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Benzoin
Pour Homme
Vetiver is the reason to consider Don Algodón Pour Homme Eau de Parfum 100ml. The opening is bright enough, but the bottle is built to dry out into something rooty and clean rather than sweet.
Bergamot comes first, sharp and faintly bitter, and blackcurrant sits alongside it with a dark red tartness that stops the citrus turning soapy. The middle is a single material. Benzoin is resinous and balsamic, close to the smell of a warm candle in a cold room, and its job is to carry the bright top down into the dry base without adding sugar on the way. Then vetiver takes charge, earthy and a little smoky, with the cut grass and damp soil quality that always reads as grown up, and ambergris underneath lends a soft mineral warmth that keeps the whole thing pressed to the skin. Five materials in total, which makes this a short composition, and it behaves like one. The first twenty minutes are the most interesting part, after which it settles into a steady vetiver and resin accord and stays there. Projection is modest from the start. Expect it to be noticeable at arm's length for an hour or so and detectable on your own collar for much longer.
That makes it an everyday bottle rather than an occasion one. It works in an office, in heat, and on anybody who dislikes the loud end of men's fragrance. The 100ml size is the one to buy if it suits you, since this is a scent people tend to use freely rather than ration.
The Don Algodón name belongs to a Madrid clothing label founded in the early 1980s by Pepe Barroso, which dressed young Spain in casual clothes and became the first Spanish textile firm to franchise. Its colognes for men and women, sold as a line separate from the clothes, date from that same decade and have outlasted most of the clothes in public memory.
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