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Bleu Noir for Him Gift Set
Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir for Him Gift Set is a men's present built on three materials, and it is better for the restraint.
The box holds the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 50ml shower gel and a 10ml spray. Bergamot opens it with the bitter brightness of citrus peel, sharp and dry rather than juicy. Black pepper arrives almost immediately, crackling and a little dusty, and the two together give the first stretch a clean, slightly severe edge. After that the fragrance becomes musk, which is where it stays: warm, soft, close to the skin and quietly insistent. There is no third act and none is needed. A short composition like this one is easy to read and easy to wear, and it avoids the thing that sinks many men's fragrances, which is too many ideas competing for attention at once.
In practice that means it behaves predictably. The citrus and the pepper burn off inside the first half hour, the musk carries the rest of the day at close range, and you are unlikely to offend anybody sitting next to you. It works for an office, it is dark enough for an evening out, and it is sufficiently neutral that it will not clash with whatever he already owns.
Bought as a set it solves the problem of what to give a man who does not talk about fragrance, since it arrives presented and needs no further thought. It is a straightforward purchase rather than a statement one.
Narciso Rodriguez is an American fashion house founded in 1997. The designer was raised in Newark by Cuban immigrant parents and trained at Parsons before working under Donna Karan at Anne Klein and then at Calvin Klein. He led womenswear at Loewe from 1997 to 2001 and opened his New York atelier that same year. Beaute Prestige International produces the fragrances under licence.
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