Fragrance Reviews by madridbatabidd

It seems that Comme des Garçons's reputation of "enfant terrible" has reflected positively on itself in the perfume industry.
This is the second time that the Japanese designer signs its own perfume in collaboration with "Etat Libre D'orange" persumist groupie, the first time that the company designs a scent for another, two other up to come for an UK based brand and formal gossip about collaborate with H&M with a clothing collection and a unisex cologne for the filial.


Hinoki takes its name from the Hinoki cypress, a tree that only grows in Japan and is the preferred wood for building palaces, temples, shrines and the finest wooden soaking baths. It was inspired by a visit to Tawaraya, a famous three-centuries-old traditional Japanese inn located in Kyoto.

Basicly this is a deep rich, woody scent with hints of smoky incenses.
It has a fab recreation; a deja-vú of steamed, heated, woody environments of saunas and baths actually: there's an asian legendary wooden bath called "hinoki ofuro", in outside open spaces with hot water in chilly locations. To put you in the scene, the closest panorama here in Europe are the famous scandinavian baths in the forest. So, basicly ,this is what's all about; a well constructed representation that captures magnificently the scent of an outdoor wodden bath.

It starts intoxicating: warm woods sorrounded by the resinous tupertine( the gum pine tree) and the odd note of camphor( white waxy resinous with strong medicinal aroma).
Then just a lovely smoky mix of heady frankincense that blends with sharp notes of thyme, cedar and balanced cold notes of moss.
There's a shy reminiscence of charcoal going on through it that, for me, could be the key of why this perfume is a well done olfative image of a hot woody sauna.
It is a great scent for wood lovers.

The longlasting is monster. Up to 10 hours in my skin.

I don't particulary love woody colognes but I have to admmit that this launch is well balanced, creative, nostalgic in a nice way and addictive.
Give a try.

I always respect highly the Kenzo launches beacuse of its originality, the distinctive of its perfumes, but this peculiarities seemed to vanish, nor only in this company, as it looks like it is becoming a shared characteristic in the perfumists, like there's a crisis in the perfumery industry where all the recent launches exhudes lack of originality and they mute themselves into something more bald and mainstream.

Kenzo has decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary launching this fragrance as a reminiscent of the 70's when Kenzo just started his designer career in Paris. The perfume is claimed as unisex.
It smells subtle and nostalgic hippie, sweet and represents very well the whole marketing image and the color of the bottle. Violet and simple.
The formulation is centered in the cedar and heliotrope.
This is another orientated launch for the young public, as the previous fiasco called Tokyo. It’s a soft oriental woody, something like a dreamy material made of weaved milk, wood, and fruits.

Vintage starts fresh with a blast of mandarine and the introduction of the heliotrope.
The initial life of the scent it's kind of great and distinctive, where the flowery hint remains in the background but is noticiable still.

But after a little while the juice goes rather in a feminine side with the entrance of an oversweet cherry fruity note, that quickly reminds me loads of youth sweet girly perfumes in the market.
“Vintage” soon claims a prolongs previous olfactory themes as “Amour”, “Summer”, etc…
Soft powdery textures comes along and as the merges into a creamy wood touch, (tonka bean, cedar and vanilla).
The flower-power side: a deep, shy purple halo embraces it all in a fantastic cloud like recreation. It really has a patchouli character on it even that note never been mentioned.

The fragrance is marvellous, being kind of nostalgic, innocent but also naughty. I can picture out loads of young consumers using it on play out moments… But I cannot see many men wearing it.
With “Vintage” the Japanese company makes a clever step bringing to life the first suitable flowery for the men following the actual trend in perfumery, regarding the next step, “Power” the next proper serious flower-based masculine cologne from Kenzo, (a great one in fact), but there is another story...

Long lasting is average. 4 hours and become rather close to skin with not projection what so ever.

Concerning about the previous fiasco launches of my favourite Japanese perfume branch, I was kind of a "scared soul" regarding of what I was going to get with this new perfume for the male, but I can only say now, after giving it a try, that could be easily, the male version of “Flower by Kenzo”, and I have a feeling that it will become quite successful in the market, asit has been the above mentioned version for the ladies.

We know that Kenzo always has been fond of flowers and that is why he has based his latest fragrance for men on their image. He has envisioned the abstract flower: a wild tulip and the idea of how could smell like, something that he tried with the poppy in "Flower", before.

Power doesn't actually smells massively flowery, as it just has the enough amount of a vague balanced dose of flowery smell that make it appealing.

It start fresh and greenly soft spicy with burst of coriander, cardamom and bergamot, with the synthetic hints of the aldehydes.
It quickly lays in pieces into a resinous, dark musky balsamic character yet oddly flowery.
The juice mostly show true colors and goes deep and hypnotic with the presence of the tolu balsam and the violet leaves. In fact all is a reminiscent of a mineral-slightly powdery-salty-ambery-floral scent. Rather unusual for a male perfume. I like it.
The musk here comes far prominent, could it be easily marked as pungent, a vivid animalistic note accompanied with the labdanum plus a soft note of iris that instantly reminds you “Dior Homme”. I can detect the soft rock rose floating ghostly around in a shy background.
In the dry down the scent loses the powdery accords and the mineral ambergris is more noticeable, although the whole juice remains dark yet resinous still. I can detect a cola like note (maybe is the freesia note blended with the cedar wood). Highly pleasant.
The final result is an impressive odd floral fragrance, being rather dark musky, kind animalistic than a clean wood scent that you could spect:
My impression is a long lasting deja vú of other flower for man colognes. It has hints of the successful “Dior Homme” iris, the “Lèau Bleue” deep-resinous-dark flowery accents, aldehydic notes like "Farhenheit32", the animalistic notes from “Charonge”…

“Kenzo Power”, brings back the excitement of the old time house references, nostalgia of well blended and peculiar previous scents like the original “Kenzo Homme” or “Jungle”, and, at the same time follows the new trendy generation of floral for men.

