The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Como Tú Amor landed in 2005 as part of Mercadona's accessible fragrance line, released alongside its sister scents in the Como Tú collection. The official Spanish description frames it as a women's scent, fruity-sweet in direction, built around a handful of recognizable notes rather than a layered composition. The bottle design was handled by Lavernia & Cienfuegos, the studio responsible for shaping the visual language of the Como Tú range. Released through RNB Cosméticos, it carried the brand's democratic approach to scent: fragrance as a supermarket shelf item, not a luxury ritual.
The opening reads as a rush of fruit, with blackcurrant taking the lead, sharp and jammy in that familiar candy-shell way, almost like the first snap of a fruit gum before the chew. Grapefruit, bergamot, mandarin, and orange add their own bright sparks around it, lifting the sweetness with citrus energy before the cassia warms things underneath. The top stays loud and crowded, all that fruit stacking on itself. Then jasmine settles into the middle, giving the composition its floral body, a soft white-flower cushion that keeps the sweetness from collapsing into syrup.
The evolution
The first ten minutes belong entirely to blackcurrant and citrus. Bright, sharp, almost tart, like the candy shell of a fruit gum before you reach the chew. Grapefruit and mandarin flicker around the edges, adding a quick citric snap that makes the whole opening feel juicier than a single fruit note could. There's no mistaking it for anything else. Around the twenty-minute mark, jasmine starts threading in, lifting the fruit's brightness into something softer and rounder. The transition isn't slow. The berry fades, the flower arrives, and the whole character shifts within thirty minutes. By the second hour, vanilla has settled underneath, and the jasmine softens into it, the composition reading now as a warm, sweet floral rather than a fruity one. This is where it stays.
Cultural impact
Como Tú Amor sits comfortably in the affordable end of the Spanish fragrance market, traded on accessibility rather than complexity. It's the kind of scent you find at the checkout aisle, priced for impulse, not investment. The sweet fruity floral profile places it alongside other supermarket fragrances aimed at a broad audience, and its similarity to Cacharel's Amor Amor makes it a familiar reference point for shoppers who know the original. One community review on Parfumo describes it as "sickeningly sweet and synthetic," a useful counterweight to the marketing language and a reminder that not everyone connects with this style.
