Reviews of Helmut Lang Men (2000)
by Helmut Lang

I like the smell quite a bit, very good vanilla scent. And I appreciate the minimalist bottle & label, that's cool, too. But this lasts about an hour before it disappears, far too expensive to last such a short time. You get the same effect with Pinaud, yes, Pinaud, which lasts less than 30 minutes but is cheap! Helmut Lang— not recommended.

What I find odd about this is that it remarkably smells like watered down Old Spice with butter thrown into the pot.

For the first few minutes, it was overwhelmingly masculine. I don't know what it was. Vetiver? Ginger? Really sharp and earthy. If someone had been in the garden, digging in moist black dirt, about 6 inches down, they could have pulled me out of the ground. I smelled like a root vegetable.

But after maybe an hour or even less, those top notes were completely gone, and all I was left with was a faint smell of flowers and amber. Foetidus does list flowers in his review, so maybe I was smelling jasmine.

Not a lot of sillage, just a lovely drydown smell. Almost feminine. I like the dry down much better than the root vegetable part. I wish I could name the notes better, but I can definitely say what Helmut Lang is *not*.

Helmut Lang is definitely not a cool aquatic. And it is not a sillage monster.

Edit: My mistake. . . My review is for Cuiron pour Homme by Helmut Lang! Not Helmut Lang by Helmut Lang.

This is a subtle scent. Once the sharp top notes evacuates it's a nice soft musk, not too masculine nor sweet. It wears close to my skin. Quite nice on a sunny day.

This fragrance is accessible and pleasant, not overtly masculine, but certainly not feminine. My first impression is of a comforting, magnetic (pour femme), distinct smell of baby powder whisked smoothly into a lambent musk; olfactory cues for curling up on the couch and cuddling. Here is the scent embodiment of domestic contentment (bliss is in some other bottle), of reading-the-Sunday-paper-after-waffles comfortability. Clearly, not a hot-date scent -- there’s nothing assertive or remarkable here -- yet its very lack of ostentation might make it an ideal day-to-day signature fragrance for an unassuming man with nothing to prove. (Does this all stem from its Proctor & Gamble roots?) PERFECT CHOICE for a new dad whose pre-/post-partum wife is hypersensitive to smell and naturally noting assurances of security. For me, the scent remains consistent -- no note disappearing or coming to the fore -- over its long life, which specifically on my male test subject was over six hours on dry skin under dry environmental conditions. Truly a high-functioning scent, but among twelve new smells in a box of sample tubes, I doubt this well-mannered gem will compel me into making a serious purchase for my man soon. A few months and a few trials might well find me more mature and on the prowl for substance, though, and I’ll know just where to find it!

A musk scent that I found far too subtle for my liking. Not as creamy or yummy as I was expecting, just plain boring. I haven’t tried the female EdP but this was a big disappointment.

Very powdery and potent, great for warm summer evenings but best used in moderation.