The long lasting is terrific and it has a distinctive projection.
A must have for dark scents fans.

It’s a soft flower oriental, something like a dreamy material made of weaved milk, wood, and fruits.

"7:15 AM in Bali" claims a prolongs previous olfactory themes as “Amour”, “Summer”, etc…
Its a soft perfume suitable (aparently), for both man and female although it tends to the feminine side.
Countains a simple but appealing blend of passiofruit, jasmine, orchid, cedar and vanilla.
it start rather nostalgic with hints of the original "Kenzo Femme", soft, creamy, fruity and floral. The passionfruit in this juice is very addictive and reminded me instantly "Angel" getting ridd off the chocolate accords.
The perfume goes rather linear in the drydown when soft powdery textures comes along as a creamy wood touch, (cedar , orchid and vanilla).The scent is a shy halo, quite close to skin with no projection.

Could it be "7:15 AM in Bali" a big rival substitute of Tom Ford's "Black Orchid"?? ( a perfume designed for women but very desirable and used for men like me).
I have my doubts.

Safraline is a molecular derivative of saffron created by Swiss perfume house Givaudan. The perfume is inspired by the initial question of knowing whether gold has a smell and then the idea of finding an olfactory equivalent of it....
I was a little worried about this new launch, specially after the huge deception on the luxe range. The idea based on the recreation of how could gold smell like, made me wonder for a little while, and I had flashing images in my mind of a tacky, terrible, overly power scent.
Well; what a great surprise. The perfume is superb.
The bottle is very appealing and exhudes luxury itself; it's a shinny gold version of the original pebble-like design of the company.
The juice could be easily going into the Guerilla series, they have a very alike character.


It's based in the saffron, curcuma, pepper and amber in an arid strange way.
To me nose, 888, opens light and zesty with pepper note, melting with a fiery , grant slap of playful coriander,a nd there's a bubblely effervescent gorgeous accent going on oin the background.
I can detect the synthetic saffron straight away, flying around the whole formula, showing off its own presence.
The initial sniff , to my nose, is kind of feminine, but it doesn't bother me at all. It could be definitely a Guerilla 2 old brother, but as it's settling down, the perfume get a nice gorgeous character. The safraline share path with hints of nice metallic geranium leaves that melts with the curcuma brings a vague hint of metallic sour mustard like odour..
I have to admit that the blend of safraline and curcuma gives a feminine twist of the whole perfume, but it's enough pleasant to be wore by a man.

The fragrance keeps heady and confortable while the drydown introduces the amber that add a warm twist to the whole formula.
The drydown is dry and bitter.
I realy like this scent, as much of the other Comme des garçons line, simply beacuse I'm a big fan of the company.
I probably have to try twice to get used of the arid, acrid aura that float around you when you wear it .
It decants a little to the feminine side, but who cares really?

I fell inlove straight away when first sniffed, but, ey!, there was something about it that reminded me other well known juice straight away, so I decided to experiment and wait for reactions.
I ask the tender to make me a tester, and then, here I was making sniff my neck to every single friend of mine.
Conclusion: They thought it was KenzoAir, just like me. I was not they only one though.

Both colognes share vetiver and cedar. I'm a fan of KenzoAir, but I have to admit: this a way better version in my opinion.

He wood is a minimal fragrance: a dreamscape of a light scent of a forest brezze near a lake.
It provides a new step on “wood” accords— it's smooth, bleached woods floating on sweet, cool, lightly flower-scented water.

Starts kind of aquatic and ozonic, definitively synthetic but pure, just like a whisper, but with presence. So many people has remarked that the initial burst is alcohol like, but to my nose is like watery fresh clean cut light wood, a similar smell of a paper manifactured factory.
The fir here it's rather no very evident, but, in a few minutes the perfume gets personality and body, I smell violet leaf, a beautiful violet flower note, mild vetiver and water notes that blends beautifully with the vetiver and cedar. There's altrough a nice ambient of forest and the previous watery soft accord remains gorgeous in the background.

It develops gorgeous and heady above yourself. It doesn't project grandly, but it's enough noticiable.

This is a dream of perfume, it's just the same atmosphere as KenzoAir without the aniseed.
It's funny how completely apart essences can share close similarities.
He Wood is an alive dream, the scent of how a fairy forest would smell like. A new solution for those that like light woody fragrances with a different touch.

Lime (my favourite) is a real explossion of lime,(effervescent and uplifting, makes your mouth watery), that melts gorgeously with hints of watery old fashion accent of water jasmin and roses. To my nose the jasmin note is much similar as the glorious international well known "Eau Savage". As the other brothers of the line, Lime, is rather linear and just gets a little more complex when dries down, when the lime accord still present but shares the path with a gorgeous lily note, dewy and green.

Energy C Grapefruit includes notes of blackcurrant buds, pink grapefruit, petit grain, jasmine, neroli, yellow madarin, tree moss and iris.

Grapefuit funnily won't smell like grapefuit itself:
The mandarine is the main note here, just as if you are you peel off one. Then comes the petitgrain, not overly sweet, it's enjoyable, airy and soft like a summer brezze.
It dries down in a ghostly accent of iris flower that melts with the mandarine and the neroli.
Can't detect any grapefruit still.

