Oui Woman
Anyone browsing the Oui range should treat Saphir Oui Woman Eau de Parfum 200ml as its own proposition rather than a companion to its siblings, because it is built on a different idea entirely.
That idea is blackcurrant leaf, and it carries the opening alone. The leaf is not the berry. It is green, sharp and faintly bitter, with a cool, slightly stalky quality that reads as crisp rather than sweet, and starting a feminine fragrance there rather than on a fruit or a citrus is the most distinctive choice in the whole composition.
Freesia and rose follow and soften it without sweetening it much. Freesia is light, clean and a touch sharp, more suggestion than statement, while the rose underneath is fuller and gives the middle its body. The green from the opening is still running through both of them, and that is what keeps the floral stage from reading as old fashioned.
The base is where it finally warms up. Vanilla brings sweetness, patchouli brings an earthy and faintly damp depth, and ambergris smooths the join with a soft, mineral, lightly salty quality. It settles close to the skin and stays there for most of a day. Six materials, a clear green to floral to warm arc, and a 200ml bottle that makes it an everyday proposition rather than an occasional one. It suits spring and autumn, it works at the office, and it will appeal to anyone who finds most women's fragrance too sweet in the first five minutes.
This comes from a company that has been in Spanish perfumery since 1940, when it opened as the family warehouse Almacenes Corinto in Zaragoza. Saphir has stayed in Spanish hands, makes all of its own branded fragrance at its Zaragoza plant, which has its own research centre, and aims squarely at affordable perfume.
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