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Elite Your Adventure
Fruit over moss is an old fashioned structure, and Saphir Elite Your Adventure Eau de Parfum 100ml uses its five materials to build exactly that and nothing more.
Pineapple and apple open the fragrance. The pineapple is handled dry rather than as a tropical sweetness, which is the harder and better way to use it, and the apple is crisp and green beside it. Together they give a bright, slightly sour start that lasts longer than most fruit openings because there is nothing heavy sitting on top of them. The middle is where it turns serious. Patchouli brings damp earth and a bitter edge, oakmoss adds a cool, mossy, slightly bitter depth that has largely disappeared from modern perfumery, and juniper berry contributes a resinous, cool, gin like sharpness. Those three materials pull in the same direction and they are the reason this smells more expensive than it is.
There is no base recorded, so the fragrance is effectively two stages: bright fruit and then dry earth. It is a short composition by modern standards and it behaves like one, settling into its heart within half an hour and then staying there for the rest of the wearing without further movement.
At eau de parfum strength it has decent longevity, with the moss and patchouli holding for several hours after the fruit has thinned out. It reads as unisex, autumn suits it best, and it is a great deal happier with daytime and casual wear than with formal occasions. The 100ml bottle is the only sensible way to buy something you will use freely. Saphir, founded as a family warehouse in Zaragoza, has made and distributed fragrance from Spain since 1940.
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