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Sport Men
The Poseidon Sport Men Eau de Toilette Gift Set is the present you buy for someone active, and unusually for that description the fragrance inside has more to it than a burst of freshness.
It starts where you would expect. Grapefruit is bitter and sharp, and the marine accord beside it is cool and mineral with an airy, washed clean edge, so the first impression is clean, bracing and entirely in keeping with the name on the box. It is exactly the opening the category demands, and it does it competently. The heart is the surprise. Laurel is dry, herbal and slightly medicinal, jasmine brings a warm white floral richness that no one expects in a sports fragrance, and guaiac wood sits beneath them both with a smoky resin that gives the middle some real weight. That heart is also the reason this outlasts the usual twenty minute freshness of a sports scent.
Patchouli, oakmoss and ambergris make the base. Dark damp earth from the first, a dry bitter forest quality from the second, and a soft mineral saltiness from the third, which quietly echoes the marine material from the opening. The symmetry between the opening and the base is tidy and almost certainly deliberate.
Eight materials and a clear structure, which makes it a better gift than most things in this category: easy to like at first spray and still interesting an hour later. It suits warm weather, daytime and anyone who trains. A set is a sensible way to buy it for somebody else, since the scent is easy to like and there is very little risk attached to it. Instituto Espanol owns the Poseidon name, a Spanish family business in its third generation which dates itself to 1903 and manufactures at Hinojos in the Donana area of Huelva.
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