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Uniform Build Your Self
Armand Basi Uniform Build Your Self Eau de Toilette 100ml holds five materials and uses them without ceremony, which is unusual enough in a men's launch to be worth saying first.
Mandarin orange and bergamot do the opening, and they do it cleanly: mandarin sweeter and rounder, bergamot sharper and more perfumed, the two of them giving about fifteen minutes of citrus brightness before stepping aside. There is no floral heart at all, so what follows is the base, arriving early and staying for the duration.
That base is vanilla, patchouli and musk. Vanilla is the sweetness, smooth rather than sugary; patchouli supplies earth, a cool and slightly dusty depth that keeps the vanilla from turning soft; musk holds the two of them against the skin and does most of the work in the final hours. It is a simple, legible structure and it behaves exactly as you would expect.
A short composition is not a weakness in a daily fragrance. There is nothing here to get tired of, nothing that will surprise a colleague, and nothing that needs explaining. At eau de toilette strength it is light on application and moderate in reach, so it suits a desk, a commute and warm weather, with reapplication after lunch if you want it noticed in the afternoon. Dated 2023, it reads masculine and leans young.
Armand Basi grew out of a Barcelona knitwear business, the family trade having started in an artisan workshop run by Mercedes Sabi, and the fashion label itself took shape in the mid to late 1980s before showing in Paris, Moscow, Madrid and Barcelona. Its fragrances, like its watches and eyewear, are made under licence, and the perfume side dates from 1999.
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