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Kids Boy
As a present for a child, Tous Kids Boy Eau de Toilette 100ml has the advantage of being obviously a children's product rather than a scaled down adult one, which is the mistake most gifts in this category make.
The composition is short and friendly. Clover opens it green and soft, with neroli clean and slightly bitter and mandarin orange sweet on top, and none of it is sharp. A children's scent that opens green rather than sweet is already doing something slightly different. Candy apple is the material that makes a child like it. It smells of toffee coated fruit, sweet and glossy, and grass is set against it green and cut so the sweetness has something to push back on. That contrast keeps it from being simply sugary, which also makes it easier for an adult to be near. It is also worth saying that this is a scent a child can wear to school without anybody objecting, which is not true of every bottle marketed at the same age.
Licorice and musk close the scent, one dark and sweet with a root edge, the other soft and clean. Seven materials, composed by Domitille Michalon Bertier and Juliette Karagueuzoglou, and nothing hidden in them. There is no long drydown and no complicated second half to explain to anybody. If you are giving it to a boy who has never owned a fragrance, this is a reasonable first one.
Being an eau de toilette it is light and fades in a few hours, which is the right behaviour for something a child will spray enthusiastically. Tous is Spanish, a jewellery company first and foremost, and the bear it uses as a mark is recognisable enough that the box usually gets a reaction. The firm dates itself to 1920 and Salvador Tous Blavi's watchmaking apprenticeship, and still operates from Manresa.
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