Toy Boy 2
Coffee is the material that decides whether you will wear Moschino Toy Boy 2 Eau de Parfum, because it is used here as a bitter, roasted, slightly burnt note rather than a sweetened one.
The opening is all spice. Saffron leads, which in perfumery smells leathery and faintly medicinal rather than like anything in a kitchen, and ginger, black pepper, nutmeg and cardamom crowd in behind it. That is five spices at once and it could easily have been a mess; what holds it together is that each one is dry. Nothing in the first ten minutes is sweet or warm in the comforting sense.
Then the coffee arrives, ground rather than brewed, and the scent gets its character. Cedarwood keeps it dry, geranium adds a green, slightly minty sharpness that stops the coffee turning into a dessert, cistus brings a resinous, faintly animal warmth, and akigalawood runs through with a peppery, slightly smoky edge. The base is spare and serious: vetiver for rooty dryness and myrrh for a bitter, resinous finish. Expect a strong first hour and then six or more hours sitting closer to the skin. It is aimed at men, it is emphatically a cold weather scent, and it is better after dark than at a desk, where the coffee and spice can feel like a lot before lunch. Two sprays is the ceiling for most people. Anyone who finds coffee cloying in a fragrance should try this before buying, since it uses the bitter end of the material rather than the sweet one.
The founder of the Italian house died in 1994. The perfume, then as now, came from Euroitalia, which has produced it since 1987 and completed a 98 million euro purchase of the Moschino perfume and cosmetics trademark from Aeffe in September 2024.
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