Man
Tobacco, cognac and leather in the same heart make the Poseidon Man Eau de Toilette Gift Set the most grown up thing in the range by some distance. The opening gives no warning of it. Galbanum is fiercely green and bitter, almost like snapped stems, pink grapefruit is bright and tart, cypress is dry and resinous, and elemi adds a bright peppery resin that pulls the four together. It is sharp, green and quite austere. Nothing in that opening prepares you for what is underneath, which is part of the pleasure of wearing it. Then the middle arrives and the whole fragrance changes temperature. Tobacco is dry and sweetish, the smell of the cured leaf rather than of anything burning, cognac brings a boozy, fruity warmth with a real alcoholic lift to it, and leather sits underneath both with its dry, faintly smoky toughness. This stretch is the reason to own it.
You get the 100ml Eau de Toilette and a 100ml aftershave. White amber and vanilla close it, the amber cleaner and more transparent than ordinary amber and the vanilla soft enough to take the edge off the leather. The finish is warm, smooth and long. Nine materials, arranged in three clearly separated stages, and each one earns its place.
As a present it is for a man who has moved past sports fragrance and wants something with some gravity to it, and the set presentation saves you wrapping it. Cold weather and evenings suit it best. It is the sort of fragrance that works for a dinner or a winter evening out rather than for the office, and it lasts long enough to see either of them through. Poseidon is a men's fragrance line from Instituto Espanol, a Spanish family firm in its third generation which dates its own beginnings to 1903 and makes colognes, shower gels, creams and deodorants at Hinojos in Huelva.
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