Bulgari pour Homme (1995)
by Bulgari

Bvlgari pour Homme is an exceptional fragrance. I get the tea more than the bergamot, in the opening. It evolves in a subtle, close to the skin manner to a clean musky-tea accord. The strength of this fragrance is more about the sum of the parts and less about how many individual accords one detects. It projects so appropriately. An eloquent scent that doesn't need to scream. Exquisite!

Great scent - just a little weak on my skin.

Very intimate tone. Goes on light and does not change much. It doesnt have to. Stays with you a very long time and has a strong but not over powering sillage. Great for romantic dates. Gives of an aire of power. Woodsy and Peppery. Love it.

A great, warm, well-behaved, classic mens scent that I did, and will cherish, for many years.

I think this is a very warm scent for some reason, though it is not heavy at all. Quite fresh in its opening, it has that mysterious chemical Aldehydes note dominating it. Heavily. Also apparent are some citrus accord, nutmeg, lavender and tea as usual. Tea is what holds all Bulgari scents together, and this one is no exception. It is warm and green, but in a very refreshing way. Its base is also quite masculine, including everything from musk, amber, vetiver, cedar, moss and tonka bean. Now that is pretty ordinary, redundant even, but what makes the scent amazing is all the sets of flower combo in the mid-notes which is nothing short of spectacular. Moving on from the fresh opening, the scent combines tea with many flowers including black currant and orange blossoms, cyclamen, iris and carnations, and spicing the mix with pepper and coriander, and rosewood, perhaps to cut the femininity of the flowers.

The result is quite magnetic, and magical. Would work surprisingly well on any whether or climate. The scent is sexy, musky, and dry, but the flowers are all handled so well, that on every skin, they bring out some other rich quality. This is a scent that will remain close to the skin, and will change itself and adapt to your skin chemistry. Though I cannot imagine any type of horrible disaster with anyone skin chemistry since the scent does not include anything offensive.

That's why I think this fragrance is quite well-behaved. Longevity, unfortunately, leaves much to be desired, though the bottle is incredibly elegant. It is such a gentleman-ly scent. I wish it did not require reapplication quite so often.

Too 'corporate' for my taste. Too prim and proper and lacks that hint of edginess that I want in a fragrance. Unfortunately it does'nt do it for me, although I wanted it to.

Bought this one to see for myself if the debate over this and the Extreme version can be put to a stop in my head. I've a using bottle and 2 spares for the extreme. And i loved its darjeeling tea dryness. Its very sweet spciey. Back to the original, i found it to be just a less intense version. Just less spice and less sweetness. the scent is very much alike other then longevity which last longer on the extreme as it was meant to. Maybe why some ppl found extreme to be sour was because of the heavier zest and spice altogether. Both are equally good, coz i certainly like how they created a scent so dry and spicey. This is not Herbal Spicey tho, its spicey sweet like the drying darjeeling tea leaves. been a fan of the extreme and naturally the original doesnt lose out much.