This is a great fragrance...It reminds me of my dear friend Stefan as its his favourite. A strange one really because although its not a niche fragrance it's not a hugely popular one either, he must've shopped around and he's not a frag head. Precisely what I'd say about this one, it's one for somebody who wants to smell good but doesn't want anything too over the top. He asked what I thought of it and all I said was 'woody' that's what I'd say about it really its a wonderfully simple scent which is very soapy, pleasant and inoffensive. It has a mild floral note in the top from the iris but is mainly woodiness from the resin and delicate vetiver. I'm not familiar with the other fragrances its compared to on here, with the exception of Luna Rossa which I love and can maybe see a resemblance they're both very clean and of the same type, same brand and after all they're by the same perfumer.
To echo many of the comments below...Totally confused by the comparisons to 1 Million and Cool Water even? Crazy it's nothing like them. I love subtle notes of gin and wood and really like the fragrance at first try. I didn't want to based on the campaign and the bottle (which is actually quite innovative) I find them a little vulgar too. My criticism of this fragrance is like so many others available its a little bland and cheap/synthetic smelling but If you like it you like it...and I like it.
Finally, I got my hands on a bottle of this juice and it hasn't disappointed me at all! For me this was a more cost effective alternative to Creed Santal and a very good likeness too. It is also very similar to Mont Blanc presence in that it has a creamy, soapy, powdery quality to it. I would liken these fragrances to a sweet, milky curry like a korma or a pasanda...very light but with underlying spice. The spices come through beautifully and make this a complex and devine fragrance that is very masculine yet soft and subtle. Well done Mont Blanc, another great one here...I love it.
There's something so enticing, confusing and frankly overwhelming about this scent. I tried it a couple of years ago and thought 'woah! that's potent stuff!' But it felt too old for me. Now that I have it I'm still not sure about it? I wanted something different for my collection a potent go to fragrance that was a little more sophisticated and older to add some depth and it certainly does that. Something about it (maybe the floral notes) just make me think feminine, but everytime I start to think that the more I sniff O find I get the strength and masculinity coming through which balances it. The notes are so varied and well blended some are easy to pick out, others not so easy but make it a truly bewildering mixture. One thing I know for sure...it's strong as a motherfucker and as some others have mentioned, beware not to over spray. I did 3 squirts to my neck and chest and initially it knocks you out!! Really!!! The scent out of the bottle is massive and does have an almost medicinally harsh quality probably takes a couple of hours to settle down and certainly gets nicer. With other fragrances I normally get more of the basenotes, (woods or what have you) in the dry down but this changes very little (after the initial harshness of course) and I get the same throughout, but it's more and more pleasant as it mellows. For me personally...I have no idea when would be an appropriate time to wear this? I needed the variation in my collection so it's only a good thing that I have it in my arsenal I think maybe crisp winter days as it has inherent warmth to it. One thing is for sure you're not going to smell like your average joe in this.
My girlfriend just got this and she smells delicious. I like the light floral notes which are balanced with woody base notes which keep it from being too sweet and flowery. I have to agree with some of the minor criticism here it doesn't really suit the name, I reckon it's more of a daytime fragrance...but that doesn't matter if you like it.
Wow!!! I'd been waiting to sample this magical juice for a while...I wanted to get the original Homme but my girlfriend got me this one instead. I'm very impressed I must say...a massive blast of lime and something else I can't put my finger on. Real mojito accord with the freshness of mint in there too and balanced woodiness, the vetiver in the base as it drys down really compliments the other notes perfectly. It has a really expensive classy feel too it and makes you feel great when wearing it. The bottle weighs a ton and is beautifully designed just to give even more of a sense of luxury.
I'm a latecomer to Marc Jacobs BANG! I remember it coming out....who could miss that bottle right? Perhaps I did spray it but I didn't pay it much attention until now. BANG!!! This is mega spicy. The extreme end of the dry, peppery, scale and unique in how far it goes with the theme, especially for a designer perfume. I had expected the new V&R Spicebomb to be like this but I'm kind of glad it wasn't in a sense, going more heavy with sweeter spices like cinnamon and anise. I do like this fragrance a lot because its so hardcore into that sweaty, JCE spice of Declaration or something, but I'm not sure I'd wear it a lot. Just briefly on the bottle...it's a really bizarre shape and stands out on the shelf not sure I like it though.
Saw a stand with a lady spraying this on people in the shopping mall and avoided it on a judging a book by its cover basis...I didn't like the bottle. I never normally do that and give all fragrances a chance in the end. Tried this, Weirdly I liked it. Quite generic but very masculine leathery and spicy...simple composition but inoffensive I thought...I might get it, when it's marked down?
