Flores Mediterráneas Lilas y Mimosas
Spring is the season Alvarez Gómez Flores Mediterráneas Lilas y Mimosas Eau de Toilette 150ml is made for, and the two flowers in its name are the reason.
Mimosa is the softer of them, a powdery yellow sweetness that smells faintly dusty, like pollen on a windowsill. Lilac is the sharper, a green and slightly soapy floral with a cool edge that keeps the mimosa from going sugary. Around that pair the composition fills out with more flowers. Neroli opens it, bright and a little bitter, with a clean white snap. Lily adds a creamy, almost waxy richness. In the middle, jasmine supplies polish and lift while lily of the valley brings a green, dewy freshness that reads crisp rather than sweet. Musk is the only thing underneath, and its job is simply to hold the bouquet against the skin and soften its edges.
Seven materials, six of them flowers, so this is a floral in the plainest sense of the word. There is no fruit, no spice and nothing dark hiding at the bottom. Eau de toilette strength suits a composition like this. It is light, it can be applied generously, and it lasts a few hours before fading gently rather than disappearing. It reads feminine and it is at its best in mild weather and in daylight, which makes the generous 150ml bottle a reasonable proposition for anyone who wears this sort of thing freely.
Alvarez Gómez is Madrid based and has stayed with one family for four generations. Three young men from Leon opened the first shop, on Calle Sevilla, in 1899, having come to the city for the aroma trade. A factory and a reach across Spain followed a great deal later, in the 1990s, and the house still works from Madrid.
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