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Solo Cedro
Among the Solo flankers, Loewe Solo Cedro Eau de Toilette is the dry one, and it trades the sweetness some of its siblings carry for something closer to a freshly sharpened pencil.
Mandarin orange and pink pepper open it in the house manner, bright for a moment and then immediately dusty. What follows is more unusual than the name suggests: lavender, herbal and slightly soapy, with nutmeg beside it adding a warm, rounded, faintly oily spice. The pairing gives the middle a barbershop quality, clean but a long way from sterile, and it is the part of the fragrance that most people remember. The base runs to only two materials and is better for the restraint. Cedarwood does exactly what the name promises, dry and splintery and a little resinous, the smell of shavings on a bench rather than a living tree. Benzoin underneath it is the counterweight, a sticky, balsamic sweetness that keeps the cedarwood from going thin and scratchy as it dries down. The two of them together last well past the point where the citrus has burned off.
Launched in 2015, it is an eau de toilette and should be treated as one: four or five hours, close to the skin, easy to top up at lunchtime. It works in spring and in autumn, during the day, in offices and in anything involving a jacket. It reads masculine without being aggressive about it, and it is the Solo to choose if the others have ever felt too sweet on you.
Loewe itself dates from 1846 in Madrid, took the Loewe name in 1872 when Enrique Loewe Roessberg bought the leather workshop behind it, and has made perfume since 1972, starting with L de Loewe.
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