Adidas Moves (1999)
by Adidas

Mixed feelings about this fragrance. On the one hand it does have a fresh, pleasant scent to it, but unfortunately it wears off really quickly, so if you're going to wear it, you better bring the bottle so you can reapply when necessary. While it's really inexpensive, you lose alot of the value by having to use more of it.

A buddy of mine put this on after a night of mad raving and it's an expected piece of history now. We stopped a corner store and they had this "new" Adidas cologne. So there we stood decked out in Adidas and he bought a bottle - I was happy wearing my Chanel. Anyway, it was love at first smell. There was this kind of "minty odd apple that's been on the tree too long scent" to it that was just awesome. So, we left, went to a pub up the street and it drove me crazy - I had to run down and get a bottle. It's been with me ever since.

Very clean very fresh, very youtful and very wearable, but no personality whatsover.

A playful dance of seemingly hundreds scents that are very similar. I love the pepper and the longevity of this. For a mass market fragrance, it's very good even if all the young kids wear this, it's perfectly OK for someone twice their age to wear for casual or office, daily rounds.

Even though I am new to this, I had to add my comments about this fragrance because I find it so fascinating. It starts off very strong and strange; at first, it almost smells like pizza to me! Odd. Then, about 15 minutes into it, it takes on a stinging, medicinal aroma that I swear smells exactly like RID louse treatment shampoo. So far, you might think that this will be a negative review, but in fact it is not. Get past the initial impressions, and this settles into a pleasant, somewhat musty scent that I find very appealing—something like wildflowers in a dark, damp bog. I can’t really explain it any better. That last scent is the one that lasts the longest, though, and I find it worth going through the openings to get there. This also stays pretty long on me; I can put it on at 5 AM and still smell it when I get home at 4 PM, and even hours later, if I run my finger across my neck, I still get traces of it. One thing I did find was that the initial scent was too aggressive for me when applied directly, so I found that spraying it on a tissue and then dabbing it on worked best for me. I’m sure there must be other crazy mixed-up fragrances of this style out there that I don’t know about, but for now, I’m liking this one. It’s a great bargain, too.

After the crisp topnotes fade, some others remain a while---light, fresh, perhaps slightly floral---and then it's gone. Pleasant enough, but you'll have to reapply every 2 hours or so if you want to keep it going.