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Agua Fresca de Azahar
Few presents are easier to give than Aire de Sevilla Agua Fresca de Azahar Eau de Toilette Gift Set, because almost nobody dislikes the smell of orange blossom in the sunshine. The fragrance inside is a citrus and white floral cologne. Clementine, mandarin orange and bergamot start it, sweet and sharp together, and the opening is deliberately simple and immediately likeable. Orange blossom is the centre of it, honeyed and faintly soapy in the best sense, with lily of the valley adding a cool dewy freshness and jasmine a creamier floral depth beneath.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Toilette, a 100ml body lotion and a 100ml shower gel. It finishes on amber and musk, a short warm base that holds the flowers close to the skin for an hour or two longer than they would otherwise last. Eight materials and no complication anywhere in it, which is exactly right for a cologne meant to be enjoyed rather than studied.
This is a light concentration, generous rather than precious, so the recipient should use it freely instead of saving it for best. That makes it an unusually safe gift: it is pretty, it is seasonal in the best way, and even somebody with definite tastes in perfume will find it pleasant for a warm afternoon. It is boxed and ready to hand over, which makes it a sensible thing to keep by for a birthday or a thank you.
The maker is Instituto Espanol S.A., a cosmetics and perfumery company set up in Spain in 1903 and now in the hands of the founding family's third generation. Everything is produced at Hinojos in the province of Huelva, and the firm calls itself wholly Andalusian, with a catalogue of colognes, shower gels, creams, deodorants and oils in which Gotas de Oro and Anfora Oro are the long standing favourites.
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