Agua Fresca de Azahar
Clean is a badly underrated quality in perfume, and the Adolfo Domínguez Agua Fresca de Azahar Eau de Toilette Gift Set is built on very little else at all.
The note record for it holds two materials, which makes this one of the shortest compositions in the whole range, and that is a fact about the fragrance rather than a gap in the paperwork. Neroli does the leading. It is bright, cool and soapy with a green bitterness behind it, the material perfumers reach for when they want freshness without fruit, and here it is given the stage almost entirely to itself. Musk is the other half, and its job is to hold the neroli against the skin, softening it into something faintly powdery and warm as the hours pass.
In wear this behaves very much like a cologne. It is immediate, it does not develop in any real sense, and at eau de toilette strength it gives three or four quiet hours before it wants a second spray. Nobody is going to object to it in a lift, in an office or at a hospital bedside, which is a good deal more useful than it sounds.
Given as a present it suits someone who dislikes heavy perfume, or a household where two people might reasonably share a bottle. It is unisex in practice whatever the shelf label says, and it is at its most convincing in genuine summer heat.
The house was founded in 1976 as a Spanish fashion label, with roots in a family tailoring business started in Ourense in 1950. In 1990 its founder became the first Spanish designer to put his name on a fragrance, and the company holds that Agua Fresca marked the country's memory of scent for good. Puig handles the perfumes under licence.
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