28 reseñas

Mostrando las más recientes primero.

• Alejandro Luis

  August 27, 2025

  

  An eternal classic, fresh and super pleasant. For the price, it’s a perfect gift.

• TheXgameX

  June 25, 2025

  

  I removed my previous review because after a year of testing it, it deserves more respect. As MarcusRs mentioned, I found a dry lavender version in a chewed-up box, but I have the emerald glass bottle. It doesn’t smell like my father or grandfather, maybe my great-grandfather, but it smells so good in the right context. It lives up to its name: it’s lavender, lavender, and more lavender, the old-school kind, a proper fougère, very masculine. It lets you easily explore the lavender note if you don’t know what it smells like yet, paired with a rough, rugged, old-school oakmoss that makes you think of a natural product due to its age (the kind that would blow up IFRA) and that strange throat sensation suggesting some unhealthy component. They say it was another of Sinatra’s favorite fragrances, though they usually only mention Creed’s, and I find more sense in that: for the creation date of Lavanda Acqua, Sinatra would have been 25, while for Bois de Portugal he’d be around 72. So, what did Frank Sinatra smell like in his youth? Basically like an old book sprayed with old hairspray, hidden deep in a dense, humid, mossy forest. Usage context: fresh weather but not too cold, casual but with a touch of class, never in extreme summer heat, never for sports. And performance? On my skin it lasts about 2-3 hours; but on clothes with 5-6 sprays, I get bursts of the scent all day long.

• Ubiti

  May 10, 2025

  

  I wear it to mass.

• PacoBM72

  February 25, 2024

  

  Another one to remember a decade that was the best, for me, of course! A gift from my godmother for my first communion with which I drowned out the weekly arguments I had with an ignorant nun. So fresh (the cologne) that I used to shower with it and ended up emptying the bottle in two TV broadcasts before having to settle for smelling the cap because there was no more liquid. Too bad it didn’t last long; it’s like those mint gums that freeze to the roof of your mouth after two chews and in 30 seconds seem like you’re chewing a shoe sole because they taste like nothing.

• Pedro Tb

  December 27, 2023

  

  I remember this cologne in airplane restrooms; I loved taking a walk to get in and freshen up.

• anamaestracorreo

  October 10, 2023

  

  Categorized for men? I wore it when I was under 10 years old as a girl. It’s a very linear natural lavender scent, but why does that flower have to be masculine?

• Selene

  November 24, 2021

  

  What a beautiful fragrance Puig sent out in the 40s with this Lavanda Acqua… A lavender with soft bergamot sparks surrounded by herbal tones, slightly spicy from nutmeg, a calm geranium escorting the lavender. The moss in the base is delicate and high quality, the wood in its just right portion. Lavender colognes are usually linear, but this one has many nuances, very well balanced. The opening is intense/moderate but quickly settles close to the skin. The spicy/herbal aspect is undoubtedly what gives it the strength to last firmly on the skin for a solid 4 hours, which for a Lavanda Acqua is more than perfect. My favorite lavender fragrance remains Guerlain’s Lavander Velours, but this is definitely in my top list, and it’s one I enjoy most after a shower or to go to sleep, or if not, for those hot days. This review is based on the old emerald glass 200ml bottle, a real treasure. Excellent.

• Oscar1969

  May 1, 2020

  

  Wonderful lavender fragrance, simple yet with spices… Sinatra wore it his whole life. In Spain, you can hardly find the glass version you used to have in all sizes in its green bottle anymore. This house has lost all the essence it once had with the people and traditional fragrance consumers. Sad.

• Gastoreño

  January 31, 2019

  

  The best lavender cologne and cheap.

