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 »
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 »
What about a nice mix of coffee and neutral florals, with a small dose of caramel and a sprinkle of pepper on top? OK, put it that way it looks like a meaningless concoction, but this is what this Givenchy Play eau de toilette is about and it somehow works. It was launched in 2008 as the Intense version of Givenchy Play for men, and created by Emilie Bevierre Coppermann (Black XS for Her) and Lucas Sieuzak. [...] Read more »
Beauty by CK is a complex fragrance, and you’ve gotta love complexity in a perfume. It starts with very quick fruity notes, and then you’ll get a bouquet of intense and dense white florals, which are given a paintbrush of spicy, woody and citrus notes. It feels like a diluted version of Opium, but not in a derogatory way, quite the opposite: intense and extreme don’t have to be always the same thing, and there goes your proof. [...] Read more »
It’s only the third Chanel perfume for men that I’ve reviewed so far (or should I say the second, as one was Allure Homme Sport and the other one was its close fresher cousin Allure Homme Edition Blanche), but I think I’m starting to see a pattern: they’re all similar to stuff that you may have smelt before, but with a sort of Chanel-ness in them, which makes them classier and with better quality. Rather than fresh, Chanel Bleu [...] Read more »
First and foremost: of all the perfumes that I had and have, Emporio Armani City Glam For Him is the most appreciated by the ladies. And that is the second main reason why I keep on buying it, the first being that I really really like it. OK… no point in lying here: both reasons are true, but it’s actually the other way round. In any case, the best candidate for yournextperfume’s 100th perfume review. The fragrance opens [...] Read more »
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