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Agua Fresca de Flores Bergamota
Just three materials go into Alvarez Gómez Agua Fresca de Flores Bergamota Eau de Toilette 150ml, and that is worth saying plainly before anything else, because this is a short composition and it makes no attempt to be more than one. Bergamot is the subject. It is the most useful material in all of citrus perfumery, bitter at the edges and faintly floral in a way that makes it smell more expensive than it is, and here it is given the lead and left there. Grapefruit sits behind it adding pith and a cooler bitterness, which deepens the citrus rather than brightening it, and sandalwood is the only thing underneath, a soft creamy wood that gives the scent something to rest on and keeps it from vanishing in ten minutes.
There is no development to follow and no base to wait for. What you smell on the first spray is what you get, slightly quieter, for an hour or two. Some people want precisely that and find layered compositions tiring; anyone who enjoys watching a fragrance change over an afternoon will find this plain. As an eau de toilette it is light but not weightless, and the sandalwood is the reason. Expect it to sit close rather than to travel. Use it in the morning, in summer, before work, after sport, and use it freely; the 150ml bottle is sized for exactly that habit. It is unisex in the most literal sense, since almost nobody objects to clean bergamot.
Behind it is a family owned Spanish perfumery dating from 1899, the year three young men from Leon, by then employed in the Madrid aroma trade, opened premises of their own on Calle Sevilla. The concentrated cologne first mixed by hand in its basement in 1912 made the firm's name, and a fourth generation of the family runs it now.
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