Big fan of CDG here. When I heard that this fab company was developing a luxury serie I have two feelings: the first one was that they were tending to mainstream, and they were leaving behind the avant garde (real pity) and the second though was to be patient and hopeful.
The fact is that i don't dislike this perfume, Its nice indeed, dark, smoky, oversweet, mysterious and well finished, but the reality is that reminds me a whole range of perfumes on the market as "Eau Noire or Sables", and " Patchouli", on my nose it's nothing expectacular, as for example Black Orchid that just blown me away, so, sorry,, but neutral one for this juice...

Perfect balance of aquatic, citric and jasmin, a radiant aquatic perfume for women...

One word: nasty!.
It has vague connotions of farms, in a ugly way.
First spray:
Alcohol + Thyponium venosun ( Voodoo Lily), no joke!. Fecal, fecal, rotten. Argh!.
After 2 mt, smells of farmyards, dirty moody soil, chicken feathers, some amber and geranium leafs.
30 mt later, creamy leather, some patchouli and mood accords…
Who want to smell like this really???.
I don’t. I stand by the blood and metal of Secretions Mafnifiques, believe me, much more wearable!.

For a non domesticated nose, the initial olfactory picture on mind would be a seaweed scented plasticine.
For me this perfume is a challenge.
The unusual opening of cognac, fucus and iodine, just blown me away.
I know so many people find fucus kelp aroma hard. It’s in fact, in my nose, is just the same green, kind of balsamic accord in the opening of the glorious “Secretions Magnifiques”. The same touch of rubbery salty aura surrounding although. But in this juice, the vetiver reacts quickly fading off the medicinal touches, and blends with the cognac, a strange, (I have to say) note, never raised before in perfumery, but quite pleasant and in balance in this fragrance, that eliminates the metallic scent of the fucus too.
It’s actually, a versatile perfume: sharp and kind of aquatic sometimes, another times very earthy, dry, even moody. It represents in a very natural way the spirit of the vetiver root indeed.
Annick Goutal's “Vetiver” is quite linear, subtle and calming. It’s more close to skin perfume, and develops nicely with a decent longevity.

I just can pick from here is sherbert lemon mixed with cinnamom, a hint of vintage carnation and rose, powdery accords, leather and something greenish and pungent, (probably pimento, that has been missed badly with the wrong notes. What a disappointment. I really like pimento accords in others: Piment Brulant is a good example).
There’s nothing original here to be found.
Terrible instant migraine!.
This is a real example for me of how a scent should smell to be catalogued as vintage and vile. Disgusting!.
Sorry, I’d pass.

First Sniff and here it comes, punch in my face!:
It’s a funny mix of soft Colombian green coffee beans and a very dry accord of grapefruit. The blend is very medicinal like.
Then the galbanum comes through:
The galbanum smell is acrid, resinous, balsamic, bitter note I understand now the medicinal previous touch. It’s accompanied with green herbal touches, I think is palmarosa (a mild sweet floral like odor with a strong herbal note), that mixes nicely with creamy ylang-ylang.
The drydown is placed by a smoky incense note , cedar, and a touch of shy clove.
The sillage is superb!.
It’s a strong smoky fragrance.
Will I wear it?. Not sure!.
After several hours, when this tenacious perfume dies, the close-to-skin scent reamins as something similar as the smell that your skin, hair and clothes have when you spend some time in front of a campfire.

This perfume has a very similar opening to the "Opone" by Dyptique.
Dry, dark, gothic, overdoses of saffron and then the rose accord is subtitued by a dry soft amber and vanilla accords.
I can detect a litle of licorice and curry, just on the opening. Later is just like "Eau Noire" by Dior. In fact, It could be a brother of this one. There's here too that particular raw, smoky smell of non threated leather, that you can easily detect at the Marrakech Zoco. Moroccan raw leather.
There's a prominent smell of burnt woods, like the smell of a bonfire, and the remaining black logs. There's something that I like about it but I don't know... In my skin still a wispher of curry and dissected laveder?? :)
I'm puzzle, I may have to give it another go!. Anyway. Thumbs up!.
it deserve it!.

A velvety body, heavy without being stinky, sour, sweet, hot, , little spicy, a little woody too.
I'm amazed!. The best on the gourmad range like Angel by Mugler.
The compostion is very strong. I may suggest to use with caution.
Main notes of truffle, berries,vetiver, jasmin, lotus wood creams accords and patchouli...
I can see this one weared with brave men.
I would if I could reach it easy here in Spain.

ginger root, grapefruit, lemon peel, lavender, cardamom, pepper, vetiver, white musk and Atlas cedar.
More woody and spicy than the female version, more maisntream.
i'd rayher choose the female version, is more pleasant, and perfectly wearable for a man too.

Has notes of bergamot, pink grapefruit, tangerine, ginger flower, lotus, white pepper, oak, white musk and white cedar.
Nice, calm, refreshing, aquatic and subtle.
Could tend to mainstream but the lotus accord save it.
Could be perfectly weared for a man, it has that unisex reminiscent.
Nice for a day by day use.

Ozone, aquatic notes,ginger, lavender,green apple, mint and cedar.
Veryyyy clean, very masintream, yes, but would be my chosenone for a day by day innofensive fresh perfume, for the price you smell ,cheap, chic, nice and clean!.

Nothing particular, could be easily confused with many other's around.

