First, the good news: The line is no longer part of Hugo Boss, which thankfully, means from the start the scent won't be amongst 200 others from the house being released this year. The scent, to me, is much better than Del Mar, which I thought was pretty mediocre.
The bad news: Although Baldessarini wants you to separate the men from the boys, they really need to ditch the old guy in the ads. I think, in terms of advertising, they would get a lot more mileage from say, a bust of Socrates or something. The old guy just looks slimey, sort of like Don Johnson's Crockett would look if he were that old trying to pick up the "ladeez" wearing a pink suit and Mr. T starter kit.
Oh, I seem to be forgetting something here. The scent! Well, I don't get much resemblence to the orginal Baldessarini as another had mentioned, other than it has a certain brightness about it I suppose. What I do get is a blast of red apple at top that comes across as almost, but never quite, cloyingly sweet.
The whiskey is present as well, but truth be told, this isn't the type of liquor scent, such as Escada Pour Homme, that suffocates. The whiskey balances with the sweetness of the apples to give it a boozy airness, but it's quasi-light. Quasi in that the scent isn't exactly faint at all--it's quite prevelent hanging over one's skin from a few inches away, though I have to admit I'm not sure of the sillage at this point.
Though it surely won't be to everybody's liking, and most may dismiss it after its opening blast, those noses who hang in their a bit will notice a gradual transformation isn't a quite nice base of vanilla with a hint of leather, the apple note occassionally revealing itself to give it some lightness.
Is it anything groundbreaking? No, absolutely not, and I'd recommend anybody looking for a whiskey scent to sniff no further than Le Dandy from D'Orsay which still remains the cream of the crop, at least to my nose. That being said, it's not easy to dismiss the fragrance either--I find it much more enjoyable and interesting than Prada's Amber Pour Homme with its barber shop appeal--I just wish I could think of a good setting for it to be worn.
The bad news: Although Baldessarini wants you to separate the men from the boys, they really need to ditch the old guy in the ads. I think, in terms of advertising, they would get a lot more mileage from say, a bust of Socrates or something. The old guy just looks slimey, sort of like Don Johnson's Crockett would look if he were that old trying to pick up the "ladeez" wearing a pink suit and Mr. T starter kit.
Oh, I seem to be forgetting something here. The scent! Well, I don't get much resemblence to the orginal Baldessarini as another had mentioned, other than it has a certain brightness about it I suppose. What I do get is a blast of red apple at top that comes across as almost, but never quite, cloyingly sweet.
The whiskey is present as well, but truth be told, this isn't the type of liquor scent, such as Escada Pour Homme, that suffocates. The whiskey balances with the sweetness of the apples to give it a boozy airness, but it's quasi-light. Quasi in that the scent isn't exactly faint at all--it's quite prevelent hanging over one's skin from a few inches away, though I have to admit I'm not sure of the sillage at this point.
Though it surely won't be to everybody's liking, and most may dismiss it after its opening blast, those noses who hang in their a bit will notice a gradual transformation isn't a quite nice base of vanilla with a hint of leather, the apple note occassionally revealing itself to give it some lightness.
Is it anything groundbreaking? No, absolutely not, and I'd recommend anybody looking for a whiskey scent to sniff no further than Le Dandy from D'Orsay which still remains the cream of the crop, at least to my nose. That being said, it's not easy to dismiss the fragrance either--I find it much more enjoyable and interesting than Prada's Amber Pour Homme with its barber shop appeal--I just wish I could think of a good setting for it to be worn.
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