I love almost everything Georgio Armani when it comes to cologne. This fragrance has a very nice aquatic scent with some subtle fresh spice additions. The scent is phenomenal. Unfortunately, on my skin this fragrance has no lasting power, nor protection. I find myself using 15 sprays minimum. It sits very close to my skin. If I could muster more than a few hours of longevity on this fragrance, it would definitely be a 5 star.
Cheap great fresh fragance
This is a criminally underrated fragrance. The coffee note is quite subtle, but very pleasant. The citrus note from the bergamot is noticeable right off the bat, but doesn’t carry throughout the day. The subtle coffee dry down is partnered with a touch of woody notes from the vetiver. The scent profile is ridiculously simple, but effective. This fragrance would easily be a 5 star across the board, but the longevity is poor, and the projection is poor after the first hour.
I didn't expect to fall in love with a green tea scent in the year 2025, but I think that is what just happened. I've spent years avoiding green tea fragrances, having mentally filed them away with air fresheners and fancy dish soap, the sanitized accord of late-90s department store counters or the chemical approximation haunting hotel lobbies.
One Day Jasmine Tea opens with that unmistakable aroma of a jasmine green tea steeped just a minute too long. There's an emotional precipice there— an elegant pleasure on the verge of becoming bitter, bleak, and brooding on the tongue. But...not quite.
This is the scent of Uncle Iroh's teashop after hours, the quiet moments when he sits alone, brewing one final cup while dust motes drift through evening light. The jasmine here isn't some overly sweet and sultry floral but a stubborn, complex presence that blooms with the same quiet certainty as Iroh's wisdom. "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all," he might murmur, though I think that's actually from Mulan.
There's a transparency to the composition that cuts through any lingering cloying or animalic concerns – a herbaceous clarity like the mind clearing before a moment of mediation. Something earthen anchors the lightness, the way roots hold soil against rain, preventing erosion without calling attention to their essential work. Between these elements weaves an oolong note, a citrusy orchid thread that connects high and low like the lightning Iroh teaches Zuko to redirect – neither diminishing nor amplifying the current, simply guiding it to where it needs to go.
The fragrance stays steadfast, refusing sentimentality and yet somehow feels like an embrace that contains multitudes. It carries Iroh's complexity—grief for his son, hope for his nephew, and the particular wisdom that comes only after you've lost everything and rebuilt from scratch. It manages to embody everything that made Uncle Iroh a steadying hand on the tiller, regardless of whether you first met him as a child or discovered him as an adult seeking comfort in animated wisdom.
When evening falls on the Jasmine Dragon, what remains is the ghost of petals suspended in cooling liquid, a clean mineral afterimage lingering on skin; an echo of a proverb that only reveals its truth years after you first heard it.
It's definitely not just "hot leaf juice."
Hands down the nest Pear fragrance. It smells like a fresh pear shampoo.
The subjective experience for people who spaff a load of money on LV perfumes is always superlative, it seems. Every scent is "the most stunning" of its kind and "absolutely blind buy safe". What this tells me is that these people indeed blind bought these perfumes and are now gaslighting themselves into believing they weren't ripped off for some generic, schmaltzy dross. I haven't smelled a single LV perfume that I'd pay 70 euros for, let alone the crazy deluxe prices (even grey market). This is cuckoo bananas BS.
Smells like a kids' perfume or like some sort of theme park ride (Professor Burp's Bubble Works for anyone who grew up near London in the 90s).
So bland. What is the deal with these LV perfumes? To me they all smell like copies of much cheaper, much hackneyed scents I've smelled over and over again.
This smells like a generic ambery blue designer perfume. Perhaps once you spend this sort of money your brain isn't capable of being objective any more, but I just had a sample and I doubt I'll even use that up. If I'm being generous I'd say it stands up to Uncut Gem, but I prefer Uncut Gem, it's more interesting.
Nice
Great for woman
Perfect for a date
Best tonka. Period!
It's a very fruity, sugary, vanilla type of scent. Amazingly powerful, more than Ultra male I think.
But this is very synthetic to my nose, and there is something wrong with this scent. It gives me a bit of headhashes.
It's worth the price. But it's not for me.
The accords notes says "Animalic" and I definitely join on this !
This scent has a wild aspect. It's loud and heavy but not in a bad way.
It's a beautiful scent, but I'd not wear it everyday.
Great everyday scent. Quite manly.
Fresh, citrucy, a little bit fruity, earthy and woody.
such a weirdly satisfying scent. can smell nothing but lime in the opening, but as it settles.. it’s like burning limes in a bonfire, with that incense added to it. cannot stop smelling my hand. solid 8/10 - definitely not a safe blind buy.
