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Codice
Buying for a man who likes his fragrance warm and spiced rather than clean and sporty makes the Poseidon Codice Eau de Toilette Gift Set a straightforward decision.
The scent inside is a thirteen material composition with a lot more going on than its price band would suggest. It starts on green mandarin and bergamot, the first of them tart and the second bitter and clean, with cardamom lending a cool green spice almost immediately.
What follows is the part worth paying attention to. Lavender keeps the middle herbal, star anise sweetens it with a warm liquorice character, osmanthus adds a dry, gently fruity flower, and guaiac wood runs beneath them all with a smoky resin that gives the heart its weight. It is the most distinctive stretch of the wear and it is where the fragrance stops sounding like a list of materials and starts sounding like a scent.
The drydown is long and comfortable. Tonka bean and vanilla carry the sweetness, amber the warmth, cedarwood the dry structure and leather a faint smokiness, while musk keeps everything pinned to the skin for hours. Expect it to still be detectable on a shirt collar the following morning.
Presented as a set, it makes a reasonable Christmas or birthday present for someone who will actually use it rather than leave it on a shelf, and it takes the guesswork out of choosing. It suits cold evenings rather than warm afternoons, and it is aimed squarely at men who already know they prefer their fragrance warm. A set also removes the awkwardness of choosing a size for someone else, because that decision has already been taken for you. Poseidon belongs to Instituto Espanol, a third generation Spanish family business that traces itself back to 1903, manufactures at Hinojos in the Donana area of Huelva, and makes colognes alongside shower gels, creams and deodorants.
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