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Blue
Poseidon Blue Eau de Toilette 150ml is a big bottle of inexpensive Spanish cologne, and the size is half the argument: this is scent bought by the bottleful and worn without rationing.
It opens cold. Mandarin orange supplies the sweetness, grapefruit puts bitter rind underneath it, and mint cuts across both with a cool, almost toothpaste clean lift that holds for the first few minutes. That is the just showered part of it, and for most buyers it is the reason to pick the bottle up. What stops it being only that is the middle, where nutmeg brings a dry dusty warmth, ginger adds a sharper and more fizzing heat, and geranium sits between them with a green, slightly metallic floral bite. The effect is closer to shaving soap than to anything in a kitchen.
The base is the serious end. Patchouli gives earth and a dark damp sweetness, vetiver adds dry roots and a grassy bitterness, and incense draws a thin line of smoke over both. That is more structure than a cologne at this money usually bothers with, and it is why this one is still legible on a shirt collar the following morning. As an eau de toilette it is built for generous application rather than two careful sprays. Expect a loud half hour and then a close, clean skin scent for several hours after. It reads as a men's daytime cologne, the kind that lives in a gym bag or a desk drawer and gets used most in summer.
Poseidon is the men's fragrance name of Instituto Espanol, a Spanish company that dates itself to 1903 and is now run by a third generation of the same family. It manufactures at Hinojos, in the Donana country of Huelva, making colognes beside shower gels, creams and deodorants, and it prices the Poseidon ranges to be affordable, with The Black and Impulse sitting alongside Blue.
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