Smells incredible, much more wearable than the EDP. While it opens similar, it blooms into a jasmine fanfare with subtle tobacco and leather underneath, a much more complex ride than the harsh original. Also, here the patchouli is much quieter (for there is patchouli), arriving much much later and not bumming me out like it does in the EDP. The violet note is beautiful, akin to Portrayal Man, and so reminiscent of the original daddy, Farenheit. For a brand that is cynical, and does cynically churn out duff flanker and overpriced cash-grab dross, this one stands out as a, I'm gonna say it, a masterpiece.
The iris, the vetiver, the cacao. Absolutely lovely scent for any occasion. This is my reference powdery iris fragrance. Sensual without being overly sweet, powerful, or overly feminine. One of the greats of all time.
Elegant bergamot and neroli with that powdered Celine base. It has touches of jasmine with a light dusting of orris root and musk. Here the oak moss gives it a little growl and bite. This is the most refined scent in my collection with a nod to the classics in perfumery. I can see a similarity during the dry down of OG Dior Homme. I've only put my nose on Black Tie and Parade from the house of Celine, but this is easily my favorite!
Parade takes the top spot for my most worn fragrance.. When I put my nose to it, I pick up mysterious incense note lurking about, giving the wear an aura of light green, white and beige. Chef's kiss for these cool spring mornings
A marketing team look longingly at the profits generated by Sauvage.
First off, what on earth is a colgne intense? A not-quite EDT? Or, more likely, a marketing ploy to avoid the supposed effeminacy of the word perfume, this being a fragrance that seems to aim itself fairly squarely at the men's market?
Anyway, this only occurred to me me after I sampled it, so didn't influence my overall impression.
From the outset, grapefruit or, on reflection, perhaps a sharp, cheap wine. Lots of it. This is offset by a fairly unobtrusive lavender, well blended, so it undercuts the tang of the top note.
From this point on, changes happen very quickly. It turns spicy and sweet, with an almost cola-like quality. There's an unexpected, very bitter blast of green cypress, gone almost as soon as it appears. Finally, it settles down to peppery citrus soap, and stays that way, droning away to itself persistently and boringly in the background. I did try to perservere with it, really I did, but ended up scrubbing it. Life's too short, etc.
There are things I liked here, most notably when the cypress gains dominance, but overall it is rather uninspired, with the spicy-sweet phase in particular both cloying and nauseating. It is, however, long lasting, considering that a) it's a cologne and b) it's a Jo Malone. Frankly though, I would have welcomed it if it had faded a little more quickly. Odd thing: it smells very pleasant in the bottle, but comes across as clumsily strident on the skin. An absolute pass from me.
This is magnificent.
Green and smokey, and a definite tribute to 70s mens' powerhouse fragrances, this is a prime example of taking that DNA then updating and bettering it. The key here is both the high quality of the ingredients, and the intense, ashy birch tar core which gives it a serenity and emotional depth. It's leathery and animalic, aromatic, bitter, floral, mossy. Longevity is eternal, projection ferocious- two sprays at the absolute maximum is needed.
I loved this from the outset, and didn't even get a third of the way through my little sample vial before splurging on a full-sized bottle. An all-year rounder, except on the very hottest of days, there's something very compelling about this scent that demands unequivocal attention and devotion.
Luca Turin apparently recently wrote a scathing review of this but, frankly, what does he know? You'd think he was a perfume expert or something. I adore it, and it sits very comfortably in my top 5 favourite perfumes of all time.
A fragrance that is only really suitable for colder weather, I always forget quite how astonishing this is.
First off, it's birch tar smokey. As in mega smokey, and at the same time brine-laden. It is such an intense blast that the first time wearing this, my immediate reaction was to recoil. On subsequent wearings I became innured to it and now just think, "That smells astonishing."
Gradually, a sweetness starts feeding through, which feels medicinal, almost jammy. This, I suppose is the opium scent, which I have smelt once, many years ago but can no longer recall if this is an accurate representation or not. The Smoke transforms to tea, lapsong sushong, with its meaty, earthy notes. There's a whiff of whisky, something floral then eventually it settles to deep, incense-laden woods. The smoke lingers, with varying intensity, from beginning to end.
There's not many perfumes I would class as an outright masterpiece, but this is one of them. It's extremely polarising (my partner loathes the smell as much as I love it) and there are a limited number of situations in which I'd dare to wear this. Nonetheless, if I had to whittle my collection down to three fragrances, this would be one of them: it's an outright love.
Amazing Guava scent. Very fresh guava woody scent. incredible!
I DO get why some people find this boring, especially if you’ve been doing this for a few years and are in deep. It’s very Essence of Men’s Cologne, nothing groundbreaking, “Blue” in that That’ll Do way. But I just love it every time I put it on. It’s mature without feeling old, masculine without smelling like you’ve spent a day up a tree smoking. On me it’s got a sweetened muskiness as it dries down that every time I get a whiff of it I feel good about myself. Today I wore it with a brown corded shirt/jacket thing, a white tee and jeans and it all felt very correct, the smell matched the ensemble. When I can pull it off to where I think the look matches the aroma I always feels like I’ve done good.
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