Herrera for Men
Herrera for Men Eau de Toilette dates from 1991 and smells like it, in the way that is a recommendation rather than a complaint.
This is the classic men's structure, executed with six materials and no tricks. Lavender and geranium open it, the lavender clean and slightly camphorous, the geranium green and sharp with that faint metallic bite the material always carries. Clove arrives next and gives the middle real heat, dry and spiky, the smell of the whole spice rather than of baking, with neroli lifting it on a bitter orange flower freshness that keeps the clove from turning heavy. Sandalwood and amber finish it, the sandalwood creamy and smooth, the amber warm and resinous, and the two of them give the last hours a softness the opening never hints at.
At eau de toilette strength it is bright for the first half hour and moderate after that, which was the convention of the period and still suits a working day. Four to six hours is a fair estimate, with the base doing most of that. It is a cold weather fragrance, and it belongs to the evening and to formal daytime occasions rather than to the gym. Men who grew up with fragrances built this way will recognise the shape of it immediately, and younger wearers looking for something with a spine rather than a sweet tooth will find it refreshingly old fashioned. It is also one of the easier scents of its era to wear to an office, since the clove settles quickly and the rest is quiet.
Fashion came first here. Carolina Herrera presented her opening collection in New York in 1981, seven years before the first perfume appeared under a licence granted to the Spanish group Puig.
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