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Match Point
Four materials, and Lacoste Match Point Eau de Toilette does not pretend to be more than that, which is the most useful thing to know before buying it.
Mandarin orange and rhubarb open it together, and that is a better pairing than it sounds. The mandarin is sweet, soft and round, the rhubarb sour and green and slightly stalky, and the tension between a sweet citrus and a tart stem gives the first ten minutes a freshness with some bite to it. Clary sage is the entire heart. It is the herbal material with a hay like, faintly sweet, slightly tea toned quality, dry rather than green, and on its own it gives the middle of the wear a quiet, aromatic character. Vetiver closes it, rooty and dry with a faint smokiness, and that is the composition complete.
It is a short construction and it behaves like one. There is no third act and no surprise at hour four: what you smell in the first fifteen minutes is the fragrance, and it simply becomes quieter and drier as the day goes on. Some people much prefer that to a scent that keeps shifting. As a toilette it is light, so apply it freely and expect four hours or so with a close trail. That makes it a practical daytime and warm weather choice, easy in an office, easy on public transport, and it reads masculine and clean. It dates from 2020. At this strength and with this material list it is an everyday bottle rather than an occasion one, and priced accordingly.
Lacoste is a French clothing company founded in 1933 by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste in partnership with the industrialist Andre Gillier, famous above all for its crocodile marked polo shirt. Its own history places its first fragrance in 1968, and Match Point is one of the newer names in a range that also holds Booster, Essential and Red.
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