Reviews of Silver Black / Onyx (2005)
by Azzaro

NOT BAD, BUT A BIT BORING, SO SUAVE, ´TOO MUCH INOFFENSIVE, I HOPED MORE FROM AZZARO

Not very interesting and feels like a spicy and soapy fougere. Lacks distinctiveness but certainly not terrible.

I've got Silver Black, not Onyx. No need to overspray, which I could see might cause problems. I use 3 sprays. Well blended, yet you get hints of individual notes, or at least you think you do. There is also a nice aromatic quality to it, but it's also a bit musky. When I think of other well blended frags, I remember that I get bored with them after a while (Pasha, Must, and Valenti's 101, for example), but that doesn't happen with SB. It keeps you interested in it, yet never becomes boring or overwhelming.

I was prepared to not like this as I don't care for any other Azzaro offering. However, after giving the sample I received a couple tries, I bought a bottle at a local discount store.

The scent is dry throughout its life, so the ever-present apple top notes remain noticeable but not overbearing (as is the case with fruity scents like dunhill desire). The apple notes fade into a light woods and musk that doesn't project far off the skin but lasts a long time. This is one scent that could work at the office or a night out, in the summer or the winter. There is nothing spectacular about onyx that would keep it in my regular rotation, but I could never see objecting to wearing it.

The bottle is very 80s - a huge monolithic black cube that is miami vice masculine.

Is this the most refined, elegant, smooth fragrance ever? Certainly not. However, to me it seems to be a more mature version of Drakkar and possibly some of the Axe products. It is similar to the original Azzaro pour homme, but sweeter with more fruit. Onyx does have anise and caraway notes present, which resemble the original.

This is probably the best name to scent combination I have ever encountered...well, next to Polo Blue maybe. Anyway, Onyx is right on, namewise, Silver black I am not so sure. And the dual name is weird too. Anyway, the opening is unique and not bad but not great. The dry down is nothing but tar to my nose. It isn't well blended though, so it smells more like a very '70s/'80s scent that was slightly altered to smell modern. It's not bad, especially if you are into those 'weired' scents like Paco Rabanne's Utlraviolet. Unique but not appertizing.

Picked up a sample of this and was pleased with it. However, my wife and a co-worker both suggested that it smelled like an "old man" cologne... While I'm not exactly wet behind the ears, I've a few years left before I qualify for "old man" status.

I guess I could sneak and wear it for me, but the wife has to go for it too. ;)

Got a sample of this and I was surprised at how the scent opens. I almost thought I was smelling Azzaro pour Homme...a marriage of spice, wood and citrus with an unmistakable green edge. As the scent mellows, it becomes somewhat familiar again, a sharp woody tone, much like Visit. Definitely a modern formal scent, not too fussy or overly complex, meant to seduce quietly with refinement and calculated restraint, the definition of modern elegance.

Smells citric and green, and a bit oceanic, not bad but expected something more original or special from Azzaro. Gives a classic image, like a 40+ years old man, but it lacks of distinctive notes.