Visit (2003)
by Azzaro

I became curious about this scent when i first read an article about it a German magazine, which, altough not specialized on perfume and not even lifestyle, granted Visit a quite generous article. Even more, the article was packed with poetic associations about this fragrance, raging from exotic food soaked in uncommon spices up to incesce in a church. While being skeptical that there ever is a scent capable to illustrate this, Azzaro Visit gave me soon different, altough equally uncommon associations. What i first smelled was a mere, bare youthfull teeny stenchwater so i moved on unimpressed. Many days later i tried it out again and, surprise, surprise, i found one of the best and untypical contemporary scents in the very same essence. One tiny flaw, why visit -ok maybe i'm uninformed / misinformed but it should have been called out of the cleanest shower, wonderland of spices or complex, stragely beautiful clenliness, to name only few of my sensations. It starts out as a plain, but correct refreshing aquatic and ends up in one of the most complex aromatic symphonies ever - altough the aquatic note stilll lingers on, even something youthfully ozonic and soapy, it gradually turns into amore mysterious scent, spicy up to the point of medical and toothpaste associations, still crisp, but also sensual and uncommonly romantic and sensual, a bizzare association of hot and ice-cold spices. If the youth of today ever wanted to smell original, classy and refined yet avoiding being both generic but also too conservative, this might be the right choice.

Sprayed a few zaps on myself yesterday. Immediately put off by the strong woods/spice note but enjoyed the dry down into a lighter woodsy scent. Although a few mentioned it, Visit is nearly identical to Gucci Rush. To test out this theory I sprayed Rush on the other arm. Gucci was slightly more powdery, slightly more depth, essentially the same scent. Visit lasts a long time - I noticed it on my arm when I was falling asleep nearly 10 hours after application.

Spicy green/ This is a very green and chemical scent. Has a noter of cardamom in it that gets some getting used to. It spices up and sweetens after a few minutes. Lasts a good while. Woody and spicy now. I kinda like it... if onmly it didn;t smell like everything else. Not horrific like I was expecting! Thumbs up.

I didn't get much from this except for the incense and a little woodiness. After these notes subsided, about 2.5 hours later, there wasn't much going on. I prefer the sweet and spicy Oriental with a patchouli-dominated drydown (Adidas Victory League) or Cuba Red (dry, spicy wood), both of which have much better longevity (or it may be that Visit was too subtle on the drydown, which is basically the same thing, at least for me). I could've sprayed more, but the incense is not appealing at all, so I wouldn't want any more of it. This is definitely not a fragrance to take a chance and blind buy, unless you can't get just enough of fragrances that have strong incense.

The very first scent that hits me in Azzaro Visit is the heavy Cedar smell. I have not found any other fragrance that has this strong cedar aroma to it. It triggers very pleasant thoughts for me. It brings back memories of being at the cottage, out in the forest, cutting cedar into logs and then splitting them up into kindling for the fireplace. It really does smell like I'm standing on a bed of blue cedar chainsaw dust and axe chips. There is a nice light scent behind the cedar but I don't get any nutmeg. Maybe a light peppery, musky, incense... very very lightly though. To me, the only thing that stands out strongly is the woods. If someone told me that this is what a visit smells like, I would expect that I would be cutting wood during a visit to the country. With Azzaro Visit I get these found memories of being in the wilderness but without having to wrestle with a chainsaw all day, or the blisters from swinging an axe, and no mosquito or black fly bites. Very nice, and very different from anything else I've ever tried. Country fresh, in it's own way. Casual daytime wear for me.

YUM! When my boyfriend wears this, he out-smells me (and not in an overpowering way!), whatever I'm wearing. This is spicy, kicky goodness. Reminds us both of Kenzo Tokyo, but is more interesting and has better staying power. Even if it's not the most unique or strange scent, for every day it's an absolute winner, will be purchasing a big, big bottle after my lover's mini runs out. Hmmmmmm must go smell his neck...