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Girl Gift Set
Rochas Girl Gift Set is one of the better presents in its price bracket, because the fragrance inside is cheerful without being childish. Neroli leads and it is the right lead. Neroli is orange flower distilled, cool and green and slightly bitter, nothing like a sweet fruit, and blackcurrant sits with it adding a tart, sappy darkness while pink pepper fizzes over the top. The middle opens into flowers: orange blossom, which is the warmer and waxier side of the same tree, jasmine bringing fullness, and orchid giving a soft, slightly powdery roundness that holds the two together.
It ends warm and clean. Vanilla is creamy rather than sugary, cedarwood is dry and papery, and sandalwood adds a smooth milkiness, so the last hours read gentle rather than sweet. Anne Flipo composed it from nine materials, and the construction is tidier than the bright opening suggests: nothing in the base is fighting anything in the top. The set is an easy buy for a birthday or for a young woman getting her first proper fragrance, and it has the advantage of being widely liked. It is best in spring and summer, it is fine for school, college or an office, and nobody will find it too much in a small room. If the recipient is new to fragrance, this is a gentle place to start, and if she is not, it still holds its own against far more expensive bottles.
Rochas was established in Paris in 1925 by Marcel Rochas, a couturier known for dressing the young, and it began making perfume in 1936. Helene Rochas took over on her husband's death in 1955 and grew the perfume house. The brand and its trademarks passed to Interparfums, bought from Procter and Gamble, in 2015.
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