Fragrance Reviews by castorpollux

Now, to make things clear from the start, the only thing in common this one has with the fantastic Dolce Vita, is the bottle design, and that's where the similarities end.
This scent starts like some wet, mossy, twigs with added bergamot that feels very cool but never really frozen, almost like an abandoned garden project left out in the cold rain, then suddenly the scent changes and very fast, to a warm ,then warmer , then creamy warm liquid that feels like you're close to a fireplace of sorts, but see, it just so happens that someone left the xmas fruitcake inside the fireplace by accident and the fruits start to feel smoked and intensely sweet.
The base is someone realizing the scent has gone too sweet and warm, decided to throw some water onto the fireplace, that left the smoked fruits wet and with dry woods , but with an added dose of a very "familiar" musk.
Ever smelled the base of a fruity floral by Givenchy? Enough said.
I kinda liked it, but i keep the bottle for "research" and because it just looks so damn good.
For fans only i guess. Good thing it was a limited edition!.

Mix equal parts of white musk and rose absolute, wash it down in some watery mix, add a new and very interesting salty skin note, and voilà, you got Floral Prints: Sheer Rose.
It's not bad, and it's very interesting, only because think it shares a lot in common with Light Blue for her: when FloralP: S.Rose has roses, Light Blue has apples.Only difference is, the Avon one is less fresh and more -way more- musky.
The rose note is well done and very pretty but nothing too original, but it does smell good AND it mantains its power next to the white musk note, and we know that sometimes white musk can take over a scent entirely.
I like to smell it on other people's skin, not mine.

Somebody at Avon thought that making a cheaper version of Beyond Paradise for women was a good idea.
I think they were right, because i think that BP is a cheap smelling scent anyway, and Surreal for her skips the terrible banana note entirely and goes for the berry, exotic flowers, airy sun sandy clean scent with a powdery finish that's not too musky.
In short, i liked it better than BP, but it's not truly something to buy a second time.

Dark Blue starts very nicely, and somewhere very rapidly it turns sweeter and sweeter and it does a sharp right turn into the synthetic, strange chemical department that makes it feel like a plastic Christmas tree. It's warm and dark at the same time, it smells cheap and well, like it tries to be something interesting but can't quite get there.
I quite like it, but i keep it only for the top notes.
The mid-base notes feel like i'm a kid going into a wild willy wonka ride, not knowing what i got into and a little bit scared.

For a scent called "midnight" this is a very sunny, clean scent.
At first the top notes come shining through with some aromatic herbs and tries to be provocative with some lemon and oranges, the mid has some spices and few flowery bits that are not bothering the masculine notes at all, but the fragrance stays somewhat mute and quite unoriginal. The base is just soft woods. It doesn't smell bad, but it's been done. And i get the sour feeling that they copied themselves as well.
Sexy? passionate? I don't think so.

This new Bogart is my favorite when compared to the old one.
The old one was ok, but it was intensely dated and it was pretty much a copy of older scents from the 80s, so this one is a nice breath of fresh air.
This one is apparently an oriental fourgère, but to me it's fresher than that as the base of patchouli,cedar, and tonka bean seems to fade rather quickly. J.Bogart says it has oakmoss, but who know s if what they used here is the real thing or something else, to me, it doesn't really matters because this oakmoss is a very nice, wet, green and gritty one that takes over the base and stays like that. The top is more about very fresh bergamot and other aromatic leaves and it has a heavier dose of some orange blossom, way before the current trend of "let's all use a heavy orange blossom note on the men's scent" that's been going on since early 2006 or so. It surprisingly, has also a very green note of lily of the valley, one of my favorite notes and yet they still make it very masculine. It doesn't last as much as i'd like to, but i just spray on and problem solved.
Easily one of the best frags you can get for a cheaper price.

This is a sweet fragrance at first blast and then it settles into a semi-sweet powdery scent, when i say powdery i mean dusty-library powdery and not soapy powdery...not even musky powdery.
This one has musk as well, and the base is all about this musk, which is a kind of dirty musk, not the soft white musk of the regular feminine scent of late. It has an aura of old times, like it has been macerating for years before opening it, but that doesn't mean at all that it's bad or that it turned, it's just a darker type of fragrance. Somehow it also reminds me of a late night at a luxury condo of the 70s, meaning soft lights, scotch and gold furnishings and whatever tacky decor you might think of.The flowery middle is all about the lotus and iris, and to a lesser extent, about a sweet orange blossom, the white rose is rather non-existent.
The scent is not tacky per se, in fact quite the opposite so i don't understand why i thought of that imagery, in any case, if you think it's too sweet or strong, then go for the very wearable body splash of the same name and brand, and you'll still get noticed, and you'll still have decent sillage, and you'll still smell good.
Very nice in the Fall season.
Happens to be one of my favorite B&BW frags, along with Japanese Cherry Blossom, Black raspberry & Vanilla,exotic coconut , moonlight path and and coconut lime vervena

Much less powdery than Yardley's version of lavender, this very fresh take on the Lavender is still very much a staple in my wardrobe and use it from time to time.
The base could have used some improvement specially with the use of real oakmoss,and the top notes would be even brighter with some more bergamot, but it's ok, i won't complain too much about this one.
I like it, i use it a lot.

This fragrance took me back ages when i fist smelled it, it just so happens to smell like something else that was launched decades ago.
This very light musky scent is all good, it's very much unisex and it has a tenacity to it that i admired for a scent that opens rather strongly but fades quickly but stays that way for a long time on the skin. It has a hint of fruits that i found very attractive, and a base of ,well, white musks and rosewood that are very comfortable.
I will mention that Rigaud had a scent called Lovely too, but that one was more about Lily of the valley, jasmin and other flowers than musk.
So, i have smelled this one before, give or take a few other notes, and i think i'll keep smelling it in the future thanks to its success.

I really like this soft, orange-y scent. It's very fresh and quiet, never a screamer and always elegant. It's difficult to find the balance between elegance and a proper sillage, and Hermès i think chose to go for a minimal sillage to avoid any mistakes. Longevity is another major problem here, as is with the rest of the Eaux d'Oranges by the house. I guess i'll have to buy again and again the big bottle versions so i won't run out of it so fast. Marketing genius? Could be, but when i'll find a better verison of soft fresh oranges i'll skip this one in a second.

This is yet another scent that suffered from an unfair change and rather unfortunate reformulation, falling victim of the "modern times".
Having smelled the avenue of elements and sensations that is the original formula, this new version is more of a small Rue with some musty flowers that fell to abandon.
Not entirely bad, this scent is still better than most new-and-cute-and-soft fruity scent, but it's a slap in the face for fans of the old one.
And that takes away some of the beauty of this formula.

This scent has been one of my favorites these past couple of weeks. It's intriguing, but not in a mysterious kind of way but because the notes always exchange places whenever i spray them on, sometimes i get fruits first, sometimes i get the flowers first and other times i get woods first, and then the rest.
Very fresh and delicate at the beginning, this scent follows a quiet path of pebbly roads with petals falling in the chilly weather, bringing comfort and minimalism.
The main note, the japanese cherry blossom comes through very clean and in a constant way, and will never truly fade away in the basenotes, so it will stay with you all the time.
It has a silky quality to it as well. It shines but only when in movement you might see real beauty.
Bad thing? It should be made into an extrait version!

I think American Classic is Avon's rendition of what the green Polo is to Lauren, only less successful and discontinued to boot. It can be found on other markets, outside the U.S. and well, there's always the net.
A very pine wood-like scent, it's true to its name, and the vintage quality of it is very alluring. The soft woodsy base is a very nice one, with touches of moss. I believe this is one of Avon's best fragrances for men. Longevity and sillage are ok, and well, it's just a very nice fourgère.

Well, the name says it all: It's a fresh, very watery fragrance that smells like softly pink colored roses, not something truly unique,and the longevity is pretty much nonexistent, but it's as pretty as they come. I guess we can get Rose water on a cheaper prices and on simpler presentations, but this one is a crystal clear rendition of what a simple rose water must be. If only it lasted more than 5 minutes on my skin..

Intensely fresh, this wonder of a scent has a cooling effect that's not pungent nor camphoric to the nose as other "frozen" scents, this eau fraîche parfumée is incredibly luminous,shiny and like a ray of sun, it can lighten up any day.
On summer temperatures, this scent becomes a joy to wear only because the fresh lemon will never turn musky nor stale on the skin, it has the particularity to stay fresh all the time.
Sadly, this scent also suffers greatly from lack of longevity, so be ready to spray numerous times throughout the day. It has notes of white amber, vetiver and ozonic notes which,again, like a ray of light, if you blink you'll miss.
The sillage is allright, but nothing out of this world. Get either the 200ml spray or the 500ml splash. I know i did.

This is a very fresh, semi-sweet scent, very sunny and very conventionally pretty, the main note, the lotus ,is very much represented here, and the scent at firt might come off as too sweet, but this sweetness subsides and it becomes more of a watery-green pond with lots and lots of flowers in it. Even though this one is an eau parfumante, as is Green Tea by R&G and the new fragrant water scents, this one has the longevity of an EDT on my skin, so that's a plus i think.
The top citrusy notes are sweet to my nose, but that doesn't take any shine from the whole composition, and as i said, this first sweetness will be tamed down by the lotus mixed with a very good rendition of a rose, but it's not a "regular" rose, it's fresher one, one that goes wonderfully well with the lotus note.There are more notes to it, like a few fruits,and other flowers like a soft ylang, but they don't stand out very much, the main attraction and the one that steals the show is the lotus, as it should be.
The base has a very barky sandalwood that smells more like driftwood but it's a very nice soft sandalwood and it also has weak patchouli which is not strong at all, it only adds a hint of 70s to it i think, and on my skin the incense gets lost entirely.
All in all, a very nice, different scent, when you'll smell it you'll notice that there are not too many scents that smell like this one, and it certainly differs from the current crop of fruity florals.

Is this Youth Dew part 2? It certainly seemed so.
A thumbs up for the smell of it and a thumbs down for originality.
So...

I liked this one a lot, and wore it for days at a time, only i kept thinking to myself "i wish the bamboo note -which it says papyrus , but to me it smelled like fresh bamboo- was stronger, more longlasting".
So there you have it, it's a very fresh scent, demure and masculine, but to be called Soir, it's more of a day scent.
I wore this one also with Eau d'Orange Verte on my other hand and, as i expected ,BPHSoir beat the Hermès one in longevity by a looong shot.

Agree with Ubiandibeme, this is an intensely musky scent, very sexy, but for me, i see it as a bad version of Opium the parfum version,that alone does make it a good one, not a bad one, but it's still a bar below Opium parfum.
as opposed to both the edp or the edt. You have to have the right skin to use this one, or it will stink big time.
Still, it gets a thumbs up from me.

This is for the original version of it:
The EDT is a fun, light, playful and semi-sweet powdery scent that makes me smile.
It's more of a fruity than a floral scent but that's ok.
It does feel a bit dated and one has the instant memory of other 70s-early 80s scents like Babe and whatnot.
I like to smell it on women, whenever i get a scent trail on the streets, which almost never happens nowadays.

This is a sweet, powdery fragrance that's soft and very "french", only because it reminds me of women sitting at a café in Paris. It's certainly a gourmand and the heavy use of vanilla makes it so. But it's not too sweet, one can live with this kind of sweetness is what i mean. It's a bit spicy as well.

It's not too bad, but i just can't shake that feeling that i have smelled it before. Also, the bottle cap, which resembles some kind of wood, is a bit deceiving, because it's not nearly as woodsy a fragrance as it may seem, not even at the basenotes. It lasted a decent amount of time on my skin.

Calchic pretty much said it all, and i found it also to be not as dirty nor animal-smelling as it sounds, and that would be the old version of it, as i haven't smelled the new one yet.

I agree with thegoodlife on that it smells like something out of a cleaning product package, but i found it to be quite enjoyable after a while, maybe it's just skin chem. A heavy dose of Orange blossom on the top notes is followed by some spices and something that smells to me like twigs and bark with some tonka beans. The composition is not fantastic in any way, forgettable and simple, but i've smelled way worse.

This very cheerful, cute and soft-spoken fruity floral, is elegant and cool but with a serious longevity problem. Another problem i found is that as nice smelling as this one is, the Carolina Herrera perfumes of late are loosing a great deal of personality, something that didn't happen with the older -and sometimes sadly discontinued- releases. This fruity floral is demure and very controlled, but it offers a good, balanced rendition of semi-sweet midnotes, a blast of freshness at the top and a comfortable, velvety finish. I don't find it too innovative or original, but is more of a "chic" fragrance, even more than Herrera's own CHIC fragrance for women, which i found strange.Cute.

For a scent made in 2000, it's very early-90s to me.
This very masculine, cool, and fresh scent is sensual and enveloping but without the use of too heavy, dull notes, or of a heavy dose of pepper that might render it sharper but less intriguing.
It's strange, but on most skins, it smells basically the same, smells like, well, Cristobal PH, and that means they used some quality stuff here.
It has a green,airy effect that feels very elegant and i have to say that it's in the mid-powerful range in terms of sillage and one or 2 sprays will be sufficient for an entire morning, well, at least for me that is.

Being intrigued by ubandibeme's review i decided to test this one out and she's right, a very yummy, very fresh and playful fruity floral that smells like water lilies and litchi even if the notes don't say so.
The soft watery notes are not short lived, and you might be smelling this one for more than the regular fruity-floral of today, but it still isn't near perfection, the longevity needs improvement, and being as pleasurable as this one is, i would imagine they can come up with something to make it last a bit longer that it does.
The thing is,i got a bottle anyways because it's so much less gimmicky as the original one and much less sweet than the other as well. A pleasure in a hot day.

As Naed mentioned, this one has been reformulated and the new notes lineup goes like this:
top: bergamot, lemon, apple, pineapple, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, white pepper, bright green notes.
middle: lavender, marigold, jasmine, orange blossom,violet, lily.
base: cedar, ebony, vetyver, amber and musk.
This new one is as fresh and energetic as they come, without a hint of the flowers mentioned before, and mantaining a big deal of the masculine aura that the original formula once had.
This new formula is adapted t the times,becoming less of an 80's powerhouse to a more fruity and fresh opening,and it delivers an equilibrated blend of fresh notes from top to bottom. The longevity is so-so and the sillage is all right, all in all, not a truly memorable fragrance, but not a bad one at all.

Is this a masculine scent disguised as a feminine one? If we go with conventionalisms I mean…
It certainly felt like that…this very intense (even in edt) very green chypre has a sharp galbanum top note that won’t let go and a heady dose of a sharper ylang that feels elegant, but not too “womanly”.
In general, the ylangs seem to be creamier and sweeter, this is not the case here. The oakmoss here is similar to the oakmoss found in reformulations: rather austere and very dry, lacking a great deal of freshness. Didn’t strike me as a sunny scent, given by all the gold and white of the bottle and box, but more of a grey-green with blue undertones on a northern city. Very wearable. It’s a classy lady looking out the window on a drizzly afternoon , having a scotch, straight up. She likes barbershop scents as well.
It’s also a man, that bought this one for himself, recommended by a pushy, clueless SA that thought and swore on her mother’s life it was a man’s scent. He wears it occasionally, and nobody knows what it is that makes him smell so good.

This review is for the new reformulated edt:
Very elegant from top to bottom, this scent demand to be worn by optimistic, opinionated and somewhat sarcastic, witty people. The opening shares many similarities with some other perfumes that have gone through a similar life: they became household names, loved by many and then came the dreaded change, they all fell to the reformulation period and some passed, some crashed and burned. This one, at least for me, passes the test (like the new Arpège). This opening doesn’t lack aldehydes and the galbanum and sage seem the notes that stand out, the gardenia being shoved into the dark room for being too young and powerless. Very feminine, the middle is a mix of commonly found flowers in many scents: roses, jasmine and the like with hints of lemon grinds and a sharper edge to it that feels like bergamot. The (lack of) real oakmoss makes it smell completely different to the older version but hey, you have to work with what you have. I’ll try to see this one with new eyes instead of comparing it to death with its former self. The base is mostly labdanum (a very attractive one) and a somewhat less dirty and less “humble” patchouli, this is a patchouli worn by a Lady. The tenacious and insidious drydown will stay with you for a long time, all until the next day. A chypre like the best of them, this one tends to go more into the green side than into the sunny sweet side. Elegant is the word here. The parfum version is much creamier and much more longlasting, aldehydes seem MIA and the gardenia suddenly comes to play and the patchouli surrenders to the other notes, doesn’t feel as sharp as the EDT.

This review is for the new reformulation of it:
A very green, somewhat spicy and very unisex (if you can get past the top notes) fragrance that shines with contemporary coolness yet still adding a little of old world class to the mix. Contrary to what standard knowledge might say, I get more of a fourgère type of fragrance than a straight-up chypre. Maybe it’s the “new oakmoss” thing. I think it was called a chypre so chypre and dioressence fans wouldn’t feel “cheated” from the start.
The very fresh, intensely dry but flowery opening makes you wonder what has happened to those petals: they seem mixed with hay, wild grass and twigs, all moving in all directions, and the dryness of it all makes you feel that the flowers (among them a waxy violet) are drying up on your skin in real time, right there on your wrist.
After the rather rocambolesque opening, the scent settles quickly into the longest green pasture of unisex nature, combined with a pond-like air of freshness that says wet, grassy yet rocky with lots of fall winds, cool yet comfortable, with just a very soft hint of sweet. It’s intensely violet-colored geraniums, hidden in between intensely green shrubs and wet earth (after that very dry opening) and with an added dash of rosemary and even juniper. I would assume that if we layer it with lavender it would fit very comfortably there.
The whole composition of this new EdT, is rather short lasting and you’ll need to reapply during the day. Cool sillage. The drydown turns back to dry again, with what seems to be a very balanced marriage of patchouli and cinnamon with hints of clover. But it doesn’t really feel too spicy as the overall green feel of it all never really ceases to exist. I can see very practical, nature-loving people wearing this scent. It can feel nostalgic at times.
I like this EDT a lot. But this needs to exist in at least EDP in this new incarnation. An extrait would be even more attractive of course, like a stormy afternoon in the country.

I like violets, I like grapes, I like grape juice, I like purple orchids, I like bilberries, I like amber and vanilla too.
So what’s not to like?
Ok, so this Floriental might be too evident (purple:grape juice: duh!) ,or too sweet for some, maybe even too simple (doesn’t change too much from top to bottom) .
But I still like it.
If you still find it too sweet, give Dali’s own PurpleLight a try.

I liked it a lot and got me a bottle of it.
I have to agree with monkeymanmatt about the way it smells and I also agree with atlanta1 as to the longevity of it and the fact that it’s a light summer oriental fragrance for men.
Lancôme didn’t disappoint me, and I will be looking forward to their next scent for men.

Think lacoste’s a touch of sun and then add strawberries, raspberries and cedarwood and you get this scent.
It’s not bad at all if you’re into a heavy dose of sweet oranges.
I liked it, I have to say. There are many smell-a-likes popping out everywhere.

A very nice but intensely boring scent, this aromatic-aquatic scent has tons of watery fresh oceanic notes with an added lily of the valley kick and some other green notes along with soft woods that make it intensely fresh (but not too sharp).
Not bad at all but it’s nothing very worth remembering either. And it is a good summer scent.

This green floral is a very strong, elegant scent for the same people who like YouthDew, not because they smell alike (which they don’t) but because it feels like an old-school type of scent.
It’s very difficult to make something out of it in a clear way because it has many, many flowers and they all come together very smoothly like a well-layered canvas, and it’s very much original in the way it smells so IMHO, it’s one of those must-smell scents.
A little goes a long way but it’s all very womanly and very sophisticated so any overspraying can be forgiven.

This floral tropical-inspired semi-oriental is as good as it gets in coconutty fragrances for women.
It’s very fresh at the top and it definitely has that top-quality tanning oil feel to it but with added elegance and silkyness, it feels a bit waxy and not overtly sugary which I like a lot.
This coconut feels more like coconut water than coconut oil to tell you the truth.
The orange blossom top is very unexpected as I was thinking I was going to get more bergamot or blood oranges as is more common with scents like this, and this orange blossom is not too heady either.
The base is a very warm, very comfortable bed of vanilla, vetiver, sandalwood and something that feels like incense which gives it yet another surprising twist to it.
I also thought I was going to get some sort of oceanic or even ozonic notes but there was nothing of the sort in here.
Tom ford sure knows how to choose a fragrance and he knows his audience as well.

A very orange-y scent, it’s all about the cirtus fruits here. Think cKsummer 2005 version, think Apparition Sun (which is almost a clone of this one if it weren’t for the raspberries and the white cedar) , and the like.
It has a very chilly watery fresh opening that feels very nice to the skin, with bergamot and water notes with added grapefruit.
The floral middle is mostly jasmine and rose but drenched with orange juice.
The base is all about the soft vanilla and a light sandalwood with added vetiver for more freshness.
It’s all very nice and the sillage is not too intense, longevity is so-so. Not memorable, but very nice for everyday use.

