Touch the Original Gold Gift Set
The Tous Touch the Original Gold Gift Set puts a properly grown up flower led fragrance into a box, which makes it a safer present than most.
The scent is the draw. It opens with lemon, gooseberry and pink pepper, a combination that is tart and green and a little peppery all at once, with osmanthus underneath adding a curious warm sweetness and a dry, slightly tanned edge that most flowers do not have. From there it moves into a wide white bouquet of jasmine, tuberose, rose and lotus. Tuberose supplies the body, jasmine the creaminess, rose the structure, and lotus a cool watery thread that keeps the four of them from piling up on each other. The close is musk, patchouli and amber, warm and earthy and soft, the sort of finish that is still there on a scarf the next morning. Eleven materials, a classical shape, and nothing eccentric in it, which matters when you are buying for somebody whose taste you only half know.
Who it suits: anyone who already wears flowers and wants more of them, rather than somebody after something light and fruity. It is better in autumn and winter than in high summer, it carries an evening well, and it is comfortably smart enough for a wedding or a dinner. A boxed set is an easy thing to give and an easy thing to receive, with no wrapping required, nothing to assemble and no decision left to the person handing it over.
Tous dates its beginnings to 1920, when Salvador Tous Blavi was learning watch repair in Manresa, Catalonia. The company he and Teresa Ponsa built there still has its head office in the town, the bear motif is its best known mark, and perfume joined the jewellery, bags and watches from 2000.
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