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Pour Homme
Brummel Pour Homme Eau de Cologne Gift Set is an easy present to get right, because the scent inside it is the kind most men recognise within seconds and very few object to.
It opens on lavender and lime, clean and sharp, with orange leaf adding a bitter green twist and thyme and sage bringing a dry herbal bite. That combination is the old shaving soap register, and it smells of a clean razor rather than of anything invented in the last twenty years.
The middle warms up. Geranium is green and rosy, cinnamon adds a dry heat and black pepper a prickle, and the three together keep the herbs from turning austere while stopping well short of sweetness. It is the stretch where the cologne is at its most characterful, and it lasts for about an hour before the base takes over. Applied after a shave it does its best work, and on a warm morning it will still be there at lunchtime.
Underneath, vetiver is rooty and faintly smoky, oakmoss earthy and bitter, sandalwood creamy and tobacco soft and leafy. It is a classical masculine base, the sort that used to be standard and is now increasingly rare at any price, and it gives the cologne more depth than its bright opening promises.
Being a cologne concentration it is light on the skin and made for generous application, so expect a few hours of clear presence rather than all day endurance, which suits its purpose entirely. It reads masculine and mature, works in any season and is at home in a morning routine. As a gift it is a safe and well judged choice for a father, a grandfather or anyone who prefers a traditional scent to a fashionable one.
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