Cool de Saphir
Buying a sweet fragrance in a 200ml bottle takes some confidence, and Cool de Saphir Eau de Parfum 200ml is for people who already know this is the style they wear. The opening is a short, sharp contrast to everything that follows. Blackcurrant is tart and dark, bergamot clean and bitter, and jasmine is in there from the start, rich and slightly animal underneath, softening the fruit. Fifteen minutes later the fragrance has moved on entirely.
What it moves into is the heart, where caramel, iris and rose do the work. Caramel is warm, burnt and properly sweet, iris is cool and powdery with a dry quality that cuts straight through the sweetness, and rose is deep and full between them. This is comfort perfumery done without embarrassment, and it is the reason the bottle sells. The finish holds that warmth. Amber adds depth and an enveloping quality, vanilla keeps the sweetness going, and musk settles the lot close to the skin where it will stay for hours. Nine materials in all, and the fragrance spends most of its life in the last three of them, which is worth knowing if you are testing it on paper rather than on your arm.
The size is the point of this particular bottle. At 200ml and eau de parfum strength, the cost of each wearing is low enough that you can use it every day through a winter without thinking about it, which is not something that can be said of most fragrances in this style. It is aimed at women and belongs to cold evenings, though plenty of people wear this kind of thing year round and come to no harm. Saphir manufactures everything it sells at its own plant in Zaragoza, in Spain, where the company has been in the perfume business since 1940.
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