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Velvet Celestial
Sesame is a genuinely rare thing to find on a note list, and it is the first material named in Saphir Velvet Celestial Eau de Parfum 200ml.
It gives the opening a toasted, nutty dryness that is quite unlike a fruit or a citrus start, and ginger and black pepper come in alongside it to sharpen things up. Ginger is warm and fizzing with a dry bite, black pepper is prickly and immediate, and the three of them together make a first ten minutes that smells like a spice drawer rather than a perfume counter. It is the most distinctive part of the fragrance.
The middle cools it right down. Orange blossom is clean, white and slightly soapy, neroli is greener and more bitter, and the two of them from the same family of trees make a bright floral stage that comes as a relief after the spice. The contrast is the structure of the whole thing.
Then it turns soft. Vanilla sweetens, sandalwood brings a creamy, smooth, enveloping warmth, and the pair of them give the dry down a comfortable roundness that neither the opening nor the middle prepares you for. It is three distinct fragrances in sequence rather than one accord repeated. Seven materials, a 200ml bottle and a composition that genuinely develops. It reads unisex, it suits cooler months and evenings, and it is worth wearing for a full day before judging, because the stages are so different from one another.
Since its start in 1940, when the Zaragoza family warehouse Almacenes Corinto moved into perfume, Saphir has stayed Spanish owned and Spanish based. It makes everything carrying its name at its own Zaragoza plant, where it also runs a research centre.
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