Giorgio Beverly Hills for men - it was unique..

I received a large bottle of it from a then-girlfriend. It was her former BF's signature scent, and I recoiled - I was wearing New West at the time. I wore it for a time but never appreciated it. I wonder whether I would like it today, being older now. It was powerful stuff.

I had a bottle of this I swiped from my younger (but much more style-concious) brother back in the 80s. I was wearing Drakkar, Polo, and Benneton Colors at the time, but Giorgio Beverly Hills for Men blew all of them out of the water. I can still clearly remember being at the skating rink and my girlfriend snuggling up for a whiff every 10 seconds or so...since then I have often lamented its discontinuance; in the men's fragrance Battle of the Bands, this stuff rocked the hardest.

This stuff was amazing. I didn't like it at first so I sold it and now I regret it. Sadly Giorgio Beverly Hills doesn't exist anymore so this fragrance will never come back.

CJ — amazing that you, and not your brother, ended up here on Basenotes!

Anyway, I am now itching to try this stuff. In the 80s I would have dismissed it because of the name, and the association with empty glitz, but now that that is all that there is I'm prepared to embrace it.

Must find some!

I don't think i have tried this one yet.
Thanks a lot for reminding me of it since i was very eager to try it out but then it faded into yet another forgotten scent...
I gotta get a hold of one now!

I have seen a bottle of it on eBay once or twice when I was in college in the mid-90s, but it was rather expensive at the time (although, looking back, I would gladly pay the $80 that seemed so dear back then).

The closest facsimile I have found is Frederic Malle's Noir Epices, but even that doesn't capture the woody side of Giorgio Beverly Hills for Men; it was sublime, and the next time I see a bottle, I'm not thinking twice.

Was and still is unique...My favorite cologne of all time

I always have a 4 ounce bottle with a back up in a zip lock bag in the fridge...Good thing a little goes a long way.


A slightly feminine scent that is masculine,classy and like the thread starter wrote..unique.



This is a brilliant blend of ingredients that just will never be replicated...No other cologne smells like it and imo,never will.

Lately,I search for rationally priced items from this brand,especially Red For Men and the original Giorgio For Men: There are none...
I allready knew that the former is expensive,but prices for the latter even surpass the barrier of the 300 USD...Did I mention that this applies for splash bottles?

God I loved this stuff!! It brings back such fond memories. I wish they could bring it back.

I own one bottle of it now buted, and I regret selling the other bottles of it. I love this one, Red, and VIP which I tried once and loved and am finally getting a bottle of. The original keeps going up in price on ebay. Why did they discontinue all the good ones and still keep producing that crap called Wings.

Giorgio for Men was my signature scent for more than twenty years.

When I learned that it was being discontinued, I bought fifteen bottles directly from GBH.

I staved off the effects of it being discontinued for many years, but I would not have used it so indiscriminately if I had known what these bottles were selling for!

I have 1 1/2 bottles left that I will ration to last the rest of my lifetime.

To this day, Giorgio for Men remains my holy grail!

It was the first (only) cologne I wore which directly got me laid!
She caught a whiff of it, we chatted, hit it off and I hit it.
Twenty odd years ago, but completely unforgettable.

I have just received a 4 oz/120ml tester bottle of this one,with no cap.I am not aware of the existance of testers of this specific one and this looks like the other items listed as such by other sellers.
I do not like "old school" ,heavy,fragrances and this one vaguely reminds me of Givenchy Gentleman,one of the very few scents I cannot stand for the above reasons.
If this is a fake item,then it is not a great loss.
If it is a genuine one,priced at 6 GBP,well,that's the bargain of the year!

I am not aware of any fake Giorgio for Men in circulation. I am sure that back in the day testers existed for Giorgio for Men just as they did for other fragrances.

I will be glad to buy it from you!

I owned a bottle when I was an adolescent and, like some mentioned above, I never really appreciated it for what it was.

I am not sure I would currently wear it, but it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane.

I used to have this scent and hated to see it go.....I also liked the VIP version.....I do miss both of these scents, but I'm not sure that these would be anything that I would wear now.
Gary

Personally I think that Giorgio, reserve and Red have got Patou and Derby beat by a mile. But I am still a babe in the woods here on the site and can always learn something from my wiser basenote friends.

Unique it is....does anyone know if this comes shrinkwrapped ? Im interested in buying it from this little perfume store that has a 1.7 oz bottle still wrapped for $175. Could it be counterfeit? Thanks in advance!

I have never seen a fake Giorgio for Men.

If it has been counterfeited, I think you would suddenly see it available in many places.

You can be reasonably confident that it is authentic.

Btw, I picked up an authentic 120ml bottle on eBay recently for well under $150.00.

this is now a steal on ebay for 60 bucks for a large 120ml

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280230155054

i found some red for men on ebay that seems a reasonable price

are there fakes of giorgio beverly hills for men and red for men?