Calvin Klein MAN contains rosemary, mandarin, bay, juniper, nutmeg, incense, spearmint, cypress wood, and, oh dear, the usual (and overused) fragrance notes of bergamot, violet leaf, guaiac wood, sandalwood, amberwood (which is in LOTS of fragrances this year) and musk...

The start is nice crisp and gorgeous.
The base and the dry down spoil everything again... Centered in a scented composition of really horrible cheap bergamot scent (as the two last launches for men) and a (thank god for that) nice aroma of juniper,light woods and shy incense note.

The same result of CKin2u or euphoria.
Smells mostly the same with a variable of one unique note that make a slightly difference on them.
Words apart of the lack of quality.
Cheap manufacture means cheap result, cheaps smell.
argh!

Include frosted metal, cardamom, tea, violet, green notes,rose oxide, floated wood, letaher, lichen and amber.
Probably suit modern niche guys from 20 to 32 years old.
I really like synthetic myself.
That one has no exception:
Green, oddly fruity, ozonic, kind of wet metallic note too.
The rose oxide note goes all over the composition and really punch you on the face.
Has that caractheristic softener like smell but more fruity, that blends unique with the metal accord.
I can detect the green accord too and the lichen that put your feet on a real life floor.
Can't detect violet flower ( or could be violet leafs???), no leather, but it dries down quite nice soft ambary and light woody too.
Average sillage.
In my skin no more than three hours.
If you like synthetics in the way of CDG, and you're young, go for it.
I put neutral vote for the lasting power.

A fresh version of the scent.
Lovely balance of hibiscus jasmin and citrus.
Gorgeous.
Abs. suitable for a moder male.
me love it!

Nice fesh, like a brezze.
i can't detect the ozone and marine note till one hour of application, still so clean and crisp.
Pity the lasting is way short,and the price goes up than 100€.
Would suit me very well...
I rather choose Mark Birley for something fresh and genuine yet affordable

Different, so clena and fresh with attitude.
Nothing around like it!
What a fab composition:
Bergamot, madnarine, hisbiscus flower.
patchouli, musk, cedar, gauiac wood.

It's fresh yet deep, with the hibiscus flower althrough with a gorgeous base of guaciac wood.. and something fresh in the backgrouns, like fresh clothes drying in the sun
So gorgeous, so sexy!!

Quite linear and shy!.
Prominent notes of fruity ginger fresh slices with pink pepper and guaiac wood.
It's very pleasant, dries down in a sweet light woody fragance, doesn't proyect at all and stays in your skin fairly ebough to be noticed, only for yourself really.
I expected something more in the lineof kenzo. This one, def. has not the mark of the company, could be another's fragance.
Pity.

Put in your mind a women, pearly woman with lovely, long wavy hair, laying in a inmmaculate bed with satin sheets, naked, clean. There's summer and her beautiful body smells clean, but disticntive, the human body smell mixing with the aroma of her shower gel nad body lotion.
She lays but her legs are wide open!. Smell of nudity and puberscense.

This fragance start so aldehydeic, clean, as pure as blowns you away. Very aquatic too.
Like a pool with a lot chloorine, just clean and neutral,
But then the notes itself make you dive in something more organic, like a swamp in a forest,.
The the fucus note emerges so sharp that nearly hurts when you sniff.
I know very well the fucus smell as I grown up next to the beach, it's a group of brown algae, not eatable, that hasn't a obvious smell but when treated with alcohols, smells very very metallic and organic like, not a lovely smell I have to be honest, but not vile too, just green, little medicinal,and metallic: ( It has been used as teraphical mud baths for ages in Galicia, north Spain where I am originally from.My grandma used to do "cataplasmas" with that algae to cure skin deseases).
Well, that's how this perfume smell like:
something green metallic, kind of medicinal but the initial splash ozonic aquatic goes all over the olfatory experience.And something really clean on the background, SOMETHING SO PURE.
The blood accord mixed nicely with the fucus giving a more sharper metallic twist, and the iris note come in the dry down very very subtle, appearing like a shy note of peachy skin surrounding it all. A feminine touch, i must say. I suppose it is beacuse of the mix of the iris and the milk note, it's creamy but clean.
I know now.
I don't know if the USA have that shower gel, the name is Lactovit.
The milky base smell like this, creamy clean soap, like a fresh young woman skin after a bath with this shower gel.
The conclusion is, despiste what you could spect, this fragance is just clean yet sharp, yet sexual but not dirty.
It's very marine, yes, very metallic, quiet indeed, but it's addictive.
I son't think so it's a wearable frag for a man, it has a dinstictive smell of woman-clean- skin- like, but I think I'll give a try to see reactions.
If seduction had an odour that will be.

Notes:
cardamom, incense, cinnamon, amber, benzoin, pimento, berries, guaiac wood (aka gaiac wood or saint wood), ebony

My favourite of the range, very strange as it doesn't have any flower note and in me smell deliciously kind of flowery with incense ('course).
Maybe it can be the cinammon and the berries.
Also get the metallic aura.
Fascinating piece. Very recommended.

Notes: Bitter orange, black pepper, lime, saffron, thyme, sage, sea notes, oak moss, patchouli, moss

Another fantastic creation!. Probably the most simple of all the previous CDG series. Easy to wear!.
It's more herbal than Soda, and it doesn't share similar caracthers, as I think It has more proximity with l'eau D'issey if you exchange the yuzu note for an orange one...
The orange mixed with juicy lime really stands on the top notes and then the saffron and sage give a rest and create more complexity and herbal twist to the fragance.
The sea note is quite fresh and sparkly and really workson the mix of the notes.
Its has a terrible long lasting power, also it proyect massively, so use with caution!
I really smell much better on distance that close skin as happens with the Odeur range.

