Chicca Bonita Gift Set
Aire de Sevilla Chicca Bonita Gift Set is summer in a box, and it is probably the easiest present in the whole range to give to somebody whose only stated preference is that they like citrus.
The set runs to the 100ml Eau de Toilette, a 100ml shower gel and a 100ml moisturizing cream. The scent leads with a pile of it. Bergamot is the bitter one, lemon the sharp one, lime the green and zesty one and mandarin orange the sweet one, and all four are in the opening at once. Rose sits with them rather than waiting behind them, which gives the start a soft fullness that most citrus fragrances at this price do not have at all.
Behind that, basil brings a herbal, slightly aniseed edge, yuzu a brighter and more floral citrus bite, and nutmeg a warm dusty spice that stops the whole thing being merely sharp. The close is clean and a little savoury: rosemary is camphorous and piney, freesia peppery and soapy, amber warm and resinous, and musk smooths the lot down into something comfortable against skin.
Twelve materials in a scent that costs very little, which is most of the argument for the set as a present. In wear it is bright for an hour and then quietly clean, and the eau de toilette strength means nobody will be overwhelmed by it in a warm room. It suits summer birthdays, holidays, and anybody who would rather smell clean than sweet. Contents are whatever the brand has boxed, so check the listing before you decide whether it is the whole gift or part of one. Instituto Espanol makes it, and has been making perfumery and cosmetics in Spain since 1903, which is long enough for most Spanish households to have had something of theirs in a bathroom at some point. The company is still family owned, now three generations in, and describes itself as entirely Andalusian, producing at Hinojos in Huelva province.
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