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Original
Set beside the plainer colognes that carry the same name, Victor Original Eau de Toilette 100ml is the fuller and more old fashioned thing in the catalogue, a twelve material composition that behaves like a perfume rather than a splash.
Bergamot and lime open it sharply, with lavender and clary sage arriving almost at once, clary sage bringing a herbal haze that stops the citrus being merely bright. The middle turns softer than that opening suggests. Orange blossom is clean and white petalled, rose fills it out, and sandalwood, vetiver and cedarwood are already present at this stage, which is unusual and gives the heart a dry, rooty, slightly dusty quality rather than a floral one. The end is frankly old school: amber for resinous warmth, oakmoss for damp forest floor, and an animal musk that is warm, skin close and a little dirty in the way modern musks never are.
At eau de toilette strength it carries further than the splash colognes and lasts a good deal longer, four to six hours on most skin, with the base doing the work after the first hour. Two or three sprays are plenty.
This is an autumn and winter scent, better at night than at noon, and better on men who grew up with perfumery in this register than on anyone looking for something light and current. If you like the dry, mossy, musky style that designer houses largely abandoned, it is worth a look.
The Victor name belongs to Italian men's perfumery rather than to Spain, and the catalogue under it was built up from the late 1940s through to the 1990s, decades in which dry, mossy, herbal compositions were the normal register for a man's scent rather than a specialist taste. More recently the name has appeared under Visconti di Modrone.
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