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Vida de Saphir
Praline decides what Vida de Saphir Eau de Parfum 200ml smells like, and anyone who dislikes sweet fragrance can stop reading here.
Before the sugar arrives there is fruit. Blackcurrant opens tart and a little green, with the sour edge the fresh berry has, and pear gives it a rounder, juicier shape. The flowers in the middle exist to keep the sweetness honest, jasmine adding body and orange blossom a clean, almost soapy brightness that cuts across the fruit. Then the base takes the fragrance where it was always heading. Praline is sugared nuts, warm and toasted, tonka bean lays a soft powderiness over it with a faint bitterness underneath, vanilla smooths the join, and patchouli is the one dark material present, giving all that sweetness something to stand on instead of floating.
It is a winter and evening scent by temperament. Cold air suits this kind of composition, which can turn cloying in heat, and it is better suited to dinner and going out than to a warm office.
As an eau de parfum it has real staying power, and sweet bases of this sort tend to outlast the fruit on top by several hours, so what people smell on you at midnight is the praline and the tonka rather than the blackcurrant. Two hundred millilitres also puts it among the larger bottles we stock, which makes sense for a fragrance meant to be worn freely rather than saved for best.
Saphir is one of Spain's long running perfume companies, trading since 1940, when it began as a Zaragoza family warehouse named Almacenes Corinto. Ownership has stayed Spanish, manufacture stays at the firm's own Zaragoza plant and research site, and the declared purpose is perfume at a price ordinary buyers can meet.
Please note: images are a guide only. Packaging and bottle design may occasionally differ from those shown due to manufacturer updates or promotions.
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