Pour Homme
Versace Pour Homme Eau de Toilette has been a default office fragrance for men for well over a decade, and it holds that position because it is almost impossible to get wrong.
Alberto Morillas built the opening out of four citrus materials and gave each one a job. Bergamot is the bright one, citron the sharper and more peel like one, neroli the soft and slightly soapy orange flower, and bitter orange leaf the green, stemmy bitterness that keeps the whole thing from going sugary. Sprayed on a shirt in the morning it reads as clean before it reads as anything else.
The middle adds a little character without ever becoming difficult. Geranium gives it a rosy, faintly metallic edge, clary sage a dry herbal one, and hyacinth a cool green floral note that is rarer in men's fragrance than it ought to be.
The base is the surprise. Oud is in there, used lightly, contributing a warm and faintly smoky depth rather than the heavy medicinal quality the material is known for, with cedarwood keeping it dry. The effect is a clean citrus scent with an unexpectedly serious finish, and it is the reason this outlasted a hundred similar bottles from the same years. That contrast between a conventional opening and a less conventional finish is what people are responding to when they say this smells more expensive than it is.
Moderate projection and about six hours of wear make it suited to offices, meetings and warm days. It is the sort of bottle men repurchase without thinking about it. From 2008. Versace, an Italian house founded by Gianni Versace in Milan in 1978 and creatively directed by Donatella Versace since his death, works across fashion, interiors, hospitality and fragrance.
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