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Homme
The large bottle is the reason to look at Armand Basi Homme Eau de Toilette 125ml, because this is a fragrance people tend to wear every day once they have settled on it.
What they are settling on is spice rather than freshness. Cinnamon and cardamom open it dry and warm, lavender keeps that opening from turning foody, and then nutmeg carries the spice into the heart where tonka bean adds a soft powdery sweetness and labdanum a sticky resinous depth. Lilac and lily of the valley sit above them, clean and cool and faintly soapy, which is what gives the middle its slightly formal, well dressed character. The finish is the best part. Guaiac wood supplies a dry tarry smoke, cedarwood and sandalwood the structure and the cream, vanilla the sweetness and musk the closeness, and the four of them together last a long time on a shirt collar, which is where most people notice this fragrance a day later.
Olivier Cresp composed it in 2000, and it is built the way men's fragrance was built then: thirteen materials, three clear stages, nothing hurried. As an eau de toilette it is easy to overapply in the first minutes and rewarding when you do not, so two sprays and patience is the right approach. Cool weather and evenings suit it, and it reads masculine and mature rather than young, which is part of why it has held on to its following. The house began in Barcelona in the Basi family's knitwear trade, which started in an artisan workshop run by Mercedes Sabi, and the fashion label was established towards the end of the 1980s. Fragrance arrived in 1999 and has always been produced under licence, as the watches and eyewear are.
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