The strict separation of perfumes for men and women in the era of gender equality is losing its relevance, so we suggest not paying attention to the label for him or for her and buying the fragrance that you like, regardless of your gender, status and religion. Perfume journalist Ksenia Golovanova suggests which compositions to pay attention to.
5975 (RUB)
L'Homme, Prada
Women often like Prada's male compositions - this was the case with Amber Pour Homme and Infusion d'Homme, and the same fate awaits L'Homme, which has a lot in common with its predecessors. From the first there is a beautiful fougere accord - bergamot with lavender, from the second - iris powder and pure, transparent musk, the overall effect is soft gray suede, in which you want to wrap your day in so that everything looks smooth and good-looking. A great scent for the office: a corner office overlooking the skyscrapers smells like this. And it doesn't matter who takes it.
RUB 12 600
Persian Saffron, Ermenegildo Zegna
The new Ermenegildo Zegna fragrance, as the name suggests, is dedicated to saffron, a rare and expensive spice that is still harvested by hand. And which can be liked not only by men. It turned out the expected East, but restrained and calm, without swallowing swords and drifting on airplane carpets: a little cool oud, slightly medicinal saffron and other spices frozen in amber amber.
RUB 7245
2 Man, Comme des Garçons parfums
2 Man, like other fragrances by perfumer Mark Buxton for Comme des Garçons (Comme des Garçons Eau de Parfum, Comme des Garçons 2, Comme des Garçons White), explores the themes of wood, spice and incense. There is also branded ink, and warm incense, and spices (first of all, cumin) - in a word, everything that started and with what we fell in love with Comme des Garçons perfumes. Nostalgia has no gender: the male "two" sits perfectly on women.
RUB 9920
Tabacco Toscano, Santa Maria Novella
Tabacco Toscano is one of the lightest and most transparent tobaccos in perfumery: these are tobacco leaves soaked in vanilla extract and, moreover, have not lost their green freshness. It is this bitter rustic greenery that makes Tabacco off-season - unlike its genre neighbors, it is pleasant to wear in warmth. Even those who have never held a cigarette in their hands will like it.
RUB 7900
Lavande Ombrée, Au Pays de la Fleur d'Oranger
Antoine and Virginie Roux founded Au Pays de la Fleur d'Oranger in 1998 - eons ago by the standards of niche perfumery. The Roux family was an important supplier to several French perfume factories, and one of the few orange trees that survived the disastrous 1956 frost in the south of the country still blooms in Roux's garden. Hence the name of the company - "In the edge of orange blossom", and the obvious choice of perfumery raw materials - aromas are made from what grows around. Their Lavande Ombrée is an icy and strong lavender tincture that you "drink" like a shot: at first you frown, and then a pleasant warmth spreads inside.
RUB 4100
Eau de Cédrat, L'Occitane en Provence
“With its unusual appearance and bumpy surface, citron is definitely a male fruit,” the Russian website L'Occitane tells us, which for some reason decided to divide the fruit into male and female. Citron, or zedrate, looks like a very large lemon with a thick wavy skin and smells like lemon marmalade. Eau de Cédrat can be called a citron soliflor with a clear conscience: it is a real citron squeezed into a glass with ice and a piece of candied ginger on the rim. An excellent choice for hot weather.
RUB 2940
Solarissimo Marettimo, Azzaro
All of the franchise's fragrances celebrate the beauty of the Aegadian Islands, a tourist-less archipelago off Sicily's west coast. The first to come out was Levanzo, a mint-basil glass inspired by the eponymous piece of sushi, and now the islet of Marettimo has its own flavor. It is larger and has a more spectacular bouquet - a beautiful reconstruction of the classic aquatics of the 1990s: with sour citrus, cashmeran and cedar notes.
RUB 9200
Gray, Rose & Co Manchester
On the Fragrantica perfume forum, Gray is compared to the beloved cashmere pullover - a comparison that may not be too fresh, but in this case it is very accurate. It's all about the warm vanilla-cinnamon base in which Gray - the traditional cologne made in the 1950s - disappears a couple of hours after application. But first, he will work out his program: he will scatter tangerines and grapefruits around the arena, shoot a bunch of mint from a firecracker and throw a bouquet of orange blossom in your face.
RUB 27,000
Figment Woman, Amouage
The new scent of the Omani perfume house divided the journalists into two camps: one in Figment Woman imagines burial passions, the dead with braids and "witch circles" from the mycelium, the other - a sunny morning and a mermaid pond with blooming water lilies. However, there is no contradiction here: the main figurant of the composition is gardenia - a flower with a complex aromatic profile, in which there are thick creamy tones, and mushroom shades, and fruit molasses on overripe fig. In short, everything in the gardenia is arranged too intricate and ambiguous to simply take and enclose it in a box marked for men or for woman.
1849 RUB
Knowing, Estée Lauder
Rose is a flower that, despite its stereotypical femininity, is actively used in perfumes designed for any gender. For example, Etat Libre d'Orange in Rien rolled a rose into concrete, and Nihilo was embedded in the classic cologne structure in Rose Hubris Ex Nihilo. In Knowing, a classic 1988 chypre, the rose was sent to work in a sawmill - straight through a wilderness wilderness, where it got bogged down in mosses and dense green undergrowth. And then for some reason they put the for her mark on the box. Don't take it seriously.
