The Icon Supreme Gift Set
There is a herbal, outdoor quality to the Antonio Banderas The Icon Supreme Gift Set that sets it apart from most boxed presents at this price, and cannabis in the note list is only part of the reason.
You get the Eau de Parfum at 100ml and a 150ml deodorant spray. The opening is bright and quite formal. Bergamot and neroli give a clean citrus and white flower lift, pink pepper adds a dry crackle, and cardamom cools the whole thing down with its camphorous edge. It reads as groomed rather than casual, which is useful in a gift, because it is hard to go wrong with. The middle is where it gets its personality. Cypress is dry, green and resinous, like a hedge in the sun, eucalyptus is sharp and medicinal, rosemary is herbal and a little camphorous, and cannabis sits underneath them all, green and faintly resinous and nothing like as provocative as the name implies. Together they make a heart that is cool and slightly bitter rather than sweet.
Underneath, cistus brings a resinous, balsamic warmth, oakmoss adds a damp bitter greenness that very few fragrances in this bracket include, and amber softens the landing. Eleven materials, and the composition keeps its dry, herbal character all the way through rather than resolving into sweetness. As a gift set it answers the practical problem: it is boxed, it is masculine without being heavy, and it suits a man who wears fragrance occasionally rather than daily. Cooler weather and daytime suit it best, and six hours is a fair expectation.
This is a licensed line rather than a perfume house in its own right. The actor's name is on the box, while Puig, the family owned Spanish group outside Barcelona, composes, makes and sells the fragrances, as it has done since 1997. It sits deliberately in the mass market.
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