• LuisPaz

  October 21, 2018

  

  This review is for the Puig Lavanda Acqua that comes in the plastic bottle, sold all over Spain. It’s a cheap cologne but of high quality and a real pleasure for the senses. Its longevity is typical of a cologne, maybe an hour, but for the price, you can apply it at any moment since it costs almost nothing. It smells like natural lavender and feels creamy at the start, as if it were a lavender body cream; then that creaminess gradually turns into a mix of lavender and rosemary, very natural and pleasant, finishing with a scent that blends those two first notes with a bit of lemon. In total, a simple and exquisite beauty. I like it a lot after a shower or for any moment I want to feel fresh, or to calm my mood when I feel overwhelmed after work or sports.

• LuisPaz

  October 13, 2018

  

  This review is for the Puig Lavender Water in the plastic bottle, sold all over Spain. It’s a cheap cologne but of high quality, a true pleasure for the senses. The longevity is typical of a cologne, maybe an hour, but given the price, you can reapply anytime since it costs almost nothing. It smells like natural lavender; at first, it feels creamy, like a lavender body cream, then that creaminess slowly transforms into a blend of lavender and rosemary, very natural and pleasant, finishing with a scent that mixes the first two with a touch of lemon. Overall, a simple yet exquisite blend of beauty. I love wearing it after a shower or whenever I want to feel fresh, or to calm my nerves when I’m stressed after work or after a workout.

• Josesan

  May 25, 2018

  

  Puig Lavender Water is that freshness that spills out of its green bottle: a field scent with lavender and rosemary, sun and mountains, mixed with rougher notes of geranium, cedar, moss, and musk that give it strength. It’s a cologne that smells like childhood, morning showers and afternoon baths, that familiar fragrance we all love. It brings back memories of vacations in the village, the most beautiful time of my childhood, alongside scents like Joya de Myrurgia, Varón Dandy, Pravia Hay soap bars, and Sundays at church with Brummel, Maja, English Lavender, Oriental Woods, and Farala. They were the only colognes that made it to the village supermarket and the only scents the neighbors knew. It’s the group of kids we’d spend our summers with, going to remedial classes with Miss Pili, a young teacher with short hair, a round face, and a lively spirit, who instead of giving boring lessons took us on excursions with bread and chocolate: we’d gather reeds to make boats or rock tea with long sticks. In the valley, I learned to distinguish notes not found in the city: apple, plum, pear, grape, peach, cherry, quince, blackberry, raspberry, fig, melon, and watermelon. In the mountains, I discovered peppermint, chamomile, rosemary, mint, thyme, broom, and juniper. We also got used to the smell of sheep, chickens, pigs, mules, donkeys, carp, trout, sparrows, and goldfinches. But what excited us most was gathering lavender stalks. Jumping through the mountains, with our legs scratched by brambles, we’d cut the green stems of the lavandin to make aromatic bottles. Sitting in the shade of the courtyard, we’d make bouquets of ten stalks braided with colorful ribbons to protect the purple flowers. Our fingers would turn black and sticky with an incredible lavender scent. We’d finish the bottle with tin foil and a ribbon. They’d be kept in the closets and last for months smelling of village and countryside. I always made a bottle with a gold ribbon for Miss Pili, our very own Mary Poppins, who told us jokes, sang with her guitar, and whom we were all a little in love with.

• chelo 1

  May 19, 2018

  

  Interdicted: But what a beautiful review. Well, I already wrote mine and said I love Puig Lavender. (I have a couple of spare bottles because, again, it’s hard to find). To those who think it has less intensity than before (I don’t think so), you can add a few drops of essential lavender oil. I do it sometimes. Cheers.

• entredicho

  May 16, 2018

  

