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Kaos
The Poseidon Kaos Eau de Toilette Gift Set takes a cologne with one strong idea and puts it in a box, which is about as uncomplicated as gift buying gets. That idea is praline. It occupies the heart with tonka bean beside it, and between them they produce a warm, roasted, nutty sweetness that is far closer to something out of a kitchen than to anything floral or citrus led. Tonka adds the dry, slightly bitter undertow that keeps it from tipping over into sweetness. It is the material that does nearly all the talking, and it is what anyone smelling it will comment on.
The set pairs the 100ml Eau de Toilette with a 100ml aftershave. The materials either side are there to frame it. Mandarin orange and sage open the fragrance briefly, the first juicy and the second savoury and herbal, while amber and vanilla hold the base, warm and soft and smooth. Neither pair is complicated, and neither is trying to be; they exist to set the heart up and then to see it out. Six materials, and no pretence of a long development; this is a fragrance you understand within a minute and then simply wear. For a gift that is a virtue, because the recipient does not have to work at it. It is also a fragrance that holds its shape on fabric, so a shirt worn the day before will still carry it.
Give it to someone who wears fragrance in winter and likes it rich, and expect it to be used rather than shelved. Cold weather suits it, as does evening, and the generous presentation means it looks like more of a present than the price would suggest. Eau de toilette strength keeps it from becoming overwhelming in a small room. Poseidon is the men's fragrance line of Instituto Espanol, a Spanish family business now in its third generation that dates its own origins to 1903 and manufactures colognes, shower gels, creams and deodorants at Hinojos in the Donana area of Huelva.
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