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Select Blue Man
Three citruses in the opening and almost nothing sweet anywhere in it: Saphir Select Blue Man Eau de Parfum 200ml takes the dry, clean route rather than the sugared one.
Bergamot, mandarin orange and grapefruit do the first few minutes between them. The bergamot is bitter and perfumed, the mandarin softer and rounder, the grapefruit sharp with that faintly sulphurous pith bite that makes it read cold rather than juicy. It is a bright, soapy start of the kind that works on a hot morning. What follows is less expected. Oakmoss brings a damp, earthy greenness, rosewood a dry floral warmth, and incense lays a thin, cool smokiness across both. That combination gives the heart a shadowed quality the opening never promises, and it is why the scent still holds your attention past the first half hour.
The base is unusually spare: black pepper and rosemary, and nothing else. Pepper is dry and prickly, rosemary herbal and camphorous, and the two finish the fragrance dry and sharp instead of giving it the warmth most men's bottles aim for. The result never really softens, which some will read as refreshing and others as austere.
It runs five or six hours with moderate projection, suits spring and summer, and works for daytime, offices and travel. Aimed at men. A 200ml bottle at this price makes it a daily wear rather than something kept back for occasions.
Almacenes Corinto was the name over the door when the business began in Zaragoza, and perfume has been its trade since 1940. Saphir is Spanish owned in full and manufactures in Spain, at a Zaragoza factory with its own research laboratory, with the declared aim of selling perfume people can afford to buy again. Designer names bottled under licence make up the other half of its output.
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