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LoveMe Onyx
Parfum is the strongest way a house normally sells a fragrance, and Tous LoveMe Onyx Parfum Gift Set is worth understanding on that basis before anything else.
The concentration does not make it loud. It makes it slow. Expect the composition to sit close against the skin and to keep going for most of a day, revealing itself to people at conversational distance rather than across a room. What they will find is hazelnut first, roasted and nutty with a faint oiliness, sharpened by grapefruit so that the opening has bite as well as body. Peony gives a cool floral snap that fades quickly. Orchid and heliotrope form a brief, soft middle, the orchid creamy and fleshy, the heliotrope powdery in the way that face powder is. Then vanilla, vetiver and sandalwood carry the rest: smooth, earthy and dry in turn, with the vetiver doing the essential job of stopping the sweetness running away.
Eight materials, a short heart and a long base, which is why it feels heavier than the list looks.
As a present it is best aimed at someone who already enjoys warm fragrance and cold weather. It is not a summer bottle and it is not a quiet office choice. Given in the right month to the right person it will be worn out rather than left on a shelf, which is the only real test of a fragrance present. The hazelnut is the deciding material: ask whether nut and vanilla together appeal.
Tous is a Spanish jewellery company whose head office remains in Manresa, the Catalan town where it began as a watch repair workshop. It puts its own origin at 1920 and at Salvador Tous Blavi, then apprenticed to a watchmaker, who with Teresa Ponsa grew the business into a jewellery name that its bear alone will identify. From 2000 the company extended into fragrance.
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