The Game arrived in early 2013 in airport shops, under license from Coty. Bernard Ellena builds a gin fizz accord on juniper berries, an iris faceted with precious wood, a dark base. Davidoff houses it all in a stack of poker chips in black glass. An aromatic woody released a few months later in an Intense version.
A cocktail accord in the opening, an iris faceted with wood, a dark base: Davidoff classes The Game among the aromatic woodies.
From gin fizz to black wood
Juniper berries and gin open on a gin fizz that Davidoff has set as the opening signature. Iris holds the middle, faceted with precious wood. The base falls to a black wood that Davidoff names blackwood.
A black wood without a botanical name
Davidoff writes blackwood without saying which essence it is. The word translates as ebony, and it is under this name that the note appears here, for lack of a more precise designation.
What the label declares
Seventeen entries: alcohol, water, fragrance, a film-forming copolymer, an antioxidant, hydrolyzed jojoba esters, a chelating agent, and ten regulated allergens — alpha-isomethyl ionone, cinnamal, citral, citronellol, coumarin, eugenol, geraniol, limonene, linalool, methyl 2-octynoate.