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Ámbar Femme
Alvarez Gómez Ámbar Femme Eau de Parfum Gift Set is a safe present for someone with a sweet tooth, and an easy one to judge in advance because the scent inside it is so direct.
It opens on lily, jasmine and orange blossom, a trio of white flowers that read as clean and slightly soapy for the first few minutes, with jasmine giving the most depth and orange blossom the most sparkle. They are not the point, though. They are the doorway.
Praline arrives quickly and stays, a caramelised nut sugar with a toasted edge to it, and vanilla thickens behind it into something close to melted ice cream. Tonka bean adds a gentler, faintly powdery warmth that rounds off the praline, while patchouli works underneath as ballast, dark and slightly damp, giving the composition a seriousness that a straight sugar scent would lack. Seven materials, and they resolve quickly into one warm impression rather than evolving over hours. As a gift it has the advantage of being unmistakable. Anyone who likes sweet fragrance will like it, and anyone who does not will know within a minute, so it suits a recipient whose taste you already understand rather than standing as a polite gesture to a colleague you barely know. Autumn and winter birthdays, Christmas, and people who wear their perfume heavily rather than discreetly.
Alvarez Gómez has been in the same Spanish family's hands since 1899, when three young men from Leon opened a shop at Calle Sevilla 2 in Madrid and went into the aroma trade. The concentrated cologne they began making by hand in the basement in 1912 is still the house signature, and a fourth generation runs the company now.
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