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Eros Najim
Versace Eros Najim Parfum is the most Middle Eastern leaning thing in this part of the range, and oud is the reason for it.
The oud here is not the sharp, barnyard kind. It sits in the heart alongside cedarwood and caramel, and the caramel is the surprise: a dark, slightly burnt sweetness that takes the medicinal edge off the oud and makes the material approachable to someone who has never worn it before. Cedarwood keeps that pairing dry so it never collapses into a dessert.
Above it, the opening is spiced and bright at once. Mandarin orange gives the juice, cardamom a cool green sharpness, saffron a leathery and faintly bitter thread, and clary sage the herbal dryness that ties them together. It is a considered opening and it lasts longer than most, which matters in a fragrance whose heart is as heavy as this one. It also makes the fragrance noticeably easier to wear in daylight than its heart might suggest, since the first half hour is bright rather than dense.
The base is serious. Frankincense adds dry resin and a little smoke, patchouli and vetiver bring earth and a rooty bitterness, and tonka bean softens the lot with a sweetness closer to marzipan than to anything spiced. As a parfum concentration it stays on skin for a very long time and is best applied in small amounts, since two sprays will still be perceptible the next morning on a shirt collar.
Cold weather, evenings and occasions where you want to be noticed. That is the territory, and it reads masculine without being aggressive about it. The name belongs to the Italian house Gianni Versace founded in Milan in 1978, now creatively led by his sister Donatella, with Eros among its best known men's lines.
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