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Flores Mediterráneas Verbena y Azahar
Four citrus materials open Alvarez Gómez Flores Mediterráneas Verbena y Azahar Eau de Toilette 150ml, which is a declaration of intent. Lemon and lime are the sharp pair, lime with a bitter green skin quality that lemon does not have, while mandarin orange is soft and sweet and orange is rounder and fuller than either. For ten minutes it is simply a very good citrus scent. The heart is what separates it from a cologne. Lemon verbena is the lead, citric without being a citrus fruit, dry and slightly soapy with a green stalk quality underneath, exactly like the leaf crushed between the fingers. Thyme is drier again and properly herbal, and ginger puts a quiet warmth beneath the two that stops the middle from feeling thin.
The close is brief and clean. Orange blossom is honeyed and a touch bitter, musk is soft and skin like, and together they give the citrus somewhere to rest for an hour or two more than it would otherwise manage. Nine materials, and the shape is bright, herbal, then softly floral.
Launched in 2017, it is an eau de toilette and should be used accordingly: generously, often and without worrying about the bottle, which is why 150ml is the right size for it. Projection is moderate and longevity is a few hours rather than a whole day, which is the honest trade a toilette concentration makes in exchange for being this easy to wear.
It reads unisex, it belongs to spring and summer and to the daylight hours, and it is one of the easier things in the range to wear at a desk. A family firm from Madrid, Alvarez Gómez opened at Calle Sevilla 2 in 1899 and is run today by the fourth generation of the same family.
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