{"product_id":"alvarez-gomez-agua-fresca-bergamota-eau-de-cologne","title":"Agua Fresca Bergamota Eau de Cologne","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree materials and a cologne concentration make Alvarez Gómez Agua Fresca Bergamota Eau de Cologne about as simple as fragrance gets, and simplicity is the point of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBergamot is the lead, and on its own it is more interesting than a plain citrus: sharp and acidic at first, then rounder and faintly floral, with a soft bitterness from the rind underneath. Grapefruit follows it, and the two overlap rather than succeed one another, the grapefruit adding a pithier, drier bitterness that extends the brightness by a few minutes. Sandalwood is the only thing below, and it is doing something useful. It gives the fragrance a dry, faintly creamy finish so that the citrus has somewhere to land instead of simply evaporating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the composition. There is no heart to speak of and no development beyond citrus settling onto a soft base. If you want complexity, this is not it; if you want to smell clean in thirty seconds, it is exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eau de cologne strength it is intended to be splashed on generously and reapplied through the day, after a shower, after a shave, or whenever heat has caught up with you. It reads unisex and it is at its best in summer. A product like this is not really competing with perfume. It is competing with the feeling of having just washed, and on that measure it does well. Expect it to fade inside an hour or two, and expect that to be fine, because the bottle is there to be used rather than preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Madrid perfumery in its fourth generation of family ownership, Alvarez Gómez dates from 1899 and from a Calle Sevilla shopfront taken by three men out of Leon. It stayed a small operation for a long stretch, and the factory that supplies it now, along with its national distribution, belongs to the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alvarez Gómez","offers":[{"title":"300ml","offer_id":53297379901767,"sku":"ENG209410","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"750ml","offer_id":54426140639559,"sku":"ENG209409","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/eng209410.jpg?v=1770520099","url":"https:\/\/thescentvault.ie\/products\/alvarez-gomez-agua-fresca-bergamota-eau-de-cologne","provider":"The Scent Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}