I'm sure this one will become a must have for me when I reach my 40's.
It express serenity,sophistication and shout off a gorgeous subtle sexy aura.
I adore it, but i know that just won't work on me just now. I'll wait then.
:)

Watermelon, yuzu, bananas and roses.
A perfect aquatic fragrance for all year.
:)

It smell quite unique to me nice mix of citrus with the watery prominent pear note

I don't get it.
I don't get kerosene, gasoline or nothing like that, instead I smell a fresh balanced centered perfume on honeysuckle with green warm, crisp and clean notes.
A GREAT CLASSIC.

I don`t find it very oriental, it's more fresh. Could be a very bad summer version of london Men.
:)

Its quite green, but dark green, it's a balanced natural mix of green aromas that really impress.
Instead to find it sharp I did find it quite subtle and dry.

I´m sure too that have plenty of cumin too.
A very pleasant fragrance not annoying at all, and def. very special. Very difficult to find though

Seems like it been discotinued or difficult to find.
I could say was the first oiental perfume from the company:

Bergamot, Clementine, apricot, hyachinth, wild rose, jasmine, ylang- ylang, muguet, cattleya, coriander seeds, plum, musk, incense, vanilla, sandalwood, amber.

My best friend use it and it just left the most pleasant aura that have never smelled on a woman:
Highly addicitive!

It smells like lipstick to me, don´t get it. I'm sure it will become quite avant garde.
Smell better when proyect though.
If you want something more masculine and with a prominent iris note, try out "Rien" from Etat libre D'orange, a msater piece, or simply I'd rather get the Dior Homme cologne that has citrusy notes and semi fade away that iris note like lipstick naturally.
Pity, this version just last long 15mt on your skin!.
:(:(

It'd fresh but not, a simple smell and it quite complex itself, a fruity citrusy rose it that make sense.
Very nice and proyect cool specially in summer.

GORGEOUS!!!
Fantastic
sotf spicy soft woody exposive zesty and a gorgeous hint of ginger flower
mmmm
yummy!

Not fresh, suitable for men indeed,it's dark tuberose reminding me like datura in a funny way :)
Nice

Gorgeous sweet fresh citrusy one but like jelly babie one.
Very unisex
i adore it

I did discover it so late.
What a frag!.
Soft, peppery, spicy but chic!.
Lovely!!!

I agree that is not very oriental It's like Kenzo Jungle a citric-oriental one.
It's pleasant but if I want to innovate I'd stick on the Kenzo one
;)

aquatic as the origina one but less frutiy and more floral, big note of jasmin and lily of the walley.
Lovely!

Extremely surprise!
Nice aquatic notes with a frutiy note of pear but fizzy one. It really worth a try!
:)

It'ssubtle but I'm agree that smell quite similar to B*Men but less woody and more sour-fruity:)
Nice though

Lovely bouquet on fresh white flowers.
The top is basiscly the same of CDG lily, but drydowns in a more feminine version with a huge hint of mimosa (silktree) and rose

Like it but it's easy to get bored of it soon. Mysterious.
Artificial citric and green, but clean and not sticky, with a odd mix of salty notes and animalistic ( I only can explain it with the obvious ambergris that I assume It's the main note going alltrough the pyramid).Even so still subtle and easy to wear in any occasion. Worth a try.
Smells very similar to Terre, the masculine one.

Is it just me or someone else think that this one smells quite alike to eau de merveilles?
:):)
oh well, probably it's just me!

I tryed it last sunday and I though the tester botle was wrong and they bottled the fragrance wrongly,as It smelled exactly in my skin like the female version: eau de merveilles.
So I cross to the woman section and I sprayed in the other wrist the female one and I swear, there mostly the same
Check out for yourself!.

Very synthetic yes, but really pleasant.
I still do´t understand why some reviewers avoid synthetic fragances, specially when the result is as good as this one
Ozonic air,clean, like a sea side walk, fresh and clean, with zest around.
Not good sillage though :)
pity. But really really nice

Frozen grapefruit,tea,cardamom,spearmint,rose centifolia,palisander....
Nice version, very fresh and fizzy.
Worth a try!.
Enough sillage.

Raw!, powerfukl. I never smelled nothing in my skin as pure as that, in my life!.
Raw leather like those accesories you can buy in Marrakech markets.
Pure raw leather skin non treated.
Cedar, not fresh :is burnt, burnt cedar,smoky, dark, wild.
Sometimes the aura becames rubbery beacuse of the reaction of the vanilla when misex with the other two notes.
what a simple minimal outstading perfume.
thumbs up to the designer!!!! A masterpiece.

Never been into incense smells but this one:
mmmmmmm
lovely mixed of refreshing zesty lilies and light incenseeee...
i just cannot smell it on my skin.
Thank you very mucg Gerard for that sample!!!

Sharp pine with dry spicy notes, dried out petal roses ans all; vintage. Reminds me like those scented dry poupurry, that ones that my granny used to put on the lounge near the ashtray so many years ago. argh!

Reminds me the Guerrilla 2 CDg in a smoky way with the add of the jasmin.
Sinthetyc in a fab way, clean:
jasmin,cold jasmin surronded of industrial smoke.
Agreeing gerald the smoke note is more like unsmoked liht cigarretes. The curcuma is prominent giving a sweet like chewing gum twist. Delicious. Worth a blind buy.
Extremely suitable for male/female.

