Fragrance Notes
Eau d'Orange
Of all the colognes this Spanish house makes, Alvarez Gómez Eau d'Orange Eau de Cologne is the sweetest and the most floral, and it is the one that behaves least like a citrus splash.
Bergamot and lemon are there at the start, bitter and sour respectively, but they last only a few minutes and they are not the point. Orange blossom is the point. It is honeyed, waxy and faintly green, the smell of blossom on the tree rather than peel in the hand, and it carries the scent from beginning to end. Almond rounds it off with a soft marzipan quality, and the combination of the two is gentle, powdery and slightly nostalgic. Musk closes it, clean and warm, giving the flower a surface to sit on.
Five materials, which makes this a short composition with no second act. It opens, it settles, and it stays as it is until it fades. There is nothing to discover an hour in, and for a cologne that is not a criticism.
At eau de cologne strength it is light, so use it generously and expect to repeat the application in the afternoon. It is lovely in warm weather and in the morning, and it is the version of the range to try if the standard formula strikes you as too stern or too herbal. Equally wearable by men and women, and particularly easy on anyone who finds contemporary perfumery too loud.
The firm has stood in Madrid since 1899, when three young men from Leon, by then in the aroma trade, took over a shop at Calle Sevilla 2, and the cologne first made by hand in its basement in 1912 gave the house its fame at home, and the company is directed today by the family's fourth generation.
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