We Are Tribe Intense Men
Benetton We Are Tribe Intense Men Eau de Parfum Gift Set is bought as a present, and what is in the bottle is the darkest and most herbal thing in the We Are Tribe family.
The box holds the Eau de Parfum at 90ml and a 150ml deodorant spray. Nine materials make it up, and they pull in two directions. On the cool side there is mint, sharp and green rather than sweet, iris with its dry, cold quality, like pressed powder and damp stone, lavender clean and herbal, and mugwort, which is the unusual one: bitter, grey green and medicinal, a wild herb smell with a dusty edge.
On the warm side, cinnamon brings a hot bark dryness, elemi a bright resin like crushed pine needles, guaiac wood a smoked, tarry depth, vetiver a dark grassy bitterness, and leather a worn, faintly smoky softness that ties the whole thing together. The result is dry, bitter and smoky rather than sweet, which makes it an unusual choice for this part of the market and a good one for anyone who finds most affordable men's fragrances too sugary. It holds well on skin, with real presence for the first couple of hours and a close, leathery guaiac wood trail afterwards, and it is at its best in cold weather and in the evening.
As a gift it is an easy decision for a man whose taste runs serious rather than sporty, and a box like this one removes the awkwardness from the guessing. Of the We Are Tribe bottles, this is the one to pick for someone who already owns something sweet.
Benetton has been making clothes in Italy since 1965, run from Ponzano Veneto near Treviso and known for bright knitwear and bold advertising. Its fragrances are produced under licence by Puig, the Spanish group that took the business on in 2014.
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