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Flower by Kenzo Gift Set
The scent in this box has been flattered by imitators and reissued more times than most, and the Flower by Kenzo Gift Set remains the simplest way to get hold of it as a present for somebody else.
The box holds the 50ml Eau de Parfum, a 75ml body lotion and a 10ml spray. What is inside amounts to four materials: pink pepper, damascus rose, vanilla and white musk. Written down it looks thin. Worn, it is the restraint that makes it work, because each material has room to be heard instead of fighting for attention. The pink pepper flickers at the start, dry and bright for ten minutes or so, and then steps aside without fuss.
Damascus rose takes over, and the treatment is the signature here. Rather than a fresh garden rose, this is the oil bearing variety handled as powder, rounded off by vanilla so that it reads warm and a little dusty, with white musk giving the whole thing a soft clean edge like laundry off the line. It stays near the skin and lasts a long time at low volume. If you are buying for somebody who dislikes heavy perfume, or for a workplace where scent has to be discreet, this is a safe answer. Reckon on half a day of wear at a volume that only reaches people who come close, and no need for more than a couple of sprays. The set presentation makes the whole thing feel like more of an occasion than a single bottle would, which matters when fragrance is the present rather than an afterthought. Composed by Alberto Morillas.
Kenzo began in 1970 when Kenzo Takada, a young Japanese designer working in Paris, opened a shop in the Galerie Vivienne that he had painted as a jungle. The brand is part of LVMH today, which keeps Kenzo Parfums in its perfume division, so the scents are made within the group.
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