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To Be Tattoo Art Man
Where the women's Tattoo Art piles on the sweetness, Police To Be Tattoo Art Man Eau de Toilette goes the other way entirely and ends up the drier and more interesting of the two.
Seven materials, no florals at all, and a herbal middle that most mainstream men's scents would soften. Lavandin and clary sage make up that heart between them: the lavandin coarse, camphorous and a little medicinal, the clary sage musty and stalky and dry. There is nothing pretty about that pairing and nothing accidental about it either, which is the chief pleasure of the scent.
The opening is better than the price suggests. Lemon verbena is sharp and leafy rather than merely citrus, holding on far longer than peel would, cardamom sits alongside cool and faintly soapy, and blackcurrant adds a tart dark fruit edge underneath that keeps the start from being austere.
Tonka bean and amberwood finish it, and they are the only concession to comfort. The tonka is warm and softly nutty, the amberwood smooth and polished, and between them they round off a composition that has otherwise been rather severe. Being a short composition it settles rather than develops, and what you can smell at the half hour mark is broadly what you get for the rest of the wear. Eau de toilette strength means applying it freely is sensible, and four hours of clear presence is realistic. Autumn, winter, work and the sort of man who finds most new fragrances too sweet.
Police is held by De Rigo in Italy and started out in 1983 selling eyewear. The fragrances that followed are licensed, not made in house, and the first of them reached counters for both men and women in 1997.
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