A very boring spicy woodsy very light fourgère, this one has a very sharp green mandarin top with some tea and pink pepper and the mid is all about cardamom and nutmeg, and the base has a whiff of vetiver (not a very good one) and musk.
All of that comes in a very short lasting fragrance (literally gone after 20 min.).
So prepare to spray a lot of it if you happen to like it.
I felt it needed personality, for that, it’s better to stay with the original version of AmorA PH.

We have here a very fresh very 8-year-oldish type of scent that somehow allures everyone i’ve met.
The notes of this fruity floral sound familiar: the top notes have a very sharp infusion of bergamot that becomes instantly sweet with apricots and then it goes fast into the mid-notes with water flowers and peony, mostly, and the base is what else? But vanilla and white musk.
At least I get a clear definition of the layers, it all sounds very sweet and it is, but not intensely candy-like.
I get the “sunshine” they mention in the name but it sort of comes and goes, it’s like a fruits basket in the summer heat.
It has decent sillage and a not so bad longevity and it seems that most women I talk to about this scent they seem to like it a hell of a lot more than the original version: Amor Amor for women (which smells completely different) I’m not much of a fan because it feels like “been there done that” to me.
The bottle looks cool and the sprayer is a bit uncomfortable to use (like in all Amor Amor versions).

It's gourmand all right, but fans of Miracle might be disappointed though: it doesn't smell a hell lot like the original. But that's all right. I agree with the comparisons with Allure Sensuelle (sans the elegance Chanel gave AS), but at least for me, MF didn't work on my skin at all.
Too powdery and very sweet, this clinger of a scent lasts for ages and i wasn't sure if i wanted it to last for so long. The fresh opening lasted for me 0.6 seconds and then it was powder and berry milky cream. Didn't like it as much as i thought i would.
I am sure there are big fans of this type of scent, i'm already smelling it everywhere, so it must be doing well.

What a difficult scent to describe.
It’s sweet and intense but with a fresh opening (might just be the alcohol) , it has a dark soul but it’s still playful.
I was thinking like a russian roulette but with less fatal outcomes.
The top feels heavy and unapologetic (but it’s only the initial blast) , but later on becomes more relaxing and softer. It also felt a bit romantic. Doesn’t smell like real pomegranate, wich I don’t think it’s really a shock.
I think a real treat (if not a must try) is to layer this one with Black Currant Vanilla Body lotion or even with its Black Currant Vanilla massage oil also by B&BW, that alone makes it last much longer. Smells smashingly sexy on a woman.
They should make this one stronger.

Sadly this one doesn’t really smell like anything truly tropical.
Tropical–inspired fake fruit juice, maybe.
Yet another fruity-floral (but the sharper one type), most definitely.
It smells nice, but it felt very boring. It’s the sweet passion fruit type we’re smelling here, not the bitter, acid (and fresher) one. A bit tame.
Wouldn’t give it another go.

This one, as opposed to the coconut lime verbena scent by B&BW , is very much like the suntan lotion, “coconut” smelling type of fragrance.
The thing is, this says it has toasted coconut and I’m inclined to believe in it, I would like to add also, that the tropical fruits and the red berries give it a sort of sweet cane-sugar like note that combined with the coconut makes a very "warm ‘n hot" scent with a fuzzy , creamy base that feels like velvet with vanilla cream, almost like a custard of sorts.
I’m not a milk fan, and in general the milk accord works on only so many people as it tends to go bad on the skin rapidly, but here it’s not as milky as I was afraid of. The other notes overpower that one by far.
It has tons of sillage and the longevity seems so-so but it feels very nice and intense.

The first time i saw this little one, i thought to myself: oh no, yet another gimmicky suntan lotion type fragrance.
Yet this one surprised me.
As I sprayed on, I felt a breeze of renewal and tranquility, with a pinch of light and invigorating happiness.
The top is definitely citrusy and sharper than one might think and it has an air of sun-dried lemon grinds, slightly fruity and very fresh and cool. No coconut at all on the top.
Of the notes listed above, the mid notes don’t seem to play a huge deal there but they sure fall in between the light floral-softly fruity yet still very citrusy category.
The coconut comes as an airy one, very soft and creamy at the base mostly, and it comes together with an honest sandalwood and some vanilla for a final sweeter touch. The musk is barely noticeable.
All in all. A very nice, fresh softly scented citrus-coconut (think coconut water) scent, very nice for hot weather or when you’re in the mood for a tropical fix in a not so comfy winter.

I was very scared to get this one since i am not too much of a fan of clove and star anise in fragrances , as they tend to become very "piquante" and intensely sharp after a while on my skin, but this scent blew me away.
Loved it at first sniff and it's one of those "i couldn't take my nose away from my wrist" kind of scent. -even though i don't do that very often-
I found it soft and i thought that since it's not too strong, it would disappear after a short while, but i found out that it remained constant and strangely, unchanged for the rest of the drydown and i like that. A lot.
I'd go as far as saying that it might be a HolyGrail for me.
Ken Russel and many others have posted much more about the smell in a much better way than i'm doing it,so thank you for those reviews! , meanwhile, i will just stand back and enjoy what a great scent this is.
Rive Gauche? Thank God it doesn't smell like the real Rive gauche in Paris!
Favorite note in here? the rosemary. Amazing.
When wearing this, I picture myself sitting in a couch of the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, with a view of the Place de la Concorde, getting some top-quality tea and being very comfortable in a top-notch black suit. Even though there are more romantic places in Paris, the left bank just doesn't smell too well. Whenever i think of the rive gauche i think of the bohemian part. This scent does not smell bohemian to me, even if the base has patchouli. Let's leave that to the intense version.

The top notes for me show a great deal of citrus and a hint of the fruity middle notes, but they fade away very rapidly on my skin, even the midnotes don't show a lot of presence and sadly, i don't find that it has a strong -not even a faint- white rose note,the note i was most interested in, maybe that white rose was the type that wasn't very fragrant.
What i get the most, and what sticks to me like glue for hours, is the base, and the white musk is the one note that wins over the rest.
Strangely, it has a similar drydown to VC&A's Automne wich has a lot of woodsy notes.
The cedarwood is also very present.
I didn't find it womanly and i felt it could easily be an unisex scent. Well, in the case that your skin (like mine) skips the fruits and flowers and goes straight to the base).

So this one is not out in all markets I believe. This one has Lychee, Dominican Passion fruit, and I can tell you right away: there are basically, 3 types of passion fruits (ok, there are many more but I like to classify them this way): 2 yellow ones, one acid and bitter very slightly sweet with a wrinkled exterior, one sweet with a smooth shiny exterior and one purple, with either wrinkled or shiny exterior and it could be lightly sweet to sweet with hints of acidity. All taste and smell differently. Also, their exterior smells differently from the interior as well. The one used here seems the sweet variety –and the interior part of the fruit. It also has Dragon fruit a.k.a Pitaya, wich is mildly sweet and there are many varieties as well; Marco Polo tea, wich could be green, black or red (all very aromatic) and it’s not specified wich one is it in the directory, but I’m inclined to say it’s the black variety and not really the green one, maybe it’s a bit of both; Green tea, wich I guess it’s the same as used in the original GT, Chinese Magnolia (aromatic as well, it’ a big flower), musk, sea moss (don’t know what sea but it’s not a salty one LOL ) and drumroll please: Tropical blackberries: so when they say tropical I imagine it’s either in the tropic capricorn or the tropic of cancer and not really the “tropics” as we know them (between the equator) as they (the blackberries) are more difficult to harvest there –but not impossible- so they’re found in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and countless of other countries fall into either one of the tropics (Cancer, Capricorn), and I can say that the creator of the scent apparently comes from Mexico, therefore my conclusion is that they are sweet, dark, warmer mexican blackberries!. It all adds to the exotic part of it doesn’t it?
How many times have we heard about tropical scents: exciting, exotic, fun, free, fruity and so on? Here, they all seem to fit, sadly though, it seems that this tropical twist becomes the first fruity-floral that we dread so much without really being a real fruity-floral, and based on tea!
It’s not a bad scent, but to some, it can be boring.
For those scared that this is another “escada limited edition fruit bomb”: it’s not.
Elizabeth Arden can add another good green tea to their line.

I won't go too much into the official notes as they are here on the directory.
I get the cyclamen, some sort of wild rose the one that’s not really red not white (but the smaller kinds, faintly scented) and a bit of bitter passion fruit, some watermelon, the musk here seems to be a very light one like a white musk that has been used in other green teas, soft clear amber, watery-humid moss and that’s it I think.
It’s lighter than the rest and a bit sweeter, it seems like a more colorful version of the original GT, and the longevity seems fractured, the top reminds me of shalimar light because the bergamot is stronger here, and the watermelon seems to me the stronger middle note, along with soft flowery bits. Again, the green tea is very clear and very delicate, -if it’s present at all- almost like a very watered-down Basha, cooled green tea. So, for a scent called green tea, it’s lacking a great deal of it.

Spiced Green tea- Second take (i made a shorter review this might be like a companion to that one)
So this one is very different from the rest of the line, including the ones released later on. This is more related to the black oolong tea or even a red variety of it, than it’s about green tea, this tea is not delicate, it’s strong and that’s ok because it has to compete for attention when it’s in the proximity of ginger, white florals like jasmine, and some oranges (the less sweet variety of blood orange I think). Another tea I find here it seems earl grey tea, with added bergamot. I’m not saying that all of this is actually in here but it’s what I get, this one has lots of spices like coriander, cumin (soft), curry, cardamon, red pepper, ginger, even star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg and some other notes, wich make it very spicy, so the name of the fragrance is very fitting.
I get more spices on the topnotes than on the rest, and the whole feeling of it is that it’s a hot scent without ever being too warm, feels sharp enough and fresh enough that you can also wear it in the summer.
This one, I think, is the one that falls more into the unisex category when compared with the rest of the line. The base is musky and still spicy.
All in all I, sadly didn’t make friends with it because the spices became too much with my skin, but my sister loved it…and I have met many women that have loved it as well.

This Green Tea scent is more about the ice than about the green tea, and it shows at first spritz.
I get from this fragrance lemons, wich are not too bitter, loads of menthol, that I find ,of all things a little waxy, and I could swear I feel my nose becoming clearer as I spray it on; eucalyptus wich gives it a very calming effect after all the menthol. Of this eucalyptus I get the leaves and a bit of bark as well.
The green tea note here feel like it’s into a heavy fight to be noticed from the others. There’s also some dry , earthy moss and a soft, white musk. It all reminds me of tundra climates. (wich I love)
That’s about it, it’s intense at the top but this intensity fades away rapidly, so it has lesss longevity compared to a “similarly composed” (IMHO) scent such as Guerlain’s Vetvier Eau Glacée. (sans the vetiver of course)

Green tea (original) Second Take -i already gave a shorter review and this might serve as a companion to that one...
Ok so this one has notes of Lemon, orange, rhubarb, bergamot,peppermint, green tea, jasmine, celery seed, carnation, oakmoss, musk, white amber, caraway and fennel.
First we have to look at what is green tea: it is a real tea (as opposed to any other herbal infusion) that has been processed differently from the “regular” or black tea, thus giving it the green quality. There are many, many types of green teas and most of them have a different smell, most varieties come from china, japan and other areas. I won’t go any further with this.
Now onto the fragrance itself: There weren’t too many fresh, true green tea scents at the time and most of them were either custom-made or discontinued or just plain difficult to find (niche or other), Bvlgari’s was a little too perfumey and it had many other ingredients and it seemed like a clone of other fresh scents that were heavy on the technological aspects and a rather dull tea note, not a bad scent, but it needed work (wich we got in 2000 with its updated formula).
Now, this Green Tea was launched when there was a need, if I may say so,for new things and close to the turn of a century and it would start yet another wide variety of clones and even its own offspring with the later GT formulas.
On this original GT, the top is marked by a good balance of a non-acid variety of lemon and a lightly sweet orange, with a blast of peppermint that combined, create a soothing and instantly calming sensation, the rhubarb is almost non existent as far as I’m concerned.
The green tea used here seems and reminds me more of the Matcha green tea used in the Tea ceremony in Japan , now the Matcha tea is of very high quality but this one falls a bit flat in comparison so that’s why I’m saying it reminds me of it ,but it never gets there, the thing is, it’s a very nice tea note, it’s at the same time delicate and it will remain with you until the end of the drydown. The jasmine and the carnation give it a more feminine touch (that up until that moment was a bit unisex) and it becomes more interesting, like a mix of seasons, first you get the fall then the summer, so the flowers give the whole composition a flash of light. There seems to be oakmoss there, but I can’t be sure if it’s the real thing or a really good chemical imitation of it, in any case, the white musk and the fennel are the notes that really stand out on the basenotes, and this fennel smells more like a fennel seed and the green part of it than the strongly scented bulb, and I like it that way.

Sienna , is the most leathery of the bunch (of the C&E's men scents), it's got very much the spirit of older times, but whenever i smell it it feels more like a druid's scent (think a celtic druid observance or a rural reunion or practice to an earth god) with lots of herbal and woodsy tones.
I am not a huge fun of spices as they tend to be either too peppery or sharp on my skin but here the combo is smooth. It's sweet also, (but not too sweet) and that gives it a good twist.
The drydown is superb. Smells expensive.

Of these 3 scents for men that are in production, the one i like the least is Sandalwood -there are lots of better sandalwoods for men out there- but that doesn't really mean that it's a bad one at all, this one is a very wearable one, I have to mention though that the older version of it seemed to be a bit better, denser and creamier and the new one it's a bit sharper, even though the sandalwood used seemed to be the same in both. It's certainly masculine (as are all of the men's line of C&E) and it's certainly elegant (ditto) but it's not really breathtaking. It's very faint.

To be honest, i think it's the best one of the bunch, and it certainly makes you wonder about the desert's nomads, but not so much the ones of the colder places, but i don't find it too wild, as this nomad seems to be a clean, richer one, maybe even with servants , like a tribe chief of sorts, but it doesn't seem too exotic in any case.
The blend, to my surprise, seems to have a better quality sandalwood than the one in their own Crabtree & E.'s Sandalwood fragrance or maybe it's the mix with the other ingredients that make it seem so, it's very wearable as well, it's sweet too, and this guy seems a bit dirtier and angrier than the others,like he's on a mission ... he's very much the hunter.
For me, it was one of those "gotta have it now" kind of fragrance.
Even though Nomads seem to like being on plains or on vast lands (well, in general) , this scent doesn't seem to bore me at all because there are many layers in it (well, at least on my skin i get it that way) and it seems to move to very different places at a faster pace and it doesn't really give me the impression of being on an open field . In short, i love it too. Seems simpler but it's really not. It has lack of longevity issues.

This is a very refreshing cologne that has the intensity of an EDT.
It’s very, very lemmony, made in very classical way, and it does have an aura of “old world” and soft comfortable late afternoon summer sunsets in a lemony field.
The top notes cosnsit of lemon, orange and bergamot, the midnotes are of lavender, rosemary and roses and the basenotes are made of very light musk and benzoin.
Of all the top notes, the lemon is the most obvious one, followed by a soft, demure and very shy semi-sweet orange, the bergamot gives it all a sense of coolness to it. The most present not in the midnotes are both the rose, wich is a very “green”, not in full bloom one, and of course the lavender, wich is treated here as a sidekick to the rosemary wich is one of the most happy rosemarys I have smelled in fragrance.
Never bitter, this is a very smooth blend.
The musk and the benzoin give the whole composition a dirtier, grittier feel but it’s not in any way nasty or un-elegant. I think it’s very well made.
For scents with a similar “vibe” you might want to try the more innocent Le Petit Prince, wich is really a verbena-lemon version of this one, and the less classy but brighter Pierre Balmain’s Monsieur Balmain(the new one).
Another scent that has a very elegant take one lemons: Boucheron PH (both the EDT and the EDP).

I’m at a loss here because i have never smelled a black orchid in my life before, but ill give it a go nonetheless:
The first of tom ford’s line of scents is a very attractive, love-it or hate-it kind of scent, that it truly smells very unique and , to my nose, is fantastic.
From the very first impression you get the sense that this ride will not be like something you’ve experienced before, in its complexity and its darkness, from the start you get the gritty ,black, earthy notes and the wonderful very dark and slightly sweet truffle that changes quickly to an intensely flowery (I imagine the black orchid note) that glides onto what it seems a french bonbon of very high quality : 73% dark chocolate cover with an inside of milk chocolate with a filling of vanilla-dark truffle cream that still has some gritty bits and some green bits and that all blends together very fetchingly. The drydown of this one get sweeter and sweeter but it’s a nice animalic smokey sort of sweet with a nice dose of patchouli, that it never loses its elegance, its power and its presence.
I would imagine that the queen of all vampires Akasha (that character from the Anne Rice’s novels) , would wear this one when she’s not in her stone-like form, when she’d smell more like a marble stone with dust and blood. Now she would wear this because it’s unique, she’s a queen and most of all because she just doesn’t care what other people say and she always has the last word, all at the same time when one is admiring her beauty and her intensity, falling under her spell, and we say: yes, do whatever you want with me, my Queen.
And the there’s the shock of the realization that this scent is very treacherous, and it would turn you into the stinkiest stink bomb ever, or it would send you into the fast track to heaven-dome, heaven being some type of Olympus where the gods seem decadent and smitten with all things human. And human is what you get on the basenotes, charred musky skin (human or not, I don’t know) with sweet undetones and dead sugary flowers and smoked chocolate, all resting in a very elegant dark wood cabinet.
I love it!

I can tell you right away: this scent doesn’t change all that much from top to bottom, the most heavy notes here are, basically the blackcurrant, the blackberry and the sugared vanilla. That’s most of it.
The rest is just too faint and too overpowered by the notes I just mentioned.
The juice is not really fresh and is very reminiscent of the end of summer-very early fall.
I liked it a lot because of its simplicity and because I love blackberries in general and this one is straight up blackberry. Almost like a diluted jam, it doesn’t have the prepotence some niches have, it doesn’t have the ambivalence some others have.
The other notes that are on the background are the sandalwood and the orris but they certainly don’t play a key role here, they play more of a balancing act between the whole composition and I like it that way.
It’s simple, it’s sweet and it’s just a bit dark –and not too “pretty”- , the right amount not to be called a pink fruity floral, and that takes it just a little bit ahead of that category.

This one is one of Paris’s most spring-like versions, and it shows from the very start all the way down to the last note: it’s very fresh like all of the other versions but this one is also very green, something the others seem to lack (mostly). The intensely fresh, innocent and light opening of mandarines, begins not unlike many scents we have come to smell recently given the fact that mandarine is “the” note right now for these types of scents. But that’s all forgiven because the true Paris heart of rose is very much present and it’s the red type of rose that’s favored here. The lilac is not very strong and the violets are the third best after the rose and the mandarine top. The soft woods that make up the base seem more like rosewood than sandalwood. It’s all very light and very pretty , as usual with the spring limited editions of Paris. Feminine and “chic”.
The note that links all the notes together is the “freshly mown grass” note, and here it’s like a string holding together a flower ornament. Very nice.

This one is, again with classic Herrera, a very good scent.
It’s easily recognizable from the others: Herrera ginger and Herrera original, yet it still retains a lot from the original, and that means it’s respectful of its name. The same happens with the other brother Herrera refreshing Ginger.
The difference with the others is of course the heavy use of vetiver in here, this vetiver is the type of green, very grassy, not too dirty and very elegant vetiver, that doesn’t have the dark base, of, for example, Guerlain’s Vetiver, it’s also not as fresh nor watery as R&G’s Vetyver, and it rests comfortably between the two, always masculine and always with a determined gaze, but with an ease and confidence that’s very alluring. This vetiver is young, strong, and very attractive.
I wonder if Carolina Herrera will be making some other limited eds. of this scent. Herrera for Men would feel very lucky and grateful that such great company and offspring would come along, if they are in the same league and quality as these 2 limited eds, I’d buy them in a second!.
Both herrera’s ginger and vetiver are possibly, some of the best versions of an original scent for men out there.

