Fragrance Reviews by genvy5

A brighter, oranger, fresher take on Allure. Works well in all seasons, best in summer by far. If you are in the market for a fragrance which every girl in the world ADORES, this is a great one. The orange aquatic opening laid over black pepper and cedar is EXTREMELY good smelling, the accord created from the top and heart is beautifully unique and one I have yet to find done the same in any other fragrance. Beautiful base too with that "orange" theme carrying all the way through. Great longevity and sillage. This is an A+ scent.

This one comes to life in the summer heat during the day. Works also as a nice evening fragrance in summer. Any other season and this is snoozeville. Sweet lemon mandarin opening with peppery aromatic spices underneath. I love fruit/spice fragrances. Base is very sweet woodsy tobacco. Pretty much the same thing everyone else has said. And if you are in the market for a fragrance which every girl in the world ADORES, this is a good choice. My only gripe is that I know too many people who wear it. A better alternative in every aspect is Platinum Egoiste.

I don't think this is like Cuir Ottoman either. This gorgeous. No idea what hawthorne smells like but it must be good, because I can smell more than just apricot and suede - the only things in this I can pick out as names. I'm blown away by this as I can't categorize it into any typical scent group. Projects like none other. Smooth and soft, and yet it projects this character so largely.

Smells exactly like Adidas Moves 0:01. Fougere. Not briny enough to be called marine.

Started out hating this but I now appreciate it for what it is. An overly sweet spicy concoction with a slight floral heart. Tobacco, honeyed florals, amber, all very prominent in this. Somewhat similar to Sables but this is actually wearable. Absurdly powerful and loud.

This is one fiery, powerful beast of a scent. The herbs and spices in this are a little jarring at first, which is something I really appreciate about Ambre Sultan. They smooth out as amber and vanilla take over. Or maybe that's benzoin and not vanilla. Very similar smelling to me. Did I mention it's powerful? BEYOND powerful. Easily unisex.

Very nicely done scent with great iris which is all just ruined by a soapy accord. I can't thumbs down this because it is so great besides the soapiness.

I don't smell chocolate of coffee. I just get a very cozy "fireplace burning in the living room at Christmastime" scent. I feel like it's a bit flat, however. Lacks enough interesting character to make me want to buy it.

Nostalgic and very patchouli heavy. Interesting that the ozone notes are in the base. But I feel it loses its salty quality as the scent winds down. Still, what a great salty quality it has in this mix. VERY powerful.

After an hour this is GOLDEN. Very much worth the medicinal oud opening. Goodness what a wonderful rose oud patchouli scent. I don't smell mandarin in it at all. ABSURDLY long lasting though, which might be a turn off for some buyers.

I knew that was plum in the opening! This is an AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL scent. Magical, ethereal and earthy. I bet Tinkerbell smells like this. The Disney cartoon one, not the Julia Roberts one. She played a weird Tinkerbell.

Buttery sandalwood cologne which reminds me of a very humid and stuffy library with archaic tomes and old frail men rummaging through them. In a bad way.

It's not even there. Are you kidding me? It's like smelling tap water. What does that smell like?

Sweet fruits + alcoholic. VERY smooth texture. Not sure of lasting power but I like the scent. Wouldn't wear it. It's not particularly interesting honestly, but it smells nice.

Mentholated - that's an apt description of the opening. I like it. Spicy green ginger + vanilla heavy. Very sexy. Popular with women. Not overbearing at 3 sprays but beyond that it's a bit much. Fair lasting power.

A weaker Burberry London with less character and an ugly bottle with poor functionality. Nahh.

Toooooooooo much vanilla. Or perhaps that's benzoin? Either way too much.

Smooth and sweet with fresher character. Ambergris is strong and amazing in this. Really makes the scent. Sweet peppered fruits in the opening and heart make it interesting. Longevity goes under the radar after 5 hours for me but people tell me I smell fantastic long after 7.

Fiery at first. Smokey woods with a persistent vetiver throughout the whole thing. Damn sexy. Very much like Gucci PH but this is far better. I find Gucci unwearably woody and loud. If Gucci is the guy physically escalating way too fast on girls at the club, this one is the man who locks eyes and holds that tension which speaks depth about his sexual power - but it is not blatantly shoved around. I also find this somewhat similar to Azzaro Visit due to the nutmeg. Thank goodness it is controlled nutmeg, unlike Visit.

Thick and rich chocolatey patchouli. Oh YES. Price is absurd, but that is not the fragrance so thumbs up.

This is the best of all the Eternity Summers, and it is more pleasant than Eternity - which sort of smells "pissy" to me. Too bad they don't make this anymore.

This lasts an insanely long time for an aquatic. More interesting than MI. I prefer it. However, I still feel like both scents are missing some depth which would draw me more to them. Erolfa has this. Still, both this and MI are well-done scents which last.

Wonderful gourmand with good lasting power. Tamer than A*Men and therefore far more versatile. I don't have much to say as I am going off of my memory of it in the past summer. But oh it's good.

A very flat smokey vanilla fragrance. Flat in a bad way. It lacks depth and character which makes a scent interesting beyond that it has notes which are unusual. Which it does. It's not a bad one, it just is too flat to be something worth reaching for.

Smells like breakfast gone bad. I hate to give bad reviews which aren't intelligent, but I don't feel this deserves any better.

