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Man Aqua
Short note rows are usually a disappointment, and the Jimmy Choo Man Aqua Eau de Toilette Gift Set is the exception to that, because what we hold for it, three materials and no base at all, describes a fragrance that was deliberately built to be simple.
Grapefruit is the beginning and, in truth, more or less the middle as well. It is the bitter, zesty, slightly sulphurous form of citrus that smells cold on skin, and it is far more interesting than a plain citrus in a scent like this. Geranium gives it a green, faintly metallic lift, and clary sage sits underneath with a dry herbal sweetness, a material that smells like a hedgerow in late summer and softens the citrus without warming it.
With nothing recorded in the base, the fragrance behaves exactly as a bright, fast moving scent should. Three or four hours is realistic, and it fades rather than develops, which in practice means a bottle that gets sprayed twice a day in July rather than once in October. There is no mystery to it and no second half. Julien Rasquinet and Paul Guerlain composed the fragrance. It reads masculine, it is aimed squarely at hot weather, and it suits men who want something clean for the morning and nothing more complicated than that. Bought as a set, it is the sort of present that gets opened and used in the same week rather than put away for a special occasion that never quite comes around.
Behind the name is a London accessories house that opened in 1996, grew out of women's shoes and now covers bags, small accessories and a men's collection too. Inter Parfums makes the fragrances under licence, which has been the arrangement for some time.
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