The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
In 2016, Loewe revisited some of its most beloved compositions with the Loewe Sport Edición Especial collection, a lineup of sporty flankers designed to give their signatures a more athletic edge. Quizás Loewe Sport Edición Especial took the sensual, jasmine-and-rose heart of the original Quizás and recharged it with a burst of citrus zest and an earthy chypre backbone. The citrus opening cuts in quickly, bright and sharp, with green zest that lingers in the first half hour before the florals take over. As jasmine and rose begin to assert themselves, they meet blackcurrant in the middle, and that tart, slightly herbaceous fruit note keeps the bouquet from collapsing into something too soft or too romantic.
What makes this flanker interesting isn't just the citrus addition, it's the architecture underneath. The Sport Edición Especial sharpens the original Quizás's floral heart by adding blackcurrant, a note that introduces tartness and a green, almost herbaceous edge, preventing the florals from tipping into pure sweetness. On skin, that blackcurrant reads almost like crushed leaf and unripe fruit, a sharpness that frames the rose in particular and gives it a kind of lift it didn't have before.
The evolution
The first ten minutes belong entirely to the citruses: mandarin, orange, grapefruit, neroli, and petitgrain landing almost simultaneously, a layered brightness that reads like peeling zest in direct sun. There's a green sharpness from the petitgrain that keeps it from becoming simple sweetness. Around the 30-minute mark, the florals begin to surface. Jasmine sambac comes through first, dense and almost indolic, followed by rose that stays powdery rather than jammy. The blackcurrant threads between them, adding a tartness that keeps the heart from going soft. The transition into the base happens gradually over the next 2-3 hours. Patchouli arrives quietly, woody and slightly earthy, joined by vetiver's dry grass character. The musk and amber warm the drydown, which sits close to skin for the remainder of the wear. By hour 5-6, what's left is a soft, clean woody-amber trace, more suggestion than statement. It doesn't project dramatically in its final phase, but it stays coherent.
Cultural impact
The 2016 Sport Edición Especial lineup paired original Loewe compositions with sport-inflected refreshers, a series of flankers built around citrus openings and chypre drydowns layered over the floral signatures of their parent scents. The format itself was a departure for the house: lighter on the nose, with a sharper top, a slightly more casual wear, and a bottle scaled for travel. The blackcurrant-citrussy-chypre architecture of the Quizás flanker reads as a daytime composition, and the refillable 30 ml travel size made it easy to carry.
