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Primavera
The name means spring and Aire de Sevilla Primavera Eau de Toilette 150ml does not mess about with the brief: three white flowers over a warm base, and nothing else.
Orange blossom, jasmine and gardenia are the whole heart of it. Orange blossom is the cleanest of the three, soapy with a honeyed thread running through it. Jasmine is the richest, creamy and faintly heady in the way jasmine always is after dark. Gardenia is the one that makes this different: green, slightly mushroomy and with a creamy edge of its own, it is the flower that gives the composition a touch of lushness rather than politeness. Stacked together they are a proper white floral rather than a suggestion of one.
The close is short and warm. Sandalwood is creamy and milky and smooths the flowers down, and amber provides a warm resinous glow underneath. That is all there is, five materials in total, and the composition behaves accordingly: there is no slow unfolding, only a gradual softening of what you smelled at the start.
At eau de toilette strength it is moderate in projection and will give you an afternoon rather than a day. The 150ml bottle makes a second application a matter of no consequence. Spring and early summer are where it belongs, especially outdoors in the evening when white flowers do their best work and a heavier composition would simply sit on you. It is sold to women, and it is the sort of thing worn by people who do not much like being noticed for their perfume. The house behind it, Instituto Espanol, started in 1903 and is still family run in its third generation. Beyond fragrance it makes colognes, shower gels, creams, deodorants and oils, all of it produced in Huelva province in Andalusia.
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