Agua Fresca de Flores Verbena 150ml
Twelve materials and a great deal of citrus: Alvarez Gómez Agua Fresca de Flores Verbena 150ml is far busier than the light bottles in the range usually are, and the interest is in how much it packs into something meant to be splashed on rather than carefully sprayed. The opening is five citrus materials at once. Lemon and lime are the sharp ones, lime with a bitter, slightly green skin quality that lemon lacks. Grapefruit adds rind and a touch of sulphur. Mandarin orange is the soft, sweet one and bergamot the most rounded, and together they make a start that is bracing rather than sugary.
The middle is where it stops being a cologne. Rose is full and a little jammy, rhubarb is tart and green against it, coriander brings a warm, slightly soapy spice, and labdanum sits beneath them with a sticky, resinous, faintly leathery depth that gives the whole thing a weight you would not predict from the first minute.
The last stage is the most surprising. Cumin is in there, warm and savoury and frankly skin like, and it is a material that behaves very differently on different people, so this is one to try before committing. Jasmine and orange blossom soften it, lime returns to brighten the finish, and the result is more complicated than a flower water has any need to be.
Supplied in a 150ml bottle, it reads unisex, works best in warm weather and is generous enough to use freely. The house is a Spanish family perfumery, founded in Madrid in 1899 by three young men who had come from León to work in the aroma trade and who opened a shop at Calle Sevilla 2; a later generation built a factory and a national network from the 1990s.
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