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168 Reviews
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One of the cheapest and most generic freshies out there.
Personal: 6/10 – Not terrible, not great. It’s clean, aquatic, and faintly sweet, but feels extremely generic. Generic 2000s era shower gel DNA. I don't dislike it, but I don't like it either.
Mass appeal: 9/10 – Fresh, bright, and pleasant. Nobody will find this offensive, but it’s so familiar that it’s unlikely to stand out.
Performance: 5/10 – Light and short-lived. The opening freshness fades quickly into a barely-there synthetic musk base with gentle citrusy frutiness and green fresh spiciness.
Value: 7/10 – As with the rest of the Cuba line, it’s dirt cheap and smells *fine*. For a casual body-spray replacement, it’s fine, though there are far better fragrances for only $20 more.
Uniqueness: 4/10 – Smells like a mashup of Cool Water, Nautica Voyage, and generic blue shower gel. Not a clone per se, just extremely familiar to any nose.
SCORE: 62/100
Full bottle buy? NO, even for $10, it’s too forgettable.
Blind buy? YES, it’s cheap and harmless like any other blue fragrance.
Recommend? NO, too generic and hard to justify when better freshies exist.
Date night? NO, not interesting enough, even for casual summer dates.
Office safe? YES, fresh, light, and completely inoffensive.
Pros: Clean, easy to wear, cheap, safe everyday scent.
Cons: Generic, weak, overly synthetic, lacks depth or personality.
Cuba Blue is about as generic as it gets. A little fresh spicy, somewhat citrusy, clean, fresh, generic, etc. It's, as described, a mashup of Cool Water, Voyage, Versace Pour Homme, Acqua di Gio, and every other blue fragrance out there. It's fine, at best. But please, just buy a better freshie unless you explicitly want another cigar bottle on your shelf.
There’s a touch of sweetness that keeps it from being too harsh, but it’s hard to find any real personality here. As a gym scent, it’s fine; as a fragrance, it’s completely forgettable. The bottle’s fun, the scent’s fine, and that’s about it. You can skip over this one.
Review #166 in my fragrance journey – this fragrance I own as a full bottle
Mass appeal: 9/10 – Fresh, bright, and pleasant. Nobody will find this offensive, but it’s so familiar that it’s unlikely to stand out.
Performance: 5/10 – Light and short-lived. The opening freshness fades quickly into a barely-there synthetic musk base with gentle citrusy frutiness and green fresh spiciness.
Value: 7/10 – As with the rest of the Cuba line, it’s dirt cheap and smells *fine*. For a casual body-spray replacement, it’s fine, though there are far better fragrances for only $20 more.
Uniqueness: 4/10 – Smells like a mashup of Cool Water, Nautica Voyage, and generic blue shower gel. Not a clone per se, just extremely familiar to any nose.
SCORE: 62/100
Full bottle buy? NO, even for $10, it’s too forgettable.
Blind buy? YES, it’s cheap and harmless like any other blue fragrance.
Recommend? NO, too generic and hard to justify when better freshies exist.
Date night? NO, not interesting enough, even for casual summer dates.
Office safe? YES, fresh, light, and completely inoffensive.
Pros: Clean, easy to wear, cheap, safe everyday scent.
Cons: Generic, weak, overly synthetic, lacks depth or personality.
Cuba Blue is about as generic as it gets. A little fresh spicy, somewhat citrusy, clean, fresh, generic, etc. It's, as described, a mashup of Cool Water, Voyage, Versace Pour Homme, Acqua di Gio, and every other blue fragrance out there. It's fine, at best. But please, just buy a better freshie unless you explicitly want another cigar bottle on your shelf.
There’s a touch of sweetness that keeps it from being too harsh, but it’s hard to find any real personality here. As a gym scent, it’s fine; as a fragrance, it’s completely forgettable. The bottle’s fun, the scent’s fine, and that’s about it. You can skip over this one.
Review #166 in my fragrance journey – this fragrance I own as a full bottle
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