Gravity (1992)
by Coty

Packaged in a futuristic space-age fantasy retro early 1960's bottle that invokes images of spaceships and moon landings, Gravity insinuates daring and exploration in its name and handsome design. Unfortunately the innovative marketing design cannot completely mask a mission that should have been aborted long before lift-off.
Gravity fails on all accounts to tread new ground or enhance the baser, more natural scents of man. What is does offer is novelty. Tasteless and off-putting as it may be, it's still an inventive combination of notes seldom seen combined. Maybe for good reason. Few fragrance houses would feel confident enough to release this bomb and even fewer to keep it circulating well into the twenty-first century.

Gravity's opening is a spiced, leathery, pepper-clove synthetic mess that seems to blend incongruent and contrasting notes that only succeed in amplifying its synthetic core.
The leather base, so heavily synthetic as to invoke images of Bruce Jenner's mug, cripples the opening from the first moments and only seems to recede after an extended opening stretch of harshness that can go as long as twenty minutes.
When the leather base finally does step to the side, the pepper top reasserts itself over the middle notes and drowns out the hint of lime and citrus. The pepper notes create temporary relief from the synthetic leather note that seems extremely out of line from the rest of the note pyramid.
This is not good, this is not even mediocre, this is somewhat uninspired, if not cloying and amateur in lack of attention paid to detail with the blending notes. The leather basenote is worth experiencing just for the sheer morbidity. An incredibly uninspiring if not completely repulsive scent for the world to be introduced to. All leading to an incredibly unremarkable but more bearable dry-down that saves the scent from completely disappointing.
Better bought for the bottle design more than anything else, that is the true force drawing anyone to Gravity.

13rd October, 2011. (Last Edited: 19th October, 2011.)

I found this to be very good. Nick carter use to wear this cologne in the late 90's and me being a BSB fan i had to buy it and it did not fail at all. 4.5 out of 5

8th February, 2011. (Last Edited: 18th February, 2011.)

I used to wear this in high school back when it first came out in the 90's. I didn't know anything about fragrance, and thought it was great. One day I sprayed too much on me, and got sick from it. Now when I take a wiff of this stuff, I feel like puking. Overall, this is a very bad cologne, and will make you sick if you sprayed too much on you.

27th December, 2010.

Sweet. Seems strong. No longevity. Used to be cheap, now its not. I dosed myself up with this stuff before work today as I'm trying to thin out a few mostly empty bottles. Smells strong right out of the bottle. A couple hours later it is dead. Actually wasn't half as bad as I expected. Fairly pleasant after the initial blast wears off. A tad on the sweet side. After the initial blast its a tad fruity and just fades away.

My biggest gripe is this stuff isn't cheap anymore. I seem to recall having paid $11 for the bottle back in the day. Now they're charging $20+ for the same size. I wouldn't mind spending $20 if there were some longevity. Thinking about it there are so many other fragrances in the drug store price range that last so much longer. Stetson, Jade East Musk (though its among the weaker it will at least still be there later in the day), Royal Copenhagen (strong enough to last two days even in it's watered down current version), honestly Pinaud Clubman had better longevity.

Give it the price of the past and you have a decent buy. Give it the price of now it is overpriced for a cheapy synthetic fragrance. Overall it is unique in how it smells, just wish it lasted longer. Given the fact that everyone carries it, like Stetson, British Sterling, Old Spice, Brut etc, no one seems to wear it. I've only ever smelled it on one person before, and like Royal Copenhagen, this one I can spot a mile away.

21st June, 2010.

Nice, crisp frag for men. It has an ideal citrus smell, one that's perfect for summer months. For $10, it's actually not a bad cologne.

20th March, 2010.

Good old Gravity (I say good in a bad way though) There is nothing appealing about Gravity.

It's hard to really even distinguish the notes.. Cloying is a good word, I rarely use the word cloying because it gets confusing in the fragrance world. Cloying really means too sweet, but there's nothing sweet about gravity. I think a better word is impacted. A waste of alcohol. This one gets an F in my book.

1st March, 2010.