Even thought the notes make it seem like it’s a very spicy, dense and even creamy but dark fragrance, this one is still very fresh, light and not even close to what roasted coffee smells like, even though the notes say there’s that note in there…somewhere.
This one has a very peppery top, more so than I would have liked. So I guess that depending on the type of roasted coffee used you will smell certain kind of scent, but here I only get a very soft, airy one, that it’s toasty but not very strong and certainly not very aromatic.
The mango note here is rendered as if it were a green mango, not the very sweet yellow mango types or even the red ones that scream sugar and thickness. This mango is more along the lines of the mango used in Un Jardin sur le Nil, but of course I’m talking only about this one mago note, so don’t believe that these two scents have much more in common.
The cardamom used here is of very good quality and I think it was very well done here because this note can be a bit wild and it can overtake a scent very easily, this cardamom doesn’t have the fresh, intense quality of the real thing, but in this case, all of that is very welcomed since the woods take a better command of the basenotes and it(the cardamom) doesn’t feel like an irritant, like the real thing might feel like, given the gingery and intese aroma of it. The juniper is almost lost here, between the other basenotes.
All in all, I think it’s not a bad scent at all, it’s still a bit too airy and light, but it gave me a feel of stimulation, of clearing my head, and a certain sense of tonification, it worked specially well when I felt fatigued.

Carolina herrera is stil making good scents, but in recent times they hava been watering up their latest offerings, making the brand less interesting than before.
This one changes the trend, and I’m very happy about it. It’s not something a lover of “classic masculine scents” would love, and it’s certainly marketed towards a “younger” audience…nevertheless I still liked it.
It’s a bit too sweet and a bit too sugary, in comparison with other masculine scents, but never like paco rabanne’s utraviolet neverending line of sugary sweets for men, Herrera made the rare attempt to create something that’s just the right amount of sweet, and that is achieved by the soft fruits in it.
The top is fresh and light but it quickly changes , the bergamot is very short lived as are the greens and the mandarine.
The rest is a very well blended, flowing scent of vanilla, woods and some flowers, and the very clear note of cardamom that never becomes too powerful.
The base is mostly amber and soft woods and it’s very much a comfortable scent to be with.
This scent seems right for those with an open mind –scentwise-.

I don’t think this scent will break any barriers of become a sort of a cult fragrance, but it’s a very good one.
It’s never as powerful and as the sillage monster that the original amarige is, but it’s very strong in its own right.
The chypre oriental (the kind of new chypre with no oakmoss that’s so fashionable right now) blend seems very leveled and harmonic and yes, it feels very “french”. The french of a new era, one that’s evolving and that is very comfortable with what it is and what it stands for, regardless of what people think.
This scent begins sweet and strong, even if the top notes are citrusy and sparkly, and it stays that way, but it never punches you in the face, it’s more like a confident person entering a room, the mid of a very nice magnolia (a creamy one) and the ever present in woman’s fragrances jasmine opens it up a bit and makes it very intesely flowery. Apparently it has cinnamon but it’s very faint. The flowers are the force here.
The base is mostly a blend of woods, musk and warmth, and I even felt a bit of a warm potpourri, intense and calming maybe due to the soft patchouli, all very nice.
I wasn’t awed by it but I felt it was a good addition to the line, I mean not everything must be unique, one of a kind, specially if we’re talking here of a version of another one.
The bottle, concept and the packing are all very, very nice.

And I crazy? Or am I smelling what it seems like one of givenchy’s limited editions but a little stronger and less pretty?
Haters of soft fruity florals , stay away from this one. It feels very girly and somewhat immature, but at least it lasts more than what I expected.
When I said less pretty I should say that whenever I think “pretty” in fruity florals I mean delicate and even a bit naïve, qualities that seem a bit lost here. This girl is a bad one.
She may say forever and ever but in reality she means for right now.

I never thought that a watered-down version of a great scent would be as good as this one.
This one shines and the bergamot seems to have a life of its own,as it feels like it moves around you and feels playful, even the vanilla seems much more sparkly and filled with golden bursts of happiness than what I expected. Like an ambery vanilla caramel with golden specks of sorts.
Much, much softer than the original, it’s a joy to wear when the other seems just too much, specially in hot weather or whenever you feel like you’re wearing a lemon-vanilla cake instead of a proper fragrance, as might be with the original shalimar.
It’s even more of a unisex one if one is daring enough I should say.
It’s specially good when people want to leave a statement but don’t want people to say that “she was wearing too much of that stuff”.
So I think it’s very elegant that way with the added bonus of being happy and a bit careless.

This one is a fantastic scent. Much more unisex than what people may think, this one –thankfully- doesn’t feel creamy or dense or flowery at all.
It’s very much like toasted sand, bronzed skin and vacations, it’s not as fresh as other watery fragrances, but here I like it because it makes it last for a long time on my skin.
Even if the pyramid seems upside down you get a lot of the basenotes on the top like the citrus and the pepper.
The pepper here is very soft and I like it because pepper is fragrances makes my nose very uncomfortable, but here it almost feels like the pink pepper used in miracle homme for example. Something softer but still interesting enough.
The ambergris is superb, the quality of it is very obvious and the sheer force of it in the mid notes makes it stand out from the vast majority of scents out there since, in general , this note is not used as a strong stand-alone, more like a soft whiff of it that balances the rest, in here, the note is very present and very unique.
You might even get a bit of chlorine-pool if you think hard enough, wich I like!

As much as i tried to make friends with it , it just couldn’t happen.
On my skin it almost felt like I was wearing some sort of household cleaning liquid, and not one that smells good.
I appreciated the mineral notes in it but the rest seemed almost like been there done that and I truly felt that it didn’t bring too many new things into play.
I guess it’s all down to personal chemistry, right?, I mean on my skin the top notes turned an acrid, very sour, pungent, even too aluminum like grapefruit, and I mean the white part of it not the juicy, less sour body of it.
I was very discouraged about this one since I am a big Hermès fan, but hey, there are plenty of Hermès offerings that go very well with my skin and that I don’t like this one doesn’t make me less of a fan. A lot of times I like to be challenged and this time, fate had it that it was not for me. I still got a bottle of it, who says I can’t use it for air freshener or even for a gift.?

Is this one of the best ginger scents out there? I think so.
It doesn’t feel annoyingly zesty to the nose, and it’s very very fresh but it still has the right balance of the rest of the original Herrera for men notes and you can clearly differenciate it from the other brother, Herrera vetiver and the father of course, the original Herrera for men.
I will compare it with other very nice gingers: I think that R&G’s eau de gingembre and EA’s Spicy Green Tea both have a very nice ginger note that should be smelled (or experienced if you prefer that word) , and in here they all seem to go neck to neck in terms of true ginger quality, as all smell like they have used some real ginger (it never really gets there but it’s very close), all of them seem very stimulating.
Ok, so compared with herrera’s ginger, these two seem to be more in the unisex category than HFM-RG, this herrera one is very masculine and it’s very forceful into convincing you that it is, it’s still very elegant –something that the others seem to lack- and it feels very adaptable to changes, be that heat or cold, so I’d say it’s very balanced that way. The ginger is of quality and it never gets tiresome or irritant.
Very well done Herrera!

This one is a very honest, very respectful version of the original and it certainly delivers what it says: it feels like you just sprayed a bunch of shavings of iced vetiver.
While the minty here is very strong, it’s still very natural, not like some fake mints out there like candy drops or something like that.
The freshness never goes away and this works wonders in a very heady, humid and warm environment, I don’t see what’s the use of this one in winter or fall, unless you want to have your nose decongested or want to feel a bit of a burn in there.
The thing is, I don’t feel it’s a very Guerlain fragrance, all the interesting bits like the tobacco or the more musky darker base of the original are very much lost here.
I don’t hold the original in very high esteem like a lot of other people, so it’s safe to say that I don’t feel biased when I say that : It’s good but not that good.

I was surprised when i first smelled this one because i was expecting it to not like it. The mandarin and lychee are the winners within the top notes, and the jasmin is more intense here than the listed lily of the valley and the madonna lily. If only i could do something about the far too common basenotes.
Nice, but not truly original, earth-quakin' nor breath-takin'.

Extremely similar to the original Green Tea, this one is very nice as well.
It has a more intense citrus feel (specifically oranges) on the top notes and a more watery feel overall than the other one.
It's also far less minty than Iced GT, wich is welcomed here.
Less longevity and sillage than the original.
But it's very nice while it lasts nonetheless.
Great Summer Scent.

This scent is a very uncomplicated, honest, clean, unisex vetiver that’s very green but never biting. This one has top notes that are fresh and just a bit sharp, with a cirtus blast on top, that changes towards the spicier mid to end in the woodsy, soft yet still very green base. Almost like fresh cut grass that has been laying on the sun for a couple of hours (roots included!).
It’s more masculine than Eau de lotus Bleu and Bouquet Impérial, but as unisex as Eau de Gingembre, or even Eau de thé Vert (all from R&G).
For comparison, this one is not as complicated as Guerlain’s Vetiver for men, because that one has a darker base with tobacco notes among others (R&G’s vetyver remains bright till the end) ; R&G’s vetyver is not as boozy (or metallic) as Lanvin’s Vetiver L’Homme either. Another thing that might be of importance is that this one is not an eau parfumante, but an Eau de Cologne.
So, in short, this is a very straightforward Vetiver scent.

I think this scent is a nice balance between the girly fruity-florals and the heavier dark-rose scents for people who do not like more intensity in the mix. This one has a combo of 5 different roses like: “emotion” rose, centifolia rose, peony rose, passion rose and fantasia rose, with a common denominator wich would be here the star anise.
It’s fresh but not too faint as to have a certain leveled middle heart that becomes more like rosewood than anything else. This rosewood is a bit green and a bit musky as well, but it’s never animalic in any way. I wouldn’t call it “very irresistible” like the name says but it sure is interesting enough and pretty enough.
If this EDT is still too much, just try the faintly tweaked fresher summer versions of this one( wich have all different ingredients don’t be fooled: edition pétales de roses 2004, eau d’été 2005, etc etc) and if it’s just too soft then try the more full-bodied and creamier (and with an even more intense rose accord) Very I.Sensual EDP. If you are a collector and /or Givenchy fan then get the Rose Bulgare Harvest edition!.
Goes well with most skin types wich is a plus.
Cheers

So this one seems to be the modern reinterpretation of the original one, the all-new-revived composition to the new generations.
I’m not against creating new scents, but labeling one very beloved older scent on some other very different scent, changing its formula in full, and marketing it as the out-with-the-old- in-with-the-new feels a bit like an insult to both our ages and our noses. If you want to release a new scent, then do so but do not discontinue the older one.
That said, I like this scent, so much so that I got one for myself (even though it’s very feminine ( i like to collect and smell as much as I can), but Givenchy must get a big slap in the back of the head for discontinuing the older version.
I liked very much the old version too, but it wasn’t meant ot be for my skin chemistry, found it just too creamy, too “thick”. So this new reformulation feels just right, but of course, it doesn’t smell the same: on this one I get mostly the bergamot on top, the white peach and rose and vetiver, and not so much the amber nor the rest of the notes, green leaves, or jasmine, or whatnot.
There’s a certain “strawberryness” to it but it’s not too strong. Does this one has Lily of the valley? Maybe it’s the combo of flowers and green leaves.
For people that are not put off by the major re-working, people who love flowery but very fresh scents that have a green basenote (like,say, Balmain’s Iviore but less ambery), this is a must-try.
I will give this one a thumbs up only because i happen to like this scent, BUT i also give this a thumbs down for messing with the older release.

I won’t really go deep into the notes here, because it has been discussed many times before and I generally agree with most reviews here.
Fresh, green, light-dark, perspective, intriguing, shine, wet, etc, it almost feels like people are describing some painting, and wearing No19 would make you feel like you are wearing some sort of work of art, so those comments are correct to me.
I have to add here that DiorHomme and No19(EDP) share some sort of connection, after all , both are heavy in the Iris and Orris and everything in between, and it almsot feels as if they were related, like brother and sister. DH being the more moody of the two and No19 the optimistic yet melancholic one.
In any case, I think that the edt (Not the edp or extrait) version of No19 can be used by men as well, specially in the winter, well, at least that’s when I prefer to use it. Maybe even better if layered with a big dose of either bergamot or vetiver.

So this one is as unisex and strange as its older androgynous bother, the hugely famous ckOne.
Ck says it has notes of bergamot, juniper berry, mandarin, mint, lavender, magnolia, peach, amber, sandalwood, opoponax and tonka bean, wich it all sound like been there done that, but it’s really not so. Why? Well, because its smell is very original and uncomplicated but quite the show stealer because of its sillage, and this sillage seems at least stronger than that of ckOne.
Another of those “must-smells”, whether you might like it or not, and I’d say it’s all about new olfatory experiences right?. On both reviews (ckOne and ckBe) I won’t even mention longevity, as it’s better to find out if it works with your skin or not.
When it came out, I got a bottle of this one, as it seemed to be some sort of goth-rock version of the clean-cut ckOne and I waited for the ckOne craze to die out so I could get one for myself. I am glad I got both now, even though now I think I was a bit childish about not getting ckOne for superficial reasons.

I swear when this one came out everyone and their brother was wearing this scent. There was one specific moment in late 94 when I was travelling and I was at O’Hare airport in Chicago and it truly seemed like every 1 minute or so, I smelled ckOne sillage coming from someone different at this place. It felt almost like a ckOne convention was in town or something.
Now onto the scent: one of the most abstract, clean and prismatic scents if I may say so, that became some sort of fragrance world phenomenon, has very clear white tea/white musk or even green tea notes that are becoming more and more popular both in male and female scents, it also has a certain metallic top that makes it a bit sharp for the sensitive nose that almost feels like an aldehyde cousin.
It’s one of those scents that you just have to try at least once, in case you haven’t already tried some of the ck one “inspired” scents like bvlgari’s white tea, paco rabanne’s paco or mavive’s white musk or any other form of “revival” of this fragrance. It has a very faint fruity mid that glides on the chemicals that make up the form of this almost transparent juice in the frosty bottle.
The added cirtusy top is enough for it to make it fresh all the way towards the end of the composition.
The base, in case anyone’s wondering, is very musky, that’s white musk I mean. I like it a lot, but for sentimental reasons more than for the juice itself. Still, this scent is very attractive anyways.

This one is to me (the EDP i mean) the female version of Givenchy's own PI (the EDT that is).
We know how it goes like: vanilla cake, amber, jasmine and gardenia. You might encounter also some honeysuckle, ylang, sandalwood, cedar, tuberose and orange blossom, see, the thing is, i think this one was reformulated as well over the years and we now get only gardenia, jasmine and vanilla, according to Givenchy. This is a wonderful gourmand, creamy, elegant and not crazy sweet(or spicy) like its sister O.Indécence or lightlike the very bland, lame O.First light.
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This one is for the EDT: there have been lots of comments on how the scent is, i'd like to add that the most dominant notes are to me the jesmine (that's a dirty jasmine), the patchouli (so much so that patchouli haters will loath this one) and tangerine of all things. I also get roseweood, cononut,tuberose,sandalwood and of course, civet.
Believe it or not, this one went for me totally under the radar for many years until i smelled it a couple of years ago and said to myself: so that's what that lady's apartment smelled like!, see, i always loved that smell and never quite could put a finger on what the scent was, or even if it was her or the apartment itself and all the old things included in it. I am glad to revive memories like that and to clear doubts from my past, in such an unexpected way. I find that the top is very femenine and it has a decidely masculine drydown.I like much better Ysatis Iris though!.
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Yet another fruity floral girly pink fresh fragrance from Givenchy (shock!).
Ok, To be fair, this one is a very nice fresh fragrance, very lightly sweet, that should have been called "young maiden's very first blush". It's that innocent and naive, very watery, and sorta beachy but not as much as IUBeachGirl. Very Clean and very safe. I wanted to give it a thumbs down for unoriginality, a neutral for quality, and a thumbs up for the actual smell of it.
All in all, just because i'm a givenchy fan and i have smelled far worse fruity florals, this one passes.

So VH apparently has earth notes, sap, woods and amber as well as vetiver of course.
This vetiver might be for some what they say “old fashion”, but it must be one of the truest green vetivers as well as one of the most intense yet fresh vetivers.
How is this one different from say, Guerlain’s? well, for starters I think Guerlain’s vetiver lasts longer, seems less about vetiver really than the sum of all its parts and the classy herbal aura of it, also it seems more into other “darker notes” on the drydown: tobacco and what not.
On the other hand, VH is all about the vetiver with those very fresh ,typical of AD’s fragrances water notes.
This one also changes a bit on the skin but it remains a true vetiver throughout the entire process, to various degrees of light and dark. It’s fresh all right, but it’s also very elegant, classy and “old school”. Very clean.
The sillage is quietly modest too.
I get more from most of AD’s fragrances in hotter and summer temperatures and this one works better under that climate, I think.
Will there be a EDP for this one? I hope so!.

Adolfo domingues creates, generally speaking, wonderfully fresh fragrances and this one is no different.
The top consists of bergamot, mandarine, violet leaves and some kind of water notes, the mid becomes a spicier but still fresh combo of nutmeg and ginger, and it has a base of sandalwood (of course) ,cedar, rosewood and musk. The thing here, is that as fresh as this scent is, you can still smell the wonderful sandalwood all over the place, and it’s such a nice and clean, clear sandalwood.
Forget those incense or even those vanilla bases of many sandalwood scents, this one is the sharpest of them all.
A summer scent like the best of them. Wonderful for the beach.
Even though I have always seen sandalwood as a masculine smell, this one is loved by women as well so it’s safe to say that it’s an unisex scent in that way: it’s just too fresh for anyone else to even consider what gender must be applied here. And that is fine by me. On me, the sandalwood adjusts to a masculine tone, and on women, I have smelled more the rosewood and flowery bits. I got a big bottle!.

This sweet “youthful” scent rubbed me the wrong way.
A femenine fruity floral (gasp!) , with not too much longevity, got me all excited because of the nice but not too strange packing –wich I believe was a winner among a contest in spain- and left me like a pinched tire: flat.
I get pear, peaches, roses, oranges, jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla. Sounds familiar? Because it should.

To say that Le Dix is a copy of No5 might be just too unfair , I know I have said it as well, but Le Dix doesn’t really deserve to be compared in that way, I think. There are many similarities, but in the end, I think Le Dix wins.
I think of this scent as one of the fragrances that you just have to smell for better or for worse, once in your lifetime.
The thing is, Le dix has a certain smell that may give you the impression of melancholy and of longing for a love long lost, or for the sun setting in a horizon of a late spring… a sense of serenity, elegance and calm.
This aldehydic scent has much less of that ingredient than the other big ones for ex. No5, Arpège, Je reviens,Mme.Rochas, or the “lesser knowns” like While Linen, Estée Super or even Calandre, and it also has a certain sweeter feel to it at least on the mid notes that are never too strong, think just a bit less sweet than for example, Calèche by Hermès, and much farther away than Après L’ondée.
It’s just on the same category as Chanel’s Bois des Îles in my opinion and I think very,very highly of BdÎ.
It’s nothing of a shock to see that the same perfumer that created such an amazing scent as L’interdit(original) or L’air du temps had created this scent as well. I won’t go into the notes because they are well known. I can say that the violets here are stronger and less powdery than I expected. It’s smooth like the burnished metal of a gold watch, but without the overtly sharp metal tones, almost like an untouched gold surface I should say.
In this journey you might encounter that the burst aldehydes, then of flowers becomes comfort-green and darker with sparkles or light and then glides into warmer, velvety woods. It’s very french, very classic, and very melancholic.
The ones in the know, have always agreed: Le Dix is an underappreciated jewel, like some great diamond that is locked away in a rosewood safe, in a breezy mountain, far away.

AAM is a fantastic fresh scent.
I was afraid of the mint here before testing it because of sheer prejudice: let’s face it there are tons of fake mint disasters out there.
Guerlain takes the high road and delivers the freshest, most summery soft real mint here that it’s just as good as it gets. The sillage is great –but the longevity is poor. That doesn’t matter to me now because I think this one will be one of my holy grails –summer version.
Very beachy and even also a bit like a nice cool 5-star hotel pool, it’s beyond watery-clean and you get that sense of ready to take over the day in a happy go lucky way that never falls under the irresponsible line.
It has some very soft florals at the mid notes wich are just right and they rest into the unisex realm.
Think clean white boat deck and sun kissed skin,with a little bit of salt.
I have not met a person that hasn’t smelled good with this on.
On me, it’s a leafy, minty, citrus paradise. It reminds me of vacations, relaxation and happiness.

This scent is yet another fruity floral of the many you might have smeled before. Longevity is so-so, and the sillage is nice.
Never a bad scent, it’s a bit candy sweet but the top notes help make it more balanced: I mean, it never becomes a full-on gourmand in that candy-sense, like others marketed for youger people. The heart is very much a floral. My guess is that this one is geared towards more grown-up women that feel younger at heart, if you know what I mean.
Givenchy makes very pretty limited editions, sadly, they all seem a bit too similar and I have met people that haven’t found a difference in some of them, unless they put them one next to the other and start testing them back to back.
How is this different to the others? In short (very short): My Givenchy is sweeter, Only Givenchy is fresher, Jardin d’Interdit is very soft and femenine , like something Nina Ricci might have done, and So Givenchy is more spring-like and fun. I liked the bottle too.

