The Club Gift Set
If you have never smelled it, Scalpers The Club Gift Set is a reasonable way to meet the fragrance, because it is an odd one and worth meeting properly.
The box holds the 125ml Eau de Parfum and a wallet. The oddness is cocoa. Used here it is unsweetened and powdery, a dry bitterness rather than a confection, and it is held in place by grapefruit, which is all pith and sharp rind, and by sage, which is dry, grey green and faintly camphorous. Nothing about the first ten minutes is comfortable in the easy way most men's fragrance is comfortable, and that is deliberate. Give it a quarter of an hour before you make up your mind.
Then it warms. Lavender arrives clean and a touch soapy, tobacco turns up the dried leaf sweetness, and ginger pushes heat through both of them. By the time it settles you are into ambergris, vetiver and patchouli: salty and skin close from the first, rooty and bitter from the second, earth and damp cellar from the third. Ane Ayo and Clement Gavarry built it from nine materials and used every one of them for a reason.
Bought as a set it makes a straightforward gift for a birthday or Christmas, and it is equally sensible bought for yourself if you would rather start with the presentation than without it. The scent reads best after dark and in cooler months, on a man who does not mind being asked what he is wearing. Younger wearers tend to take to it faster than older ones, though it is not a young fragrance in character.
The house behind it is Spanish, started in Seville in 2007 with tailoring, shirting and accessories carrying an embroidered skull, and now covering clothing for men, women and children as well as homeware since 2021. Fragrance development is licensed out to Perfumes y Diseno.
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