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Pleasant freshness without "extremes" ... I prefer to stay with the original!
Shortly after its release, I received "Bulgari pour Homme" in the normal version as a gift from my girlfriend at the time. It was my first encounter with the brand at all. To this day, I practically always have a bottle of this fragrance in my closet, because it has a unique fresh aura in my nose. At the time, I didn't think about the individual ingredients, but I think tea, flowers and (especially) musk, along with citrus notes, work together to give the original its distinctive character, which I find extremely pleasing. Unfortunately, "Bulgari pour Homme" suffers from a rather weak durability and sillage.
Clearly that one leads sometime also the "extreme" brother to mind, in the hope that this shortcoming would be eliminated. But this is only conditionally so. Extreme is here first of all nothing. The Flanker was simply trimmed to a longer shelf life, which is quite noticeable. But the incomparable freshness of the original is lost a bit. Far higher citrus, wood and spice shares make BPHE a much more ordinary fresh scent, although I would have expected otherwise.
Thus, the original in the top and base notes is lost to my regret, although one can certainly still speak of a flanker, which also deserves this name due to the similar DNA. However, the difference between the two Bulgari "men" makes itself much more noticeable on my skin than on the test strip, on which both fragrances differed for me rather marginally.
No question that with BPHE we are still dealing with a very nice and clean fresh scent (you do not need the umpteenth "Acva" version), but which lacks the uniqueness of the original. Wood and spices make for a slightly longer lasting scent, while the sillage remains more or less skin deep. If you have the one, you need in any case not also the other
Top Notes 
Grapefruit
Bergamot
Tea
Neroli
Petitgrain
Galbanum
Coriander
Lavender
Heart Notes 
Pepper
Balsam spruce
Cardamom
Nutmeg
Gaiac wood
Base Notes 
Cedar
Musk
Oakmoss
Iris
Sandalwood
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