Ice*Men (2007)
by Thierry Mugler

It's better than you expect.

The opening is simply great, cooling and appealing.
Too bad it doesn't last.

After about a half an hour the opening starts to fade out and
to the end you just get the characteristic patchouli note
known from a*men, except in Ice Men it's a bit cleaner.

Overall I think it's not bad because you can find it quite cheap
and girls like it.

23rd October, 2011.

I don't understand so many bad reviews for this wonderful perfume. I love this. A little weak (stays close to the body) but definitely an amazing frag. Wonderful on hot weather. Women love it.

28th June, 2011.

I've been quite surprised by Ice*Men as I was expecting to smell a mash up between A*Men and one of those CK's summer scent a-là CKIN2U /CK One Summer 03-04-05-06-07-08 and zero whatever. Noway. This is a blast of fresh patchouli and other spices on a white musk base. Unpretentious and honest. It's surely fresh but not acquatic (which in this case is good) and it still mantains some charme. Nothing that I'm really into, but at least is pleasant.

Said that, my only disappointent is for the Iced Coffee. Where is it? Maybe they referred to the iced Coffee because it was the drink that Jacques Huclier had at Starbucks before going to te lab...who knows...

27th April, 2011. (Last Edited: 5th September, 2011.)

A blast of mentholated, frozen, woodsy notes mixed with a waterfall of nutmeg, the insertion of the bold star patchouli, an hint of musk and a whisper of gourmand notes (a touch of vanilla and coffee). This is Ice Man. The mentholated, woodsy, aromatic effect may be is determined by a link between lavender, cedar, mint and patchouli leaves, all got dusty by a rain of nutmeg. This is not an aquatic scent in my opinion, this is a borderline aromatic fougere, slightly edible and very balsamic and camphoraceous. The longevity and the sillage are strong. A solution for the hot summer nights of cuccadores engaged to hunt overheated ladies inside the crazy resorts of the coast.

15th January, 2011. (Last Edited: 13rd March, 2011.)

No controversy here, nor anything noteworthy.
A banal, generic, synthetic "freshy".
Smells like a wintergreen dangly car deodorant.

5th January, 2011.

The consensus seems to be that Ice*Men is simply a rebadging of the previous year's A*Men Summer Flash, and it makes sense that they would opt for a name change given how little of A*Men there is to be found here. Of course the formula would have to be retooled to make A*Men work as a warm-weather scent, but I would be very hard-pressed to find any connection to the original here if I didn't know that they shared some relation. Well, really, I'm hard-pressed to find any connection period.

The material from Mugler mentions a "caffeine kick," but, like others, I have been completely unable to locate any kind of coffee note here, and that's a shame, because going for an iced coffee motif here would have been a great way to play on A*Men's accords while lightening it up a bit. What I do get here is a fairly standard aquatic which, to its credit, does have a pleasant patchouli undercurrent to makes things a bit more interesting. Sadly though, Ice*Men ends up being far too wimpy to make a lasting impression, as on my skin it is gone in about four hours.

So, this one ended up being a disappointment for me, though I do hear that the recent A*Men Sunessence does a better job riffing on A*Men's accords for warm-weather wear, if only I could find it...

3rd January, 2011.