Porsche Design Essence (2008)
by Porsche

How I like the concept of this fragrance, and the bottle itself, kinda of "radioactive refrigerator" as said a couple of reviews bellow ":¬). But damn notes which feels like some flowers left on the water, feeling that I catch just after put it on skin. I think empathyboy may has written right to the point: "I find that it is best used sparingly as it can become a bit sickly due to a dance (which can feel a bit like a battle) between it's sweet and peppery structure. It also smells a lot better on clothes or 'in the air' as another user has commented." It just had been proven to me today. I didn't have the chance to test in more days, but so far my fiancé didn't complain. It's me who is not patiente enough to fully enjoy this scent in the way I'd like to enjoy, having others with more constancy, specially during the top notes to drydown transition. Maybe with a substitute top note, the history could has a better ending.

9th December, 2011.

Grey  coniferous-aquatic in the same vein of the more shadowy Bvlgari Aqua (which is far better and more natural in perception) with the lightness and the modernity of the synthetic seaweeds and the arctic  ozonics, in this case soared higher and longer by a sort of frozen aromatic-minty wake full of balsamic resins, juniper, coriander, herbs and incense. The smell is a sort of frozen woodsy incense very light, translucent and  modern thankfully poor of floral notes and fruits too often letal if badly combined in the ozonic concoctions. The smell is very masculine because of a clever insertion of pepper, vetiver and patchouli . A cologne in order to feel cool and aromatic in a modern way not so infamous as earlier painted by many. 

31st October, 2011.

Not bad, it grows on you. Sophisticated and slightly understated. Could be an up-to-date Xeryus, maybe. Beautiful packaging as well. Re: the automobile fragrance remark of another reviewer - Porsche Design is nothing to do with cars to my knowledge - it's a design house.

10th July, 2011.

I simply loved the fragrance. The first time I saw it, I didn't understand why Porsche would go such a way (with accessories), but after having smelled it, I fell in love.

I see, by the thumbs down, that people didn't like Porsche design that much. Well, maybe they will like the new fragrance, Design Sport.

18th April, 2011.

I got a 1 oz travel size of this for a low price, and it's decent stuff. I didn't have very high expectations. It's kind of somewhere between L'eau D'Issey and D&G Masculine. Kind of a fruity teenage kind of scent. One thing I like about it is that I've smelled a ton of other fragrances just like this one that were ruined by an overdose of synthetic cedar wood notes; this scent does have some of that aspect, but in manageable levels, never overwhelming the aromatics. I almost get the hint of fruit punch.

A decent sports fragrance that would be nice for after the gym. Maybe it's robin's-egg blue bottle, but I find this to be a tranquil, relaxing fresh scent. Not anything to go gaga over, but far from bad.

28th January, 2011. (Last Edited: 8th May, 2011.)

Compared with Eau Savage, my other favourite, this is a fragrance more suited to a special occasion or romantic evening. There is undoubtedly a citrus element to this but that diminishes quite quickly, a think a point that it refered to by other reviewers. But an underlying scent remains and does so on clothes for days. Where as the Eau Savage is 'everyday' the more overtly masculine fragrance is not in my opinion. There is a smokey quality that comes to the fore as the citrus declines. I would think that a day time meeting dominated my men could find the masculinity of this scent too much. But in a more romantic and intimate occasion the very masculinity may well be a plus. So I would recommend this for evenings, with someone special.

7th December, 2010.