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212 VIP Rosé
Musk is the reason the Carolina Herrera 212 VIP Rosé Eau de Parfum Gift Set stays wearable after the fruit has had its say, and it is the quietest material in the composition.
Everything that comes before it is loud and cheerful by comparison. Champagne rose opens with a bright, sparkling sweetness, pink pepper gives it a prickle that stops it going soft, and peach tree flower follows, greener and more delicate than the fruit of the same name, with rose coming back in a fuller form behind it. Then peach itself arrives in the base, ripe and generous, and the musk sits under all of it, clean and skin close, holding the sweetness steady instead of letting it spread.
Six materials, most of them variations on rose and peach, which is why the fragrance smells of one clear idea rather than of several competing ones. As an eau de parfum it gives six to eight hours with moderate presence, so it is as usable at work as it is on a Saturday night. Warm weather suits it, spring and summer in particular.
It is aimed at women and it skews young, which makes the boxed set a safe present for a birthday, a graduation or a summer wedding where you do not know the recipient's taste in any detail. What it is not is complicated or serious. There is no smoke in it, nothing bitter and nothing dark, so anyone hoping for a difficult fragrance should be pointed elsewhere before the box is opened. Lucas Sieuzac is credited as the perfumer.
Carolina Herrera designs from New York and has done since a first collection in 1981. Perfume is licensed to Puig of Spain, which has owned the fashion side since 1995, and the 212 line goes back to 1997.
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