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Looking for an affordable men’s fragrance for Valentine’s Day? I’ve found plenty | Sali Hughes on beauty


From lemony to creamy vanilla scents, these all have reasonable price tags but don’t smell cheap

I was wowed by the entire selection, but my sons, husband and I all loved Midnight Encore(£28 for 50ml), a salt-and-peppery, cosy but quietly brooding and magnetic jasmine fragrance that, if priced at £150, wouldn’t cause me to balk. Think icy, lemony gin and tonic with a generous squeeze of lime, followed by a mellow woody musk Abercrombie & Fitch’s Authentic Self(£39 for a bumper 100ml) was a big hit with my young-adult sons and their friends, who loved both the cobalt-blue bottle and its contents. Roger and Gallet’s Eau de Cologne(£36 for 100ml) is another crowd-pleaser, all fizzy lemon sherbet and smashed, succulent mint leaves on a bright sunshiny day.

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