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Bleu Noir for Him Gift Set
Black pepper is what gives Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir for Him Gift Set its edge, and there is not much else in the bottle to get in its way.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 50ml shower gel and a 10ml spray. The pepper is dry and crackling with a faintly dusty quality, and it arrives almost on top of the bergamot rather than after it. Bergamot supplies the bitter brightness of citrus peel, sharp and unsweetened, and the combination makes the first stretch clean and slightly severe. After that the fragrance becomes musk and remains musk: soft, warm, close to the skin, undemanding.
Three materials, which makes this a genuinely short composition. There is no progression to follow and nothing held back for the final hour, so what you think of it in the first ten minutes is what you will think of it all day. For a lot of men that directness is the appeal, and it is certainly easier to wear than something crowded. A man will know within the first day whether he likes it, which is more than can be said for most fragrances sold to men. It is bought as a set, which makes it a practical gift for a man who is unlikely to shop for fragrance himself. The scent is neutral enough for work, dark enough for an evening, and it does not fight with whatever else is in the bathroom cabinet.
Narciso Rodriguez is an American fashion house, founded in 1997. The designer was raised in Newark to Cuban immigrant parents and trained at Parsons, worked under Donna Karan at Anne Klein and afterwards at Calvin Klein, and spent four years as design director of womenswear at Loewe before opening his own atelier in New York in 2001. Perfume for the house is produced under a licence held by Beaute Prestige International.
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