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Seductive
There is a version of the sweet floral that holds back, and Guess Seductive Eau de Toilette 75ml, composed by Véronique Nyberg and released in 2010, is one of them.
Pear and bergamot start it off, soft and bright together, with blackcurrant giving the opening a tart green sharpness that stops the fruit reading as dessert. Jasmine and orange blossom bring white flowers into the middle, full and warm, while iris cools them with a dry, powdery, slightly earthy quality that is the most grown up thing in the composition. At the end, vanilla does the sweetening and frankincense does the opposite, adding a dry resinous smoke, and the tension between the two is what makes the last hours worth staying for. The iris is also what makes it wearable at an age when sweet fruit fragrances start to feel wrong.
Eight materials, cleanly arranged, with nothing in it competing for attention. Short lists like this age better than crowded ones, because there is nothing in them to go out of fashion. The concentration keeps it modest. It is a fragrance for the day, for work, for weather that is neither hot nor freezing, and it lasts long enough to get from morning to early evening without a second application. The 75ml bottle suits someone who wears several fragrances in rotation rather than one. It is a fragrance to spray on in the morning and then forget about, which is meant as a compliment.
Guess was started in Los Angeles in 1981 by the Marciano brothers, originally a denim business, and the black and white advertising it ran from 1985 gave the label its visual identity. The fragrance side has always sat with outside licensees. The scent has stayed in production for well over a decade, which is unusual for a designer women's release.
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