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Tommy Girl Forever
Anyone shopping for a light, pretty eau de toilette to wear in daylight should look at Tommy Girl Forever Eau de Toilette, from Tommy Hilfiger, which does exactly that job and asks nothing of the wearer.
It opens on fruit handled softly. Pear is juicy and faintly green, blackberry darker and a little jammy, and bergamot runs across both with a clean bitterness that keeps them from turning into squash. The start is sweet and brief. Blackberry is an unusual thing to put at the top of a scent like this, and it gives the opening more colour than a simple citrus start would have.
The middle is the reason to buy it. Peony gives a fresh, airy floral sweetness, jasmine fills that out with something richer, and iris adds a cool powderiness that makes the whole arrangement feel finished rather than girlish. Nine materials in all and the middle uses three of them well. There is nothing difficult in it at any stage, which makes it a safe bottle to buy for somebody else.
Underneath, sandalwood is creamy and soft, cedarwood dry and sharp, and amber warm and faintly sweet. The base never takes over, which is right for a scent built to be worn in the office or at lunch rather than at a dinner. The cedarwood is the material that keeps the finish from going powdery, and it is the reason the scent ends cleanly rather than trailing off sweet.
Eau de toilette strength means it is light on the skin and will want topping up across a long day, so a bottle that lives in a bag suits it. Spring and summer are its natural seasons and it is aimed at women. The house behind it is American, founded in 1985 by Tommy Hilfiger on a single menswear collection, based in New York and owned by PVH since 2010, with the fragrance business licensed to the Estee Lauder Companies.
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