Fake, insincere:
reminiscent of a shemale, sinthetyc wigs, cheap makeup, vynil, lipstick, clean white skin exuding pheromones when making love in a motel. Poliester, lamé, a glass of cava, plastic accesories.
Hard to tell but very easy to remember.
All this is about Real Blonde.

Quiet pleasant, tuberose mixed with leather,dust,sweat and strange serum skin note. Very manly!

what a fab fragrance!!!!.
Its dark, incisive yet cold: iced smoky woody leather in a wet cold cave with smelly musky stones.
Great!
Incense,iris give the down to eath vibe and the leather + cistus wppears dark smoky dirty, the adhelydes comfort the piece with a fresh icy twist...

This fragrance is quite unique, I´m delightful. Different, deep yet fresh.
Fantastic union betwwen mimosa (silktree flower and porto wine), plus gaiac wood.
One of the best flowery/woody fragrance for men I ever smell.
:):)

If you already tried Fleur du male and you got dissapointed beacuse of the powdery drydown, and you´re seeking for a Neroli fragrance, check out this one:
Very balsamic herbal and plenty of petitgrain, but in a medicinal way.
Nice drydown. Complex, obscure, balsamic, excellent sillage. In the same way of L'eau Bleue, odd but very appealing!.
Worth a try :)

Just alright!, is the innocent perfume with a hit of mimosa,much more praline, the passion fruit is too much IMO (quite sticky), and the amber really doesn´t match in the result.
Definit. more feminine than the original one,as I found very unisex.
The company says that is an aquatic-oriental one.
I don´t find any similarity to the other aquatic ones, but it still have the sticky feeling as the previous ones, so if you didn´t like the original one, you won´t find any excitement new on this one!

Basicly smell quite similar to the A*Men Summer Flash but it has the aquatic twist, pretty bloody good, (IMO as i adore aquatic fragrances)
Some citrus, aquatic notes, coffee (very prominent), seqouia, patchouli and nutmeg.
Nice! Very masculine

Dry, black tea, hints of rubber with vanilla.
Divine and different. Sillage ok
Quite masculine:)

I quite prefer that version cause basicly i prefer more subtle citrusy fragrances!.
Still smelling peony though :)
I think my sense of smell is sick today! grr

Seem that many reviewers here foun this one sticky outstanding and even dirty.
Not my impression.
This is true that is quite powerfull.
It´s nice, deep, intense.
I wouldn't say as manly as i thought (well not in my skin).
Really nice indeed, pity idn´t work out in my skin as I was expecting
:(
One question, does it have peony as a note or is just me that i can smell it?

As a fan of the original Angel i love it and I always like the peony note, the mix of the two is perfect but def. this is a most girly version of the original one, pity doesn´t work on my skin ...

Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Green and sharp lime with a hint of lilly of the walley.
Very wearable as unisex fragrance and pleasant. ;)

bergamot, cinnamon, saffron, carnation, benjamin (aka benzoin, a resinous balsam), vetivert, teak wood, white musk, cedar...

the start it´s just lovely subtle icy cinammon and bergamot, then comes the carnation, pure carnation and strong cinammon.
The concept it´s lovely, it´s fresh subtle with caracther on its own, but i thin it will be more situable for young women, not really men, pity!.
Thumbs up as is a different alternative option for the ones that like non conventional perfumes,as the other brothers rhubarb and peppermint;)

I quite like it. It´s raw, very raw, like just cutted wood but there´s something there, sweet, sweeter as drydown, i dont reconize it, that make me put neutral vote. I don´t think suit both sex, i find it more oriental fragance for woman:(

I dont find it marine or even aquatic at all. It´s nice yet heavy and very herbal and slightly flowery, and there´s a powdery note on the drydown that will put some men around off, i think is more unisex.
Still nice buy not my stuff:(

Interestig, quite different to the other CKones, its fizzy and aquatic, very lime and odd flowery aquatic like lily water flower, very nice but doesn´t last long.
It came out last week here in Spain, wrong thought cause its november and it´s mostly for summer casual days:(

Ah! that´s the one!, if buy a winter frag, I´ll choose this one after M7!, after the dissapointment of A*Men that I found extremilly sticky and too strong (but I do agree It´s smell really cool in others,bt still strong for my taste)I find B*Men much wearable.
It´s deep but defined:
Sequoia, sour rhubarb and vanilla; still the choco stuff floating but sooo light (I think is caramel or praline), then some spicy notes as pepper,nutmeg, maybe the sour aswell of the vetyver. Highly recommended!.

Agreeing to Paintrman, It´s not citrus at all, I can pick up sweet lime and mate, agarwood and surprise!:cola
smell it deeplya nd you´ll find the fizzy on it
mmmmmm
lovely

I found really wearable and elegant, and I´m really surprised that how exactly smelllike ZenzoAir, that if you spray both in every wrist, they would smell basicly the sam, with the difference that Rive gauche dries down in a more woody scent ;)

The top notes are fab: bergamot and petitgrain,really green still fresh, but the the dry down,ops no! it's just like my grammy soap, it actually reminds me my child hood when i was whased in the bath but, even the idea, it's cool, doesn't suit really my kind of ideal aroma:(

fantastic; very fresh but last long really good. Smell really citric,specailly to grapefruit and mint. A different kind of citric perfume

I like the idea of synthetic, there´s interesting examples like CDG but this one, nop.
The openig is great,really great: green fresh and sharp, but then dry down in a nasty fake kind of citric note that ain´t.
Remind me like cheap 80´s fragance and like Hugo Boss men fragances, sorry for HB fans!. Revolting.

