Azul Fresh
Five materials and no padding: Aire de Sevilla Azul Fresh Eau de Toilette 150ml is a short composition and behaves like one on skin.
Bergamot opens it, clean and bitter in the way good citrus peel is, and hyacinth comes in almost immediately. Hyacinth is the material that gives this its character. It smells green and cold and slightly rubbery, closer to a cut stem standing in a vase of water than to anything sugary, and it is a far less obvious choice than the white flowers most ranges at this price reach for.
Atlas cedar follows, drier and more resinous than ordinary cedar, with a pencil sharpening sharpness and a faint smokiness behind it. White rose sits over the top, soft and papery rather than jammy, and amber closes the whole thing with a warm resinous glow that stops it finishing cold.
There is no long arc to follow. What you get in the first ten minutes is substantially what you get for the rest of the wear, which is worth knowing before you buy rather than after. The eau de toilette strength keeps it light and the 150ml bottle means you can be generous with it, which is really the way this sort of thing is meant to be used. Expect a few hours from it and reapply if you want it with you in the evening as well. It reads as cool and clean rather than sweet, so it works for daytime, for office wear and for warm weather in particular, and it is one of the few things in a bathroom cabinet that genuinely improves a hot afternoon. It is marketed to women but there is nothing in the composition that excludes anyone else. The range comes from Instituto Espanol, which makes everything it sells at Hinojos in Huelva province and calls itself wholly Andalusian. The company has been in Spanish perfumery and cosmetics since 1903 and is still run by the founding family.
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