Primavera en el mercado de San Miguel

Lovely fragrance... flowers and fruits all around! Delicious florals from the Geranium and the Violets, inviting warmth from the Tolu Balsam and the Amber, rich fruitiness from the Pear, all of which are amazingly blended with the rest of the notes creating an inviting powdery and somewhat metallic perfume. Very similar to Times Square from Masque Milano, just with the violets dialed down, and adding a sweet pear and a crystalline geranium note. Most perfume monikers make absolutely no sense, but this might be the honorable exception... I haven’t been to the San Miguel Market in Madrid, but I can perfectly see myself in a market anywhere in the world surrounded by flowers and fruit stands... it even has some faint animalic bottom resembling the proteins being cooked and handled in the market restaurants... I believe that is exactly what Loewe wanted for this perfume... and they got it. Unfortunately, performance is very limited... projection is moderate for about an hour, then it becomes intimate for about three hours, after that, you might catch a glimpse here or there, until it completely disappears around the fifth hour. Unisex leaning a bit towards women. It can be worn in any climate and at any hour... fresh enough for the heat, and warm enough for cold days or nights. A very lovely scent.

It smells super nice. I don't know why it doesn't get any attention since its launch in 2016. La bella is too sweet for me and this is just right. It is slightly sweet in the opening and it settled on my skin beautifully. The new bottles with black caps are simple and minimalistic though I prefer the old ones with gold caps as they are more luxurious and extravagant. It lasts for about 6 hours on my skin and became a skin scent though occasionally I can catch it on my clothes. Edited on 22/09/22: After testing it for a week, I am not quite sure about this one. It was a love at first sniff. However, I prefer it on the test paper to that on my skin. It is more fruity and floral on the test paper whereas drier and woodier on my skin, probably because of the vetiver and patchouli. It leans towards the masculine side and I don't like it as much as I did.