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Pour Homme
If you want a men's fragrance that can be worn to work for a year without anyone tiring of it, Givenchy Pour Homme Eau de Toilette 100ml is a sound answer. Its virtue is balance. Grapefruit and mandarin orange handle the opening, the grapefruit tart and the mandarin rounder and sweeter, with coriander adding a dry spice that keeps the citrus from reading as a cologne and nothing more. None of it shouts.
The middle is where the character lives. Davana is a dense, stewed fruit material with a herbal and faintly fermented edge, and it brings a warmth that citrus alone cannot produce. Vetiver runs beside it, dry and earthy and rooty, pulling the sweetness back towards something serious. Cedarwood and frankincense close it out, the first dry and pencil sharp, the second a cool pale smoke that gives the dry down a bit of weight without making it heavy.
Seven materials and no theatrics. This is a scent for ordinary days rather than special occasions, which is precisely the argument for buying the full bottle: it is the one you use without thinking about it, on mornings when choosing a fragrance is the last thing on your mind. It never needs an occasion to justify itself, which is the quiet virtue of a scent like this.
In wear it is moderate, lasting several hours and staying polite after the first, which makes it safe for meetings, shared offices and anywhere a strong scent would be unwelcome. Warm weather suits it best.
Paris has been home to Givenchy since Hubert de Givenchy opened the house in 1952. It is owned by LVMH today, where the couture side and the perfume side are kept as separate maisons rather than run together.
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