This one might be one of the best spin-off scents ever (IMHO) , the Iris here is of top notch quality and very seductive.
A softer oriental-floral, this one doesn’t really smell like the original Ysatis wich would be a nice thing for some. I mean the sillage moster that Ysatis delivers is much more demure here.
Not only the Iris here is very nice but also the top notes of mandarine, violets and blackcurrant make a very fresh, fall-like opening that becomes very much a flower power in the midnotes, rose and jasmine being the more prominent notes here, the base of intense, misterious Iris –wich is present during the whole time really- , has bits and pieces of patchouli and vanilla that are never annoying or in the way of the allmighty iris.
I think that the basenotes and that “mistery noir film” allure is the only really similar thing to the original Ysatis, wich I happen to like a lot too, but not as much as YI.
The whole life of the scent is very clear and the notes are very “clean-cut” and the mix is very soft and almost creamy. Bravo Givenchy.

Much better than the disaster that was EA Glam he, this one has a stronger vetiver and bergamot notes that carry the rest of the notes very comfortably and even though it has listed lily of the valley, the scent remains very masculine and sharp, it’s a very green –spring like and watery lily of the valley.
The only bad thing here I think it’s that it’s not very original nor unique but it’s not a borefest like YSL’s L’Homme –wich is nice but intensely dumb.-
It can be used both for sports and for everyday errands I think, it’s not too elegant and not sweet, so people looking for a nice, balanced and fresh scent, are in for a good scent-ride.

It seems that each year, Lancôme gets a new Miracle Summer version, but they really are all the same only they differ in box presentation. I have bottles for the 2004, ‘05 and ’06 versions and they all seem to be the exact same scent, I also tested this one on other people just for kicks.
The scent itself is very fresh, starts with a burst of citrus and flowers that are pretty and calming, nothing too strong and nothing too annoying, in fact it’s very nice.
The midnotes come in very quickly to sport a cool take on some more flowery bits and mainly roses that are presented here like a summery chilly draft that caresses the skin and soothes the heat, so the name is fits with the whole life of the scent.
The longevity is a bit poor, but that’s ok for such a summery and soft fragrance I guess. It can all be forgiven because it’s very attractive. I think it’s bottle worthy.
People who have liked scents like EL’s Pleasures, Fendi’s Fantasia, Givenchy’s Insensé Ultramarine for Her and the freshest versions of the wave of fruity-florals will like this one very much. It can seem a bit too soapy at the basenotes for some.

A much sweeter EdC by R&G, this one is fruity-candy sweet (but not intensely so) and very flowery as well. It’s one of the more femenine current EdCs by R&G, along with Eau deLotus Bleu(wich is an eau parfumante or fragant water) .
It also has some spices to kick it up a notch.
If you’re into fruity scents, this one can become quite addictive.
It’s also a bit musky (white musks it seems) on the base wich is very nice after all those fruits.
The most I get is ripe apricots and peaches and sweet oranges.
I like it a lot but never seem to wear it as often as I’d wished.

EdTV is another fragant water (eau parfumante) by R&G.
It has less longevity that say, Eau de Lotus Bleu but much more than Extra Vieille.
It has tangerine, yuzu, grapefruit, green tea, cedar and guaic woods among other notes.
Very fresh at the top, it’s more unisex than Arden’s Green Tea but I prefer this one because I don’t have to spray every 5 minutes or so, and the sillage is rather good and very green and spring-like.
It seems like a better rendition of the yerbamate leaf instead of a “real” green tea wich, if you have ever smelled the real thing, you’ll know what I’m talking about, as there is nothing truly close to it, and it’s difficult to describe.
This Green Tea is a another great adition to my R&G fragrance collection.

This one is a fruity floral that is more fruity than floral. As girly as it can get.
And the fruits here seem to be just on the side of too sweet and almost fake. I say almost. It’s not an awful scent, as it is in general with PH frags, but this one might be too tacky and cheap for some, and even a bit bubblegummy.
The notes are: passion fruit, orange, peach granita, champagne mimosa, star jasmine, tiare flower, ylang ylang, honeysuckle, dewberry blossom, grenadine, violet leaf, vetiver, tonka bean and blonde woods.
It can be soapy and flowery sweet too, specially at the basenotes, where the vanilla (surprise) and the blonde woods (insert joke here) seem to balance things at the very last minute.
All in all, everything in it seems fake and cheap and I like it that way, but just for a while.

As much as I hate it when people try to pass a scent as an aquatic one and fail miserably, I still like this one. I like the bottle and the colors too.
On my skin the ridiculously named notes are something entirely alluring and very fetching, it smells of leisure and relaxation, of watery tropical calm combined with warmth and dance.
The fruits basket of the female version is much better balanced here than in that other version, and I like it.
I have smelled this one on other people and sometimes it’s very unelegant and almost just about to become rank.
The metabolic mess-or not- that this scent can provide on the skin, sadly depends on each one. If it doesn’t agree with your skin, why not use it as a room spray.

I was glad to try this one out.
I happen to have the right chemistry for it and it’s fantastic.
Good longevity, fresh but just a bit sweet too, the marine notes are very real-smelling and it really is beachy.
Simple, but sometimes, I’m a simple guy.

Some people have said that it’s a love it or hate it scent. I agree. And I love it.
Why? It’s simple really: I am a sucker for scents with raspberries or any other kind of “red round small fruits” and I am looking for the perfect raspberry scent (aren’t we all looking for the “perfect” something?). The base becomes more about iris and vanilla than something else. Is there violet here? As it is with violet notes, it’s here now -gone 10 seconds later.
Anyways, this scent has good sillage and good longevity but not Guerlain-longevity. On my skin that is.
It’s sweet and a tad girly but I like it like it is.
Wrong name, “uncomfortable” ads and cool but kind of ugly bottle, makes for a scent that some people seem to care more about the other non-scent qualities of the frag instead of caring (or debating) about the scent per se.
There is something a bit strange about the frag, I think it might reside on the way the sugars meet and that may appear a tad tacky, maybe I would have liked more bergamot or even some green tea on the top notes, but I’ll leave it at that.
For a classier and softer berry scent, you might want to try Carolina Herrera’s Carolina.

VA is very very sweet, very good logevity and good sillage. Sometimes, it’s too much. The roses and the fig here are very strong and I’m not too sure they make a good mix yet, the vanilla takes center stage early on and the amber becomes a quiet slave to it.
I can’t even imagine how sweet this one migh have been if not for the presence of the grapefruit or the other top notes.
This is more of a fall-winter time, night out scent.
Doest it smell like V? yes, but only like a mother might smell like their daughter. That means to me, that there are some similarities but they can stand for very different scents for each one.
It’s on the verge of being unelegant. On some skins, it can be a crash-and-burn.

The very alcoholic top becomes a very fresh and a not too original scent after a short while. The mace appears on the topnotes also, but it’s not too strong , wich is nice, in here, it kind of acts as a blending unit, almost like an aldehyde of sorts.
It’s a nice smell and it’s very masculine (Ungaro III –the new version- masculine) but it’s more for the more refined “new man” as people like to call it these days. I wanted to find more bad things on this one but it’s really not a bad one, so the only thing against it is that it blends with the crowd, and sometimes that is a good thing also.
It has a warmer, sweeter (think soft vanilla fumes: sometimes it wants to try very hard to be Jaïpur Homme, but it never ever gets there) base that goes soft on the woods as well and looses that typical-in-man’s scents leather note there to become more of an amber-infused base that creates the most interesting part of the scent.
I rather like it. It has also a professional tone to it that’s very attractive too. So I’d say it’s versatile, but a bit boring (but not YSL’s L’Homme boring).

I was afraid to test this and I was right: lemon, ginger, white pepper and a hint of violets with a woody base is all I get.
It’s not a terrible scent at all, but it is very boring.
It’s clean, fresh and it lacks a huge deal of personality, it feels modern and soft. It has that metrosexual masculinity thing that some people seem to like. –I don’t want to say wishy-washy- ..well fine...i just did!.
Again, nice, lacks longevity, has soft sillage, but in the end I guess YSL sold out on this one, and I think I’m not the only one who thinks that way.

Escada has done it again, and by that I mean only good things: ITB is and smells just great.
It sort of remids me of the now discontinued but still beloved escada’s FeelingFree, wich is (or was: it’s gone to heaven now) one of my alltime favorite escada scents.
The main difference is that ITB is more femenine and FF was more unisex and also a lot fresher: I could say ITB is soft-flowery-waters and FF was soft-clearblue skyes and rain. ITB is more complex than FF but it remains a simple scent (generally speaking) as well. Something like that.
ITB is very lightly sweet and femenine on the top notes and it remains like that for most of the run, so I’ll safely say that it’s a linear scent. That is not a bad thing here because it’s a very comfortable and pretty scent, something of a better quality in comparison to those beyond tacky escada’s limited editions.
The fruity-floral that this one is, might not be too different from others in the same category but this EDP is good enough for a full bottle puchase, at least for me.
Great heavy glass bottle and somewhat similar box and “aura” of Escada’s Escada (2005), wich is another one I relaly like.
When Escada2005 was cucumber and lightsweet water fruits, this one is more airy and even fresher, and not as sweet, I find that for an EDP, it lacks a certain longevity, but I still like it. If a woman oversprays ITB, it wouldn’t bother me at all. I might like it even better.! Good one Escada!.

This, i think, is the better and improved version of the original BP. Even though both showcase a long list of ridiculously named, far-fetched ingredients, this one actually delivers: where BP was a loud fruit basket nutcase gone awry, this BPB one is much softer on the sweets and the fruits, and more about “water flowers” and it has very fresh, alluring top notes that cannot be missed, giving a cool opening door to the midnotes wich are still very fresh.
Thanks to the powers that be that this rendition of the orange blossom note –wich is here in the midnotes- is one of the best ones out there (yet soft) and gives it a very welcomed touch of flowery freshness to it.
And thank the people of EL that that dreaded fake banana note on BP (wich is not listed but it certainly smeels like it –maybe it was the combo of some of the fruits there) is gone.
The top notes are somewhat more unisex than the rest (mid and basenotes), wich are more on the femenine side of the spectre.
Another thing to point out is that sun-kissed skin accord, wich smells like the softskin of a clean woman on vacation-that is, a woman who has lots of oranges at breakfast, luch and dinner-and that means good news here also.
Very attractive, the ad is very in sync with the scent, and well, thumbs up. I can now toss away that BP (the original version) , or maybe I will still use it as a room spray from time to time, as I have been doing lately.
So is BPB watery ? yes, in a beachy kind of way; how’s the logevity any good? Still not so much but I like it as it is. What about the sillage? Sillage can go crazy here: at the first hour it’s there all right, then dissapears, then it reappears back again. So I guess it’s a personal thing. All I can say is that on a woman it’s great and it makes me smile.
The funniest thing about BPB is that it feels related to the original BP, but the difference is that this cousin smells way better.

I didn’t like this one. I had to smell it on at least 2 others before I made any decisions, and found out that it does smell a bit different at least on the drydown, depending on the wearer.
The top is very plasticky, sweet and I get a funky smelling rose and some pear gone too sweet. The mid is peony that lasts about 5 minutes and the rest is all basenotes, with the vanilla shutting up all the other notes when they try to make an opinion, being the almond the ones that wants to say the most.
There are some frags that have lots of vanilla at the drydown like, say, Dali’s Laguna for women, wich I like, but on this one the combo of notes just didn’t do anything good on my skin. Lasts forever and has a strong sillage.
I didn’t scrub it down as to get the whole trip and I didn’t like it.

I believe this scent is one of those Love-it or hate-it scents.
I happen to love it, as it remids me me of an old-world: from the retro look , to the packing and to the scent itself. It’s not so old, as it was introduced in 1953 as a bath oil, but it feels like it came from another era.
I think the one to get here is the Body oil. The major difference between the body oil and the EDP is the EDP’s top wich has a healthy dose of aldehydes (wich I like but can be difficult for others).
The lavender, spices, patchouli and moss and of course vanilla and amber are the big guns in the body oil and the EDP seems to be a little lighter but a bit more harsh thanks to the aldehydes. Still it’s not a light scent in any way.
I like heavy ones from time to time (like Opium, for example) and this one is very confortable in the oil presentation, but as a note I can say that only a small dab on each wrist is enough to last for hours.
Some people have stated that it smells like old ladies, if that’s the case, then I want to smell like them: elegant and mysterious. Rich, deep and sensual, YD exudes high quality, and at times, it reminds me of a luxury hotel.
It also has roses also, but be quick to notice them at the top, because the roses will soon drown under the oriental aura of the drydown, same with the lily of the valley, it just feels like it’s not there, then you get the smallest hint of it, then it’s gone. Even though I really like it, I don’t wear it that often.

This is a very soft, fruity-floral that it’s very nice but also it lacks a certain personality. Not bad at all, it’s very comfortable even at first spritz (peony, baie rose and litchi), moving onto a lighty sweeter basenotes (opponax, amber, sandalwood bourbon vanilla, light musk) in this case, I see intense pink roses sprinkled with a little white sugar that shines when put under the sun, with the added bonus of a very nice and heavy bottle, as is the case in almost all of the Lalique scents.
This is, I believe, the “youngest” scent in Lalqiue’s line of frags, and the one to get if you’re thinking of a gift for a person that likes soft rose scents.
Now, how this one differs from other limited editions and other pink frilly fruity florals? It’s difficult to say because of the lack of personality, but I can say that the logevity is better here than in most other scents in this category (but not the sillage) , another plus is that the rose smell is really nice and not fake nor candy-like, the litchi note smoothes out all the flowers and even if hedione is here, haters of this note would be happy to know that it’s not prominent at all.
The base is a very soft one as well, and all the notes intermingle with one another and the light musk is the one that keeps the other notes at the base at bay and in order, like a teacher in a class full of kids.
All in all, it is a very nice scent, but it’s No Holy Grail.

When compared with 1990’s Trésor, this one is very weak in all aspects.
But I was never too keen on that early version to begin with, and found it to be too sweet and too strong, even in EDT form.
This one is a very pale, soft, very light version that combines a few more flowers and lots more freshness that has a very airy feel and a very uncomplicated, pretty and smooth finish.
The blackcurrant buds on the top are very nice and soft-fruity and the mid is all about fresh peaches and lily of the valley, one of my favorite notes. The base has a very smooth sandalwood and the weakest vanilla absolute, wich I enjoy a lot more than the heady vanilla of the original version.
Both the package and the box are pretty too, and the bottle is basically the same as the other Trésors, but this one has a golden ring. You might be surprised to learn that for such a “weak” scent, this one has a very good longevity but the sillage is lacking some punch, but I am comfortable with that, as I’d rather have this version to the regular Trésor.
I think it’s bottle worthy.Fans of the original might be very disappointed.

I’m not much of a fan of this one. It’s a scent in the lines of Clarins’s Par Amour and I didn’t love that one either.
I found it to be too sweet, too grown up, too much.
It’s still more elegant than tons of stuff out there, but there was some strange note there that didn’t go well with me.
I expected more of this one.
Great, heavy, classy bottle

I was very scared t try this one because I really didn’t like the original, no matter how much a classic scent that one was.
This one is very nicer, all the harsh notes are softened and even if it still smells a bit like WL (it’s evident that they are related) , the whole experience is much less loud and biting.
Platrow’s “casting” was spot-on also as is the whole imagery in the ads. The scent is very light and it’s like clouds on a sunny fresh morning, it’s not overpowering at all and the longevity is ok.

The very boozy, somewhat masculine opening of Cognag almost drowns all other top notes, but after a short while the mid notes will come in very shy and almost like asking for permission.
The longevity is very good here, I found out after I refused to wash for a long time just to see what happened. The mid notes seemed to dissapear in a matter of a short 2 hours or less and I felt that was it for this scent.
But later that night the nice soft musks and the fruity apple bits appeared and were very comfortable and very “clean”, wich I thought was very good after being for so many hours on my skin, it was almost like out of the shower clean.
The top boozy notes were the worst part for me, it’s a good thing they evaporated fast. A very interesting ,very clean , soft gourmand for men.

This scent was very attractive from the get-go. In general, I really dislike intensely fruity scents, like the Escada limited eds. for example, but in this case, the intense watermelon and graefruit and what’s supposed to be red apple (it’s not red apple to me), felt very charming and good enough to eat.
The drydown is very ambery wich I love and it had a light musk base in it too.
The scent in general is very linear with the amber turn only at the base, and I liked that in this case only because I happened to like the top notes.
I really don’t know why I liked it that much, it’s too simple, it’s overpriced, and is a very fruity gourmand. It smells artificial also, but I still liked it.

I really like this fragrance!
It’s strange how this version is the favorite of many men and the male version is the favorite of many women to wear on themselves. I didn’t give either ONight men nor ONight woman a fair try when they came out: I was travelling and I think the notes were lost among the stress and the other samples and whatnot.
So after a while and when I felt more “ready” and more at peace I gave them another try.
This might just be one of the best CK releases in a long time.
The mixing of the notes is masterful, and the notes flow smoothly from one to the other and they all seem to be defined shades of a very attractive hue.
The only thing I have against this scent has nothing to do with the smell of it: the name is nothing like the fragrance. Whe I think night, I think dark vs moon-light, mystery and shadows and wet coldness in a dark environment.Not only that, but it smells nothing like the original Obsession. But all of that can be forgiven.
ObsessionNight woman is lights, surround sound, sleek doors and fresh drops on a silvery tray. The sillage envelops and the longevity is ok. There is nothing in this scent that I don’t really like. Bottle worthy.

Very pretty, very girly scent that has plenty of flowery semi-sweet goodness to go around for everyone.
It’s fresh at the opening without being boozy/airy/sharp, and it has a clean feel to it throughout its entire run, even if it’s in a give and take with all the flowers, and this cleanliness isn’t like a dishwashing clean: it’s more like a cute, little whimsical guest fruity soap.
At first I also thought about the dready Escadas limited eds, but here the sweetness if very toned down, something I very appreciate and value. Nice. Might be the best Incanto yet.

It’s pleasant enough, but it’s not really a head-turner or a very original scent. I love amber notes and this is supposed to have amber in it, after all , it is marketed as a woody fresh ambery frag by Ferragamo,but I waited and waited and the amber was found at the very end and it was very faint,so I was disappointed.
The fresh top is longlasting though, something a lot if the scents for men bypass with heady boozy openings that evaporate very rapidly, so that’s a good point for IncantoPH.
Other than that I fount it to be a little boring. This will have to wait on the sidelines for a long time. Best bits: the top notes and the wet woods on the basenotes. Worst part: longevity and weak amber.

This scent is a very straightforward, simple and attractive fresh orange fragrance. The longevity is dismal and the sillage is ok –for a couple of minutes.
I gave a try at this on 2 occasions: before and during exercise. Before, the scent had limitations and it seemed like a very cheap but thankfully unsweet fragrance. Nothing to be amazed at but nice.
During my time at the gym, things got more interesting: everything improved, even the longevity. So I’d say it’s nice for exercise and for very, very hot days. I never thought of it as a cheapo scent, only a simple one. Strangely enough, a lot of women don’t find this attractive upon first sniff, but then again the ones I asked about this one only smelled it from the bottle, so that’s not fair.

This one I felt it was a woman’s perfume disguised as a man’s frag. But that was at first spray, because afterwards it became a more unisex scent that had a very heavy dose of soap in it. This soap would be regular run-of-the-mill soap, and sans glicerine.
The opening might be very sharp to some, and this citrusy sharpness will die down rather slowly. On my skin, this scent lasted a long time and the sillage was very strong. I thought it was strange since on others the sillage was so-so.
The top notes I ca live with, the mid notes were a bit hostile, like a verbal dissagreement between floral notes, and they kept on fighting until the basenotes came in, and at that time I was getting really tired of this scent. I don’t’ find it very sweet but it certainly is mild and somewhat uneven and simple.
At times it almost remided me of how might have been the smelling salts of yore. I know this one can smell good, just not on me.

This is a very comfortable, very masculine, suede-like fourgère that can be too overpowering if you overspray, in this case, that would mean 3 or 4 sprays. It’s sexy, not too macho and it’s not tacky either.
I prefer this one to the other 2 ancestors. Somehow, it reminds me of christmas, and it also feels like it can boost one’s confidence. I think it’s bottle worthy but it’s definitely not a top frag on the men’s side. I call it the de-froster because of its warmth. It has a very italian-graveyard feel to it, mossy on the drydown.
I think it borrows from the big 80s but in a more subtle way.

I liked this scent more than I wanted to. I thought it was going to be yet another soft masculine frag with peppery notes and some vanilla and/or woods at the base, but found it to be much more complex than what it states and I liked that.
The pyramid seems very simple, but the real deal is that the layers are more than that, and it shows…the nicest part of the whole thing was the drydown, wih resinous, smoky woods that combined with the surprisingly long lasting top and mid notes, develop in a very rich scent. This one is far better than the mis-step that was Mania.
Some women have said to me that it was “yummy” and masculine and that the drydown was way better than the top notes. I am a fan of bergamot and the top has lots of it and that makes me happy. I got “new refinement”, luster and class.

