Versense
Fig is the material that makes the Versace Versense Eau de Toilette Gift Set worth a look, and it is not a common one in a mainstream feminine fragrance.
The opening is green and fruity at once. Bergamot and green mandarin give it citrus brightness, the mandarin sharper and less ripe than the usual kind, and fig sits underneath them smelling of milky sap and warm leaves rather than of jam. It is a Mediterranean smell, and the whole fragrance follows from it. The middle keeps that register. Sea lily is clean, green and faintly saline, jasmine adds a creamy warmth that stops the composition turning cold, and cardamom runs through with its cool, camphorous spice. Three materials pulling in slightly different directions, which is what gives the heart its interest.
The base is unusually full for a scent this light: sandalwood, cedarwood, olive wood and musk. Sandalwood is creamy, cedarwood dry and sharply cut, olive wood pale and faintly bitter in a way that echoes the fig above it, and musk softens all three into something skin close. Ten materials in total and a clear Mediterranean idea running through them. The eau de toilette format keeps it light and easy, suited to daytime, to warm weather and to anyone who finds sweeter fragrances tiring. It reads feminine but only just, and plenty of men would wear it without difficulty. A boxed set makes it an easy present for somebody who likes green and natural smelling fragrance rather than the sugared kind.
Versace came out of Milan in 1978 as Gianni Versace's company, and Donatella Versace has directed it since he died. A single usable source dates the first women's fragrance it made to 1981.
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