Can't believe how much hate there is for this fragrance. It's not one for the frag heads but Come on guys...It's okay. It smelled better when I first tried it sure. Generic yes... uninspiring yes... I don't accept it being perceived as feminine it's not butch by any means but it's a male fragrance through n through. I've got it on today and it is a bit like lynx or something but it's ideal for everyday use or after the gym or something?
For me this is very sweet sporty fragrance that I thought didn't have a great deal to give in terms of depth. I remember instantly loving it but thinking it was a little too sweet and feminine for me at the time. However, after the initial fruity blast it dries down really nicely with patchouli and Cedar coming through. I can totally understand this not being to everyone's taste the reason being...its not bland. It had been a long time since I'd tried it and had forgotten the smell really.I found it gave me something that some other sporty, young type fragrances are lacking and a bit of something that's missing from my repertoire of scents, so I decided to get it. I think it is quite original and I really do have a soft spot for Lacoste colognes based on my love affair with Eau de Lacoste Blanc this is despite most of them being generic at best or just plain awful. They occasionally triumph and get it very right.
Deep, profound, carnal animalic love! One of the most dirty erotic perfumes, intimate and raunchy as few can be! Waiting for a new edition in 2014!
2014 EDP release. Musc Tonkin extrait is one deep and dense animalic perfume. An instant love from first sniff, and one of the bottles I treasure the most in my collection. Mostly because of its exclusivity. The EDP takes the same formula and makes it airier, slightly less potent. It's still one of the most animalic perfumes currently available, so lovers of vintage feeling orientals don't fear. I don't feel it's a different perfume, just less dense. The top and middle notes are more easily discernible. The base notes take longer to arrive. Also the notes are more recognizable this time; the gardenia is more prominent with its mushroom facet, the oakmoss, the leathery castoreum, the urinous civet, the furry musk. Plus it hasn't lost the intense saltiness I love from the extrait. ('Turd on the water' like Gaia so accurately said) If you like one, you'll like the other. I can save the extrait for special occasions and use the EDP to indulge without fear of running out. Sillage and longevity are still remarkable. And people who smell it actually remark that it smells very sexy. So even though it's quite heavy it won't scare people. I also have a feeling that a light spritz in the summer will liven up any simpler perfume, particularly colognes, and glorify white florals. Let's hope it stays permanent in the collection this time! And MAC, if you're reading how about a second batch of the extrait? Please??!! :-))
What an absolute gem! I remember trying silver shadow and liking it so when I saw this going cheap I snapped it up blind...and I love it. Freshness and spice with the juniper and delicate celery note its the juice that keeps giving. This is easily among the best Davidoff scents and the bottle is really attractive too similar shaped reservoir to D&G The One. Also, the stopper has a satisfyingly quality feel when you click it down.
I love this!!! Very, very very sweet almost sickly so to the point of Willy Wonka!!! The initail sweetness reminds me of dolly mixture but it has fruitiness and definite peppery notes which balance it perfectly. I get a little vanilla in the dry down too it's a lovely fragrance. I remember looking at it on here and decided to take a chance on it and I'm so glad I did...a blind buy but I got it cheap. This is another really nice Hugo Boss fragrance...refreshing and after the top notes of sweetness(which endures but is not intrusive) it dries down to a nice scent.
Got a small sample of this and was quite excited when I looked on here at the notes...didn't live up to expectations I'm afraid. Very powdery indeed, a little floral and spicy bit ultimately disappointing. I kind of get some of the similarities to Dior Homme but they are quite different by the same rule...namely I like Dior Homme and I don't like this.
I was going to get Creed MI but figured I'd save some money and track this down...I don't have the two to do a side my side comparison, all I know is that I completely adore this fragrance. I didn't really like the one other Ed Hardy fragrance I tried so I was still cautious that I maybe wouldn't like this, despite kinda knowing what to expect. So glad I got it...love it! Really is fresh and evolves beautifully on my skin, true depth with a great, light citrusy opening exactly the kind of thing I like. Very wearable stuff.
I like Lacoste fragrances on the whole...eau de Lacoste Blanc is my absolute favourite and I had Booster years back and found it okay, pretty fresh & sporty. This however is atrociously bad! The citrus to begin with is burning, harsh and irritates me. No real depth, no woods to speak of really, poorly conceived formulation...hate it.
This is a wonderful fragrance. I loved the original Aqua pour Homme and both evoke the freshness and salty notes of the sea, with a lovely citrus zing. Truly original for an aquatic too, never tried the marine one but I think this toniq version is an interesting twist on the ocean theme.
I like fig notes and thought i liked cacao? but this one is truly not my cup of tea at all...instantly repulsive! Drys down to bare able woodiness. I'll say this for it it's well presented I like the fact in comes in like a biscuit tin and the bottle is really bizarre too.
