Of course I loved this back when I was in college. And now I had my hubby try it and it was glorious, still. All those green notes, tobacco , spices to add complexity. Nothing skanky, just very appealing to me.
Real man’s scent and defo not like the blue scents. The first time was 16 years old stealing a sniff from dad’s bottle and recalling it was extremely strong and pungent. 30 years later finally acquired a bottle of my own and it smells different than my memory.
There is no more iconic bottle in all of perfumery. Very similar to Paco Rabanne pour homme but it lasts much longer and doesn’t have that gross soapy opening pour homme does. I wear this a few times a month but with the current formulation I can get 12 hours out of this. This is a scent I’ve been wearing since the early 90s. The original powerhouse formulation would fill the whole room.
The dry down, to me, smells like pine and freshly ground pepper, strong, masculine, professional. I just bought a bottle a week ago and ralph lauren t shirt it’s now my go-to fragrance every morning. I’ve received so many compliments, I think this would be an office or school safe fragrance.
Basically, what hits you first is the mix of cut grass and other plants, then the unmistakable piquant smell of the black pepper. 90% of what I’ve sampled before have been women’s fragrances, which tend to skimp on the black pepper. While I think that it would smell quite masculine and attractive on a man, I’m not sure that a woman wouldn’t be able to wear it in the right circumstances. Mainly it seems very green, fresh, and spicy. I recently read about this perfume and was astonished that it was created in 1978. And that it is called an old man’s perfume.