I didn’t think this was bottle worthy but there must be a lot of people who might like this one: it has a fresh ginger opening that unexplainably becomes even fresher on the drydown, I think it’s the mint, that at the middle comes forcing its way into the frag and making it a mint journey.
The bitter orange also comes in at mid notes and it sort of helps the mint in the “we’re taking over this, 2 is better then 1” motto. I got the woods at the base and some medium-strong musk that finally toned down the pepper and the sharpness of it all.
I think it’s crass and unelegant. What’s supposed to be the Glam here?
I don’t think it’s the best in the EAHe line , in fact, it might get bottom place. It’s longlasting and the sillage is strong. But would I want it to be like that? Maybe in hotter climates it can be more interesting.

So this scent claims to have mint, mandarin, grapefruit, lavender, cedar, cinnamon, sandalwood and patchouli. From the mid-90’s, it bears a suspiciously resemblance to some of the notes of Insensé Ultramarine, at least on first spritz.
But Vuarnet comes short here: it rears its cheapo head disguised as a fresh scent with a dynamic, and sporty feel that really comes off as a “watery”, light fragrance that doesn’t really go anywhere.
Where’s the cinnamon? And what kind of sandalwood doesn’t last more than 10 minutes?
It’s gone after less than 2 hours. At least Insensé Ultramarine (wich I love) was a bold, chemical fresh-aromatic that’s not afraid to be biting and strong.

Wow! This I liked at first sniff too. The top notes can be a bit too sweet but later on, the scent changes into a very pleasing creamy (but not milky) almost white Icoa chocolate with raspberries that changes yet again for the basenotes into a beachy light floriental that has coconuts, sand and honey with a very attractive amber polished finish. Avon really went up a notch with this one in terms of complexity, light versus dark, balancing florals and gourmand notes into one “vacation” scent, that lasts too. Cheers!

Simplicity, it seems, can go very wrong too.
Cheap-smelling, this one doesn’t last too long and it has no personality, no name, no face, no nothing: like a one night stand minus the sex part and the excitement, only regrets.
It’s really strange that I don’t like it, because I (in general) never say no to a fruity fragrance for men, but I guess it doesn’t go well with my skin.

Now , the name it’s the only thing I don’t like about this scent.
It’s masculine, it’s woody, it’s fresh cut grass and cedar cabinets with glass-doors that hold golf balls and baccarat bottles with cognac.
It’s outdoors, and wet greens that were rained just an hour ago.
The part that I like the best is the spicy turn when the cinnamon, cardamom and other spices come in. I also get some clove and nutmeg but it might be the combination with the jasmin and the other woods.
It’s very interesting, and yes, I also managed to get some for me.

When they say it’s the best of chevignon, there’s something there that makes me want to believe them. And whenever I smell this one, I kind of agree. It’s very nice, but somewhat demure, understated and shy scent, that has nice sillage for a while but it has some logevity issues.
It’s a good thing that we can smell the bergamot and mandarine on the top notes more than the banana leaves. Ever smelled a banana leaf? You don’t want to show up to a restaurant or to a date smelling like that, believe me.
The geranium mid notes manage to stay cool and the base woods are interesting but they don’t last too long to say that they were of really top quality, or maybe they were very washed down to make it cheaper. In short, it’s nice, I also agree that it’s unisex and i had to say it because there are some scents that are labeled unisex but tend to go more to one side or the other,and this one fits right in the middle...the lightness of it all adds to it, but it’s not what I’d call memorable.

So, Perry Ellis gained my respect again when they released this one.
After all, you have to be very good when you combine berries, bergamot, carnation, hedione, thyme and more and not make it a cacophony of notes.
Better quality than the regular line of 360s, this one smells grown up, elegant but that can very easily work in a club or bar environment.
I don’t like it under the sun, but on colder weather is very pleasing.

This long oblong blue bottle contains a very safe, very cheap, very short-living kind of nice scent. I could only think where might be the intense, extreme, concrentrée version of this one. Would it even be woth it? This scent certainly isn’t.
It’s not a bad scent in the sense that it will send you off vomiting, because it won’t. It’s bad in the sense that it’s so uninspired and bland that you don’t feel like you’re spraying something with personality.
It’s actually a good thing that they came up with the Reserve version, the White version and the Black version, hell, even the red version. They don’t smell anything like 360Men. Very cheapo-alcoholic opening. Gone after less than 3 hours.

It’s nice enough but it’s definitely not an award winning scent. It’s very fresh, very neat and kind of cool. I could never understand why it sold so many bottles for so many years. Maybe I’m missing something others can smell that I I just can’t. I can even detect now when someone uses it but it’s more like: hey someone’s wearing 212M, and never: wow! That’s so nice 212M! who is it? Ahhh!.
It’s very safe and a bit common nowadays. I’d even prefer one of the 212 special edition summer clones, and that doesn’t say much. Decent longevity, good sillage. I would even prefer Vodka by Carolina Herrera, sorry , I meant Aqua by Carolina Herrera.

You know, the first time I ever tried this on my skin, it turned into a fruit bowl gone bad, I could only get fake bananas, fake melon, fake you name it. It was sweet but not too cloying, not too densely sweet. It lasted more than I ever wanted it to last, and that was a long time. The sillage was nice, strange but true, and it didn’t give me any headaches or any bad physical reactions, but in the end it was too much for me, it even felt a bit cheap. That was the summer. Later on, and on a cooler climate, I tried it some other times. I still didn’t like it that much but the initial fakeness of it all was subdued and the top notes became better and less sweet, the fake fruits came and went fast and there remained some plastic (I like plastic) notes that had some soapy undertones that were very comfortable (even if I’m not much of a soapy notes fan). It lasted a long time too. In the end, I started to like the fragrance for what it is: something not entirely bad. I’d much rather spray on the male version of this, wich I love. I got a full bottle of this, it’s pretty and makes a good home spray.

So i won’t care that it’s for women, i won’t care about wether this is marketed for “young” people, if it makes me that happy as the name implies it just cannot be that bad. And thankfully, it’s not bad at all.
The thing that I like about happy is that despite the strange naming on the notes, you can get and smell all of them in a orderly fashion, the bergamot and other citrus-infused fresh top, the smoother, flowery midnotes, and the more interesting heavy flowers in the basenotes, wich seem to forget about the woods and musks, but were not maketed in here I guess not to scare off some women that might be afraid to get some dark, woody, masculine base. Of course, with happy that’s not the case, as the base is more about fruity-florals but the good kind, the kind that is more about pleasure and comfort than the kind that says: I’m tired of all the fruits and flowers , we’ve had enough, you and I need our separate ways, I need to wash up.
It has a perfectly neat sillage that’s femenine enough but so light sometimes that it seems that the winds will take it away soon if you don’t pay attention. In general, I don’t think it’s a very unusual fragrance, or that it will be forever revered in the “Fragrance Olympus” of classic scents, but it’s just very attractive.
The longevity here is the worst part of all. Thank to the Clinique powers-that-be, that issue was resolved (in what a way!) when Happy Holiday (wich is an intense verison of the regular Happy) was released. If you can’t manage to get the amazing, creamy-dreamy-sensual-but still fresh Happy Holiday, just keep spraying some more Happy. That way, you’re happy,I’m happy and we’re all happy.

Now this is what makes a scent a classic: best quality ingredients, simplicity, and master mixing. Not to forget the coolness factor that comes with owning a Guerlain.
Apart from the fact that it’s a Guerlain, and that it seems to have been slightly altered, it remains one amazing scent.
I loved it at first sniff. It’s very much a blast of fresh, luminous bergamot that has that soft iris middle to end in a gourmand way. What was said before it’s prety much what it is. I was very scared of this scent for many reasons : that it was too powdery, that it was a lemon cake, that it was too sweet at the bottom or too harsh at the top, that it’s sneaky, etc.
All of that I forgot the moment I tried it on my skin. Thank the perfume Gods I got the right skin for it. The bergamot part is the one I like the best and the one I never want it to end, but when the creamy-delicate and very charming middle came to show itself it was as if a cute,elegant lady winked at me, and then offered me a lemon cupcake at a Paris bistro. I was enticed, hooked, then subdued. It has a very good silage even at EDT, and on EDP or parfum it’s grand. The longevity is good too, but it never wins when compared with other guerlain scents such as Samsara wich lasts for days and days, forever and ever.
If that’s what a lemon cake smells like, that must have been the best lemon cake ever made.

Another fruity floral that has some soapy and “cleaning detergent” feel to it. It’s watery but it has more longevity than expected. It can recall EL’s Pleasures at some point. The flowers seem to be water flowers or at least water-related : lotus , litchy and narcissus. The scent has a very calming effect and to my surprise, it lacks any fendi-like note:the booze is gone, the aldehydes are non existent and the woody drydown is MIA, it’s almost as if it were made by another house. I think it’s rather pleasant but a bit boring as well. It’s not a very sweet scent but it has some melony note, the aqua effect is very refreshing. It didn’t rock my world, but at least it wasn’t a terrible scent.

After the alcoholic and aldehydes infused first spritz, you will get lots of bergamot wich will make it rather similar to theorema…for the first minute or so. After a while the flowers and fruits will take over and kill any citrus left and make it more powdery as well. It’s not a bad scent at all, but it does still have the 80’s tag-along feel that even with the reformulation it can’t shake off. The notes are very well layered and they are very defined. But I’m glad this reformulation took place anyways as the original had problems with the quality of the scent after a couple of months, wich today, is unforgivable. I wanted to call the scent “chummy” but it’s too elegant for that so I would say “cozy”. My sister kinda hates it. I’m at odds with it, and I know many women love it. It’s very much a sniff-for yourself scent. The scent is never, at any level sweet, the drydown is rather woody but it has a leathery touch to it that can be called the mysterious sister of Fendi Uomo. This EDP doesn’t have the longevity problems of the fendi’s own EDP Theorema. (wich are solved on the extrait conc. of theorema).

Very boozy opening, as is with a lot of the older fendis, that fades quickly to reveal a magical time-travelling trip to the 80’s. This scent borders the line between the typical macho scents of yore and the elegant, more refined scents that came about in the late 80’s. This one came out in the late 80’s logically but it seemed awfully consevative at the time. The thing is, it is not a bad scent at all, in fact, one can be very drawn to it easily, the sillage is important and there’s this Dad quality that makes it somewhat comfortable. As usual with 80’s scents, this one has a decent longevity. I agree with a lot of what foetidus wrote, and I don’t want to repeat the notes featured either, as they are all very much present in the scent. But I will say that the woody, leathery drydown is very nice, in very masculine kind of way. The patchouli here is not very prominent but it gives it a twist, reminiscent of books and libraries –dust and spiderwebs included. If you happen to like it, please don’t shower with it like my next-door neighbor does.

Very nice light woody unisex fragrance. The top is very fresh, with greens of grass and various leaves both fresh and dry. The top also has a light cirtus note that goes very well with the whole composition. At times, it reminded me of the very attractive Agua Fresca by Adolfo Dominguez, and that becomes more and more apparent as the drydown progresses. I can imagine a cool, young european bussinessman wearing this on a holiday or on any free days. Many women like this as some friends were surprised when I showed them the scent and they said it was very refreshing and cool, without being bland. The sillage is very nice too, and the longevity can be different depending on skin types. The drydown is all soft woods and almost like swedish furniture and teak, but still with a fresh breath in it given by the oakmoss.

The scent opens with a somewhat boozy almost masculine note that will quickly fade if you have the right skin, after a while all the notes become a bit more soapy and the true body of the scent becomes more apparent: right at this stage is where the “real” theorema begins and this is where i prefer to start with the notes: if anyone senses a bit of Shalimar in the top notes it wouldn’t be surprising because it has, like Shalimar, tons of bergamot at the top (and just a hint of oranges too) , something I really like. This is definitely a femenine scent in the EDP form, but it feels like if it were a professional woman that makes hard decisions while having a softer side to her and yet another one, a sexy one. The citrus opening tones down a bit and the surprinsingly soft vanilla appears in the mid notes –I know that it sits at the basenotes in the pyramid but to me the vanilla kicks in very early- along with the spices, the sexy but more assured part of the fragrance.The flowers come in at the mid notes as well, but these flowers are very soft and almost creamy, the jasmin is very pretty but won’t overpower the composition at all. Of the spices we find: cardamom, cinnamon,a bit of pepper and the softest, lightest cumin found in a scent, all of this makes the scent a bit more interesting than the regular floriental. Apparently it has a note of cream but thankfully this cream has no milk at all, and it won’t go sour on my skin. Very elegant and luxurious, this EDP can be used at all seasons because it’s not as concentrated as one might expect. It has a luminous quality to it too. The basenotes are a bit gourmand and the vanilla sits very soft but not very sweet and the amber and the woods are very welcomed to an almost unisex base that’s very comfortable and rich but never too opulent nor loud. The sillage is decent but the longevity has some issues. Very nice. I don’t know what is it with companies discontinuing good scents. At least bring it back in the amazing extrait form, wich I would be getting no matter the price.

And now the quickie review for Roses des Bois: still fresh , but with an added light fruity kick of blackberry.It also has wild roses and the sandalwood has a better command of the basenotes, the top notes have a greener edge to it too. Very nice as is with the rest of the limited eds of YSL's Paris Frags. Delicate and femenine.

Lemons, yellow lemons, green lemons, limes and just a hint of bergamot and white musks. A very lineal, almost too simple scent, that lasts a great deal on the skin, in fact, I think it’s one of the longest-lasting lemon scents on the market. Very happy, kind of summery but unlike the rest of the “summer” frags this one stays. It never lacks light, activity, high energy, it’s a very tonic scent. It helps when feeling tired. I agree that it lacks a certain classiness, and it might be a bit boring too, even predictable, but I just like it a lot. For a classier take on lemons –and a long lasting frag too- try Boucheron pour Homme Edt or Edp. I really like this Mr.Balmain scent.

Never a sharp orange, this one is more of a fresh-orange-candy fragrance. The longevity of it varies widely with the chemistry of the user. On me it’s very decent, about 6 hrs. Very lineal scent, it never changes too much, the basenotes are a warmer, dryer version of the top notes, and that’s a good thing also, since the top notes are very attractive. This scent is very unisex as well. It really makes you feel happy and it might be an antidepressant if made into little pills –not really but you get the idea. Uncomplicated and straightforward, I think it’s a must-have to a well rounded scent shelf. Summer is here to stay.

I feel it’s one of those dated colgnes that can pass my personal test. I got a bottle. I love that it has a very boozy quality that remids me of a combo of cointreau with cognac –not that it has any- but I feel it that way. So I am not really sure why they called it black suede because it doesn’t feel black nor suede-ish. The top notes are very fleeting and the whole thing is very woody as well, but more cedar /barkwood than pine or cypress. The base notes are very musky –bit powdery yes- with an added kick of sandalwood and a very attractive amber. Sometimes it feels sensual.

I have one right in front of me and it feels simple and well blended. At times, I feel it might be cheap, but I just like it a lot. I don’t find it particularly Red or spicy, but it’s got a sensuality that’s undeniable. Flowery but not “cute”, the sillage is surprisingly strong and the longevity is very decent. It does have a certain charlie-ness to it so I am happy that they respected that. Not as pretty as charlie white, but I just feel like it’s a very attractive scent, and it just smells great on a woman. For a scent that was made in ’93, it feels rather older than that, not that there’s anything wrong with that, in fact, I think it adds to the allure of it. I believe if this were bottled in a chanel-guerlain-younameit flaçon, it would get much more fans, I do think it falls victim of snobbery.

Huge, big florals, creamy, thick and very caramel-like middle notes, and amber/woods heaven at the basenotes, this scent is all that was good in the french perfumery of yore, when scents were confident, refined and almost over-the-top. A beautiful floriental, this demands attention. The oranges are well rounded and it can be too strong for some. Even at EDT concentration it might feel too much –it lasts forever and the sillage is strong-. But for people who like elegant scents, that never fall into a crass or cheap rendition, this one is the one. For something more demure, just try the eau délicate version. It’s almost like eating a wonderful sweet orange dessert that has the right amount of vanilla and a little burnt sugar on top, and I say almost because just when you think it might be a gourmand, it takes a turn and returns to the flowers, wich help making it not so overtly sweet. If you have the right chemistry, why not give it a go? On cold weather it’s very comforting.

Oh man. This is a red mark for givenchy. And not because it’s bad. It’s not. I think that someone must be bored there for some reason. This special limited edition is a fruity floral (surprise!) that is more fruity than floral, that’s about it. Bland and forgettable. Again it’s not bad, but I want something a little more daring, or better yet, something more beautiful. Soft and low sillage-longevity, it can be confused with some other limited eds. Thanks for at least not making it ugly. This will become someone else’s Givenchy, not mine. I am a fan of the house in general, but I feel somewhat deceived.

This fragrance has top and middle notes that blend amazingly well, and for that, the first spray can be very sharp and almost too dry also. But fear not because the scent will get mellower –but never soft- as time passes by and it will become a very fetching mid-base notes combo that it’s a bit smokey with light (yellow and reds) and dark, like a room that has a very warm fireplace. So yes it can be very strong and overwhelming to some but to me , it’s also very interesting and it draws me in and it calls me into its aura of heady dryness. Very big on aldehydes and patchouli this one is not for the weak. It’s very much a love-it or hate-it fragrance. I love it.

Absolutely intense, but not intoxicating unless oversprayed, this scent commands attention and it’s very sensual at the same time. The sillage is deep and it surrounds you and the scent itself is very, well, unforgettable. That might be a good or a bad thing depending on the person of course. The top notes are all very well blended and I like the fact that the majority of the flowers are on the top and not on the mid or basenotes. The middle is spicy but creamy and heavy with a very alluring base. The amber here is amazing. I am not a huge fan of this scent because it can be too much too soon but it’s better at least than the man’s version, wich is also good but less so than this one.

Well everything has been said of this iconic fragrange. It’s unmistakeable, it’s very classy, it’s aldehydes heaven. The last bit gets lots of haters as well because it can feel to some people way too metallic or sharp. I love aldehydes myself. The ylang at the top it’s not so strong and it gives sort of a soothing or calming effect to the chemicals. I relate it to xmas time because I give it at that time of the year. While I do think it’s very nice and a very well-done scent, I prefer the smoother, more adjustable Le Dix by Balenciaga, in EDT form at least. These are compared endlessly but the latter I think is a better version of the former, and it’s very underrated in comparison. Back to No5, I also think that the basenotes are of very high quality and it shows in every concentration. The perfume and EDP version of No5 are best if you want a deeper, more flowery and thicker scent than the EDT, wich would go well for more of an everyday use. Very good sillage and great longevity, it’s very much a quality fragrance.

Very sweet but creamy, it’s an instantly recognizable scent. The top is very fleeting with the oranges flowers flying by if you don’t pay too much attention, and the middle notes come fast and strong: it’s not what I would call too heady, but it does have a certain heavyness that might have something to do more with the carnation and the hyachinth than the lily. Strong sillage! The incense creeps in smack in the middle of the mid-notes and trail all the way to the end of the basenotes that add a certain gothic flavor into it (IMHO), but still making it sort of innocent, so I would call it a white or grey incense, the sandalwood is faint and the quality of it is questionable. I never really loved the scent but I do respect it, I have had some people in my life that wore this scent and on some it was too cloying and on some it was just right, and to me, it remided me of days past and it does feel a bit dated, but never 80s or 70s, I mean like from another century almost. It was intended for younger women as it has been said but if you look at it in a calmer manner, you can see that it’s all to do with the marketing and the naïve pictures that make it become that way, and not because of the scent itself, and since it has been with us for so many years, people have the image printed on them and that’s hard to shake off. A bit soapy and somewhat simple, it amazes me that it has so many fans and that it can be so evocative.

This scent is mostly about oranges and citrus than it is about azahar and it shows at first spritz. But there is azahar on the late-mid notes and at the basenotes so it does show respect for its name. The main wave here is the citrus though: orange flowers, orange treebark, orange leaves, neroli, and bergamot that makes this scent shine and be a sort of antidepressive and evoques light and sun with a fresh spring top that follows into very stimulant midnotes and still refreshing basenotes. The scent is not as longlasting as some might expect, because the azahar oil in general is very longlasting. The sillage is pretty and short as well, but for the happiness it gives and the prettyness of it all -that’s all forgiven. It’s almost as if walking into an orange tree garden with grapefruits and soft white roses that never become too ripe or too sour. The sweetness here is minimal as well, wich I welcome. Very nice!

Fresh as the other limited Paris eds, now with a presence of different, more varied colored roses of the "light orange hue" family and others. It has a very light fruity note to it too. A very "happy" scent.