Okay...so I've revisited this fragrance and I'm not as repulsed as I once was by it. The fig note in the top is strong and green it also has an earthy soil quality then chocolatey patchouli & cacao. Unfortunately this is still a Marmite (by that I mean 75% of people will hate it!) fragrance the note combination is so bold you'd really have to experience love at first sniff to get it. I'm in the minority of people who like Marmite but I'm still not quite convinced about Kokorico. It's a brave fragrance which I have definitely had second thoughts about in a positive way.
Sharp with citrus at first, and very lemony but in a good way. However, I can't make my mind up definitively whether I like it or not? I haven't got it so can't give a balanced review but it interests me as its quite a strange fragrance and generally I'm not mad about Chanel as a rule, accept for the older stuff Cuir de Russie and the like.
Hate to be critical here because generally D&G fragrances are varied and very good. I love the original pour Homme but this one is sadly lacking slightly for me, unfortunately it's just too weak on my skin. Don't get me wrong I'm not one of these folk who look for 'sillage Monsters' or want everyone to smell (and taste!) what I'm wearing, but to me this is gone too quick...and I'm someone who enjoys things like kenneth Cole Reaction and Clinique Happy both of which face the same critisism. I really like the scent initially it's delicate, beautiful reimagining of the original, clean & citrusy, right up my street. Admittedly I don't own a full bottle so maybe if I drenched myself in it I could achieve some longevity. That's my only critism.
Actually read many of the reviews on here before I tried this again as it wasn't particularly memorable the first time. I think that says it all really...however I reckon the criticism waged at this fragrance in the reviews here is unfair. For me I don't just think it's a cheap smelling flanker but I'm not sure The One needed a 'sport' version, I saw it as a classy night time scent. Surprisingly it actually has all the depth of the original but in a completely different sense. Give it a chance it's not bad.
Well I went out with the intention of buying Individuel and ended up with this as I couldn't find it anywhere. Not only that but they didn't have a tester so it was a blind buy and my first impressions were not that great.I took a risk with it because I just like Mont Blanc as a brand and feel there's something very masculine about the other fragrances I've tried so why not? Soap, soap and more soap! Sometimes when people describe fragrances as being soapy I often don't agree or think..."Wow...what kind of soap are you using?" But this has a classic soapy note. There's something in the very top notes like a sharp fruity thing that is just delightful but disappears fairly quickly, then the dry down is really wonderful it truly has more dimensions than it first appears. I get sandalwood, Tonka bean, cardamom, a little cinnamon & ginger too! I think this is a delightful juice that keeps me sniffing. It's ultra clean and classy stuff It growing and growing on me this one...I think I love it now!
Dear oh dear! Not impressed with this outing. I wanted to love this so badly too the original L'eau D'Issey is an classic and among my favourite ever fragrances. The bottle is a beautiful shape and looks great in blue it was all set to be a wonderful addition to the collection, that was until I got a whiff of it! Again, to try to balance my opinion here...I have only tried in once on a card in a shop so can't give a detailed review, this thing could transform and become fantastic in the drydown but somehow... I doubt it. I just can't get over those initial notes of rosemary and lavender I simply don't like them when they're not in the background or careful finessed. Hey, I'm not one of these people who moan about flankers, diversity within the same product line is fine. I mean it's quite clear why companies feel inclined to trade off an established name but this is one departure that is very unlike the others that bare the 'L'eau...' name and I for one... don't like it.
Quite uninspiring this... I'm not suprised it has a lot of people saying the same, pleasant but very reminsant of something you've smelled before and not really bringing anything new to the table. I am however suprised that it's likened Gentlemen only to YSL L'Homme Libre. I'll have to have another try of this because that might just be what it reminds me of...and in that case I LOVE IT! haha. No I'm sure it's not that similar...and this is okay but didn't grab me at all. On a different note The face of the campaign Simon Baker who is cool in the mentalist. Update: d'ya know what? It's not half bad this I totally agree with the review above it's like 'orangey-babypowdery-patchouli' pretty much nails it extremely clean vetiver and pink pepper. I stick to what I said originally it's a crowd pleaser and you're not going to stick out wearing it. From an insane opening of bizarre top notes, bitter, sweet almost musky strangeness that takes a good while to settle into powdersville. After that the dry down gets more masculine (nowhere near the original 'Gentlemen' but...) still not enjoyable for me and would get on my nerves if I wore it myself. The very deep dry down is masculine almost animal musk when all that powder subsides but it's too little too late. Longevity is not bad.
I have to say...I love this. Remember it from the 90's and it's a true classic now. Very warm, spice and wood but with a unique edge, can't quite put my finger on what it is? This stuff is very masculine, not over powering and above all sexy! I'd get myself a bottle but I can only find it in Debenhams and it's a rip off...I'll order a bottle off the net soon enough though.
