Agua de Colonia Flor de Naranjo
The longest material list in the range goes into the largest bottle in Alvarez Gómez Agua de Colonia Flor de Naranjo Eau de Cologne 750ml, and the result has far more going on than the format implies.
Mandarin orange and grapefruit are the two that define the opening here, one sweet and soft, the other bitter and pithy, with amalfi lemon adding a perfumed brightness above them and plain lemon the sour snap underneath. Bergamot carries all of it into the middle. There, lavender and rosemary provide the clean herbal spine, coriander contributes a dry peppery quality and rhubarb an odd tart greenness that stops the citrus from sweetening.
What follows is unexpectedly dark for a cologne. Cumin gives a warm, slightly animal edge close to the skin, patchouli adds earth, vetiver a bitter root, and cedarwood and sandalwood together build a pale dry wood that is still there long after the fruit has burned off. Fourteen materials, and the shape of it is a descent rather than a bloom.
It is meant to be used without restraint at this strength, which is what the 750ml bottle is for. Decant a little into a smaller flask for travel and keep the rest on a shelf. It is a daytime scent, it suits heat, and it is as wearable for women as for men.
The house traces itself to 1899, to three young men out of Leon who learned the aroma trade in Madrid before opening a shop at Calle Sevilla 2. The concentrated cologne they first blended by hand in the cellar in 1912 built the business; a factory and a national network arrived in the 1990s, and the firm is now run by the fourth generation of the same family.
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