I've been waiting a while to get my hands on this. I've also been a fragrance lover for many years but didn't expand my collection beyond about 10-12 fragrance until recent years. Strange that this one passed me by when it was out, because now looking back on the late nineties/early noughties era there were a few real gems around and I'm surprised Versace Man got tragically overlooked... by me anyway. I sometimes shop in a store which specializes in discontinued or rare fragrances still in production. I asked about this one and they said they sold the last bottle several years ago and that I'd be lucky to find a decent one now. She said be wary of things on ebay and I suppose bottles could be 10+ years old now. However, I believe from my experience (and dependent on the fragrance of course), as long as you store them properly it shouldn't be too much of an issue. My verdict is.... this is a wonderful scent, a deep sexy oriental that blows anything Versace have in stores at the moment (possibly with the exception of Oud Noir?) out of the water. Then they go and discontinue it. A fresh opening then, deep amber and really nice leathery, tobacco accord is complex and wonderful with the absolute epitome of my favourite spicing from cardamom, pepper and wonderful saffron and labdanum. The saffron is a really big player in this fragrance without dominating it in anyway, it feels soft and classy but deep. The drydown is lovely, long lasting but not very strong which is fine by me. I love Versace Man comes highly recommended and it's a triumphant blind buy for me.