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Pour Homme
Dolce and Gabbana Pour Homme Eau de Toilette dates from 1994 and belongs to a generation of masculine fragrance that was built to be rich rather than refreshing, which makes it an increasingly unusual thing to find on a shelf.
The opening is enormous. Lavender and clary sage give it the aromatic, slightly medicinal cleanness of the period, tarragon adds a green aniseed sharpness that is the material you will notice most, and then there is citrus in quantity: lemon, bergamot, mandarin orange, orange and neroli layered over one another, the neroli bitter and leafy where the orange is sweet. It should be a mess and it is not.
The middle is spiced and floral in equal measure. Black pepper and coriander are dry and warm, cinnamon brings a sweet bark like heat, and geranium cuts across with a crushed green rosiness. Behind them sit violet, powdery and faintly metallic, with jasmine and rose adding a soft thickness that a modern masculine release would almost never risk.
The base is where it shows its age in the best way. Tobacco is dry leaf, sweet and slightly dusty, tonka bean adds a sugared powderiness with a dry bitter edge beneath the sweetness, and sandalwood and cedarwood give it smooth and dry wood respectively. Musk, amber and iris finish it off, the iris lending a cool rooty greyness that keeps the sweetness from running away.
Max Gavarry composed it. It is long lasting and it projects, so a light hand is important; two sprays is genuinely enough. Cold weather, evenings and formal occasions suit it, and it is aimed at men. Dolce and Gabbana is an Italian fashion house established in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who remain its creative source, with its fragrance, makeup and skincare licensed exclusively worldwide to Shiseido since October 2016.
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