Excentric Woman
Seventeen materials is an enormous list for a fragrance at this price, and Saphir Excentric Woman Eau de Parfum 200ml spends them on being as full and as generous as it can manage. The opening alone runs to six. Rose is there from the first second, deep and full, with pear giving a crisp watery sweetness, bergamot and mandarin orange supplying citrus of two different weights, orange blossom adding a clean white floral lift, and star anise cutting through all of it with a cool, sweet, aniseed sharpness. It is a crowded start and a confident one.
The heart is crowded too, and it is where the fragrance shows its character. Tuberose is the loudest flower in perfumery, rich and almost waxy, ylang ylang is sweet and heady beside it, iris brings cool dry powder, orchid a smooth modern sweetness, plum a dark winey fruit and ginger a dry fizzing heat. Six more materials, and the combination of heavy white flowers with cold powder and warm spice is what keeps it from being merely large. The base settles everything down. Vanilla and amber bring warmth and sweetness, cinnamon carries the spice through from the heart, sandalwood adds a smooth dry depth, and musk holds the whole arrangement against the skin for hours.
This is not a quiet fragrance and should not be bought as one. At eau de parfum strength it projects properly for the first two hours and stays detectable long after that, so two sprays are plenty and three is too many. It is a women's fragrance, it belongs to autumn and winter evenings, and the 200ml bottle is the argument for choosing it over something similar at five times the price. Saphir has made perfume in Spain since 1940, remains entirely Spanish owned, and manufactures everything at its Zaragoza plant, which has its own research centre.
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