  I saw it from the shop window among a pile of lost colognes. It was like the sky of a nostalgic, my paradise right there, but there was no one at home. It gave the impression that the shop had closed to run a quick errand. So I waited, and a good while passed, but nothing, no one returned. I went to work, quite excited, thrilled by that almost unreal vision. A few days later I came back: I got out of the car, rang the bell, no one answered. I left for work. The next day I repeated the same operation and it was the same. The following week I tried again with identical results. The same scene repeated itself without humor. I had entered the movie “Groundhog Day” and felt like Bill Murray about to give up. For almost a month I visited that secluded shop window, imagining that suddenly things would take another turn. I’d look, from the prison that the glass represented, at those wonderful pieces, inhabitants of a neglected warehouse that I once imagined had been a very successful shop in the area. And my veneration for the colognes visible from outside increased with each visit. There, in the midst of so many discontinued treasures, Puig Lavender made its way, the one from before, whose presence was a witness to an era when simple things had a charm and value not available today. Because we live in a stage of haste and immediacy. Escaping to live a day in the countryside has to be written down even in the agenda. The vertigo and a certain sensation of not knowing where one is going are the impressions with which we go to bed and wake up every day. And facing this constant of our journey through a life in project, looking directly into the eyes of yesterday, towards that concluded but open time for reunion, where everything had a meaning and a why, is like grabbing a life preserver in high seas and immediately recovering the meaning that everything really has. When I had already lost hope of finding the owners of that place, one day passing by that street on my way to an appointment, I could see from afar the door open. I approached quickly and entered through that door that destiny seemed finally to want to grant me access. I greeted the owners. It was a retired couple who had worked in the drugstore, household goods, and colognes world their whole lives. Their children weren’t very interested in inheriting their parents’ business, and the couple decided to close. They were thus putting, in this somewhat sad way, the final period to a whole life dedicated to the craft of making people’s lives fragrant. I looked towards the place where there were several examples of Lavender Water in their small green pixelated boxes and thought that a cologne no one uses, hidden for decades in its cardboard box, is like a violin locked in its case and that no one ever plays. So I took it in my hands, opened the box, unscrewed the beautiful dark green cap with a light green stripe, and poured the splash bottle onto my arm. At that moment, not only the cologne came back to life, but the music of a lost and found world, where Puig was the composer of a colossal number of masterpieces, with Lavender Water as its debut, and where this would have been an accomplice to so many and so many smiles that, over eighty years, Lavender Water had gifted in every home.

• MiG69

  May 13, 2018

  

  Everyone knows it, and almost everyone has used it at least once. It’s a simple, popular, and unpretentious cologne, but it remains good and a worthy product. Other equally good fragrances were considered more popular simply because they were more expensive and had better marketing (stories like ‘created by so-and-so when he dropped a jar…’ or ‘tradition since the year of Maricastaña…’). The fact that it’s now sold mostly in large plastic bottles discredits it, but it doesn’t stop it from being the good cologne it always was. It was never missing in our house; my father and I used it on demand, often after shaving. It’s still sold in glass splash bottles (at least here in Coruña at ‘Arenal’ perfumeries), and back home, we used to refill them with the contents of the plastic bottle. I still have a 200 ml bottle left.

• entredicho

  May 9, 2018

  

  Thank you so much for your words, Chelo 1. To be honest, I decided to write this because I owed some words to this cologne that is so necessary for me, and because, inspired after reading yours, which I think is a delight, I wanted to add my bit. You’ve described the unique spirit of this eternal cologne perfectly. I couldn’t agree more when you say that lavender has the power to calm; curiously, I do the same as you, and many nights I apply it generously on the sheets. I think those nights my dreams are much more restorative. And it’s true, it hasn’t changed compared to the old version; it’s just as good.

• MiG69

  May 1, 2018

  

  Everyone knows it, and almost everyone has used it at least once. It’s a simple, popular, and unpretentious cologne, but it remains good and a worthy product. Other equally good fragrances were considered more popular simply because they were more expensive and due to marketing (stories like “this fragrance was created by so-and-so when a jar of essence of such fell into another of such…”; “Tradition since the year of Maricastaña…” etc.). The fact that it’s now sold mainly in large plastic bottles discredits it, but it doesn’t stop being the good cologne it always was. It wasn’t missing from our house; my father and I used it on demand, many times after shaving. It’s still sold in glass splash bottles (at least here in Coruña, it’s sold in “Arenal” perfumeries), and at home we used to resort to refilling it with the contents of the plastic bottle. I still have a 200 ml bottle.

