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Amara
Aire de Sevilla Amara Eau de Toilette 150ml is a soft, powdery scent sold in a bottle large enough to be used without thinking about it, which is rather the point of the range. Heliotrope is what gives it its character. It is a powdery material with a gentle sweetness and a faintly biscuit like quality, old fashioned in the best sense, and bitter orange cuts across it in the opening with a sharp peel edge that stops the softness settling too soon. Ylang ylang follows, creamy and heady with a rich, almost fruited depth, and orchid sits beside it adding a smooth, rounded floral weight without much sharpness of its own.
The base is the warm half. Benzoin is resinous and balsamic with a sweet, faintly smoky edge, sandalwood is creamy and dry, vanilla is soft rather than sugary, and musk cleans up the edges so the whole thing sits comfortably on skin. Eight materials, arranged for comfort rather than drama, and the fragrance never pulls in two directions at once. At toilette strength, in a bottle this size, it is a fragrance for daily use. It will not carry across a room and it does not need to: spray it liberally after a shower and it reads as skin rather than as perfume for several hours. It suits cooler weather and quiet occasions, and it is pitched at women, though the powdery warmth is not strictly gendered.
The range comes from Instituto Espanol S.A., a Spanish perfumery and cosmetics manufacturer founded in 1903 and still run by the same family, now in its third generation. It makes everything at Hinojos in Huelva province and describes itself as wholly Andalusian, producing colognes, shower gels, creams, deodorants and oils.
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