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Kaos
Sweet fragrances make good presents because people either love them immediately or know at once that they do not, and the Poseidon Kaos Eau de Toilette Gift Set leaves nobody in any doubt.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Toilette, a 100ml shower gel and a 100ml aftershave. Mandarin orange and sage open it, one juicy and bright and the other dry and herbal, and they act as a short introduction rather than a destination. Neither material hangs around for long, but they do their job of stopping the fragrance from being sweet from the very first second.
Within minutes praline arrives, and it is the material everyone will remember: roasted, nutty and sugary, closer to a confectioner's counter than to anything grown. Tonka bean is alongside it, softer and drier, lending a faint bitterness that keeps the sweetness in proportion. Between them they occupy the middle for a good hour and a half, which is the heart of the wear. Amber and vanilla finish it off, warm and smooth, and they give the fragrance a long comfortable tail that clings to a jumper for a day after wearing. Six materials and a single clear idea, executed without fuss. There is no complicated development to follow, and in a scent built this clearly that is a strength rather than a shortcoming.
It is an easy set to give to a younger man or to anyone who likes a warm, sweet scent in winter, and it needs no explanation when it is opened. Expect it to be worn in winter rather than summer, where the warmth of the base has something to push against, and expect it to be used generously, because a fragrance at this price is not one anybody rations. Instituto Espanol owns the Poseidon name, a third generation Spanish family company which dates itself to 1903 and manufactures at Hinojos, in the Donana area of Huelva, making colognes alongside shower gels, creams and deodorants.
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