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Candied Lemon
Devotion Gift Set
There is no subtlety to this present and that is rather the point: Dolce and Gabbana Devotion Gift Set is for someone with a declared sweet tooth, and the scent inside does nearly all the persuading for you.
Devotion is built like a pudding. Candied lemon gives the first few minutes a sugared peel sharpness, then panna cotta arrives and settles in, creamy and cool and a little eggy, the material the fragrance is really about. Rum adds a warm boozy depth behind it, orange blossom brightens the top of the cream with a clean, faintly bitter floral edge, and vanilla sinks underneath to hold everything in place. Olivier Cresp composed it in 2023.
As a gift it is low risk in one way and high risk in another. Nobody has to guess whether it smells expensive, because it does, immediately and obviously. What you do need to be sure of is that the recipient enjoys openly sweet fragrance, because this makes no attempt at discretion and it will not quietly turn into a skin scent after an hour. At eau de parfum strength a very little goes a long way, so whoever receives it will get a great many wears out of it. Two sprays is a proper dose and three is too many in a warm room. It suits autumn and winter, evenings rather than daytime, and it is aimed at women.
Dolce and Gabbana has been an Italian fashion house since 1985, when Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana founded it, and the pair still drive it creatively. The beauty arm is licensed out instead of being run internally, with Shiseido holding the exclusive global rights to fragrance, makeup and skincare since October 2016 from a Paris base. Alongside eyewear, beauty is one of only two licensed categories.
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