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Light Blue Pour Homme
Since 2007 this has been a default summer bottle for men, and Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme Eau de Toilette holds that position because almost nothing about it is divisive.
The opening is a citrus crowd. Grapefruit gives it the bitter, slightly sulphurous bite that keeps it from being merely pleasant, bergamot smooths that out, sicilian mandarin adds a sweeter and juicier layer, and juniper runs underneath with a cool resinous dryness. It is busy for the first few minutes and then it tightens up.
The middle is the part people underrate. Black pepper is dry and a little dusty, rosemary brings a camphorous herbal cleanness, and brazilian rosewood sits between them with a smooth, slightly spicy grain that stops the herbs turning medicinal. The base then does something unusual for a fragrance of this kind. Musk gives it warmth, incense adds a thin line of dry smoke, and oakmoss brings an earthy, faintly damp bitterness that makes the whole thing feel older and better made than its price suggests.
Alberto Morillas composed it. As a toilette it is light and it projects well for the first hour before settling close, with four or five hours of honest wear and a trace beyond that. Three sprays is the normal dose and a reapplication in hot weather is to be expected.
Daytime, heat, work, holidays and anything casual. It is aimed at men and it is one of the hardest fragrances in the world to wear wrongly. Dolce and Gabbana is the Italian house that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana founded in 1985 and still direct creatively, its fragrance, makeup and skincare licensed exclusively worldwide to Shiseido since October 2016 and run from Paris.
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