• Casablanca77

  February 16, 2018

  

  Puig Lavender smells like pure joy, those sunny Sundays, and the feeling of cleanliness after a real bath, not a shower. It’s a great childhood memory alongside Agua Brava, the scent of a father and a child. When you splash it on, it doesn’t sting; it has that fluffiness of a strong hug. It starts with an alcoholic touch that quickly passes to a creamy, herbal base that fills you with good memories and hopes. If someone smells like this, it’s an honest, straightforward person with a good heart. It cleans the skin and the spirit, with a vintage touch that modernizes itself by sweetening the lavender with glows typical of people of light.

• Nebulosa

  January 19, 2018

  

  Eterna. A classic that evokes freshness and cleanliness. My mother couldn’t stand any other cologne or perfume except Puig Lavender Water. It always reminds me of her. My brother, whenever he came to visit her and brought a bottle, would remind her it was Frank Sinatra’s favorite cologne.

• Pplu

  January 17, 2018

  

  Life goes by and rises… It was time to go to school, and I still smelled of shaving soap and lavender. He had gone to work, and in his personal grooming he always left that trail. Every morning and afternoon of my life until I was 18 years old, this scent accompanied me… A scent that went to heaven and left a life full of memories. It was his signature fragrance and the one he used since my olfactory memory reaches back… It’s been 14 years since I’ve smelled it again, despite having a whole bottle saved, but I remember perfectly that intense, citrusy, and very green lavender, which, as it dried, smelled more of lavender and woods. I don’t know if the fragrance has been reformulated, but back then, as a good toilet water, it didn’t last more than 2-3 hours and went from a huge trail to moderate in a few minutes. I’ve only crossed paths once, since then, with a man who smelled of this Puig fragrance, and for some reason, I think my father smelled much greener with this fragrance…

• Nebulosa

  January 2, 2018

  

  Eternal. A classic. It evokes freshness and cleanliness. My mother couldn’t stand colognes or perfumes except Puig Lavender Water. It always reminds me of her. My brother, every time he came to see her and brought her a bottle, reminded her that this was Frank Sinatra’s favorite cologne.

• Edu Lezana

  December 30, 2017

  

  The scent of my childhood. My mother used to style our hair with this cologne, and I remember her smell perfectly. I still wear it today, happily, when I’m in sweatpants or doing sports. It’s a unique scent that changes so much on skin that no one can quite identify it; people say you smell ‘clean’ (be careful, because bleach also smells clean, and some fragrances are just disasters). It’s vintage from 1940, but it doesn’t look old; it’s very wearable. What I love most is that it uses natural essences, which is why it varies on every skin. It starts with an explosive burst of citrus that quickly evolves into a wonderful fresh lavender. The trail is intense for an hour, then it fades almost to the skin. Natural citrus never has great longevity; they’re volatile and only shine at the beginning. What stands out is a lavender accompanied by soft but lasting cedar and tonka. I see it as unisex, but the cedar leans it more toward the masculine side. It’s for all seasons and any situation, except for a romantic date—it’s not sensual. By the way, the hand soaps from this fragrance line are amazing and cheap.

• Edu Lezana

  December 29, 2017

  

  It smells like my childhood. My mother used to comb her hair with this cologne, and I remember it perfectly. I use it today when I go in tracksuit and for sports. It’s such a particular scent that varies on the skin and no one guesses what it is. They tell you it smells clean, but watch out, not everything that smells clean is good; sometimes it’s bleach. It’s a 1940 classic, but it doesn’t feel old; it’s very wearable. The best part is that they are natural essences, which is why it changes on every skin. It starts strong with citrus and quickly passes to an incredible fresh lavender. The trail lasts an hour intensely and then drops almost to the skin. Natural citrus never lasts long; they are volatile and only shine at the beginning. You can feel the soft but enduring lavender with cedar and tonka. I see it as unisex, although the cedar leans it more towards the masculine side. It’s suitable for all year and any place, except for a date. It’s not sensual. By the way, the hand soaps of this fragrance are a luxury and very cheap.

