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LoveMe The Onyx
Hazelnut at the top of a fragrance is rare, and it is the first thing you notice about Tous Loveme the Onyx Parfum Gift Set.
The box holds the 90ml Eau de Parfum and a toiletry bag. It is handled as a roasted, faintly oily nuttiness rather than as a dessert, and grapefruit is set against it immediately, bitter and sharp, to keep it from reading as food. Peony joins them with a cool, crisp floral snap. The heart is short and soft: orchid, which is less a flower than a creamy, slightly fleshy sweetness, and heliotrope, which brings a powdery quality like the inside of an old compact. Then the base takes over for the long haul. Vanilla gives it the warmth and the smoothness, vetiver cuts across that with a rooty, earthy bitterness, and sandalwood rounds the whole thing off, dry and milky at once.
Eight materials, and the shape is unusual: a bright, nutty opening collapsing fairly quickly into a warm, earthy base with only a brief floral stage in between. That makes it feel richer than the material list suggests.
Presented as a gift set, it is a good choice for somebody who finds most feminine fragrance too floral or too sweet. The nut and the vetiver give it an edge, and the vanilla keeps it comfortable. Autumn and winter suit it best, and it works better after dark than at eleven in the morning.
Tous is a Spanish jewellery company based in Manresa, in Catalonia, where it has had its head office since the beginning. The business dates itself to 1920, when Salvador Tous Blavi was serving a watchmaking apprenticeship, and he and his wife Teresa Ponsa built it up from a small repair workshop. Its bear is the emblem people recognise, and fragrance joined the range from 2000.
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