My flash review:
Very delicate "light pink rose" scent, as opposed to the more intense pink/red rose of the original.
Very fresh as well, with the lily of the valley being a bit more pronounced but never taking the center stage of the rose buds. This is an ahhh! scent.

Since this is a limited edition i will give a "limited" review of this scent, and will do the same for the rest of the Paris limiteds (it doesn't mean i don't like them -i do- but i am in a lazy mode right now):
This is watered down version of YSL's Paris, less roses, less violets, much fresher, and you can feel the orange blossom a bit more. Very nice still.

I recently had the chance to test this one and it's not bad at all: it does however, smell differently compared to the original.How so? The original EauDM is a fresh take on beachy white sandy shores, and sharper woody-musky top accords. The ElixirDM version is more of a gourmand scent that has a much sweeter and creamier feel to it. It also outlasts the original by hours and hours.(EauDM lasts a long time too, just not as much as ElixirDM). The sillage is strong as well. If the top-middle notes denote a heavy use of oranges and other citrus fruits, the drydown has chocolate, vanilla and tonka bean to make it even more gourmand. Of course, there on the basenotes we find also the wonderful, high-quality ambergris and sandalwood that gives ElixirDM the unmistakable smell of EauDM , only with a velvety touch. Yet another addition to my long list of Hermès scents!
A winner!

Not too bad, but not too great either. Not as high energy or fresh as CWsummerFizz, but has a more laid back feel, wich goes well with the sun,sea and surf name.
More fruity than floral, it's not intensely sweet and very wearable. But oh so very uninteresting. There are about 13 million scents with a similar "feel". Bottle worthy? Only if you are a Davidoff buff or want a very safe, clean, demi-sweet girly scent. It's way better than CWGameWoman at least.

Could a scent get more common than this? Another fruity-floral that has longevity and sillage problems and tries to pass as aquatic.
I'll pass.

I agree that it has a very tea-like quality but i find it earthy as well. Possibly one of the most recognizable smells out there, it's also a very interesting one. This scent is very well blended and has a decent sillage and is one of the most longlasting benettons. Nowadays it's also very cheap. The heavy sandalwood-ylang mid notes give the scent a very creamy feel to it. Warm, subtle and yet elegant (not every elegant scent has to smell like a heavy fourgère -in the case of male scents- or an expensive rose-jasmine de grasse -in the case of the female scents) it's not only for young people but for eveyone. It's truly unisex to me too. Strange print ads, nowadays it might feel dated to someone that grew up at the time of its release and might fall into the "weird early 90's scents". I happen to love it.

I like this one too, but i prefer BClean Energy. This, as usual with this line, is very short lasting and has minimal sillage, but it has a very "clean laundry" smell to it, along with some oxygen accords and some very comfortable green leaves. The top has a boozy quality that rapidly changes into a very calm, humble and almost shy scent that has a somewhat soapy drydown.

When Flore was too much, this was heaven. Bad thing was, it was very light and both the longevity and sillage were minimal. But i liked it so much that it didn't really matter. It had a fresh, fruity top with some violets and a middle that had mostly lily of the valley and the faintest, lightest amount of jasmin and rose with an ambery drydown that was very simple. It felt watery as well wich was spot-on with the name. Why was it discontinued? I guess it was just too light and fans of both Flore and Carolina herrera for women were put off by this. It remided me (and smelled like)something Nina Ricci might have done.

What a pretty and refine scent!.
On berry scents: If Par Amour Toujours is too young and fluffy (with some grapefruit), and if Hot Couture (the original not the white version) is too peppery and sweet, this just might be for you.
It's very longlasting wich was surprising for such a "clean" and crisp frag that dries down into very soft woods and a very light vanilla that will never annoy you. It has a confusing name for some because there is another carolina scent out there: carolina herrera. But when you smell them all the differences will become clear.Also the new packings are very different. Carolina is very much an elegant soft fruity(berries)-floral and carolina herrera is a stronger floral with orange and tuberose. It's good for any weather or occasion i think and very femenine.

You know, i like the way it smells on some people but on me, i'm not so sure. It smells cheap and common. I guess you have to have the right chemistry for it to work properly.

Is STDupont the best-kept secret in the perfume bussiness? At least on the men's scents side, virtually of of the fragrances i tried were nice enough to buy. This one in particular, has an hesperide top, very herbal, with pine (might be the cypress) and other woods thrown in for a very elegant, long lasting and very agreeable, natural, almost crisp quality to it. The woods in the drydown are nothing to be amazed at, but they are very nice as well.It never looses its masculinity. Not only worth trying, it's worth buying.

I had the sour feeling that this smells like a typical men's scent when i used this on my skin. Nice, greenish start with some cirtrus making a very short appearance, with a very complex drydown. I respect the scent and i know people like it but i don't like it as much as its offspring: elements aqua.It has the strange quality of smelling differently on everyone on the drydown.

Very nice, soft, understated and underrated scent that has a fresh somewhat celery-like aura (but it's really a green-ish vetiver instead of a better quality sunny vetiver) that has a very comfortable drydown. It has some elegance because it's not loud at all. "Pleasant" somes to mind. the only objections to it are the sillage and the longevity, that could be improved. It's not my favorite of the EA scents: EA NightHe takes the crown, but it's not fair to compare the two: they are nothing alike.

It's an "everyday" kind of scent that has a very fresh start with a softer, woody drydown. It's quite boring actually. There are better scents out there that have the same qualities. This doesn't last too long and the sillage is so-so. It's worth a try but i wouldn't get it again.

Fantastic for people with a sweet tooth.When i first wore it i thought i was going to kill people with its strong, vanillic sillage, but it turns out i had the right chemestry and i got tons of compliments from it and later on, the drydown won me over at last. After the initial, surprisingly fresh start, the sweetness creeps in, wether you like it or not and that is some "magnetic wood" they list, it's soft and almost like the smell of balsam wood. The benzoin base makes it all worth it as all the notes seem to rest calmly on it. Lasts a long time.

A bit boring and safe but it's very fresh and one must have the right skin chemestry for it as i have found people that when wore this, it wasn't nice at all. On me it had some black pepper notes that might just be other spices combined along with very fresh green herbs and some citrics too. I didn't find it very long lasting and the sillage was nice after a couple of hours but later on it almost disaapeared on my skin. I'd rather use more the Live version of it. All in all , it's nice.

When i read the notes, i thought i was going to encounter a much more peppery and sharper, almost harsh scent but i was very surprised when i first tried it on my skin. It's sweeter tha i expected and it has a soft almost creamy quality to it too. It is somewhat spicy but the spices are not the main attraction as i think the woods and the leathers on the base are.It's a great scent for going out to the clubs. I thought it has some benzoin but maybe it's just me. The sillage is very nice and it lasts a decent amount of time.

A semi-fresh semi-sweet scen, very floral but very pretty scent, this one comes in second in line after happy holiday when it comes to the happy by clinique family. I wish they could have made it a bit fresher at the top but it’s very pretty as it is. The flowers are soft and creamy and the scent has a medium longevity and nice sillage. It won’t be in any must-have lists but I would buy it again.

This fragrance is a very nice one, very fresh and has a ligh fruity sweetness that never overpowers, the sillage is decent but lacks in the logevity department. While it lasts, it’s very comfortable and very summery as the title says, it has a splash of citrus in all of its layers and you can detect lemon, yellow oranges and blood oranges as well as some aquatic and “right out of the shower” notes that will make you feel very happy, like nothing can go wrong that day. My favorite of the ckOne summer series.

This scent bears almost no resemblance to the original miracle homme, in fact it just might be one or two notes on the drydown that may appear similar but in general, this is just in another category altogether. This scent is all about the greens. Green trees, green leaves, green pepper, green everything you can imagine, wich, with the blast of watery notes, gives the top a very fresh opening, that rapidly changes to the middle to become more of a wet grass-like fragrance with some kick in the middle to make it spicier. As I said before there are some very few similarities on the drydown on the original miracle homme and this one and that’s just fine, because the original is a very safe, everyday scent that is very underrated and that makes it a bit more sensual than other “fresh” scents of today. This is no common green-citrus-aqua scent and the logevity is better than a lot of other “green” scents like, say mugler’s cologne or dali’s agua verde or others. When I first saw it I thought it was going to be a re-packing of Ô pour Homme by lancôme, but it’s a different scent and I was dissapointed because Ô PH was my favorite “green” scent of all time. Bring It Back Please!!

This scent is everything a great summer fresh scent for men must be like: masculine yet misty fresh, soft dry woods and some wild little flowers, like a real spanish countryside, sun and rustic “old world” feel that has an amazing, darker (but not too much) side that dries down in an elegant, old-bookstore-style way that even has an intelligent effect that may be lost on other scents that are on the same category. Pine needles, sand, woods, lights and shadows and early moring and late afternoon sun, come together here. Surprinsingly longlasting and decent - not too great- sillage, this is a winner and I will buy it again. I got the 4oz. box that has a great, simple and heavy sprayer glass bottle that has a very nice wooden top, very rustic and very nice.

To me, this one is the best of the trio today-tomorrow-always. The reason is rather simple: it’s a fruity floral that is light, unobtrusive and very pretty. The sillage is average, the longevity is average as well, it reminded me of something along the lines of the happy by clinique family but with a different color, in this case green, logically. It’s not heady at all. The bad thing here is that it’s just what every fruity floral is: common and very safe. I dunno if I will buy it again, because there are better scents out there but this is definitely not bad at all.

This scent is very much a young, girly-girl little innocent thing that is just too sweet for its own good. It’s a comfortable scent when you feel like smelling like baby girl powder, and it may feel very cozy for a nap or a nice sleep, reminiscent when all things were simpler and happier. But the scent itself can become quite tiresome after a while. The sweetness just grows with the body heat and it may overcome all the other notes sending the baby powder to screaming proportions…thankfully though, after a couple of hours, the scent dies down on the same path that it came over from, the path of the naïve promenade that promises a lot but somehow you feel it’s time to grow up. It’s very big on the nostalgia factor. Cheap too! Beware: it has a lot of aldehydes.

Even though this one comes on EDP, the sillage and longevity leave a lot to be desired. The scent is very nice, light, soft, light flowers on water and "young". It has greens on the top notes wich help to make it feel very fresh. The drydown comes fast and the soft flowers appear yet again and becomes a nice comforting scent, it's very affordable too! Not groudbreaking, nor very original, but nice nonetheless.

Actually this one is called TL pour Elle, not pour femme, anyways , the scent is not fantastic and it's very sweet and powdery even more so than Lapidus woman, wich is better. This one is not as flowery so the women looking for something different might want to try this, this does not work on very warm weather and on colder weather might be a bit better, it feels like it was made in the 80's but the new wave kind of 80's not the over-the-top 80's. This one is also a stainer, so do not spray on white clothing!

I like it enough to give this a thumbs up. The scent itself is very nice, lightly fruity and somewhat watery but not aquatic to me. Fresh, cool and soft, i think the sillage it's not out of this world.
The longevity might vary widely depending on the user. On me, it's so-so.(wich is composed of mostly, white ambery musks).
Safe and nice, i can see why it's been a smash for years and years. It doesn't take my breath away, i don't think it's a scent that will go down in history as a very unique or original fragrance, as it feels almost too safe and regular. Not the typical men's fragrance either as it doesn't smell like the hesperide- citrus-woods or pines of yore. That everyone has this one? who cares about that anymore?

This is a nice, sweet floral oriental scent that has a top of very strong fressia and bergamot notes, that evolves to a more powdery, warm, creamy jasmine and iris middle with a base of a very light patchouli, with a final kick of vanilla, musks and amber. A good combo and a very pleasant composition. Very flowery and very femenine.

This is a very goo scent, it clings to your scent in the sense that even if you shower, you can still get a whiff off of this one. The greens come forward on the top notes to stay with us and it may feel rather lineal but i prefer this in place of a scent that has green that turn sour. Clean , refined,gentle and yes, has a unique smell, this one is a keeper! Good sillage as well.

I will give this a thumbs up for originality cause it's not as common as a lot of the typical male scents out there. This is a nice, short lasting coffe, tobacco and fruity scent that has very nice fresh top notes and that develops elegantly on the skin. Now is it would only come as a EDP it would be better. Very underrated this one.

This one , i think is the best of this line! ...now i don't know if this is marketed for men or women but i think it's very much unisex and the top, middle and basenotes are all very comforting and fresh. Again, for a scent called "café" the real coffe comes in bits and you have to want to smell it to notice it because it feels like it's there as a "bonus easter egg" instead of a strong note. For a scent called "ice" it's everything it's supposed to be: fresh airy and watery at the same time with chilly undertones. If you put it on the fridge for a while and then spray on a hot day it's amazing! Longevity and sillage are not the best, in fact it's quite short-lasting. But the juice is very nice!

Is it really labeled for women?
It's very much a masculine scent to me, at least at first sniff, the juice comes off as a rather harsh citrusy, creamy but strong, brown liquid that makes me wanna think twice before putting it on. The drydown is better than the top notes, the sillage is better than most of the cafe scents from this line and the longevity is good. Not the best but not bad either. And as most cafe scents here, it doesn't really smell like coffe, there is a hint of it on the drydown but hardly enough for a scents to be called "café".

No, this is not good to me.
It's very sweet but not in a good way, i mean i have liked very sweet scents in the past. This one is crass and very un-elegant, almost boudoir-esque for the lack of a better word, save your money and sniff some more. Very strong, strangely low sillage but good longevity.

I was just so bored with this one, i didn't like it but i felt more pity than disgust.
I'll give this one away, i still have one...yeah i bought it blind!

I can forget about the travesty that was OP juice for women now...this one is not half bad, it's very sweet and caramely, the respberry orchid here is very present and it's comforting as is the cucumber on the top notes, as are the rest of the flowers. If you like deep, sweet, fruity scents that can work under heat, this one's for you!

Who came up with this piece of trash? Perfumer's member card withdrawn!
NO no and no!

This one as opposed to the first Paris for men scent, is not as groundbreaking and is very "safe". Again, not a bad scent at all, a bit sweeter (but not as sweet as PH for men)than regular EDTs for men but this fruityness is very welcomed. It is not the most elegant of scents, but it's fun, it has nice sillage and good lonegvity. Too bad about the sad design of the bottle and the messyness of the spray. But the juice is what's important and its not a bad one, in fact is very nice.

I thought i was not gonna like it but i was very surprised.
Soft, delicate, low sillage, long lasting and fresh at the same time, this one is even elegant and i can see a young, classy girl wearing this unobtrusive, light flowery ,clean scent.

Sweet, lemony, orangy (as in the fruit not the color) and strong, it's not a bad scent, but i don't overspray. Only 2 sprays gets me far and i get compliments for it too. But i don't like to wear it all that much. There are a lot of better scents out there (and in my closet).

can i say that the top notes smell suspiciusly like escape for men? yeah i will say that. and i'll say that sadly this one is stronger but in a harsh way. The sillage is very good and the longevity is ok. Another bad thing is that the scent changes to a rather fake, cheap, and common scent after a while. Thing is... i like this sort of cheapness!.
It's fresh, for eveyday, the drydown is kinda sweet(fruity) also. Not bad.

rosamor, rosamor, where did you go wrong?
The notes are fine, the layering is good, sadly, you might be stuck with a soapy, simple, strange rose scent that may recall a rose camay soap bar. another bad point is that i have heard of various stories of this one going bad after a while, and the scent changes to a chemical-heady-rosy-fume that it's not very good. The notes are nice at first spray , the sillage is ok, and the longevity is ok too, i mean if you like roses and light white musk and have a great chemestry with it, this might be for you.
But i just don't like it.

A much better scent for the "givenchy pour homme" line, "red", or the plain givenchy pour homme, being the other one. The older red brother is somewhat of a bully, unelegant and a bit common. This blue one is way better. It borrows from a lot of the current wave of aquatics but this one doesn't really suck!. The notes are well prepared and you can detect them and enjoy them because the longevity is rather good. Again, it's nothing to be amazed at, but it's a very nice everyday scent.

I'll start by saying that we have smelled this one before, i can't place the name cause i forgot about the other scent as soon as i smelled it. This one has character and sillage, but it feels like a typical men's cologne. The longevity is so-so. Nothing remarkable here. It's not a bad scent, but i'll pass.

Absolutely fantastic, refined vanilla and creamy amber, with tastefully rendered top notes that caress rather than shock, this is what a dark elegant full-bodied oriental sweet scent must be. If givenchy's Pi is just too much,and you like vanilla, this is the elegant, more refined way to go. Both the EDP and EDT are something of a master class on perfumery. Congratulation Boucheron!

I guess i'm the only one that will give this one a thumbs down. I'll explain: it's fresh enough yes, but at what cost? The citrus at the top notes seem a bit awkward at first spray , why? because you just can tell it's a simple and very unrefined scent, the citruces here are not high quality. It's more of a pick me up spray this one. But if i'll go for low sillage, not very longlasting, better citrus, i'll go over at some of the guerlains or even the 5-minute-and-reapply 4711 or even benetton's very own B-Clean Energy. The greens are somehwat of a copy of other scents that treated and respected the middle notes. Here, they come off as rather misplaced and they tumble down the drydown. Not for me... there are hundreds of better scents in this category out there. Where is the sensibility? the delicacy?

Superb! it's one of the few citrus frags that lasts forever! it's lemony and green-ish but it's very elegant and still you could wear it on informal ocasions and in everyday life. The drydown is as great as the top notes and they become a soft layer of flowers that are never femenine and a base of creamy woods that are *gasp* still fresh! Get the EDP! Definitely will buy again!

I like it! It's simple, it's fresh, sorta unisex and has a very nice sillage. The flowers are are not overpowering and i think a man could wear this as well, but the scent is not masculine at all either, so it's more of a personal choice of course.It has a dreamy quality that i like but it's still cool.

Another great add to the chanel line. It's very fresh and the lasting power is so-so, but to me, it does have some of the original allure homme wich i love and i am greatful for it because there are tons of other brands that have a "spinoff" frag that doesn't smell the least like the original (i.e. insensé /insensé aquamarine). It's more of an everyday frag and it's uncomplicated, easy to wear. When the original allure homme might be to strong for a hot weather, give this one a go!

BTW, it's I Loewe you and not Leowe as it says on the directory...
Yet another light fruity floral, this one has bergamot,grapefruit and some citrus wich makes it a bit fresher. Rose pivoine and jasmin makes it a bit more interesting and very girly and the vanilla, musks and woods make a sweeter drydown. The only interesting thing it's that it's muskier than other pink-fruity florals.

Even though it's marketed towards women, i find it to be ver masculine.With that name, i tought it was going to be much fresher than what it really is, it's an allright scent, with regular sillage. Not too long lasting. It has fresh top notes but that's where the "iced" stops. It becomes a light white musks and light flowers and woods that become very masculine, as a female frind of mine said she wouldn't wear it...what happened here? I guess Parfums Dali is pushing gender boundaries.

This scent is very light, medium to poor sillage, light fruity floral like the millions of new scents of today for women and very uninteresting. It's very safe and somewhat nice, but i think i'll pass.

This one along with angelic pink are more femenine scents than the other limited eds. luxury green and iced blue. Daring Gold is for a sweet lady scents lover, its sweetnes comes as something honey-ed and light ambery, just a hint of fruits and more caramel than sweet flowers as well. It's a nice scent but there are like a million better scents for women out there. Not too interesting but if you like creamy sweet scents, this one might be for you. Better sillage than the rest of the limited eds.

This limited edition is an ok scent. It's a bit more complex than the rest of the new dali's scents and it's more on the masculine side than the femenine side (along with iced blue) the other limited eds.(daring gold and angelic pink) are much more femenine. So what's the difference between this luxury green and Agua Verde(green water)? They are very different! none of them are really green and agua verde comes close to being a dark green but this one(luxury green) is more of a city-gray than green. It has green notes that rapidly turn into somethihg more moody and grown-up, like peppery dark and light musks. Longevity is regular to poor. Sillage is not a main issue here either, as it's very light. I think it's a safe masculine scent.

This one is a nice, uncomplicated and lineal scent. It's not very green as the color and the name says, but it's very fresh on the top notes and there's a sharpness that will linger for a long time.As i said it's not a very complex scent but it will get you out of trouble when you're in a rush and don't know what to wear and want to be cool and somewhat unnoticed, as the sillage is mild. It's cheaper than a lot other frags too.Someone mentioned to me that it might be a unisex scent and to me it's more on the masculine side than on the femenine sida, for those who care about that. I find it to be rather elegant as well. It's not really a "summery" scent cause this kind of "green" it's sort of a muddy, fall season-green then a sheer,sunny green. If you want a better "green" and cheap, simple scent go for lacoste's essential (wich is more green and summery). But i have to remind you that it's not bad at all, just to make sure!

