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Kisses
For a night out in winter, when you want something sweet that still has a spine to it, Saphir Kisses Eau de Parfum 200ml is an easy recommendation.
It begins juicy. Mandarin orange gives a soft, peelable citrus sweetness and pear sits beside it, more the smell of the fruit in a bowl than anything syrupy. Cardamom is the surprise in there, dry and slightly soapy, and it is what keeps the fruit from reading like a children's drink. One material makes up the middle, and it is a bold choice: ylang ylang, creamy and banana like at the edges, with a heady, almost solvent sweetness that fills the gap between the fruit above and the softness below. The whole scent turns on that hinge.
The close is warm and quiet. Vanilla does most of it, thick rather than powdery, with sandalwood lending a milky smoothness and musk holding everything near the skin. The trail is comfortable and a little cosy, the sort of smell people lean towards rather than notice across a room.
Seven materials, which makes for a straightforward composition with a clear shape: fruit, then flower, then cream. It reads as feminine, suits evenings and cold weather, and at 200ml it is a bottle for daily use rather than for rationing. The base has good staying power, though the citrus is gone inside half an hour.
Cheap perfume that is still worth wearing is the premise the company is built on. Saphir is Spanish, owned in Spain and manufacturing there, with a Zaragoza plant that houses its own research centre, and it has been making and distributing fragrance since 1940, when it opened as a warehouse under the name Almacenes Corinto. Designer fragrances made under licence sit beside its own ranges.
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