Altitude (2001)
by Swiss Army

Another fine fragrance by Swiss Army. I really like the bottle for this one as well. Quite different from the original Swiss Army frag, so this is great to have if you already own Swiss Army. To my nose, it smells quite like Kenneth Cole Black. A nice outdoorsy type frag that smells quite good!

12nd May, 2010.

This is one of the nicest fragrances I've come across, and I've been wearing it since it came out. It starts off fresh and peppery, and slowly becomes softer and sweeter. After it softens, it is one of the most comforting fragrances on the market. It comes out of the bottle fairly strong, and it's easy to over-apply it. One spray is enough.

6th May, 2010.

I own this cologne, but most of the time I reach for it, I am looking for something to put on with sweat pants and a t-shirt. There is a very artificial evergreen smell that isn't unpleasant, but not something to be proud of either. It has a nice sillage, but close to the skin, the chemicals burn at my nose.
I much prefer the original Swiss Army.

14th February, 2010.

floral and fresh. the original is better but this has a more flowery appeal. a very good (cheap scent). if you don't want to break the bank on geir or kiton this is worth a shot!!

19th October, 2009.

This is an interesting product with, I think, a long history. In 1992 one of the Bath and Body boutiques came up with a men's cologne, altitude. It was sold in a green bottle and the scent was ethereal, unlike any that had come before. Shortly after that it vanished from the shelves, but the scent itself reappeared in a more refined, subdued version (sort of) as "Tommy," and won an award. That was about the time "Eternity" showed up with the same ethereal, ketone-based scents. So, there appeared to be a refinement of the scents throughout the process and over the time period. Finally, in 2001 Altitude showed up again, and interestingly, it had nearly the same scent as the original (and I do still have the original to compare.) This particular biz is more "bizantine" than just about any other (excepting the fashion industry), so who really knows how Altitude became Tommy became Eternity became Altitude (sort of.) But my uneducated guess is that radical new scents are first tried out on an obscure stage, such as a Bath and Body shop. If it's a hit, then the scent is repackaged and sold under a different name.

24th December, 2008.

Generic par excellence. Exhausted. Tired. Smells like 100s of other low budget scents. Minty-mossy, off ye go. One wonders what the company brief to the perfumer was. The focus might have been on a cute bottle with cheap cap rather than on what goes into the bottle. Wouldn't pay more than US$15.00 for it.

9th July, 2008.