Seduction Woman
Honey in the base is what separates Saphir Seduction Woman Eau de Parfum 200ml from the dozens of fruity florals it will sit next to on a shelf, and it is the note that decides whether you will like it.
The fruit comes first and it is generous. Raspberry gives a tart, slightly jammy sharpness, peach brings the softer and rounder sweetness beside it, and bergamot cuts across both with a clean bitterness so the opening does not collapse into syrup. It is a frankly pretty start and makes no apology for that.
Violet and rose make the middle, and the violet is the more interesting of the pair. It has a powdery, faintly sweet and slightly green character that reads as old fashioned in the best sense, like a cosmetics counter in a department store, while the rose beneath it is fuller and keeps the stage from floating away.
The base is where the fragrance commits. Honey is thick, warm and a little animalic, with a dark edge that is not entirely polite, and here it sits with vanilla for sweetness and patchouli for earth. Those three together make the last several hours noticeably richer than the first few, and the result is a fragrance that starts girlish and finishes rather more knowing than that. Eight materials, built for evenings and cold weather, and sold in a two hundred millilitre bottle, which at this concentration is a great deal of perfume. A light hand is sensible, because the base does not need help carrying.
Saphir, the Spanish house responsible, has been in the fragrance trade since 1940. It grew out of a family warehouse in Zaragoza called Almacenes Corinto, remains entirely in Spanish ownership, and makes all of its own branded product at a Zaragoza plant that keeps a research centre of its own.
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