• chelo 1

  August 11, 2017

  

  Good morning. They say Agua Lavanda is for men, but I see it as unisex. It smells fundamentally of lavender. It starts with lavender and lemon, but the lemon disappears quickly and the lavender stays, very noticeable. The rest of the ingredients just add more longevity, which is perfect for me because I only want to smell that note. If you’ve ever pinched a lavender flower to extract its oil, you’ve been intoxicated by that scent; this cologne smells exactly like that. I discovered it years ago and now it’s back in fashion; before it was hard to find. I love it; even though it’s an eau de cologne, it has amazing projection and longevity. The lavender helps me relax before sleep; that’s why I have a spray (even though the bottle doesn’t come with one, I use it this way) and mist it on my pillow and sheets for a good night’s sleep. I just love it! It doesn’t remind me of Agua Brava, another classic I adore. The bottle is beautiful. It’s worth way more than it costs. By the way, the big plastic bottle is worthless; don’t buy it unless you add essential lavender oil to it.

• chelo 1

  July 27, 2017

  

  PUIG LAVENDER Water Good morning, they say lavender water is more suitable for men, but I consider it unisex. This perfume smells fundamentally of lavender. It’s true that it has an opening of a lavender and lemon mix, but the lemon disappears quickly, whereas the lavender aroma remains and becomes very noticeable. The rest of the components, I think, only give more longevity to the lavender, at least that’s how I feel, and this is perfect for me since I only want to smell this note. If you’ve ever held a lavender flower between your fingers and squeezed it a bit to get its oil out, you’d have been intoxicated by the scent of this wonderful flower. That’s what this cologne smells like, which I discovered several years ago and which has recently been re-edited in our country (not long ago it was hard to find). I love this cologne water; even though it is a cologne water, it has magnificent trail and longevity. The lavender aroma helps you relax when you’re going to sleep; for this reason, I always have a vaporizer (the bottle doesn’t come with one, but I transfer it) and spray it on the pillow and sheets on occasions when I need a good restful sleep. I love it sooooo much! It doesn’t remind me of Agua Brava (another Puig perfume I also love, and which, by the way, I consider excellent). The bottle is a treasure. Another Puig perfume that I won’t tire of saying is worth much more than it costs. By the way… the large plastic bottle isn’t worth much… better not to buy it…, unless you add several drops of essential lavender oil. Cheers.

• MarcusRS

  November 20, 2015

  

  Just found a treasure: a 90ml bottle of vintage Dry Lavanda from an old Madrid pharmacy. The excitement was huge because here in Spain Puig’s lineup used to focus on Agua Brava and then Quorum, so I didn’t know about this rarity until now. Back in the seventies, right when Agua Brava launched, they released this too. In Mexico, they used the same dropper bottle with a wooden cap, but here the bottle has the circular ‘Agua Lavanda’ mark with ‘Dry Lavanda’ in the center. It came in a battered pine-green box that gave me enough confidence to ask the shopkeeper if I could smell it. After popping off the plastic cap (it wasn’t a spray, which was typical for the 70s), I noticed Puig’s power immediately. I asked to try it on my wrist and it was fascinating: the opening is similar to Agua Brava, but on the skin it evolves into a delicate, intense lavender with green notes, almost a sweet floral jam that I fell in love with. I paid about $13 (it’s worth up to 55 euros today). It seems Puig used ingredients from Agua Brava but swapped the citrus for a fine French lavender. It has medium complexity, conquered many people back in the day, and today, 40 years later, it’s still relevant. It’s one of my treasures. Search Google if you want to see the bottle. Note: it’s not on Puig’s official catalog anymore, so you can’t buy it in regular stores.

• entredicho

  December 28, 2014

  

  Absolutely gorgeous and fleeting; just saying it sounds like it’s gone, but what beauty it has.

• ShiseidoTactics

  June 1, 2013

  

  Of all the Puigs, this is the one I like the least, but I own it because it’s essential. It’s green, dominated by lavender. Ideal for home, the neighborhood, or super casual moments.