Its detractors say CK Crave smells cheap. Guess what: that’s because it IS cheap. Also, extremely easy to find (on the internet) and fairly popular in the search engines: not too bad for a discontinued perfume huh? These are all signs that, down at CK they’d better re-think what they did and start producing it again Here’s the peculiarity that this Crave By Calvin Klein has to offer: other than the usual high dose of laundry detergent, there is [...] Read more »
When it comes to writing the content for a review, I have two basic principles: not to use too many comparisons with other perfumes, and try to make it different from the previous ones. The reason behind the first rule is that, if I described a perfume with constant comparisons with another, and you don’t know second one, what you read is completely useless to you. And the reason behind the second one is that every perfume is [...] Read more »
Aramis by Aramis for men is the third woody masculine I sampled, and even though it was done in 1966, 8 years before Givenchy The Gentleman, it doesn’t smell of old. The opening is chemical with strong woods. It’s really like smelling a piece of furniture that’s just been polished. This chemical stuff has a sort of additive quality (OMG, I’m not a glue sniffer, aren’t I?), and just like it happens with the certain florals (like ylang-ylang), [...] Read more »
Would you expect to smell something called Orange Hugo Boss and find orange in it? Of course not, c’mon it’s like smelling a perfume coming from a green apple-shaped bottle and expect to find green apple in there. OK I’m hyperbolizing again (yes, it’s a word): of course there is orange in here, as well as there is green apple in DKNY Be Delicious, just don’t expect a shower of squeezed orange and juicy bits on you. It’s all [...] Read more »
This is a gentleman from the times when the very word was invented, which is like, well, a long time ago. It has a great opening, with sharp, almost minty herbal notes on top of the spices, and the dry down is the part I preferred: it has the shaving foam thing, with leather and tobacco still quite strong and inebriating. And what about the middle heart notes of Givenchy Gentleman, you ask. Super rich with different things: [...] Read more »
Kokorico is the latest perfume for men by Jean Paul Gaultier, launched in 2011 and created by Oliver Cresp (Dune by Dior, D&G Light Blue for women) and Annik Menardo (Bvlgari Black, Diesel Fuel For Life for men and for women). The most notable notes here are fig and chocolate, but I hope you won’t notice, at least I won’t be the only one who missed them. The fact is that fig is far from the galore of [...] Read more »
YSL La Nuit perfume is one of the many examples of how a fragrance can take the unpleasant and make it pleasant, by keeping it unpleasant, with the unpleasant in this case – but only to some extent – being the spices. Until the dry down, La Nuit De L’homme revolves around three main set of notes: spicy, clean floral and citrus. The spicy side should be cardamom, although it feels more like ginger, as it’s quite rugged [...] Read more »
Armani Black Diamond really reminds me of 1 Million Paco Rabanne, although it tries to be a bit nastier. I don’t think there’s much room for a detailed description of the notes: it’s masculine, smoked, sweet and dirty from the very start, with dirty-but-classy pepper, warm red orange and other sweet notes. And it will remain like that for the rest of its life on skin, after all, that is what it was created for by Jacques Cavallier [...] Read more »