The Cabeceo

We've caught your eye across the milonga. Like any good tango, this starts with consent — nothing optional runs until you say so.Cookies only with your yes. What we store.

Skip to content

Song

Agua florida

Music by Ramón Collazo, lyrics by Fernán Silva Valdés. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1928–1941.
1928: 1 · danced 4 times1941: 1 · danced 12 times
1928’30’401941
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1928: 1, 4; 1941: 1, 12

Agua florida is a tango.† Agua florida was published in 1928.† Agua florida was composed by Ramón Collazo.†† The lyrics of Agua florida are by Fernán Silva Valdés.† Agua florida: Agua Florida is an eau de cologne invented in New York in 1808, with orange blossom as the main ingredient; it became hugely popular across South America, and is still used in Peru as a household remedy and by shamans. The tango uses its smell to bring back the early days of tango.†

Credit

Music
Ramón Collazo
Lyrics
Fernán Silva Valdés

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

1920’30’40

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Ángel D'AgostinoMost dancedÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Nov 13
    12 dances
    1941
  2. Luis PetrucelliEarliest we holdAug 9
    4 dances
    1928
  3. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Vila1928
  4. Alberto VilaNot in our catalogue
  5. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Vila

Danced to it

Music from 1928–1941 · danced on film 2009–2024

20092024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 1, 2012: 1, 2019: 3, 2024: 1

Pablo Inza3:21

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sVladimir Makhalov & Ekaterina Koptelova2009
  2. The 2010sGabriel Missé & Analía Centurion2012
  3. The 2020sHoracio Pebete Godoy & Maricel Giacomini2024

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. El Yeite Tango ClubVilla Crespo
    1 performance
Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/1713

Single source

tango.info · T0464657633

Single source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Single source

Published1

Published 1928

Single source

Composer1

Composed by Ramón Collazo

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Fernán Silva Valdés

Single source

Notes1

Agua Florida is an eau de cologne invented in New York in 1808, with orange blossom as the main ingredient; it became hugely popular across South America, and is still used in Peru as a household remedy and by shamans. The tango uses its smell to bring back the early days of tango.

Single source

Listen

  1. Agua floridaLuis Petrucelli1928
  2. Agua floridaÁngel D'Agostino · Ángel Vargas1941

Ask Tangopedia

Answers only from cited facts, each with its source.