Kaos
Praline in the base is what people remember about Tous Kaos Eau de Parfum, and Ane Ayo and Olivier Cresp have used it sparingly enough that the scent stays wearable.
The opening is clean fruit and citrus. Pear is soft and watery, lemon sharp and tart, bergamot bitter and bright, and together they make a start that is fresh rather than sweet, which is a useful contrast with what is coming. Lemon in an eau de parfum is always a short lived pleasure, and here it is used knowingly, to buy the composition ten minutes of brightness before the sweetness takes hold.
Sambac jasmine leads the middle, rich and heady with real sweetness, rose sits behind it fuller and rounder, and peach adds a soft fleshy fruit quality that bridges the gap between the citrus above and the sugar below. Peach is the material most people will not name and most people will miss if it were removed.
Then white musk and praline close it. The praline is toasted and sweet rather than clean sugar, and the white musk keeps it soft and skin close rather than letting it turn heavy. Eight materials and a clear line from fresh to warm. A base of two materials is unusually spare for a scent of this type, and it is why the praline reads clearly rather than as part of a general sweetness. It is an easy scent to like and a hard one to dislike.
As an eau de parfum it has the oil to last a full day with moderate reach, and the base is what you will still be smelling in the evening. Women are the market, autumn and winter the season, and evenings or cold afternoons the right moment for it. Tous is a Spanish company that dates itself to 1920 and Salvador Tous Blavi's watchmaking apprenticeship, grew out of a repair workshop in Manresa that he ran with his wife Teresa Ponsa, and is best known for jewellery and for its bear.
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