At first I liked it but my nose was overwhelmed at the time with all the other SL scents. This starts out too much like a hard candy and something you'd expect a girl's body spray to smell like. The pine in the beginning is offputting to me. It turns into something like a candied or macintosh apple candle. Weak and stays close to the skin. Does not last very long for this house. Not so good.

Bowl of honey nut cheerios. With extra honey. I like them like that.

I don't get a naughty character out of this. To me the wolf just woke up and is starting his day with a bowl of honey nut cheerios.

I like it a lot. I've always thought a scent like this would be excellent and it is. The hazelnut is surprisingly tolerable for me. Woody and creamy and a little nutty. Doesn't make a bold statement, it's just soft and lush. Not particularly bottle worthy to me but it's good.

There is a certain sweetness to this that I find most prominent at the top of the fragrance. It reminds me of milk, or cream, mixed with honey. I smell the blackcurrant immediately as well, and it lasts for quite a while (which is excellent). SMW seems to play with these most powerfully throughout its life, along with some heady note which adds a little black to this very white fragrance(with a touch of purple). It dries down very similarly to GIT, but you can distinguish between them and they are both amazing drydowns. SMW is somewhat light for a Creed, but that lightness is most obvious to the wearer, as others can smell this a lot better on me than I can. Lasts through swimming in a public pool. That's impressive. Beautiful fragrance that I'm very glad to have added to my collection. It's hard for me to wear anything else over this.

Beautifully constructed, paramount sillage and longevity, amazing smell. Not much can be said of the way it smells than what has been said. And yes, it is reminiscent of Cool Water at the start. Irrelevant. Smells way better than Cool Water anyway. Not Creed's best, but it's so popular because it is so good.

Men and women alike really appreciate this scent. The top notes are almost pungent, but in a pretty way. It is kind of a pretty scent. Amazing in summer. AMAZING. In heat. But boring in fall. Nice in winter. That's how I experience it. Dry down is really something. Spicy fresh. Woody lemon. I really like the bottle too. Get it.

Never got much of a chance to use my sample from Mugler. Just attended a Daft Punk concert, which was basically like a big club and everyone was freakin on everyone. Normally I found A*Men overbearing. I shot a spray at my chest under my two shirts mid-concert just to see what would happen. By that time, I was covered in sweat(and not just my own ;D) and continuing to produce it. A*Men is golden for clubbing. I can't explain it any better than that. Even post-concert it smelled divine, and tamer than my previous experiences. I can't think of anything I would rather take clubbing.

It reminds me of Allure Sport. A very nice cologne, appreciated by everyone. Fresh when worn right, stuffy when worn wrong. I usually go with two sprays, 3 if I'm feeling daring. A little goes quite a way. Lasts great. I can still smell it on my shirt/skin from 8 hours ago, and always. Darker than your typical fresh scent. It's very unique, imo.

Right off the bat I am put off because it smells like fruit punch soda. When given the chance to dry down, it smells more acceptible, but still as though all it's got to offer is fruit.

I don't really get it. At first I thought it was cool, but didn't really wear it for me as much as for the ladies. However, I find that its subtlety and undeniable sexiness is splendid. I just.. I dunno, it's a little fruity on the top, and yet pretty warm and almost musky. It's kinda weird. But the person below me is right. It's a nice and sexy comfort scent. I'm definitely glad that the cinnamon bark is in there. When I don't feel like wearing something with such extreme sillage, I go for this. I have no reason to like it for myself, but for some reason, I do. Funny thing is, my friend's girlfriend's father wears this stuff. And we're 19. Hah.

Smells great, girls love it, TBA Pour Homme is a wonderful addition to the D&G line.

I started off loving it, just as teflondog and livejazz did, and now I share their sentiments. Too much nutmeg indeed. It doesn't smell like much else to me. I still like it, I don't know why, but I can't wear it anymore, which sucks because I have a 97% full 3.4oz bottle of it.

This is fantastic and very well named - all I did was smell it out of the bottle by chance and was instantly mesmerized in a state of euphoria, paralyzed to the spot for a few seconds before coming back to reality and thinking darn, that is amazing.

Wear this and someone will fall in love every time you walk by.

This is the only cologne I have ever got a headache from. All I did was put some on my wrist, sniff once, and then POW. Man oh man. It doesn't smell good, either. Not at all.

Well, this is interesting. I can't STAND the top of it, far too pungent(dear gracious I pray I haven't forgotten how to spell that) for me. However, the drydown is beautiful. I'm not sure if it's the type of fragrance that women would like, though it exudes class.. is it worth it to sit through the beginning to get to the drydown?

Well, I like it, but it smells very similar to Armani Mania, and since it doesn't last very long, you're better off buying Mania. It also smells very.. "high school" to me. And I just graduated!

A fresh scent with a woody undertone. Chicks dig it entirely. Nothing special I guess, but if you just want to make young women love you then wear it. I like it, but I like pretty much everything.

I've smelled pretty much everything you can find at Nordstroms and Macy's, and this is my favorite thing I've smelled next to Armani Code, though they are different fragrances. Guess Man is my signature wherever-whenever scent.. and the girls absolutely love it. I'm a man who is always very aware of his surroundings. I was walking on the sidewalk and passed around two very attractive girls. With my heightened sense of hearing, their whispers were audible.. "He smells so good.. see" and they walked behind me for a ways. I can't see anyone not liking it.