So I had a huge rant about this on Instagram today and a lot of my creative juices flowed into thinking of innovative ways to insult and besmirch D&G for making this perfume...so basically I haven’t got much left. Needless to say you’ll get an abridged version here. Campaign/concept/falcon stopper design ALL hideous and not D&G at all. Not that they’ve ever been the Kings (pun intended) of understatement (think By D&G Zebra & Leopard print) but this is just out of sorts & the wrong tone when you look at The One campaigns for example, adopting a more kitcsh/chintzy almost to the point of slapstick parody or Jeremy Scott type approach. It’s rubbish and the opening had me sighing....about what another boring genetic fragrance it is but despite this indistinct nature, and crowd pleasing, lack of ambition, I ended up liking it quite a lot. It’s not in your face, it’s not a chemical mess and feels subtle and reasonably well judged. It’s sort of a citrus opening with that gingery kick, and spice from the pimento and a clean, woody musk, and not the positive patchouli others are describing. Perhaps a sanitised and more well behaved, synthetic type patchouli, but wouldn’t have immediately called it that. I like it though and perhaps it’s a blessing that it’s so ill judged and hideous so it might just be in the bargain bucket before long, because if it was very, very cheap and I could immediately remove the crown cap and skim it in a lake or something then I might (in a moment of madness) just buy this?