D&G L'Amoureaux 6 (2009)
by Dolce & Gabbana

Notes:
Top: Bergamot, Pink pepper, Juniper berry
Middle: Cardamom, Birch leaf
Base: Musks and Woods.

6 L'Amoureaux is for 'The Charmer. ...this charmer is all about intensity'. Quite appropriate really because the person
who wears 6 would have to rely on all of their charms to win over their object of affection because this placid, barely-there
fragrance ain't gonna help anyone score any charm points.

Disclaimer: I tested an entire 5ml decant of 6 for this review. And I still only have a smidgen of an idea of what the
core accords of this juice are. It opens with the mostly fleeting top notes in history...a juniper berry spark with a
thin citrus background before the spicy-woods heart comes forth. The middle accord is mainly warm cardamom and a peppery-leathery- birch leaf wood smell. The cardamom-birch leaf balance is well done, but extremely watered down. A few minutes later the pleasant but generic base of musk and woods materializes and goes on for the next 3 hours in silent fashion. Thats folks.

6's formula is so watered down that even the L'Artisan accountants would go "Oh COME ON!! Pour atleast half a teaspoon more of *that* ingredient". 6's formula is probably "Water + a drop of every ingredient listed in the pyramid". 6 makes Old Spice splash smell like a full blown EDP. 6 is the cologne version of the already watery Cartier Declaration. Ok, I will stop with the 6 puns now although I only did 4. There's no way I can recommend this 'concept' juice...it needs serious fleshing out and more $$$. Now I understand why D&G chose the dashing Noah Mills as the face of this juice...nice misdirection D&G folks..

Rating: 4.00/10.00

No.6 L'AMOUREAUX - The Charmer. Desired by all he meets, melts the most cynical of hearts, this charmer is all about intensity. I agree with the 'intensity' bit. This is bullshit in all its intensity. And that's why people will buy this stuff - bullshit sells! Especially if it smells as charming as L'Amoureaux. The bergamot, juniper and pink pepper opening salvo is sharply reminiscent of Green Irish Tweed's own but faster than you can say 'clone' it reveals a powdery mildly woodsy heart and a hint of musk. Pleasant, even predictable, especially to experienced noses. Those same noses will hopefully remember that while a handful have done richer and tighter takes of the genre, many others have fared worse. But to judge a scent on its own merit, this is not all that bad. Easily wearable if not generic.

this is a soft fragrance with light citrus and ends with a wood & pepper combo. that softness of the scent fades to open more citrus and the hint of pepper in the middle. The pepper stays towards the end leaving a woody/light-pepper base. It is an interesting one. I liked it at first but thought it may be to simple due to it being unisex. Its pleasant without being overly manly or too feminine. It is a soft scent, but not a full on gourmand, which I like. It has the citrus and light pepper so its something different for guys. I do not know all too much on womens perfumes, but I think the softness of this scent allows a woman to pull it off. Overall, this L'Amoureaux think it accomplishes that through its light nature. It seems like a breeze would destroy this fragrance, not carry it. It is just a light pleasant smell, doesn't say much aloud, yet smells great when you have the chance. It seems like you would have to use this perfume in long spells. It is one that seems to get better every time you smell it-- you usually do not detect all the notes the first few times you smell it.

D&G offers its new “Fragrance Anthology” line niche style, in plain, (non-sequentially) numbered bottles. (Parfumerie Generale, Le Labo, anyone?) The five scents themselves are all hilariously bad. No. 1, Le Bateleur, is a fresh, aquatic sports fragrance so monumentally dull that I’m nodding off just thinking about it. No. 3, L’Imperatrice, is a crude, derivative, adolescent fruity-floral, for the likes of which neither I nor the world have any use. I took home samples of the other three scents for review: No. 6 and No. 10 because they showed faint signs that they might actually come to smell like something, and No. 18…well, because there was room for a third sample vial on the card, and it was the bottle in the front.

No. 6, L’Amoureaux, is a pale, acid citrus over an austere synthetic cedar that’s trying much too hard to ape something Jean-Claude Elléna might have done for Hermès. Since Elléna’s work for Hermès has been pretty bare, hollow, and repetitive itself lately, this scrawny imitation is even more pointless than it might have been. L’Amoureaux only goes to prove that hackwork by an artist is still preferable to hackwork by no-talent goons.

This has a few notes that I can't readily identify such as birch, juniper, pink pepper, and orris. Still, its a beautifully crafted fragrance, smells kind of unisex to me woody and musky in the drydown just as its supposed to. Has alot of spices in it but its not heavy at all, very inoffensive while smelling uncommon.