Agua de Colonia Concentrada Eau d'Orange Gift Set
The two materials that decide the character of Alvarez Gómez Agua de Colonia Concentrada Eau d'Orange Gift Set sit in the base, where most people never think to look.
The set pairs the 300ml cologne with a 280ml moisturizing emulsion. Cypress is the first, dry and green and resinous, the smell of a conifer standing in full sun, and it gives the fragrance a cool, slightly austere finish that is unusual in a cologne. Cedarwood sits with it, adding a sharpened, pencil like dryness, while musk softens both and holds them against the skin. Above that base the composition is sunnier. Orange blossom leads the middle, white and clean with a faint bitterness, and almond is placed beside it to round the flower out with a soft nuttiness. The opening is deliberately plain: lemon for acidity and bergamot for a fuller citrus lift, both of them brief.
Seven materials, and the balance between a bright, floral top half and a dry resinous bottom half is what makes it more interesting than a straightforward orange cologne.
The set format puts it in a box and makes the decision easy when you are buying for somebody else. It reads unisex, which widens the field considerably, and it is a good present for a household where the house's cologne is already a fixture. Expect brief brightness, an hour or so of orange flower, and a dry trace that outlasts both by a good margin.
The house is Alvarez Gómez, a family owned Madrid perfumery whose concentrated cologne, the range this set belongs to, was first mixed by hand in a shop basement. Those premises at Calle Sevilla 2 date from 1899. Its factory and its nationwide presence were established in the 1990s, and the fourth generation holds the business.
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