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Eros Pour Femme
Pomegranate is the hook in Versace Eros Pour Femme Eau de Parfum, and it is handled tart rather than sweet, which sets the tone for everything that follows it.
The opening is unusually dry for a feminine eau de parfum. Lemon and bergamot sharpen the pomegranate, and the fruit itself reads astringent, with a faint red wine quality rather than any syrupy edge. It takes a few minutes before the flowers arrive, and that delay is deliberate.
When they do, sambac jasmine dominates. It is the heavier, more indolic form of the flower, close to the smell of a warm garden at night, with plain jasmine beside it for lift and lemon blossom adding a clean citrus floral edge that stops the whole thing going too rich. Peony sits across the top of all three with a soft, almost watery pink character that keeps the heart from becoming overbearing.
The base is kept deliberately simple. Sandalwood brings a creamy, slightly milky smoothness, amber adds warmth, and musk keeps the arrangement close to the skin. The result lasts well into the evening without ever becoming heavy, and it is the kind of drydown people compliment at close range rather than across a table. Two sprays will carry through a long evening, and a third is only worth it in cold weather when the air is doing none of the work for you.
It reads feminine and grown up rather than girlish, and it suits occasions, dinners and cooler evenings better than a hot afternoon. The house is Italian: Gianni Versace opened it in Milan in 1978, Donatella Versace has guided it creatively since his death, and it works in interiors and hospitality as well as fashion and fragrance.
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