Les Eaux du Monde Jasmine Eau de Toilette Gift Set

Chanson d'Eau Les Eaux du Monde Jasmine Eau de Toilette Gift Set is an inexpensive present built around one flower, and it knows exactly what it is. Jasmine is the subject and tuberose is its reinforcement. Jasmine on its own is heady and warm with a faint animal edge, and tuberose beside it is waxier and more buttery, a bigger and more insistent white flower. Put together they make a floral heart that is unmistakably rich rather than delicate, and there is no citrus overture to delay it.

Inside are the 100ml Eau de Toilette, a 50ml shower gel and a 50ml body lotion. Underneath sit vanilla and musk. Vanilla rounds the flowers off and takes away any sharpness, while musk gives a soft, clean, skin like finish that keeps the whole thing comfortable rather than imposing. Four materials in total, so this is a short composition and it behaves like one, with no long development to follow.

As a toilette it is light enough to wear through a day and to reapply without thinking about it. That suits the kind of person this set is for, which is someone who likes to smell of flowers without weighing up concentrations or spending a great deal on it.

It arrives presented as a gift, which makes it an easy thing to hand over at Christmas or a birthday, particularly for someone who already likes white florals. It also suits anyone buying for a person whose taste they do not know well, since jasmine is about as widely liked as a flower gets. A toilette rather than a parfum is also the safer choice in a present, because a lighter concentration is much harder to wear badly.

Chanson d'Eau is a Spanish market brand, familiar from supermarket and high street perfumery shelves and built on inexpensive scent in large bottles. It is owned by Coty.