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Banana FlowerDaisy Wild Gift Set
Boxed and ready to hand over, Marc Jacobs Daisy Wild Gift Set is an easy present to get right, which is the main thing anyone wants in December or in the week before a birthday. The scent inside is the most unusual thing the Daisy range has produced. Banana flower opens it, and the name misleads: the material is green and sappy with a faint creaminess and a bitter edge, nothing like the fruit and far more interesting for it. Jasmine follows and fills the entire middle, heady and faintly animal, warming the green opening considerably.
The base is dry rather than sweet. Vetiver supplies an earthy, root like bitterness and sandalwood a soft creaminess, and the two of them keep the whole composition grounded instead of letting it drift into the usual designer sweetness. The scent was built by three perfumers, Adriana Medina-Baez, Roxanne Kirkpatrick and Sonia Constant, which is a larger team than most bottles get and may explain how carefully balanced the result is. Four materials, clearly arranged, with no attempt at a complicated evolution.
As a gift it works best for somebody who already enjoys green or floral scents and has grown bored of the obvious choices, and it is worth saying that the banana flower divides opinion, so it suits a recipient who likes trying things rather than one with a fixed signature. Spring and summer are its seasons, and it is aimed at women. Boxed fragrance of this kind is also the safest way to introduce somebody to a scent they would never have picked off a shelf themselves, which is precisely what this one is.
Marc Jacobs International opened in New York in 1984, founded by the designer and Robert Duffy. LVMH owns the business today and Coty makes its fragrances under licence.
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