Canali Men Canali 2005 Eau de Toilette

80% (I think I had overheard) of the new releases disappear from the market within 1-2 years due to miserable acceptance. Then as now. You cry over a few, but nobody cares about most of them. At that time even less without the World Wide Web. I don't know how long "Canali Men" lasted - but I would never count him among the "lost treasures"...

Pierre Bourdon is a master, no question. But even masters can miss a trick. And "Canali Men" sucks for me. An iris scent that is supposed to be driven away from its softness and inconspicuousness with pungent fruit and scratchy leather-musk undertones? Sounds nice - but it's not. The fragrance is nothing half and nothing whole, the fabrics appear annoyingly inferior and flat-synthetic, a real character or direction crystallizes only very late. And then only with aversion. A bristly seducer, playful and annoying. Grim looking, but then also completely in the wrong direction. No. That was a sentence with an X. Today you can get something like that at Zara and other "fashion houses" next to the "counter".

Flacon: avant-garde or lame?
Sillage: discreetly sleepy
Shelf life: well meant 5 hours

Conclusion: an iris scent with edges sounds great on paper - but "Canali Men" simply doesn't work and is not one to be trusted. At least I do.