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Eros Flame
Versace Eros Flame Eau de Parfum is the warmer, darker counterpart to the house's best known men's line, and Olivier Pescheux built it on six materials.
Chinotto is the opening and it is the reason the fragrance does not smell like everything else on the shelf. It is a small, intensely bitter citrus fruit, sour and slightly resinous, the one Italian bitter sodas are made from, and it has none of the sweetness you expect from peel. Black pepper comes in on top of it, dry and prickly and genuinely hot, so the first few minutes are sharp in two different directions at once.
Rosemary is the entire heart, which is a bold decision. It is resinous, green and almost medicinal, much closer to the living plant than to anything out of a kitchen cupboard, and it keeps the composition austere at exactly the moment most men's fragrances turn soft and pleasant. The base is where it finally warms up. Vanilla is the obvious one, sweet and smooth, but it is held in check by patchouli, which brings an earthy darkness, and vetiver, which is rooty and dry with a faint smokiness. The result is a sweetness that never becomes a dessert, and the distance between the bitter opening and the warm ending is the entire argument the fragrance makes. At eau de parfum strength it lasts a long time and carries properly for the first hour or two before settling closer. Two sprays is the right dose. It is a men's fragrance made for evenings and for cold weather, it suits bars, dinners and nights out rather than the office, and it will appeal to anyone who wants warmth without smelling edible.
The house came out of Milan in 1978, the work of Gianni Versace, and it passed to his sister Donatella when he died. Eros is among the best known of its men's lines, and this fragrance belongs to it.
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