L'Eau
Daphné Bugey built Tous L'Eau Eau de Toilette 90ml as a clean, dry, slightly herbal scent that reads unisex, and at 90ml it is one of the better value bottles the jeweller sells.
It opens on citrus, straightforwardly. Bergamot gives the bright edge, grapefruit the bitter pith, and between them the first minutes are sharp and a little sour rather than sweet, which sets the tone for everything that follows. The middle is the interesting part. Lavender arrives clean and faintly camphorous, Virginia cedar brings a dry splintery sharpness unusually early for that material, and African orange blossom lifts both with a green, honeyed floral note. The combination is neither masculine nor feminine in any obvious way: the lavender pulls one direction, the blossom the other, and the cedar holds the middle ground.
Vetiver, musk and patchouli finish it. Vetiver supplies roots, smoke and a touch of grapefruit skin bitterness, patchouli adds a dark earthiness, and the musk smooths them both into something soft and skin close. Eight materials, arranged with a light hand throughout, so nothing shouts at any point in the wear. An eau de toilette at this size is meant to be used generously, and this one takes four sprays without complaint. Expect two good hours and then a quiet, clean trail that stays into the evening. It is a daytime scent for any season, comfortable in heat, and it suits a household where two people want to share a bottle.
Tous traces itself to 1920 and to Salvador Tous Blavi, who began as an apprentice watchmaker; the business he and Teresa Ponsa went on to build is a Spanish jewellery name first and foremost.
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