
well this one is a bit confusing really. i fully anticipated disliking it entirely, as code leaves me cold and AdG is.... well, it is what it is. However the bottle of attitude i kept passing (i often take a shortcut through a local department store from one street to another) was wearing down my resistance with it's trendy cubist zippo charms. so finally i took the plunge, and..... well, the neutral rating here i think is perhaps the most appropriate i've given. this fragrance is certainly well-blended, in that there are almost no distinctive notes, rather a well-rounded aura of scent. i do get the lavender, but it's not an old fashioned lavender, rather a candied, softened, out-of-focus lavender. I don't actually smell the coffee note that people are mentioning at all, except that i do seem to experience a strange scent-memory trigger of the bar of a restaurant i know, of being near the coffee machine (i find this VERY weird). there is a powdered quality to attitude also, a warm semi-vanilla softness that makes the fragrance one that could easily be worn by a woman - it's hardly an overtly 'masculine' scent. i ALMOST get, as other people have noticed, the faintest of cardomom notes, but very vaguely. nothing in attitude is very definite, it's all so blended and vague and sweet-cloudy-hazy. there's a slight freshness to this also, a synthetic accord which is technically quite at odds with the rest of the fragrance (without it, and with a bit more oomph, attitude could potentially head towards the sweet-gourmandy end of the scale) but which seems to keep the scent grounded in the middle of fresh and sickly. perhaps it is only to be expected of this end of armani's product range, but attitude is one of the most obviously focus-group created fragrances i have smelled, as though a hundred people were surveyed as to what they want in a fragrance and then this was created to satisfy as many as possible.
it is by no means unpleasant - quite clearly it is meant to be as pleasant as possible to as many people as possible. and it's freshened powdery-warmth makes it appropriate for daytime, the office, casualwear, an evening, even as a clubbing fragrance. it is quite light, and even a heavy application doesnt ever go over-the-top. it's also not even really a linear scent - as foetidus noted, this is basically all topnotes and not really much else. it really is quite uninspiring, doesn't last long, smells quite cheap i think, and whilst doing nothing that badly, does nothing at all well. yet im confounded by my inability to stop smelling it - as though it has the fragrance equivalent of MSG in it, and my brain's being tricked into enjoying an inferior product.
4.5 out of 10. yet i might buy it if i'm over-tired in duty-free.....