Spark for Men (2003)
by Liz Claiborne

It's not bad. I wore it to my high school choir concert, and the director thought that I had been drinking. So, the rum is too prominent. Overall though, it's a great evening fragrance. The spicy, sweet smell cries "sophisticated male bachelor, out for a night on the town." I would probably buy this again, in a full gift-set.

The Claiborne scents get a lot of negative reviews here on the site, but this one works for me. I like the warmth of the rum and wood, and there's a nice caramel sweetness. This juice is the furthest thing from the sportiness of the other two Claibornes I like -- Lucky You and Claiborne for Men. A good scent for an evening out, dressed for success and yet ready to party.

I have to say I like Spark a lttle more than Spark Seduction. I gave my bottle of Spark away and am left with Spark Seduction which I rarely wear. I don't find that Spark smells exactly like Varvatos which I also own, far from it. Everyones olfactory senses are different I imagaine. I did wear Spark but rarely the Spark Seduction. I imagine I like fragrances with fig in them and perhaps that's why I like Spark so much. And it smelled good on me wherein Seduction smorta smells blase on me. I owned over 50 bottles of fragrances and gave so many away and now regret it. I gave this one guy a bottle of Green Irish Tweed cause I didn't really care for it and he droped the bottle and broke it on the way home. If I knew that's what his plans for it would be I would have just kept it and not worn it. Some people are too funny. I gave away Minataure, etc., etc., and now wish I had just kept them cause now I pretty much gotta start over. I won't buy the same things again but now I will do more listening to you guys post more and sneak to the department stores and try them out then go online and buy (only way to do it!!)

Spark has been my scent since I discovered it shortly before Liz discontinued it. Every girlfriend (save for the current one) has loved it on me, strangers love it, I love it, and I'll continue to wear it even if my girlfriend claims it smells like that awful Curve. Wish Liz would bring this stuff back, as do my customers.

really nice...i think that comparing this one to varvatos is vastly misleading. I owned varvatos and loved it, but it was darker, more mysterious. What they do have in common is the fruit, booze, spice combo....but imo these are far different.
Spark might be the bizzarro formula(superman reference) of varvatos. I like spark a lot because of its boozy top notes and i think its well made; i wish i knew why its been given such a hard time.

Ends up feeling 'old' from the rum and cognac scents. Pepper on the nose doesn't mix very well with the honey and cognac. Ends up being very stale and industrial. Smells like the plastic wrap the bottle was protected by was doused in Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum.

The honey and pepper are the really predominate players here but they don't play very well and keep dropping the ball. A cedar or vanilla/leather bassnote would probably have made this more pleasing to me.

I'd wear this just to confuse people's senses.