I agree that if you like 4711 you'll like this one too, it's good stuff, very french with some italian fresh springtime hints, very very fresh, and it works very well in the summer and heat, the only bad thing it's that its longevity is very poor. Get the big-bottle version cause it'll run out quickly! It makes me happy.

I really like this one. It's very elegant, the femenine top notes are very attractive and the green notes are not loud here wich i like too cause people have said before that this one reminds them of the verdancy of chanel's n.19 but to me that's more iris than something else, anyways, the real gold for me is the drydown wich is very ambery, still elegant and sandalwoody wich gives it a masculine touch. Is it a bit soapy? yes but never like,say, jlo's frag. wich i find it to be just that, soapy and Ivoire is so much more than that. The notes change rather slowly and they reveal many facets that combined are very interesting and nice. Another thing is that i have never smelled this one before on the street wich cements my hypothesis that only rich ladies and adventurous men wear this in their Ivory towers!.

I used this one a lot back in the early 90's and i sure didn't love it, but it felt to me nice and unbotrusive, i mean the fresheness of it was masculine enough and new enough for the time wich i think it was very avant for its time, i mean, nowadays "aquatic" scents are all the rage... the drydown is fresh enough and i get the sandalwood and oakmoss more than patchouli and it lasts a good couple of hours on me, now i use it for nostalgic reasons and the originality of it...i don't think it's a very common scent and you can detect it easily on people (but it's been years since i smelled it on someone cause it was discontinued), whenever i see it nowadays, it's always cheap, so it's a nice treat.

Nice, i like it , it has a greenish aura but it is still a bit sweet and it's an overall nice dewy floral, easily recognized as many people wear this, the lasting power needs to be adressed cause it's not that longlasting. Might become a bit soapy to some on the drydown. I like it but i don't love it.

The first time i tried this one on, i recalled some dark room when i was little where there were some woods stored and it was hot, the scent is not quite the same but it came close. The second time i tried it, i loved it! The dark chocolate (and i'll be more specific: 70% dark venezuelan chocolate!) and tobacco notes are very strong and i like that a lot. But i don't find it terribly sirupy nor incense-like. I bought it and i don't go crazy with the sprays but a little goes a long way. It's a very nice gourmand.

It's very fresh and i agree that it might be unisex as well. The citrus here seems a bit less pronounced and the middle and basenotes are a bit on the soft creamy side but still fresh. Very good version of the original as it feels that they respected the relationship between the two. Light and nice.I still prefer the original but i will buy this one too.

This one was a holy grail for me when it came out i was very surprised by its soft masculine fruitiness , very tropical-like but never crass or overtly sweet , the fir , juniper, eucaliptus and rosemary give this one a very fresh smell and an enchanted forrest quality to it too. Even the basenotes are fresh. It smells great on me, and i only have gotten great compliments whenever i wore it.

Hermes is very clever...although i prefer the original version of caleche, there was a dire need for one scent that won't smother you in the hot and heavy days of summer and that is not as citrucy as eau d'orange vert or eau d'hermes...and this one fits the bill just right. It is not a linear scent but at times it may feel like it is, because the notes come back and forth and the freshness may surpise you even after a couple of hours have passed. Just the right amount of sweet and even a bit metallic on the top notes (wich are my least favorite) the scent just glides with clean smoothness. I wouldn't call it sophisticated and it may even be forgettable to some because it's not too much of anything...
pretty uncomplicated scent with good longevity. spring day freshness. and it really is delicate!

Golden mirrors and black and red laquer, this elegant, "rich lady" kind of scent reminisces sweet and ambery colors and fruity spiciness wich makes this EDP a very nice cascade of notes that are clean, creamy and with presence. Traditionally femenine, until it takes a turn to the more "masculine" basenotes wich are surprising too, even a bit animal and sweaty but it never loses its elegance at all. Coco, to me, is even better than coco madmoiselle, wich i like a lot too but are not similar. Coco is way more world-travelled and it sort of belongs to another era where everything was easier for this lady, yet more misterious and even gothic.

Even though this one is a flowery, somewhat delicate scent, it can very much pass as a male scent, why? i tried this one at a convention (suit, tie, etc) and got many compliments from females demanding what was it to get it for their husbands/boyfriends/whatevers, and pretty much none of them knew that it was a mainly lily of the valley scent (but it IS and it smells like one too) so i guess they were all lily of the valley-chanllenged. Well, now to the smell itself, some people i know consider this one to be even better than diorissimo, but i really think that's pushing it. It's a very good scent, better longevity than the other yardleys (minus magnolia wich it lasts forvever and never goes away, sadly) ,and it has a very green-fresh cut grass quality to it too. It also becomes a lot more "voluptuous" as the heat goes up or as the day goes on...
Good one!

Very happy "yellow" sunrise or sunset scent that says "here comes a hot spring day"...i also relate it to a venetian carnival (but an old one not a new one, it does feel like from another century) and people dancing on the streets. It's an elegant scent that creeps on you on the drydown after a very sparkly, sweet flowery opening. The flowers quickly dissapear to give space to the fruity (apricots, peach) but definitely not girly middle (because they feel smokey and spicy to me) to then give this "female" scent a very "masculine" feel. The basenotes wich extend for a long time on me are very woodsy-ambery-non sweet that still has some fruity feel to it...good sillage and cool bottle. A very overlooked scent that should be better advertised. I get lots of compliments from ladies when i wear this one.

Very flowery but i just like it a lot and the fact that it lacks longevity seems to be a plus here because i wouldn't want it to smell it all day long, but i still like it as i said. It also seems to be a bit more thought out than the others from yardley since it changes quite a bit during its short and pretty run. The notes are: top: narcissus and orange, middle: hyacinth and lily of the valley, base: amber and sandalwood. What i like of those changes it's that it surprinsingly turs a bit more maculine at the base , and the amber makes it a non-sweet very comfortable drydown. Now , does it smell like narcissus? not really like a fresh live flower, but pretty damm close to the ones i have smelled before.

AHHH...Minotaure is one of the few scents that i really like, from fist sniff on... Very masculine but a tad sweet, the smell was very much unique when it came out and now there are a few look-a-likes but not as good. It lasts a couple of hours on me but it doesn't have a fantastic longevity...the combo of flowers, sandalwood and vanilla are the most prominent an d the misty opening is just very cool. The bottle design is ubercool as well and it feels very rugged and sturdy, even the cap is cool. I haven't seen it very often anymore, is it really discontinued? Shame! For a scent that's called minotaure, it doesn't smell very animal to me but it sure is sexy, but in a non-brute kind of way. Even my dad likes it..a Winner!

Very good scent! I liked it as well because it's very unisex in the sense that, at first, it's all flowers and fruits and aquatic notes (real aquatic, not like the ones that say they are but they aren't)and suddenly it changes to a much more masculine scent , and some of the basenotes even remided me of versace's dreamer that made me love it even more, the cedar atlas, tonka bean and patchouli here are prominent on the drydown as well but it's very well made and balanced. It's difficult to categoriza cause it's so strange, what with the notes changing constantly and all. For the people who have the skin chemistry for it, it's amazing, happily , i'm one of those! The longevity is very, very good. Cool bottle and box too.

Happiness in a bottle! Everytime i use this it reminds me of when i was younger and of happy places and happy thoughts!... now more seriously, it's a fresh fruity-floral and sort of aquatic scent that it's not at all sweet. The peach is subdued here with more prominent raspberries and apricots and blackcurrants on the top notes and the heart of it it's flowery (what i call fresh mornign rose blossoms and a fresher lily of the valley)but not heady , and the drydown is very comfy and still very "happy". Thanks for not making the vanilla very prominent here on the basenotes , as it would have ruined the whole fresh ambience here. The sandalwood gives it a final kick that, after a couple of hours it's amazingly still fresh. Very cool bottle and box! A winner!

I like the headiness and the dark mushiness of it all, it sort of reminds me of an obscure dream place where after a plunge in brown waters and after walking via spiked plains, i went off to kill a beast with a fume-and-fire firing machine...in an 80's suit!...the scent is fresh at the very start but don't be fooled, it goes down to a heavy musks and yeah it's very masculine and will get you attention. I like it! The leather, patchouli and cedarwood are very strong here as well. I use it sparingly and strangely, not so often.

I really like this one! It's a floral-oriental , heavy on the "oriental". Elegant and voluptuous, it's a rich ,confident lady scent. Great heavy glass that says it's expensive and cool packing. The best is the drydown: vanilla and patchouli in a bed of musks that are not heady, nor animal-like. A bit powdery but very comfy to the nose. Smooth yet spicy, it's a winner for me. Great lasting power. I believe it's the older more world-travelled and sophisticated sister to Lalique for women (2001), wich i also happen to like a lot.

This is a floral-oriental that's a bit too sweet. I believe it's the tropical island , more party going sister to Eau de Lalique. It' very sunny and very fruity. The lasting power is great as many of the laliques i have tested, men's and women's. The bootle is very heavy and very elegant, similar to eau de lalique's, great to look at. The scent is just not for me. It's still much better than the Escada limited editions -wich i think are tropical-sweet floral orientals too- so this one is the Better much more elegant version of those.

I tested this and was very surprised as i never thought i would like it. I am liking lalique each time more and more. It's a green (light)floral-woddsy, musky scent. Will buy it next week or so. It's crystalline,luminous and very green. It's dark enough for a man as it sorta reminds me of walking on wet muds and seeing a nearby medow on a weekend trip. It has a sandy quality to it too. Very good lasting power as well, amazing for summer. A pleasure to wear.

This review is for Eau de RubyLips EDP: the scent is nothing alike the original ruby lips wich is a very sweet boudoir-like scent, and this one is a much softer, cleaner , lighter scent. It's powdery and it's very likeable. The lasting power is awful. Youll have to spray many times to make it last and then after one hour, spray again. It's musky and airy and it sort of reminds me of a nice cozy winter bed with new linens and soft light. On the right girl it smells great!.

I loved Chanel's Allure for men and wanted to try this one given the reviews and i found out that yeah it has some similarities but this one got it all wrong. It amazingly long lasting but i didn't like the cinnamon note one bit. The star anise is overpowering to me as well. This is not elegant and it's much sweeter than allure PH. Thanks ,but i won't buy this. It's still better than many typical men's scent out there though...

I think this one is one of the best from Ferrari. It' very masculine and it has a very nice quality. The notes for the frag. (EDT) according to Ferrari:
top: basil, bergamot, grapefruit, tangerine, black pepper.
middle: sage, haiti vetiver, cinnamon, nutmeg, cashmeran wood.
base: sandalwood, singapour patchouli, ciste labdanum, siam benzoin, incence, bio musk.
This is an oriental woody fourgere.
Good lasting power. The only thing a bit off is the name as "racing" it's a bit too exciting for this one, wich feels rather laid back. It's very good, and i will wear it again.

The notes up here are missing "tonic zest" in the top notes, and the patchouli is a "light patchouli", the jasmine here are the petals of the flower also, all of this, as written on an info sheet i got along with a 2ml vial i got.
Now to the review, this is an EDT, that i like very much. I think i'll get it in the future. The top notes are fresh and kinda marine, but not fish marine, more as luxury boat marine. It's a rather sweet frag after a while, in a fruity sense and doesn't go bad at any time. The drydown is elegant and smooth, a bit sensual. The scent reminisces of a vacation, taking a sun bath, at least for me. It's a "young scent", and everything a "young" scent for males would like to be. Lasting power was very good. After a couple of hours, you can still smell it. It's generally easy to get and (i think) it's sold cheap but i gave this a try anyways and was very happy to do so cause it's a winner for me. This is a woody-aromatic light sweet scent so if you are looking for a citrus-fourgere or an oriental, this is not for you!.

Well, it's really not a bad scent, but it feels a bit cheap and doesn't have a lot of personality. It's very long lasting. But i won't buy a bottle as i feel it's a bit sharp and as i said kinda cheap. Now... if they could make a bottle of the scent of the plastic-cardboard where my test vial of Hummer came in, THAT frag, i would get.

Greately surprised , as i hated le male and wanted tu put off the testing of this one for a loong time. I was surprised at how nice it really is. Medium intensity , fruity and flowery with great basenotes.Good job. Better get the EDP but if you go for lighter, then get the EDT ,logically. Cool gutsy bottle.

I totally hate this scent. I can't see why it's so popular. And worse thing is, the people who use this one generally spray a lot of it on them.Very peppery ,very minty , and very very long lasting. Even the basenotes feel harsh. Unforgettable, but i wouldn't like to smell it again. Please not again!Unique packing.

Well this one is very very fruity and very strong. I like the fact that it is that way cause there are not many intensely fruity scents for men out there. The bottle is not elegant at all, and the spray is not the best because it feels like it's not misting the fragrance but splashing heavy drops of water. It has some unfinished touch to it and the lasting power is ok but not great either. After the initial splash of fruits, the drydown is very nice, not offensive and comforting too. I have to give it a thumbs up just because i feel it 's gutsy to release this given the celebrity name, the sweetnes of it and the plain fact that the smell doesn't suck, in fact it's quite good.

Tough call.The scent is ok, nothing out of this world, it's everything you'd expect nowadays for girls: fresh, a bit fruity not so much sugary, light and fleeting, the bottle is beyond tacky, the colours are obvious given the celebrity that endorses it, the spray is a bit funky cause it doesn't spray well, like a mist. But if we are talking about what's really important and that is the smell of it, well i have to say it is nice, and was suprised by how nice it was compared to other celebrity outings. The apples on it a very obvious as is the fressia note. Terrible lasting power.

Contrary to what most people have said, i was expecting to like this one a lot, but came out very dissapointed. Just what really is so special about this scent? It felt simple, undone and not really elegant and a bit like a sink cleanser. Nop, didn't like it one bit, i'm sorry to say. The top notes are fresh and airy, a bit sour. The middle is ok but doesn't last long and the basenotes are messy and a bit sweet-powdery.

Well i wouldn't call it a "manly" scent but it certainly is unisex. The fresh top has some flowery bits and goes on to become a bit sweeter and the base is musky and comfortable. I wasn't expecting much from this one but was gladly surprised. I once had a cd that smelled similar to this one and it was nice. I like it a lot and it's for everyday use in my opinion.

The other brother of the pack, this one is just nice and very interesting, simple too as is all the sport line but it's very much like freshly cut grass and might be a bit too sour for some. Has an airy tone to it too like the other Feeling Free blue one. But Feeling Free it's better. i would get these 2 of the 3 pack. The orange one, called Sport Spirit is just not par with the others and it's a bit too sweet. Why were they all discontinued? Bring back Feeling Free and Country Weekend!

The best of the escada sport line, it's sadly discontinued. It smelled like rain dops and one of the real acuatic scents without them saying so. Very airy too, it does feel like you are free of something that's dragging you down. A happy fresh scent, not sweet at all, the drydown is good a bit musky and wet , not too long lasting and simple, but it's a very very good scent.

Yes it's very unisex and sporty, a bit on the sweet side and citrusy.Very young and fun, simple scent. Not the best of the sport line.

Yuck, a fruity concoction that last for ages and sticks to you even if you don't want to. So very long lasting, Sweet, a bit metallic and very tacky. The juice is kinda green and it will stain.Powdery on the drydown.

Not too bad but not fantastic either. The Aldehydes have a major role here in giving this fragrance its allure. It doesn't really smell like white linen but that's not really important since it's an ok scent. Femenine and long lasting, it has a powdery feel to it as well.Not very elegant but it's nice.

The top is very fresh and it's flowery from the start. It's a pretty scent but doesn't have an unique personality. Wait and the drydown gets even better and the best flowers and musks come out and has a green quality to it and green i mean fresh morning grass. It reminds me of a prairie. Very nice and very pretty, femenine scent. I assume it's for everyday wear.It has a good longevity on the skin.

Rumba delivers what it preaches. The scent is loud and sweet and exciting and i can very well imagine a fun woman who likes to dance to tropical beats.It's not for everyone as it might be too much for some and it's better for fresher days and if you use it on a warm day you might pass out of hotness and dehidration! It's a scent that's on the verge of being tacky but never lowers itself to it. I would imagine that the woman who wears this has a smile on her face all the time and enjoys life and partying. Bold! Hot!

Even though is a strong, sweet very flowery fragrance i happen to like it a lot and it reminds me of the comfort of home. The notes are loud and if you happen to like Balenciaga's Rumba , you might like this one too, as it has some similarities concernig power, longevity and sweetness but they -of course- don't smell the same. Very good composition!

I have a sour feeling that Chanel sold out on this one. It's certainly below the other female scents from the house. It has a perky and musky feeling to it.The concept is nice, the bottle is ugly to me.I feel it has a bit too much patchouli for a girl's (not a woman's) fragrance but still there are people that will go for that. Sweet on the drydown.Totally uninteresting, sadly.

Again, it bothers me a lot that there are so many so-called acuatics out there and none of them really delivers, maybe i'll have to wait. It does smell a bit like vodka at first as it was said in one review, i agree. And it's very fresh and light and doesn't last too long either. It's better on the skin so don't smell it on a scent strip. It has some fruits to it but it's fleeting. It's better than many of the citrus families too. I thought it was going to be better.

I find that for a sexy scent, it feels a bit anonymous. I thought sexy meant sultry and atractive and demanded a bit of attention, but this one doesn't feel that way. It's an ok scent and has very pretty notes but they don't seem to develop on the drydown. It should have been called Demure..it's floral and has a very light swetness to it. For everyday wear i think cause at nightime it can be drowned by other smells easily. It's fresh as well. A simple one from Herrera. i thought it's not up there aas the rest of the Herreras.

I thought it was going to be a more exotic scent , given the name "cumbia". It's very much run of the mill male scant, nothing interesting here. It's fresh at the top,and dries down on a sweet-musky note. I didn't care much for it and felt it was simple as well. But since it's generally cheap, i much rather have this one than others on the same range. For everyday i guess.

Of the B. Clean line, this is the one i like the least. It's kinda sweet and sunny but not in a nice way i mean it felt a bit crass and unfinished. It's simple as the rest of the line and sadly, it's the one that lasts the longest. It's very fruity but not in a "escada special editions" kind of way.It could have been better.

Although it's a nice scent, this one has kept me guessing, as it really is an unisex fragrance. At first it starts just a bit femenine with fresh flowers and a soothing light swetness, on the drydown it reminded me of some of the notes present in Minotaure, so it feels a bit masculine but not too much either. I think the best feature of this was the basenotes but it doesn't last long. Didn't find it particularly relaxing but then again i naturally tend to move a lot and have not so much rest during the day. It's nice.

You know, generally speaking, Nina R. makes pretty perfumes, and this one is no different.And it does remind you of Paris! maybe not in love but still...it has jasmine, vanilla, rose peony , green of violet, apricot, woods and star anise. I am very glad that the rose notes are heavier here than the star anise, wich gives it a light sweet-peppery feel and a hint of spicy to make it just a bit different. It also has some musks that blend very well with the rest. At first it might feel a tad too heavy but it smoothes as time passes by to a very nice smell. It's femenine and has the right amount of freshness. This review is for an EDP. I don't know if they make it in EDT.

A very nice, simple "green" scent that delivers what it says. It's the best of the B.Clean line for me. A rush! Doesn't last too long.

Very sweet, synthetic too but not very bad either as there are worse sweet scent out there. Strange but forgettable. Unique i guess. A bit metallic too.

Nasty, not the worst, but not nice at all. Fresh start, warmer middle notes, sweeter base, boring and common. Wouldn't give it another try.

Very sweet even more than printemps, fruity as can be. It's warm but not very nice, it has bergamot, musks, muguet and some berries. Its luminosity is nice but it's not what i expected. Not very elegant either.For Van Cleef, that's a no-no.

It's not at all spring to me as it is a bit too sweet and a bit too girly, i never thought of spring. It's not too fresh either so it might be a very late spring. Uninteresting and a bit loud.

This one ia a favorite with Hiver as well. This one has cedar, lilies, sandalwood and heliotrope. It's harmonious and it's very much like a painting of the fall season , a classy one. It really feels like the last rays of the sun are setting on the horizon.
Nice!

This one along with Automme, are my favorites Van Cleef's.The notes include: green lemon, white pepper, cardamom and white musks and somethig else. It's very fresh and very wintery as the name says. It's not "icy" but fresh. Cristals and air. A winner!

Ufff very sweet here. Long lasting, might be a sister to tresor. Very flowery also. It's a turbulent poem, with emotion. It might feel like the flowers were under the sun for too long.

I don't know why everyone gives this one such a hard time. Yes it's not very interesting and not very classy and not very fresh. It's a bit sweet but it's very much a product with no age and a pretty one too. Much refined than the usual in the same category and even than Lancome's own Miracle pour femme. It has a modern sensuality that is very carefree. Flowery and atractive, that doesn't open new grounds.