I didn´t find it pleasant on me.
At start smell cleanly nice quite like fresh air but wetty, then turn on something pvc-like, not in the way of the fab Soda or Skai, its more like horrid smell of burn rubber plus a smell of polution and dusty dirty stones whased out with bleach or something.
but for my surprise, I find it light transparent and highly clean like pure virgin water, in women skins and non olive skins. CDG antiperfumes in general react quite strongly in dark skins.
I give a thumb up for the idea of the genuine concept and the great smell that capture other´s flesh.

it´s an odd smell, like really metallic citric with a brise of dusty town atmosphere and a base of burt paper. The citric note can be sometimes little too sharp when mixed the tar...
Curious, It smell really nice on women skins.

Agreeing with tigruska a mechanic man would like it. It´s dark and doesn´t appeal to me. The fact to create a fragance that smell oils an trucks sounds cool, but the final product really won´t suit anyone:
Smell like oliy motors, grasy tools very concrented in a note of pure dirty oil machine. I wish the gasoline note was more evident like in CDG#3, cause i simply love it. The result, me shauting:
argh! :(

How to describe it with the right words?
Its intense but light, mysterious but remind something familiar.
Incense and fresh pine resines. It´s obvious but elegant :)

Sorry, I love CDG but this one is as nasty as A*men to me,very deep, dry, very sticky, it literally sticks on your skin, and whatever yo do, wash the zone you apllied, showered yourself... It won´t go.
And the tar fact is quite too much, and bordering the sickness, nothing to do with the syntethic series 6 Tar, that I found cool.
Sorry! Thumbs down!

Sweet but really fresh. Love it but dissapear in seconds!:):)

abslolytely divine, its cold and green fresh; wild mint mm and very subtle rose.
Pity itd doesn´t last long enough :(

i find it quite feminine than unisex, smell strawery in asour way, citrics (vetyver?)and tuberouse.
it´s ok, but for a girl

it´s dark. it´s kinky and you´ll love it!, i find it little more masculine than unisex, but who cares!. it´s more for night time.
A lovely mix of the peach fruity note plus,with sweet dark floral note thta i cannot recognize nad then a base of soft spicy notes. The pear note comes along all the time.
It´s delicious and vivid, not synthetic as other CDS aromas
lovely!!!

I don´t really like sweet aromas but this one has something is kind of sweet but subtle and very airy, i don´t know how to explain, it´s just superb. The anised water is very very light and is mixed with green light herbal notes and citrics,and last long forever and it has incredible reactions of the people surruound you, give yourself a favour and try it! :)

Well I have to say that the base notes are not very correct:
agreeing with pluran to me when I smell it you can pick up the grass dry feel of the helycrisum, a marine plant, with silver leafs and yellow flowers with acrid smell, kind of organic rubber scent, then it mix with the warm sand and for sure Iodine or fucus that gives more appealing of the rubbery scent, and gives you the vibe of walk along the beach.
My colleague from work says that this perfume reminds her when she just has been diving on the ocean and she´s taking off the Scuba diver's suit :)

So far, is as extreme and individual as A*Men :)
It´s distintive and definitevely not for overyone.
VERY UNUSUAL AND DELICIOUSLY KINKY ;)
I´m consider myself quite a trendy person, sometimes in a extreme nice way but i wouldn´t find any ocassion that i could wear it.
For indoors use only.
It smell powerfull but subtle in a way,
inicitially very strong smell of pure asphalt plus smoky dusty air, Kerosene. Basicly the smell run all over the fragance.. The dry down is more gentle and the gasoline mixed with tar rest in a ood citric way.
its so difficult to explain but seems odd and disturbing smell, I find it myself pleasant but unwearable
:)

i tasted it recentrly and i have to say initially the perfume reminds me a bit the other Odeur, like dark and stony and dusty, but then changed radicly in an must more cleaner and attractive fragance made of thounsands of different notes but smeled just two:
flowery lemon plus clean fresh air.
Unfot. the smell vanish in seconds, doesn´t matter where you spray it :(
so, I´m really sorry but neutral one.

absolutely delicious!!!:)
Smells like something citric like yuzu or lime in a metallic way floating in a base of clean rubber, not strong: (do you renember when you were a child and you were soaking in the pool in the garden and you used the float?), well, that exactly the smell: clean tender blueish rubber :):)
It´s a fab long lasting ozonic clean and cheerfull scent
:):):)

i love it!, its just pure clean ozonic air captured in a bottle!.
give it a try!

I just bought it and i have to say it´s just amazing, enough strong but really fresh, a balance between organic and synthetic notes...you can pick up citric notes and specially the Gingko note that is freshing and kind of juicy in a odd way and reminds me a fresh sliced fig but not as trong, and then i can smell kind of sugary gasoline?.
The perfume changes after one hour radicly and comes dark and woody sticky black,i couldn´t describe it,but,10 mt later comes completely fantastic, softy spicy and woody with a familiar smell of surrounding air of gasoline, yes gasoline but extremely pleasant,attractive and personal, my colleague from work wants to bite me every time i wear it:)
This perfume is very personal,give it a try and enjoy it!

