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Eros Energy Gift Set
The Versace Eros Energy Gift Set is the hot weather end of the line, and the way it is built makes that obvious before you have read a word about it.
Six citrus materials open it at once. Lime and grapefruit bring the bitterness, mandarin orange and blood orange the sweetness, and bergamot and lemon a clean rind edge, all six of them landing inside the first half minute. It is a crowded start and a very effective one, closer to a cold drink than to a perfume for the first few minutes. The middle stops it collapsing. Pink pepper gives a dry prickling sparkle, blackcurrant adds a dark tartness with a trace of jam to it, and amber supplies the warmth that links the top end to the bottom. The base is short and sensible: patchouli is earthy and faintly damp, oakmoss is green and barklike, and musk softens them both into something that stays on the skin long after the fruit has burned off. Twelve materials, and the citrus is only half the story. The oakmoss in particular is what keeps the fragrance from smelling like a drink.
That makes it a summer fragrance, a holiday fragrance and a good one for the gym, and it is lighter in character than the heavier scents the house is better known for in menswear. It also suits a younger wearer or anyone who finds most men's releases too dense. Expect three or four hours of real brightness and then a quiet green dry down for the rest of the day. Boxed as a gift set, it is a good present for someone who finds most men's fragrance too sweet, and it needs no explaining when it is opened.
Gianni Versace founded the business in Milan in 1978, and his sister Donatella has guided it from his death onward. Clothing remains the core of the company, with interiors, hotels and fragrance alongside it.
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