To Be My Avatar Woman Eau de Parfum Gift Set

Mango near the top of a perfume is the detail that makes Police To Be My Avatar Woman Eau de Parfum Gift Set an interesting present rather than an obvious one.

The opening is all brightness. Lemon is sharp and clean, mandarin orange rounder and sweeter beside it, and the mango sits over both of them with a thick, ripe, slightly resinous sweetness that most citrus openings would not dare to carry. It is immediately recognisable and immediately cheerful.

The middle is the elegant part and the reason this works on an adult. White musk is placed unusually early, soft and clean and laundered, and osmanthus beside it is the real find: a flower that smells of apricot skin and tea, dry and never sugary. Lotus completes it with a watery, faintly green calm, and between the three the scent turns quiet and composed.

Cedarwood and sugar close it, which is a frank pairing. The cedar is dry and sharpened, the sugar plainly sweet, and together they land somewhere between a scrubbed timber surface and a confectioner's window. Being a parfum rather than a toilette, it will see out an evening and still be on a scarf the next morning. Given as a set, it is a good choice for someone who likes fruit in a fragrance but has grown tired of berries, and it works best in spring and summer, in daylight, on younger wearers and on anyone who wants to smell as though the weather has improved.

Police is Italian and De Rigo is the group behind it, having opened the brand in 1983 with a range of eyewear. Perfume has been part of what it sells for most of the years since, licensed in rather than made under its own roof, and offered to women and men alike from 1997.