Fragrance Notes
Agua Fresca de Baño Flor de Naranjo
There is a single material in Alvarez Gómez Agua Fresca de Baño Flor de Naranjo, and it is orange blossom, the flower and not the fruit. Those two smell nothing alike. The flower is white and clean with a green edge, a soapy freshness and a faint bitterness underneath that keeps it from ever becoming sugary. On skin it reads bright and slightly waxy at first, then softens into something calm and almost powdery. Smelled on its own, with nothing else in the bottle, it is more interesting than it sounds, because it shifts noticeably as it dries.
This is a product to use after bathing rather than a perfume to apply before going out. It is splashed on generously over the shoulders, arms and back, it evaporates quickly and it leaves skin smelling clean rather than scented. There is no projection to speak of and it will not last the day, which is the intention and not a shortcoming. It is entirely unisex, and hot weather is where it earns its place, since a water like this does as much by cooling skin as by scenting it. There is also very little risk in it: with one material there is nothing to clash with whatever else you happen to be wearing, and nothing to think about either. If orange blossom is a flower you already like, this is about the cleanest way to meet it, with nothing added to complicate the picture and nothing lurking underneath to change it later. If you do not yet know whether you like it, a bath water is a cheaper way to find out than a perfume would be.
Alvarez Gómez is a Madrid perfumery and a family business. Its first address, a shop at Calle Sevilla 2, dates from 1899, taken by three men who had come down from Leon with an interest in working with scent. The factory and the nationwide reach came a great deal later, in the 1990s, and the fourth generation runs it.
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