Anniversary gifts for him

An anniversary is the one gift a couple gives with the recipient in the room, which is why fragrance suits it: the giver will be the person nearest to it. Gold Oud is warm, sweet and open, raspberry and lemon zest over oud, cedarwood and soft musk, settling into vanilla and warm spice. It is smoother and deeper than Black Oud, and it is made to be worn by anyone, which in a marriage means the bottle changes hands. Held at twenty-two percent in a 75ml bottle blown by hand. £150.

Black Oud is deep, woody and reserved, cardamom and black pepper over oud, sandalwood and patchouli, settling into dark vanilla and amber, and it stays close to the skin: noticed at close range, present across a room, never loud. The eau de parfum is £125; the Black Oud Collection, with the beard oil, balm and shampoo that carry the same composition, is £175 in a hand-assembled gift box, one of one thousand.

The traditional gifts by year are paper, cotton, leather, wood. Oud is a wood, or as near as perfumery comes to one: the resin of the Aquilaria tree. For the fifth anniversary, the wood year, Black Oud is the literal answer. For the rest, it is simply the one he will wear.

A beard oil in its box and sleeve, used every morning for roughly twelve weeks. Black Oud or Gold Oud, 30ml. Leaves in the couture gift box with any order over £160, or with the box added for £7 in the cart.

Orders before 1pm, Monday to Friday, usually leave the same day from England; over £100, next-day by DPD, tracked, Monday to Saturday, not guaranteed. If the date has arrived, a digital gift card sent with a message on the morning.

Every ZOUSZ product is made in England. The bottle is blown by hand. The packaging is assembled by hand in England. When this batch is gone, the next is months away.