Smell arid and sunny but at the same time reminds a space close to the shore, its definitively a top fragance, misterious and unusual.
Charming

It´s nice, reminds me a little farenhait i don´t know why.
My partner use it and smell lovely on him, on me it´s bold
:(

It´s soft, powdery and flowery,is delicious, i don´t know why i like it when i smell it cause i just have oriental or flowey fragances, but this one is so light and classy hmmmmm :)

it was my mum´s perfume when i was a child.
I still like it but unfort. you hardly recognize it on the street is light, pink, cottony and so pleasant.
The hughest of hughs.

after new west that was a fab fragance of the 90's, it becam quite trendy and people really miss it here in Spain.
Aramis, pleaseee, bring it to us back!!!

que pena, I used to liked it very much , It was different and with caracther.
Kenzo air is quite similar if you get ridd of the anise.

I think is superb, light but persistent, soft crisp floral frity aquatic and a note of sea breeze.
So individual
Worth a try

very refreshing, it´s a really pity you cant buy it in Spain :(. I discovered in the UK.
It´s quite trendy and very aquatic, basicly a mix of orange,melon and soft musk, light to wear but noticable when you pass through :)in a good way

I have to say it: It´s kind of camp, but i just love it.
I wear it sometimes in cold winter and it´s just perfect.
It´s trendy, wears you and last long ages!.
I quite enjoy the lime mixed with the maté and mallow seeds and the cedar.
Kenzo has created with this fragante a new concept: The first ever Citric/Oriental perfume

I never found a unique smell as this one, except , Kenzo/L'eau par kenzo, Quasar/Quasar adventure from Jesus del Pozo, and Angel from Mugler.
It´s sblime, so fresh, different and with a fab caracther. (If you´re looking for something special, unique and rare, go for this ones, if not, avoid it, then go for Hugo boss or similar)...
The notes of verbena, tangerine and water lily gives a sharp but sweet hummid sensation.
These basenotes drydown fantastic mixing themselves with geranium, saffron, and airy tobacco flower. Then comes the nugmet and cinnamon. It´s a trendy, outcoming sweet fresh but citrus kind of sweet sour fragance.
Highly recommended.
Now, if you´re fan of this perfume check out the fresh version of the new L'eau Bleue, and try to avoid the original one; otherwise you live in Antartida :)

I don´t think this perfume is just simple, i think it´s quite complex and in a way very genuine.
It´s quite different and reacts quite differently in any skin creating a unique aura.
yuzu,ginger flower,seaweed,and the amazing note of the fig(quite aquatic and juicy)make it as unique as Kenzo pour Homme in my opinion.
For sure it´s a non for all perfume.
Give it a try;)

NO, NO, NO, what a mistake.
Far too strong.
...And It smell like burnt caramel lavander (what a horrible idea to mix this one with gourmand smells)and incense.
I personally find it to much.
Very personal, very strange.
HORRID!!.
I wish Mugler create a version of angel original in a slightly masculine way.

This fragrance should be unisex, It doesn´t smell femminine at all to me.
It´s a fact that, generally, men love the smell while a high porcentage of women hate it with passion, (strange).
I found it velvety and juicy at the same time, and I can smell a big note from berries,chocolate, passion fruit and diverse wild fruits, but no single one flower.
Caution!: Spray it too far enough as is quite scented and you could end up being a skunk! :)

I´m a man and I like it very much.
I used last sumer:).
It´s not femmemine at all, in fact, before the Léau par Kenzo Man, shops in Spain used to sell it as an unisex cologne!.
Smell soft watery and cleanly fresh, quite minty, watermelon seeds and soft pepper.
The vanilla can put off a little but, I promt everyone to try it on and you´ll be surprise!.

I can´t understand how some reviewers found this fragance boring!, with all my respects.
I´m a A fan of aquatic perfumes. I been trying several times different ones, but nothing like that modern, transparent smell of ozone, water, yuzu, mint and the androginous note of water lilly :)
Now, this one have everything that suit day/night, all seasons, fresh, airy, invigorating and a Yummy factor.
There´s nothing like that around on similar fragances on the same family
Highly recommended, (and last long for hourrssssssss).

I´m a devoted fan of Miyake/Kenzo because of the different of their perfumes.
I absolutely love L'eau D'issey.Sexy,and that Kind of i´ll-wear-it-to-be-smelled :).
Now, There´s something in this new fragance, a mystery. First I´d change the name for brownish-orangy, definetly not blue.:) brings confussions for sure.
In my opinion, in colder weathers could be nice. I just can smell Rosemary-anised and woods, rosemary far too prominent, and in Madrid with 45º in the shadow on summer,I just can´t stand it.
the best part is the drydown, is more soft herbal, non woody founded,and kind of orangy dry note.
I have to say that this perfume has caracther, but it´s individual itself. You love it or you hate it as A*Men.
If you like herbal scents go for it, if you don´t avoid it.
I reommend try the fresh version, it´s sooo lovely and opposite to this one and the L'eau D'issey fans won´t be dissapointed.

What a disspointment!.
On first spray smell just lovely, very aquatic and fresh, citric and very melonny YUMMY, but after half an hour, just nothing, the fragrance dissapear from your skin and nothing remains.
Bold.
If you fancy something really fresh aquatic and obiously more long lasting, check out L'eau par Kenzo, Issey Miyake Bleue Frais, Quasar. There´s something on them special, high recommended if you like to feel different.

It just remind me of a walk in the forest on a hot day in my country, airy but discrete.
Citric accords + anise + warm woods.
It´s elegant and genuine by itself, but nothing really special.
Depends on your skin PH the star anise can be extremelly intoxicating. :(

It was my first ever perfume, I used to love it myself specially in summer. It´s more airy that aquatic,and the marine breeze is detectable and pleasant alltrhough.
Is not a fragance for everyone and you should spray carefully as It could be quite intense and then the lilly of the walley note will be prominent and stinky!.