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Aldehydes
Galbanum
Marigold
Aire Loewe Gift Set
Asafoetida is the material that tells you how old fashioned the Aire Loewe Gift Set really is, because no fragrance released this decade would dare to use it.
It is savoury, pungent and resinous, unpleasant on its own, and it sits beneath an opening of twenty eight material ambition doing something no bright material could manage: giving the top of the scent a shadow. Used carelessly it would wreck a composition; used in this quantity it simply adds depth. Around it, aldehydes supply a waxy, soapy brightness, galbanum, basil and marigold bring green bitterness, and citrus piles in from every side, mandarin orange and tangerine sweetly, lemon, bergamot and petitgrain sharply. Neroli, jasmine and ylang ylang add flowers and weight, and peach rounds the whole thing off.
The heart is cold and powdery. Iris and orris carry it, carnation sharpens it, lily of the valley and cyclamen keep it green, rose fills it out, and incense and amber warm it from beneath. The base pairs oakmoss and vetiver with sandalwood, cedarwood, musk and vanilla, damp and dry and smooth by turns, and it is where the staying power comes from.
Olivier Cresp is the perfumer. Given as a gift, this suits an anniversary or a significant birthday rather than a casual exchange, and it will be better received by someone who has worn fragrance for decades than by somebody just starting out. It is a cold weather present and an evening scent.
The company dates from 1846 in Madrid and took its German name in 1872 from Enrique Loewe Roessberg, who bought the workshop he had been working alongside. Fragrance followed much later, in 1972.
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