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My Identity
Nine materials and a proper three stage build put Saphir My Identity Eau de Parfum 200ml among the more ambitious things in the range, and it wears like a fragrance with a plan.
The opening is citrus led and genuinely bright. Bergamot gives the clean, bitter lift, grapefruit adds a sharper and slightly sulphurous tang that stops it being merely pleasant, and neroli brings a green, lightly bitter sweetness that softens the corners. It is energetic without being aggressive, and it lasts longer than most openings of this type.
The middle is where it turns. Lavender is the familiar part, herbal and cool with a clean, slightly soapy character, and geranium sharpens it with a crisp green bite. Cashmeran is the modern material in there, and it is worth knowing: it smells warm, dry, faintly animalic and a little spicy all at once, and it is what gives this its smooth, polished quality rather than a traditional one.
The base is dry and serious. Oakmoss brings that green, bark like, slightly damp depth, ambergris adds a mineral and faintly salty smoothness, and tonka bean rounds it off with a sweetness closer to cut grass left to dry than to any dessert. The three of them together give it real staying power. Expect the better part of a day from it. It is marketed to men, it holds up from the office into the evening, and autumn and spring suit it better than high summer.
Spanish owned and Spanish made, Saphir has been in fragrance since 1940. The business grew from a Zaragoza warehouse that one family ran as Almacenes Corinto, and still manufactures all its own branded product at a Zaragoza plant with a research centre on site, alongside the designer fragrance it makes under licence.
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