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Qissa Delicious
Dark chocolate and orange is a pairing borrowed straight from the confectioner, and Paris Corner Qissa Delicious Eau de Parfum 100ml uses it without a trace of embarrassment.
The opening is exactly those two. Dark chocolate is dry and dusty rather than melted, closer to a dark powder in a tin than to a bar in the hand, and orange is bright and zesty over the top of it. The contrast is immediate and it is easily the best thing in the bottle, bitter and sweet at once in the first ten minutes. The middle softens everything. Coconut is creamy and slightly oily, marshmallow powdery and sweet beside it, and jasmine is in there to lift the pair with something floral so the whole thing does not read purely as food. It is a thick, comfortable centre and it lasts a good while.
Two materials finish the job. Vanilla is smooth and warm, white musk clean and close, and between them they hold the sweetness against the skin rather than pushing it outwards. Seven materials in total, which makes this a short composition dressed as a rich one, and there is no third act waiting. What you get in the first half hour is the fragrance. Cold weather and evenings, for anybody happy to smell edible. Projection is strong for an hour and then it settles in close for most of a day. One spray will do the job and two is plenty. At 100ml it is a bottle you can easily afford to wear casually. The company is Paris Corner, a Middle Eastern business that owns each of the names on its bottles and licenses none of them. Emir, North Stag and Pendora are part of it, and the Qissa scents are sold under the parent's own name.
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