Luxury Collection Sweet Tobacco
Two materials are the whole of Alvarez Gómez Luxury Collection Sweet Tobacco Eau de Parfum 100ml, and the title names both of them. Tobacco is the subject. Handled in perfumery it is not cigarette smoke but cured leaf: dry, faintly sweet, a little dusty, with a richness closer to a well kept humidor or a pouch of pipe tobacco than to an ashtray. There is a dry, slightly dusty quality to it and a faint bitterness underneath. Vanilla is the only other thing in the bottle, and its job is to round the leaf off, smoothing the dryness and pushing the natural sweetness of the tobacco forward until the two are hard to separate. A fragrance built from two materials behaves differently from a layered one. There is no opening, no heart and no drydown in the usual sense, just a single accord that holds from the first spray to the last hour. Nothing arrives later to change your mind about it, so if the first ten minutes work for you, so will the rest.
At eau de parfum strength the pair have the oil to last, and the vanilla in particular will stay on skin and on clothing for a long time. It is unisex and it is firmly a cold weather proposition, best after dark, and most at home on someone who already knows they like tobacco in a fragrance. A single spray goes a long way, and on a scarf or a coat collar it will still be there the following day.
A Madrid perfumery, family owned since the day it opened. The three young men behind it had come from Leon, and they took premises at Calle Sevilla 2 in 1899, going into the aroma trade from there. The firm built a factory and a national reach in the 1990s under a later generation, and a fourth generation holds it today.
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