Very Valentino Pour Homme by Valentino, 1999

Smells nice, amber and sandalwood, yawn, dries to what perfumers claim is tobacco, OK, next.

Strange synthetic, very spicy, slightly fruity and herbal opening. After the spice dies down a little, you can tell it's going to turn into a tobacco fragrance. I for one, love tobacco fragrances, but this one just registers as "ok" for me. Once the tobacco kicks into full effect, it sits close to the skin. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing in Very Valentino's case. More projection might accentuate its negative parts.. unfortunately.. it is a bit synthetic. The tobacco has a rubbery/latex smell as well, it just ends up smelling medicinal. The combination of amber and sandalwood sweeten it up in the base, and leave you with a little more than just a weird take on tobacco. The overall affect is this: tobacco dipped in cough syrup, and left to dry. Little projection, decent longevity, and just kind of weird. Doesn't smell horrible, but I'm not so sure I wanna smell this way.

I'll register a neutral on this one. Not particularly interesting at first. It starts off quite sweet, and presents a densely-packed chord whose notes are difficult to distinguish and not thrilling. The dry-down improves, drops some of the sweetness and develops a sheer, slightly woody tone along with green-tea notes and what seems like an attractive smoky pipe tobacco note. This is an unusual scent where the dry-down redeems the overall picture. Traces of coumarin-vanilla in the tobacco chord, but that is to be expected for this type of scent. Competent, not excellent.

This is a soporific rendition of spiced wood. Despite some exotically titled ingredients, Very Valentino lacks quality and sound execution.Immediately beyond the rather sour and asthmatic opening, things become tighter and drier, and perhaps even moderately enjoyable. Sadly, it never really evolves into something desirable it merely descends into a vista of sandalwood, underscored with a thin impotent musk note. Amber sweetens the vestiges of the base, but overall, I find this sort of clumsy blend slightly depressing

A pleasantly sweet tobacco that's very musky. I get all basenotes as the top notes are quite fleeting and it's the basenotes I bought this for. Inoffensive and good for a first date type situation. I feel that this is very sensual as it stays close to skin and is very quiet.

Intriguing concept hides this utterly boring juice which I really do find completely useless.

Very soft and weak fresh balsamic scent with shy tobacco note. Semi-sweet, has a boring and plain simple musky drydown. No lasting power on me and it doesnt have notable sillage to it either. I cant quite understand comparisons to a terrific By Man (D&G). They are light-years apart from each other.

I say you can skip this one without care and head straight into a another (and much more compelling) creation of Harry Fremont; Michael Kors for Men.

i have to agree with many of the posters... this is a very neutral, inoffensive scent, but is no way memorable. i wear this to work quite often because of its gentle sweetness and bland character. the sillage is pretty decent, but there is no connection whatsoever between the scent pyramid and what i actually smell on my skin... all in all you won't get any complaints from this fragrance, but don't expect a lot of compliments either

This is a wonderful scent. Well done!
This is one of those that can be worn very easy and smooth.

Sweet baby powder, good sillage though it is very friendly...doesn't shout or scream. It is soft, hardly masculine, more androgenous...I suppose like the man himself :)
I prefer to wear this at night as a "night" scent before bed. It is soft, soothing and comforting, like velvet. Worth a try.

When I first tried this when it came out, I was taken aback from its ferocity--very warm and a thick and sweet fragrance. This wasn't what I was looking for back at that time when I was looking for woodsy and fresh types of scents.

Fast forward several years to receive it as part of a swap on Basenotes and I find that I'm totally ready for this type of scent. Doesn't smell so heady to me now. Coriander seems to be the note that gives the scent dimension and its smooth texture, sometimes I think all to much because I do love how tobacco gives off a sweet and smooth yet smoky and woody smell which you catch hints of now and then, but generally the coriander keeps it seamless.

Sadly the concentration seems to be a factor despite all the heavy and usually tenacious notes incorporated in this one. Basically a two hour scent on me with it barely there anymore after three.