Voyage (2006)
by Nautica

Sir Slarty said it how it is. Fresh and soapy. I've gotten some great reactions from the girlies for sure...

smells really good and clean, but only lasted about 10 minutes on my skin. I would give Voyage a thumbs up if it has some staying power.

This is very similar to the first hour of Kenneth Cole Reaction. But what is the problem with Reaction? It has very poor longetivity. This fixes that problem and leaves a very clean soapy aura around you. Some people around you may not know if you are wearing a fragrance or if it was your shampoo/body wash. You will smell just as if you got out of a shower where you soap scrubbed yourself. A very safe fragrance that isnt likely to disappoint anyone. Now don't think you wont need something like this. The perfect slap-on and out the door frag. I own darker fragrances like Michael Kors and Pi and love them; however you can't wear something like that in a hot summer day in a non-office environment. This can be found cheap online, especially eBay.

This is a great scent for hot weather. Very clean and inoffensive. It isn't sharp or sour like most aquatics, but rather clean and fruity. The melon dominates the fragrance. Two thumbs up.

Five minutes into testing Nautica’s Voyage, and I was fully expecting to nod off. Blue liquid? Check. Aquatic top notes? Check. Fresh fougère structure? Check. But before my head had a chance to fall forward and my eyelids droop, something interesting happened. Where most aquatic fougères hum along through a calone and woody amber midsection, Voyage veers off into an aggressively sweet tropical fruit and floral accord that could have come right out of a contemporary women’s fruity floral. What’s become tiresome in women’s fragrances is a novelty in the realm of men’s scents, and I perked up unexpectedly when it arose. At its heart Voyage smells remarkably like a pineapple-passion fruit juice blend that’s served at my favorite resort on Maui. It’s impossible to take seriously, but it’s undeniably bright, happy, and at the same time strangely luxurious. I can’t shake the beach and palm trees imagery, and so can’t see wearing Voyage on anything other than a hot summer day or an island vacation. (In that respect I guess the name is apt.)

Voyage’s drydown sadly reverts back to standard “clean,” with blatantly chemical synthetic woods, laundry detergent, and a too-generous helping of calone for base notes. Had it gone to a warm musk with quality woods, or even a synthetic ambergris, it would have been a better end. Yet even with its disappointing exit, Voyage is far more interesting than most scents in this genre, and if you have to have an aquatic fougère fragrance, this one is at least worth investigating.

A monumentally boring fresh scent that is sure not to offend anyone. It's green and clean and best suited for summer.