This is a typical aquatic for me, opening with lovely refreshing notes of mandarin and sea breeze, the cleanness of cardamom and vetiver and the hint of spice and woods from cedar and pepper. This is a good fragrance which settles very nicely...it's not great...but it's not to be dismissed off hand either. The performance is average but I will forgive it. It's as worth a look as any other fresh scent in the designer game. Shop around and you might find yourself a bargain.