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Blue
Cologne is one of the few presents that gets used up and then bought again, which is the whole case for the Poseidon Blue Eau de Toilette Gift Set.
The set pairs the 100ml Eau de Toilette with a 250ml shower gel. The scent inside is designed to be likeable rather than challenging. Mandarin orange leads with a soft, easy sweetness, grapefruit puts a bitter citrus rind under it, and mint runs across the top with a cool green snap that makes the first minute feel like stepping out of a shower. Nutmeg and ginger warm the middle, the first dry and powdery, the second hotter and more lively, with geranium threading a green, faintly metallic flower between them.
The end is where it earns its keep. Patchouli brings wet soil, vetiver brings dry grass and roots, and a thread of incense smoke lies over both, which is why it still reads hours later on a jumper rather than vanishing by lunchtime.
As a present it suits the man who owns one cologne and never thinks to replace it, and it works equally well as a first proper fragrance for someone younger. It is a men's eau de toilette, better in daylight than at night, and generous enough with its citrus for the gym, the office or a warm afternoon. What the box holds is printed on the pack itself, so it is worth a look before you promise anything beyond the scent.
Instituto Espanol owns the Poseidon name. The Spanish firm puts its own beginnings at 1903, is still directed by the founding family in its third generation, and makes everything at Hinojos in the Donana area of Huelva, where colognes come off the same site as shower gels, creams and deodorants. Affordability is the point of the Poseidon catalogue, which also runs The Black and Impulse.
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