So that’s the perfume I smelt one day on my older sister’s boyfriend when I was a kid. Personal digression, to say this is from a couple of years ago, 1984, created by Roger Pellegrino. The opening of Armani Pour Homme is with a fragrant, very real orange, and – childhood knocking at my door again – the same taste I used to get sucking these fruit drops. In the background however, there is already a spice and/or [...] Read more »
Paul Smith Optimistic For Him won’t be the most original nor the deepest, nor the most sophisticated fragrance, but it’s quite pleasant overall. It’s quite recent, launched in spring 2011 with the version for Her, both created by Francoise Caron (Hermes Eau D`Orange Verte, Rock’n Rose by Valentino among the others). The opening is very fresh, almost cold. It’s just a generic freshness at first, but then all the layers will start to gradually come out: at first [...] Read more »
Fourth Diesel fragrance for men and fifth overall reviewed here, with Diesel Only The Brave perfume they decided to go less cold and citrusy than in Fuel For Life, and take the sweet road instead. The opening is indeed quite fresh, with orange and mandarin but the fragrance soon becomes sweet, although in a non-powdery way, also adding clean florals. It goes on blending in green and aromatic notes, and amber as well, but they are all sort [...] Read more »
This Joe Malone perfume is more than it says on the bottle, and the extra bit is a fragrant clove, which took a while on the blotter to come out, but my skin gave back fairly quickly. Other than giving me a pleasant WTF perfume moment (it doesn’t happen very often, last time it was with Declaration by Cartier two months ago), clove took what would have otherwise been a very sophisticated shaving foam (lavender and amber are of [...] Read more »
* Disclaimer for my own title: it refers to the first part of the perfume, in the end it gets better. Dolce Gabbana Pour Homme opens with a quite fragrant lemon, which makes it very Mediterranean right off the box, but then it follows the same fate of Hugo Boss Bottled Night: there is a lot of good will in the shape of herbs and woods, but they end up buried under a hefty dose of detergent smell. [...] Read more »
Are Hugo Boss perfumes really “the deepest pit of hell” as Chandler Burr calls them in his The Perfect Scent? I opened the lid to see what fetid vapours I would find, and I came out of the experience unscathed, although, I have to admit, not much impressed. Bottled Night Hugo Boss starts with citrus, fruity and slightly sweet notes, which soon turn out to be a very fragrant lemon. It could and should have lasted more, but they [...] Read more »
This new edition of Marc Jacobs Bang adds an extra bang and does what it says on the tin. It starts with a good dose of citrus notes and a layer of metallic paint on it, similar to Azzaro Chrome if you will, although this one is more citrusy and less laundry clean. The metallic thing, is actually cardamom, or something of that sort (it’s a tad sweet as well), it becomes more evident when the lemon notes [...] Read more »
This Intense version of Gucci Guilty perfume for men starts citrusy with – I would say – red orange, and that will remain one of the main notes of this fragrance, announced by the fact that my skin didn’t destroy it immediately. The result however, is warm rather than fresh, prelude to the common theme of a diffused darkness just like in Gucci by Gucci for women. The fragrance then adds some herbs and gentle florals to the [...] Read more »
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