ARMANI Eau Pour Homme Eau de Toilette 100 Ml

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It's Armani's signature male fragrance, so you'd figure they'd step it up to make it more high-end instead of producing it as the weakest cheapest form of fragrance possible in a toilette. However, there's spice underneath, but I'd still contend this is a citrus fragrance, light on the spice. Have both the old and new versions - in a side by side test, they did a pretty good job with the new one. Interestingly, I bought this instead of Tom Ford's Neroli Portofino after spraying a wrist with each and comparing. There are hints of warm spices and even of the juicy citrus fruits in this scent at every stage of its skin life.

It doesn’t have any of the 80s urinal cake smell or really any dated notes typical of 80s masculine frags.

All in all, the scent is the typical cologne smell, only (in my opinion) the highest class of it, and should not be dismissed among the countless other citrus based fragrances out there. I wore it for years until they changed the formula and it wasn't the same, it had lost something (probably due to IFRA banning some of the ingredients used).

It also brings up the imagery of an evening date where an elegant and attractive couple is dancing sensually together. guys i have the older version and need to know the similarities or differences with this one, if it worths the purchase. Definitely best for summer but could hold it's own in early autumn/fall, I also like this for daywear but has a bit of complexity for a summer evening if you vary the sprays. The bold hesperidic (that's a fancy way of saying "citrusy") opening gives way to a spicy aromatic heart with a classic base of patchouli, woods and oakmoss (at least if you have an old bottle like mine from before they banned oakmoss!Simultaneously, the oakmoss and vetiver develop adding an inky, bitter, mossy, forest floor evocative and very green, grassy touch. I wouldn't bother with the current formula at all - it is truly that bad and a definite Thumbs Down.

Armani Pour Homme is a soapy, fresh scent that is clean and elegant; it is fresh and light yet the Sandalwood and Oak Moss in its base give it some real heft. Thumbs up for a solid if staid first effort from Giorgio Armani, and worth a sniff for anyone who loves their other men's fresh scents. My father had a bottle of this and would wear it quite regularly and it reminds me a lot of him from the early 90s. Out of all Armani's fragrance, Armani Eau Pour Homme by far one of the most exquisite and graceful men's fragrance from his line!I first smelled it in 1985 when I bought a bottle of Ralph Lauren's Monogram which had just come out. You can forget about getting anywhere close to this level with cheapies such as Victor or Aqua di Selva. I think of a man walking down the cloudy streets of France or Italy wearing a simple fall coat and maybe smoking a cigarette. I just got the original -80 Davidoff Cool Water, and it's the glass on it's own, blowing your senses out! My first purchase of this was 1988 along with the appropriate Armani Slate Gray and Steel Blue Casual elegance.

Armani Eau Pour Homme alongside Versace L'Homme and the previous year's Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme Haute Concentration (1983), would be a vanguard for a final generation of designer citrus chypres for men, being followed by Penhaligon's Douro Eau de Portugal/Lords (1985), Gianfranco Ferré for Man (1986), and R de Capucci by Roberto Capucci (1986) until the genre was subverted with semi-oriental tones before disappearing altogether into the 90's.

It opens with neroli and citrus and then just turns extremely sour and uninviting, a combination of the extinguishing opening notes polluted by a tinge of a terrible clove note. I find this to be the case with Guerlain's famous Vetiver, for example, where the initial lemon has a strange and slightly dirty smell, perhaps due to the tobacco flower in the bass.