Perfume Reviews by SirSlarty
Nautica Competition (new) by Nautica
Yuck. Smells like anything else that's deemed sporty. A lot like Lacoste Essential mixtured with the opening of Truefit & Hill 1805 Cologne. Well, yes it's clean and simple but not too engaging if that's what you're looking for.
Sunset Heat for Men by Escada
Fizzy and bright! Exciting and fruity! Sweet and calm... After the intial hour of the amazing opening notes of sweet, slightly bitter fruitiness, it dries down to a fresh fougere type of scent. Much like a sunset. Pretty at first and calming night afterwards. Quite good.ADVERTISEMENT
La Myrrhe by Serge Lutens
Who in the heck wants to smell like a soapy, wet concrete block? That's all I get from this. Sorry Mr. Lutens.
Everlast Original 1910 by Everlast
A non-sporty non-cliched fragrance based on a sport? This is great. It's skanky and potent like a prizefighter. For ten bucks this is a real bargain. You owe it to yourself to at least try it out.From a design aspect, the bottle is neat. The sloping angles of the sides reflect the contours of the upper male torso. Very macho.
Paul Smith Extreme Men by Paul Smith
I was captivated by the packaging and the bottle when I first opened it. It was a definite blind buy. The vertical striping reminded me of Gene Davis' "wallpaper" paintings though his paintings are much more vivid than this scent. (And I'm glad. Sometimes I don't need to announce my presence in a room or building!)This is average and inoffensive. Pleasant mix of mild and sweet notes with a bit of spiciness that is quite wearable for daily use. Nothing extreme about it though it's very nice.
Narciso Rodriguez for Him by Narciso Rodriguez
Weird. I read that this was meant to smell bad on purpose. Weird. I like this. Violet leaves can smell good to me. Goes on brightly green and subtlety earthy without being dirty. I find it odd that I really love this stuff since I disapprove of many other green fragrances namely Eternity.
Pi by Givenchy
Calming, soothing and sweet scent. Though quite terrific, I need something more engaging. My personal preference should not discount the fact that this is a well made, though cloying fragrance.
Burberry London for Men by Burberry
Love it! Perfect scent for cooler weather and is a compliment magnet. First time I ever wore this I received my first cologne related compliment ever. Nice, boozy and sweet without being overbearing. To me it's unique since I haven't really smelled anything like it before.
Reaction by Kenneth Cole
I realize how awful its longevity is. On a card, it lasted a good while. The scent lingered with me for the longest time and I wanted a bottle badly but still felt undecided. I went to the Internet and other sources for reviews and thought and found out, despite the fact that my sample card lasted a long time, that Reaction on;y reacts for so long. Maybe 30 minutes or and hour if you're lucky. And there have been accounts were people are lucky. I even asked the SA their option on Reaction and she honestly said that there have been more returns on that fragrance than any other they have ever had and this store has been around for a good 20 years and so had the SA.Well, this is a great, fresh, fruity scent. I love the opening notes and everything about it. If Be Delicious wasn't so sour, I'd wear that instead of Reaction but reaction makes it just right without you feeling like a fruit basket.Like many others have stated, I wish this lasted longer. I wonder what makes it fade so quickly...
Rochas Man by Rochas
Excellent gourmand. I accidentally bought some of the aftershave and find it to be very versatile for layering with any other gourmand fragrance out there. Coffee and vanilla. Love them both.
Chypre Rouge by Serge Lutens
If "rouge" means "red" like blood here, then I can agree. That is, if blood refers to blood of a tree which we call sap. This smells like pine sap mixed with carmel. Feels very sticky and dirty. Not very pleasant at all. From an atheistic view, though rich and syrupy like most Lutens I've tried, this one just doesn't feel right and out of character for a Lutens scent.
Feeling Man by Jil Sander
Sweet fruits and tobacco. Quite nice and I wish my sample had a little more to go on.
Scent Intense by Costume National
I get great sillage and longevity from this. In fact, I rarely ever get comments on what I'm wearing but I found that people were sniffing the air around me asking, "oh I smell something." It's good. Slightly vanilla with a slight spice to it with amber. Definitely a unisex. I can't compare it to the normal Scent for intensity difference.
H.M. by Hanae Mori
Dripping with an amazing sweetness, this is probably the scent that Captain Kirk was smelling coming from the cloud creature in the episode "Obsession". That thing was scary.
Allure Homme by Chanel
A quick shot of citrus and pepper. Mostly pepper, though. Nice oriental and slightly sweet drydown that lasts for hours. This is all drydown to me. While average at the begining, for those of you who like longevity should wear this. Simple and elegant and modern.
Kouros Tattoo Edition by Yves Saint Laurent
Love this take on Kouros. I was lucky enough for someone to decant a small sample for me.Tattoo does feel slightly weaker than its parent with some pepper added but its weakness is only slight. We're talking about Kouros here, a potent fragrance as it is! Good stuff.
Cool Water by Davidoff
I enjoy the smell. I don't enjoy the hype. I don't enjoy all the negative talk about it on the boards. I never wore this but I distinctly remembering people who did but I never knew what they were wearing.This is fresh and fruity and smooth like one of those frozen smoothies but with extra milk. At first it wasn't nice at all but later I liked it. If you've read about all the hype i.e. the many fragrances that are copies of Cool Water, you might not like the original.It's good but uninspiring.
Joop! Homme by Joop!
Love it or hate it, here's Joop! Homme. I hate it. Then I love it. Then I hate it. Makes me feel like the fragrance is inducing schizophrenia upon me. Medicinal. Then sweet. Potent. Bubble-gum. All kinds of weird and all kinds of boring but even interesting. Just a very odd scent. However I must rate on the downside due to the overwhelming overall syntheticness of it all.
Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent
Another love it or hate it frag.... I love it. I love it because, after reading reviews in many places, I absolutely cannot smell the urinal cake accord people talk about. This smells great and works very well with my skin. One of the lucky ones I suppose.
Baie de Genièvre by Creed
Juniper berries have a tendency to smell really horrible to me but when paired with other things it can be quite lovely. This does not work on my skin at all. I have tried a juniper shaving cream by L'Occitane before and juniper stings the skin.
Black Jeans by Versace
I would throw it up there on the tier with Bandit for those tar and leather scents that make you feel indestructible. You don't need a bad boy image to pull off the fragrance, though. The whole things is one huge wonderful accord of leathery scents even though it says there's no leather but damn if I will attest that there's leather in there. This maybe because of the mixture of many floral scents with juniper and nutmeg. Just wonderful but can be gagging in large doses.
Bleu Marine by Pierre Cardin
Not long lasting but I like the spiciness. A good, cheap blue cologne for whenever.
Allure Homme Sport by Chanel
Chanel does a "sports" fragrance? That's like having Baldwin making shoes. I love Allure Homme but this sporty fragrance isn't sporty at all and comes off as average.