A nice one , but very boring and not really memorable. For the younger crowd i believe because it doesn't smell "expensive" or "elegant". Very much an everyday scent. I wouldn't wear it because i didnt love it at first sniff. It does have a beachy-sandy quality to it!. The drydown is better.

Moody, yummy and very sexy. This one is a favorite! I have met more men that wear this one than women. It might be because of the heavy musks. Very ambary as well.This might be called "Opulent". A sexy vanilla!

Pretty, nice and very cristal-clear! The flowers are not at all strong, it's smooth to the skin and it flows with a little soapy-clean feeling that turns a bit musky and spicy, a comfort scent. Very long lasting. Beautiful bottle. It has an enchanted forest quality that i really like too, so it's a bit dark even if it looks a bit dreamy. men might like it too since the flowers are not overpowering, some might even have difficulty finding them.

This is a well done scent. The bad thing is, for the house of Chanel, i believe it's a new lowpoint. Why? It's very sweet, and the flowers slap you in the face not with the hand, but with the long hair of a too-confident woman that might come off as insolent. Not very lady like. Still it's miles better than the joke that is Euphoria (wich is in the same vein as a sexy frag) by CK. Lasts for hours and hours. The word sensuelle is well utilized here, as it is a sexy one. But it's just on the verge of being easy. Only for confident people! This might be the grown, more womanly sister of Carolina Herrera's 212 sexy.

I might have smelled one that was bad, because i can't see why all the great reviews from this one. Good lasting quality, nice scent, but nothing interesting to me,it's casual but i wouldn't wear it.Compared to the wonderful Salvador Dali PH (even thought they are very different in composition and presence), this one pales. I'll pass.Acuatic? ,again as it is with male fragrances, it isn't.

This must be one of the very worst "tobacco" scents ever.(i don't think it even has tobacco in it). I couldn't deal with it in its entire run and it did last a while on my skin. the only good part of it is that the very end of the drydown is a bit musky and a bit sweet. The fragrance itself feels like a disorderly classroom that has too many bad apples and can't be controlled. They are a bit wild and somebody didn't go to the bathroom either. It smells common as well. It's very fresh at the start i'll give you that. Boring!

Boring! yet another "acuatic" fragrance that isn't so. Very bland and uninteresting. Terrible bottle and logo desing as well.

This one was one of my favorites back in the early 90's. Too bad it got discontinued. The bottle was a bit funky but had a nice design. The best of this one was , of course, the smell. Even to this day i remeber it as being very interesting floral, like nothing done before. It felt fun and refreshing with a bit of sweetness, given by the fruits in it. It also has musks and some woods.Why did they decide to discontinue this one and go cheap and crass with the bazar line? i don't know. It has an ambery-spicy quality too that dries down very nicely.

Even if most people say that Chanel N.5 is the best of the best, i prefer the grandiose of this perfume. It has class, presence and character. The layering of the notes is fantastic and just a bit sexy but not in an offensive way. It smells expensive and very elegant. The EDP sprays wonderfully on the skin, with a delicate mist that provides a very alluring start. The flowers blend smoothly into the base as well, and being with the best sandalwood and musk, what else can you ask for? It has a romantic vein as well with a hint od mistery.I love this when it's nightime and have to feel a bit of an embrace by a fragrance. This one is stronger. If too strong, please go and try the EDT version. I was very happy that it was relaunched. This review is for the EDP new version of Arpege. A classic that speaks volumes without being loud!

I like this cause it crosses borders with men's scents, it might be called and aftershave!. It's a bit strong but it's ok. The citrus on the top are way obvious. You will have to wait a rather long time to feel the basenotes wich are very nice. I don't know if i would buy this more than once.

Zero stars for creativity, zero for saying that it has hazelnuts and not feature them more prominently and 1 star for a nicer bottle design.The best thing about this one is that Liv is on the ad!.Sorry but not the best Givenchy -by far.

This one is very nice if you like fruity scents, a grown up, well made fragrance by Givenchy that adjusts to any climate but it's not really very flowery, and it won't feel cheap at all because of the sweet notes that it has but it's more of an elegant kind of sweetness. I am very happy about the raspberry included as is a major note and a really good one. It's a bit dark than your "usual" fruity scent but it's because it's a bit misterious with the black pepper. The drydown is a bit sweeter but very nice too.

Another pretty, limited edition from this house. very flowery, but gentle and girly, with just the right amount of sweetness and totally forgettable. But still it's much better than other girly soft fragrances out there.I gave it a try on my skin at a Duty free. A must-get gor givenchy fans of course!

Amazing! I loved this stuff from the beggining. It starts out with a fresh bouquet of spring flowers and then it gets a tad sweeter but still flowery and the drydown has something of a more "masculine" feel to it, with more woods and amber , well, specifically it smells like a woody jewelry case my aunt had once, but still i congratulate Givenchy for going in a flowery direction where no other masculine fragrance has gone before, so yeah it's very original for a masculine scent. Any man who's not afraid of being labeled and who can stand up for himself, could wear this. It's very longlasting. A woman could wear this as well, being that flowery and all ( but i know ladies who do not like flowery scents!). A bit difficult to find nowadays.Funny thing is, i used to swim in a pool a loong time ago where there was this "white flowers and grass" garden close to it and at the very end of the drydown, it reminded me of myself being in the pool, with those flowers looking in. Even the layering of the notes is great. A winner!

I actually like this one a lot. It smells nice and on the skin it feels soft and calm. It wont scream at you, and it's very classy. It's very much a flowery fragrance, with i think a lot of white flowers and has some musky and woddsy notes at the drydown.

Very fruity , very sweet, but the bad kind of sweet. It smells like cheap grape-and-melony candy, the drydown is only sweeter. The florals are here but they just get overpowered by the (again) sweetness.
They could have made something better with this one.

Is it really discontinued? I have seen it just this past week at various vendors, maybe they are old unsold bottles. Anyways, it has a flowery delicacy and a soft musky feel that's very comforting. I think it has mainly roses, lotus and jasmine , and they are ok here.It's not really strong and it feels like a girl's room that wants to smell like a mother.Pretty and femenine, i would say "young".

I had to test this one on the skin before i made any desitions. And i happen to liked it a lot and got it the next day. I also think it might be too harsh for some, but it's instantly recognizable and it's floral and woddsy at the same time.Again as the case with "aquatic" fragrances, this one it's not really aquatic either but regardless i like it a lot and use it a lot too. I just don't got crazy on the sprays: only 2!. I am glad Givenchy had the nerve to get this one out cause there would be somtehing missing on the market. I also like the original Insense but they are nothing alike.The lasting power is, well, powerful.

I recently had this one to test and it's very fresh and very nice, more of a femenine than masculina fragrance, it's masculine stronger on the green brother could be un jardine en mediterranee. The green mango it's not really there but as its author said in an interview: "the idea of a green mango", having lived in a tropical country where there are tons of different mangoes i can't say it smells like one either. It does smell a bit fruity and very clean, and yeah it feels like a sandy shore on a river with watery accords. It's a very well done scent but i wouldn't die for it. I like it enought to get it and wear this on occasions. It definitely smells better on the skin than on a piece of test paper.

The magic of guerlain come through in this timeless bottle. The scent is fantastic for those who prefer warmer, vanilla-like, very sexy without being trashy and very passionate smells. It's better to use in a fresher climate cause on a warm weather the notes will jump out of you and it may be just too much. It's very much an woody floral oriental that stays on for a long time. Very nice!

Smells very nice, like cut flowers and nice musky drydown, starts fresh and pinky-sh and goes into a deeper sweeter but not so much and very sensual. And i am happy that it does have a lot of similarities to the original pleasures since there are some EDPs out there that have very different smells to their EDTs counterparts.

It's an allright fragrance. It starts fresh and dries down somewhat sweeter and with sensual notes and it's very comfortable to wear. Not memorable but nice. It's not very strong. Like the bottle thanks for not making it "black".

Oh boy i really like this one! Of all the tropical scents out there this one is not so in-your-face and it's the right amount of sweet and yeah it delivers in the "exotic" department. In a hot weather this one wears the best and it does last nicely on you. What i liked the best is that the fruits won't go bad on the drydown!.This comes in an EDP of course.Another winner for the Pleasures line.

Along with White musk, this one is another favorite from Mavive. This one is very delicate and almost silky in a fresh a bit sweet fashion. It has white tea of course, lily of the valley, gardenias, cardamom and white pepper, along with "soft musky scents". Very airy with a touch of earthiness that i like very much. The bottle and package are the same as withe musk and i like it.

Both the withe musk and the white tea from this house have been a favorites since i tried them on. The rest they have i am not so sure. I can't say much of the lasting quality of both but they have such a great smell to them that you just have to smell it. This one, reminded me of something i smelled in Chile but i can't place what that was , maybe someone was wearing it at the airport or something, it's soft has bergamot and mandarin, water lily and jasmine and sandalwood and patchouli.And the package and bottle are very nice too.

What a great scent this is! I loved it at first whiff and this one is so nicely done, flowers and fruits with a hint of deeper notes that round it so beautifully. It has a honey-fresh feel that it's not at all too sweet, just the right amount. I tested this one recently on an original 60's bottle and it still was amazing after all these years. It has no synthetic feel at all as it seems to be made from all natural ingredients. It lasts a long time too on a EDT, so i was very happy. And it made me happy to wear it too!

I did not like this one. It's fresh and apicy but it smells like anything made for men in that "category". It wishes to be special, but it just can't get there.

I really, really, REALLY Liked this one! I mean it's up there with my other favorite male scents!(even though this one is fresh and floral and i prefer something more dark oriental and moody) This was very avant for its time and sorely misunderstood. Might be considered too femenine for a lot of guys. Only got great compliments from it: "you smell like a dewy prarie" and you "smell like and angel on a grass field", so yeah it might be called "pretty". This is everything all green teas and fresh spring morning-like scents would like to be. I am so sad this one got discontinued. Everytime i run upon one (over at a retail that sells old stuff) i obviously get it. 2 thumbs up!

Did not like this one at all. It's very sour and cold and a bit metallic. Grapefruit gone bad! They should either stick with female scents or do something really memorable, this doesn't last at all either.

WOW! What can i say, it's dark, moody, almost gothic and has lots of tobacco and the drydown is a bit sweet as well, it might be the amber. Very sexy. I love it! Definitely my favorite Versace.

I really like all the scents on the pleasures line and this one is just as good as the others. I was very happy to get this one and i imagine this one is for everyday, casual wear, it's very clean and has a hint of soap and light flowers, still it's a nice masculine fragrance.

This is just a great scent. Just the right amount of sweet and fresh, with woods and soft pepper combined with a hint of fruits in a very classy composition. Thank You Chanel for not making a run-of the mill fragrance for men again!I am a big fan of the chanel's scents for men and this one does not dissapoint at all.

Really nice scent, like a fresh morning rose garden at your gramma's house. Too bad it doesn't last too long. It's very flowery, with a bit of fruity. I only wish that this one came in a longer lasting version. Like the bottle, and the "aura" of it. It's very dreamy.

Yet another great scent from Chanel. It might not be the best for patchouli haters, but still i love it. I don't think it's right up there with the rest of the chanels for women and much less the chanles for men, but it's a very good scent if you like this sort of warmer fruity, sensual, even a little leathery scent. Well done.

This is rank. I had to wash it off inmediately, i even thought it wouldn't wash out fast enough. Don't care about the bottle, yet another black/grey plain thing for men? Designers are running out of ideas or what? I'd much rather go for the amazing Emporio Armani Night for him, the bottle is so so but the scent is great...i think it's called mania cause only a mad, manic scientist could come up with this nasty smell. I didn't even find it elegant. Was it trying to be? Who knows anymore.

It's a tipical men's cologne. I didn't like it at all. oh and it's not really "aquatic".

I kinda liked it at first, then i didn't, then i did again... it's nicer on a cooler weather i think, it's fresh and floral but not too much, it doesn't last too long, but it can be on you for a couple of hours. Wouldn't buy it again.

Not really bad but not really good either...i definitely have smelled worst things out there...i can imagine a 40 something woman using this..a woman who wants to smell kinda nice, for a short while cause it doesn't last and in the end it's a forgettable scent. But at least it doesn't skink...they should sell this in parfum to see if it can last longer.

Horribly fruity, almost to the point where you think at any given time they all may rot on you...it's strong too, one drop on each wrist and you WILL smell forever and they WILL smell you forever, even if you wash it up you may still find some there...i can imagine a young imapena girl wearing this, it's not crazy really so it's good marketing i guess...did not care for it!

I also have mixed up feelings about this one. Although i think it's very much unique, it's a bit too sour on the top notes and it also has a sweetness to it when i use it on the skin that i can't make friends with, on the other hand, it's as fresh a sunny day and very lemmony, the freshnees of it stays on its the entire development...i like it a lot as a room freshener!!

For a hot day, when everything else fails, i use this one and it makes me feel much better, happier and cleaner. The lemos is fresh and not really bitter. The middle notes round all the others out and the base notes are just as fresh. Too bad ti doesn´t last longer.Better splash it on yourself.

This is one of my frags that i wear out the most. It's fresh yet sweet but not overtly sweet, just the right amount. It has a nice fruity note to it oo. The red pepper gives it a spark and the drydown is superb. For everyday use is the best way to wear this i think. I have had many great compliments from it.

This is really good , Carolina makes good scents in general, but i still prefer Herrera for men. This Chic for Men is heavy in the sense that if you put it on your clothes, it will last for days. On your skin it will stay forever as well. The fruityness and the sweetness are very well balanced with the woody and spicy elements. It's great for a fresher day than a sunny warm day cause if it's warm, the fragrance will jump out even more.
Very good.

My favorite frag. ever. I just have to have it when i run out of it. I dont care if people think it smells like a gas station. I have had only good comments from it from the "you smell nice" to the "you smell so good i want to sleep with you", it just works with my skin.

This , i think is the best Hermes fragrance, followed closely by Un jardin sur le Nil. This is a refined, woody, mossy frag. I don't know if anyone would wear this at an specific time of day or night but i have smelled this in a hot weather at daytime and it works fine as well. The ingredients are top notch: lemon, bergamot, neroli, lily of the valley, vetiver, cedarwood, sandalwood and i think it has rose and iris too.

Good ol' Yardley's lavender! I like this one because it remids me of fresh mediterranean lavander fields in a breezy morning. It has that right hint of manly cleanliness and at the same time it's that flowery thing that makes it so right, it's fresh when sprayed at first and dries down as a soft woody musky real comfortable smell. It doesn't last a great deal on the skin, but just reapply for another burst and then magic scenaries develop once again.

Here are the notes: Vegetal, Kumquat, Cassis, Magnolia, Peony, Stephanotis, White Cedar, Musk, Amber.
I smelled this delicate pink puppy at some duty-free a while ago and it was fresh flowery , pinkish, sparkly and soft-velvety , very suited for the happy go lucky in all of us. I don't get to see this very often in regular stores but it's quite nice. It doesn't break any new grownds though..

I really like this one. I think is the best of all the EA He scents(normal,white and night). It's sweet but not so much, it's sexual as well, i like the way it lasts and it feels like hot smoke with some fruits. I do not like the bottle, do not like the packing, and the spray it's not the best either. The smell makes up for all of that.

Hmm i am not really a fan of Par amour as i much rather prefer Par amour Toujours. But , still this is a nice one, it's simple and straightforward "grownup" female scent. People who don't like bezoin beware. I like it but it's not a Wow! fragrance.

Tresor is strong,sweet, has lots of personality, character, etc. I do not like it.There is just something that is not really my cup of tea there. It's such a simple scent but very interesting as well. People will remember you!

Great bottle. Is this a good scent? YES! I guess it's cause it remids me of my mother and of a perfect weather in a spring afternoon in a valley of flowers. Light? nop it's not very light and the logevity is good too. It's very much a classic and hasn't lost the allure it draws on some people.It might be a bit heady for some too. But I just love it. Unmistakable fragrance.

I am not so sure about the top notes as they might be almost metallic. it might be the lemon. But stay with it for a couple of minutes (on the skin) and then the quality of it all develops and blossoms and the beauty of it it's blinding. A very full and floral heart and it's sensual with out ever being tacky, it's luminous and shimmery and please stay for the base notes and the soft musks and the amber and the white cedar will just caress you.The longevity is very good. I have the eau de parfum so this review is related to that one. I hope this one becomes more famous! I love also both the original and the reformulated versions of Arpège.

I really, really wanted to like this and was very much looking forward to it. Sadly, it's not me. It's a very good scent in the sense that it's well made and you can get all the notes and some blend just perfectly a they flow into one another. That it has flowers? I like a scent for men that has flowers in the first place and given that houses are too afraid to roll them out, i congratulate Dior. But as i said, it's not me. It's sweet in the way i dont like sweet and it lasted more than i ever wanted it to last and yeah people WILL notice you and say: what are you wearing? it's almost popcorn caramel-y for me (not that it has any) and also i smell what is it brandy? i guess...
I respect this eau de toilette...from afar.

So is it a light floral? not really. is it aquatic? not really. is it summery? hmmm is it i gues it is ... I could not make anything out from this scent other than it's one of the nicest green-blue-cristal-clear scents out there. Now why is that? because for example, in a tropical country, this is heavenly. to wear this in the fall or in winter? what's the use? It's too fresh for it. Some think it might be generic but i have tested many many in a similar "line" and this stands out everytime. Maybe it's because it's an eau de parfum instead of an eau de toilette. At least it's not another special edition that escada likes to make every year and that adds little to their collections. This one is a winner just cause it's lovely, clean and classy compared to others is the same line. if you like this one you might also like VanC&Arpels's Hiver, even if they are different , they both share a blueish aura scent for the ones who like water and air and all things clear-blue that i like so much.

ontrary to what the name says, there is not a lot of similarities to the original egoiste. This chanel for men it's a sharp fourgere that lasts a long time on the skin and on the clothes as well.It might recall a high profile bussiness man at first sniff. It might be too much for someone who doesnt like this type of scents. The good thing is that the drydown is amazing and almost animalistic and woddsy at the end, but read: King of All Elegant Animals, because the quality shows off a great deal. Egoiste the original is better for me (that's sweet-peppery and woodsy-oriental , so not alike at all ), but this is a very good one too.

I fell in love with this one almost 10 years ago, and then it fell to obscurity only cause i moved very far away and wanted new stuff, but i always always always remembered it and cherished it for the beauty of one of the best male scents out there, this is sweet, sensual, at the same time spicy and yet almost "velvety". It's a very original scent cause there was nothing like this before, and to tell the truth, there is no Egoiste that's not enchanting. Be sure to get it from an original retailer or at a chanel boutique cause there are Not too many out there and there are lots of rip-offs. Smell it before you buy it, and make sure to test it on the skin as it differs a great deal to what it is on the paper strip. It last a loong time on the skin too.

Par amour for dreamers, as i call it! it's a very good scent for someone that likes raspberry cause it's the note that lasts the longest, it's not as sweet as others in the same "category" and you'll be amazed at how fresh it really is, it's gentle delicate, spring lovely and did i say tender?, the interesting thing is, for all its tenderness it lasts a great deal, but it's one that stays close to your skin and you might want to pamper yourself with it as opposed to one that screams Here I AM! smell the fruits!
Very well done. Not a fan of Par amour but love Par amour Toujours!

Magnolia by Yardley is a very good one too, if you go for a heavy magnolia scent. It helps me sleep, it has great sillage and yeah it lasts all day for me, so it might be the yardley that goes on giving all day long, as opposed to yardley's very own english roses that is very fleeting and you have to reapply after just 1 hour or so. This one has hints of bergamot, cassis, tamarillo and pepper, with heart of magnolia, rose, lily of the valley , orris and raspberry and peach. So yeah it's very flowery and with bits of a "fruit basket" as i call it.not very elegant but very much a nice one.

What can i say? I have always found the Yardley frags to be very underestimated. This must be yet onether one. But behold! The Orange Blossom is really there!and it's really good! and in what a way! it's a floral and fruity scent that even if doesn't last 24 hours, it lasts about 8 hrs.on me. It's a bit too sweet at the beggining but it certainly tones down and has notes of rose, jasmin and lily of the valley, with base of sandalwood and patchouli. In this one, the patchouli is very faint and the sandalwood takes center stage on the base. So, it's fresh , as summery as it gets, it delivers young, happy vibes too. But it might be too floral at first! If you don't want to fell down wear this, it might have benn called Happy 2.

Nice bottle, nice logos, nice "aura", now what about the juice?: This is a very good scent. It's very classy but with the kind of elegance that's understated and that doesn't have to show off to anyone to see how classy you really are. It's a perfect fall season scent too. It's warm enough and fresh enough to adapt to the situation you are in. It's very much a floral, the rose, jasmin and iris are all there to comfort you, and there is also a hint of fruits that develop into one of the very nicest vanilla , sandalwood and white musk bases i have smelled.
A winner!