Cassini for Men (1995)
by Oleg Cassini

From parfyym.pri.ee, a slightly different take on the pyramid:
Top Notes: Mandarin, Basil, Caraway, Rosewood, Osmanthus
Middle Notes: Lavender, Geranium, Verbena, Jasmine
Base Notes: Vetiver, Musk, Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Sandalwood, Amber, Incense, Benzoin
An aromatic fougère with an unusual caraway top note that makes it smell a little like pepper and a little like dill for the first few minutes. Osmanthus is another unusual top note in this fragrance. After the mildly acerbic top, the heart is a fairly typical floral fougère bouquet, which as usual, feature lavender. With tonka bean for the coumarin note (de rigueur for fougères), the base also heavily incorporates oriental notes, giving this a rounder, subtler finish than its start. Very fresh, nice fool cool-to-temperate spring days, with which our San Francisco summers abound.

Cassini for Men by Oleg Cassini is like an old-fashioned drug store fragrance, which might be all right, except that it was created only a few years ago. Quite barbershopish in a bad way (stereotyped lavender / geranium combination), it has conglomerate accords with multitudes of notes that are individually indistinguishable. These accords might be called “pretty” but they have no depth to them, and there is very little movement in the progression of the fragrance. Cassini’s top notes are sweet, but I cannot fit them into the typical categories of floral, herbal, green, citrus or woody: They are sweet and can’t be categorized, and that is the only description I can give. The middle florals are not very different from the opening accord. And the base is not that much different from the previous levels. It’s basically only a mediocre linear accord. Vadim is right. How can so many notes make something so nondescript?

I thought this stuff smelled great!! A more pricy version of California. I plan to buy some of this stuff. I'd be a fool not to!!

Can't but wonder how one can mix so many ingredients into something so non-descript. Kinda fresh, kinda sweet, kinda spicy. Plain boring.