No fakes, both Red for Men and Giorgio for Men have been returned to production.

The stratospheric prices of a few months ago are history. Vintage bottles may still command a premium from purists - but you would really need to trust the seller about the bottle's provenance.

New member, perfumes, seems to be promoting their own auction. scentimus is correct, it is available at much better prices. I have seen some as low as $30.00.

It was an overplayed and overhyped 80's scent much like Polo and Drakkar Noir, though much more feminine. I, for one, am glad it has been discontinued...

It's baaaccckkk.....!

sampler, Giorgio for men IS back in production. I don't think it is any more feminine than Acier Aluminum but to each, their own.

Yes the formula is ALMOST the same. Only TwoRoads can smell the diffirence, who had it as a signature for 2 decades.

Yellow is very very very good. I blind bought 3 bottles, and i'm glad i did so!

In the US you can find the "yellow" for ~ $30 USD for a 4oz bottle with online retailers and using promotion codes.

OK, so I finally found a local frag shop that sells the new version. I was luckily able to test it before buying.

I am sorry but I am going to have to commit heresy here -- I didn't care for it. The initial blast reminded me of a note from Stetson or Royal Copenhagen. Something really stagnant to my nose, almost like horse manure. And unlike those other two fragrances, it didn't seem to go away.

I think my problem is that I had so hyped this fragrance in mind and had formed in my mind what I *thought* it was going to smell like that this really had no way of succeeding with me.

Interestingly enough, the lady who owns the shop had never smelled it either and I watched her as she put her nose to the pump...she grimaced. She agreed with me that it didn't smell very good.

This was definitely the new formulation, as the juice was green. When I got home a few hours later, I smelled my wrist and could no longer smell it.

The lady had let me try a few other frags so finally when I asked if she had Alexander Julian Colours, I bought it without testing it (it was only $8.99 for a mini-bottle). I just tried that one and it oddly enough also has that same odd smell to it like Stetson or Royal Copenhagen! Good lord maybe my nose is screwed up today!?!??!

At any rate, I don't mean to offend anyone as I know this scent is quite popular here and it's re-release was terrific news to many. Although I didn't like it, I hope its return along with Giorgio Red paves the way for other discontinued scents to come back (like DK Men or A&F Woods -- although those are different companies from these -- but hey, I'm just trying to be optimistic!).

I love both the Red, Yellow, and VIP. The Red and Yellow relaunches are still good but not quite as good as the originals. I'm not complaining though. Also I emailed EA and they said VIP won't be coming back.

It is not heresy to have individual tastes and preferences that are different than others. If we all agreed on everything, the world could live very nicely with only a handful of fragrances rather than the thousands that are available.

For me, Giorgio for Men is the 'once and future King' of my wardrobe.

I don't see the resemblance to Stetson or Royal Copenhagen - perhaps it is more the 80's feel that doesn't sit well with you. Giorgio for Men is a typical 80's powerhouse chypre. You seem to be more attracted to 'barbershop' type scents like Royal Briar and oriental scents like Habit Rouge.

No problem though, this just leaves more Giorgio for me!

I bought a Bottle of Giorgio for men a month back. Wonderful. If this had been released by Prada and had a square. cool grey bottle and a 21 year old model was pushing it, people would be at the altar singing the praises. I wore it on a road trip to to Nashville last weekend for the 4th of July.....I couldn't wash it off 18 hours later and this was the new stuff. Live with it, spray it on your chest, live with it for a full wearing. If you still think it is not for you, then that is fair.

I just bought a bottle of Moods and it is a very good fragrance.

Nothing I have found so far is in the same league as Giorgio for Men (Extraordinaire).

Moods is as good as VIP but approaches Giorgio for Men only on bended knee.

Now that I own a bottle of this juice, I have been able to test it more in depth and ultimately -- I renig on my last review. I do like it!

One caveat though -- I don't like the smell of it when I put my nose right to my skin during the first hour or so. There is something there that I find unpleasant. However, the whiffs I get from the sillage are quite divine! So, when I wear this, my nose has a restraining order for ground zero -- it must stay at least 6 inches away during the dry down!


It seems my optimism was well placed for one of those!

So I grabbed a 1.6oz Giorgio for Men today from Marshalls... This could very well be the strongest opening I've ever experienced... We're talking Chernobyl strength & sillage. I wasn't sure if this would be for me, but it has calmed down somewhat... I've had it on about 1.5hrs and it's mellowing into something that I like much better... To early to give a verdict yet, so I'll check back in a few hours...

I feel the same way about Giorgio. There's something slightly off-putting about it, but not enough to repulse me...it's right on the edge. That weird note does fade as it dries down, and i can see why Two Roads made this his signature for twenty years. It's an unique and well-made fragrance.