, and the scent trace it leaves is light and close. It is a grooming product rather than a fragrance, so it is not meant to carry an evening on its own, and layering it under the eau de toilette is the obvious way to use it.
The fragrance it is built on was composed by Christian Dussoulier, Jacques Cavallier Belletrud and Olivier Cresp. At 150ml the can lasts a month or two of daily use, and it is cheap enough to be worth trying even if the perfume itself is not on your list. It is also the least committing way to find out whether you can live with toffee apple on your skin every morning, which is not a question the tester strip on a counter ever really answers.
Perfume became this house's main business under Robert Ricci, the founder's son, who created a department for it in 1941 and followed that with Coeur Joie in 1946, presented in Lalique crystal. The couture house itself had opened in Paris in 1932, and Puig bought the company in 1998.
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