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Very Irrésistible
For warm afternoons and long working days, Givenchy Very Irrésistible Eau de Toilette 75ml is the sensible choice out of this family, and 75ml is the size most people actually finish.
Blackcurrant leads, tart and a little green, far more leaf than jam. Violet follows with its soft powdery sweetness, and lemon verbena cuts across both with a sharp herbal lift. The rose at the centre is handled lightly here, clean and fresh rather than deep, and star anise sits underneath it with a sweet liquorice warmth that gives the composition a spine to stand on. Magnolia alone makes the base, which is an unusual decision, and it means the scent finishes creamy and faintly green rather than sinking into sweetness the way most florals of this era do.
Six materials and a clean line drawn through them. This is a fragrance you can smell on yourself all day without tiring of it, which is not true of the richer version, and that, rather than the price difference, is the reason the lighter strength exists at all.
Toilette concentration means four to six hours and a gentle reach, so reapply after lunch if you want it with you in the evening. Spring and summer are its seasons, and it works for the office, for daytime events and for anywhere that air conditioning and perfume are in competition with one another. Sold to women, and it reads young without ever reading teenage or cheap.
Carlos Benaïm, Dominique Ropion and Sophie Labbé built it, back in 2003. Givenchy, a Paris couture house since 1952 and part of LVMH, runs its fragrance business as a separate maison and has done so for a long time now.
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