Azzaro Now Women (2007)
by Azzaro

Azzaro Now Women is cool, modern, breezy. I get rum & musk on top. The tea & bergamot are light and bright. I could drink it; it's that fresh & juicy on top. It's like a light rum water-based drink. It mellows into a soft floral musk on me but never seems to lose the water references once its dry.

To me, ANW smells like a contemporary floral aquatic. If ANW was classified as an aquatic, it would be one of the best aquatics ever. One, ANW is fairly unique for an aquatic. Two, it's strong, even in the EDT. Three, it's long lasting, especially for an EDT.

I put off testing ANW for long time, worried that the double-whammy of aldehydes & white flowers would induce a headache. But once again, Alberto Morillas has delighted me with a winner. My only regret is not trying (and buying) this one sooner!

What a beautiful fragrance. I find myself turning around, wondering who smells so good. Duh, it's me. ;)

One of the few fragrances that I will consistently reach for in the dead of summer, when temperatures begin to exceed 90F. That's when I think ANW is best.

26th March, 2011. (Last Edited: 25th September, 2011.)

With a dearth of reviews, and the few that are here being middling at best, I feel a little embarrassed to point out the virtues of this seemingly maligned fragrance. When pushing against the tide one tends to wonder if one got it wrong. Notice how I talk there in the third person. So away from the apologist stance and lets get down to brass tacks. Having given this scent a good couple of months of testing - from frenetic daytime activity to night time meditation I can say without hesitation that this is a good fragrance. Deeply enjoyable to wear with its bright alluring opening which after an initial blast of melon balls lasting only a few seconds, smells of those tiny bags of pastel coloured popped rice you used to get in sweet shop goody bags. Is that the smell of calone? I don't know...I do love it though.

Azzaro Now woman is a pretty floral with something grumbling underneath. I wouldn't say it has testicles under that diaphanous floral shift, but I'd wager there were hairy ankles and on top a slight moustache in certain light. As a Masculine it works for me and I'm sure it works as a feminine too. Looking at the previous reviews I don't really understand the aquatic sports reference. Azzaro now woman is warm bright sunny and situated to my nose in the garden and not by the sea. If you like the idea of a good looking guy in a dress then go investigate, if you don't: go investigate anyway because at roughly £10 for 50ml you can't go wrong and it might just open your eyes (nose)!

2nd February, 2010.

Azzaro Now Women opens on a banal melon accord that I try to ignore so as not to bias myself against whatever may come next. Sad to say, what follows is essentially a men’s aquatic sports fragrance for women: melon, Calone, pencil shavings, and an abrasive woody amber, all dusted with a few white floral notes, these last presumably to make it more appealing to the ladies. It’s bad enough we men are subjected to this sort of swill. To inflict it upon women too is simply criminal.

13rd December, 2009. (Last Edited: 29th December, 2010.)

This is kind of bland. sorry. (!)

6th April, 2008.

I've tried this from a sample, but didn't like it. It's fresh in a certain way, but also a bit masculin. After a few hourw the smell was gone. No surprises, no wows, just another perfume like there are many others. No NOW ik want to buy this... .

10th December, 2007.