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Original
Every range has the bottle it is known for, and Aire de Sevilla Original Eau de Toilette 150ml is the one this house is built around.
It is a simple idea executed cleanly. Mandarin orange opens, sweet and bright with a soft peel quality rather than a sharp juice one, and it does not hang about. Jasmine and orange blossom take over within minutes, and that pairing is the heart of the whole thing: jasmine creamy, full and faintly heady, orange blossom cleaner and more soapy with a honeyed undertone running through it. Together they smell like warm white flowers in the evening, which is plainly what was intended.
The base is drier than the heart leads you to expect. Sandalwood brings a creamy, milky smoothness, vetiver is rooty and earthy and slightly bitter, and cedarwood adds the sawn, pencil shaving sharpness that keeps the flowers from going soft. It is that dry close that gives the scent its staying power and its slightly more serious character after the first hour.
Six materials in all, so this is not a complicated composition, and it is better for that. As an eau de toilette it is moderate rather than loud, and the 150ml bottle is sized to be used freely. Warm evenings suit it, as does spring. It is sold to women and wears comfortably on anybody who likes white flowers. On fabric it holds considerably longer than it does on skin, which is worth remembering if you want it to last the night. The maker is Instituto Espanol, which has been in Spanish perfumery and cosmetics since 1903. It is still a family company, now in its third generation, and it produces everything at Hinojos in Huelva province, describing its output as entirely Andalusian.
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