Kids Boy Eau de Toilette Gift Set

A hundred millilitres is a great deal of fragrance for a small person, and Tous Kids Boy Eau de Toilette 100ml is sized on the assumption that most of it will be sprayed with more enthusiasm than precision.

What is in the bottle is simple and good natured. The opening pairs mandarin orange with neroli and clover, sweet, clean and green together, and it lifts for a few minutes before handing over. Clover is the material that makes the opening feel outdoors rather than scented, and it is the least obvious thing in the bottle. The heart is candy apple and grass, which is an odd pairing on paper and an obvious one in practice: the candy apple is sweet and toffee glazed, the grass green and freshly cut, and between them they give the scent the playground quality it is clearly after. Neither half of that pairing is used heavily, so the result is cheerful rather than sticky.

Licorice and musk take it to the end. Licorice is sweet and dark with a slightly medicinal root character, and musk is soft and clean underneath. Seven materials, no more, and the perfumers were Domitille Michalon Bertier and Juliette Karagueuzoglou. It is also the size that survives being knocked over, used generously and forgotten about for a month at a time.

At eau de toilette strength it is mild and short lived, which is exactly right here. It will not cling to a coat or fill a car. The large bottle lives better on a shelf at home than in a bag, and it will outlast several growth spurts. Tous is a Spanish jewellery house with a bear for its emblem, dating itself to 1920 through Salvador Tous Blavi's start in watchmaking, and run from Manresa where the original repair workshop stood.