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Ámbar Femme
Vanilla and praline give Alvarez Gómez Ámbar Femme Eau de Parfum its warmth, and white flowers give it its shape. The scent is sweet and soft, with a nutty, caramelised depth sitting under a floral heart, and it wears powdery rather than sharp. There is no bite anywhere in it, and the overall impression is warmth rather than brightness.
Lily, jasmine and orange blossom are the flowers at the heart: lily cool and faintly green, jasmine rich and heady, orange blossom creamy and sweet between the two. The three together are full rather than sharp, and none of them is allowed to dominate. Below them vanilla, tonka bean and praline make a dense confectionery base, and patchouli runs through it with an earthy bite that stops the sweetness going flat. Tonka bean is the link between the two halves, almond-like and warm, sitting comfortably against both the jasmine and the vanilla, and what you are left with after a while is the praline and vanilla with the flowers reduced to a soft sweetness over the top.
Alvarez Gómez dates to 1899, when Herminio Alvarez Gomez, Berlarmino Gomez and Emilio Vuelta Gomez, three men from Leon, opened a shop at Calle Sevilla 2 in Madrid. Its Agua de Colonia Concentrada has been made by hand since 1912, and Ámbar Femme is one of the fragrances the Madrid house carries alongside it in its range today.
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