Attitude Extrême Giorgio Armani 2009

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7.5 / 10 75 Ratings

A perfume by Giorgio Armani for men, released in 2009. The scent is spicy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Oriental

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Star anise

Cardamom

Lemon

Heart Notes

Cedar

Coffee

Frankincense

Base Notes

Amber

Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

7.575 Ratings

Longevity

7.056 Ratings

Sillage

6.755 Ratings

Bottle

7.867 Ratings

Value for money

5.812 Ratings

Submitted by MissHill, last update on 15.02.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/28/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 3.5
Scent

DarkWinterCS
136 Reviews

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DarkWinterCS

1

Dealing with the past with disillusionment

There are scents before Parfumo and after. Especially when, like me, you are much more deeply involved with the matter, as soon as you can communicate with like-minded people and think more about the individual notes of the perfumes. I have been more interested in it some time before, but not as much and with heart and soul as I have been since the registration. If you look at perfume for some time as a useful object rather than a hobby, you are sometimes more satisfied with less. This can be a blessing, but one is relatively limited in one's choice and experiences away from the mainstream.
Now I knew the Attitude Extreme when it was published. At that time for me exceptionally beautiful, slightly sweet, slightly spicy and convincing. By filling the bottle, I wanted to make up for the feeling of that time and enjoy the fragrance again. But sometimes the memories of a fragrance are better than the fragrance itself. Because even fragrances can age badly and lose a certain fascination. That's what happened to me with this fragrance
The fragrance still sprays the notes described here. But not the way I remembered them, probably because I now perceive my scents differently than then. So this fragrance is no longer the pleasure for my nose that it once was. Too unstructured, too much green-bite coffee and too little balance. Just like he's become too stinging for my nose. This is certainly also due to the development of personal taste. But just when you had a high quality coffee scent in your nose, it looks a bit synthetic or inferior.

Even if I would have wished for a better reunion, the memory remains that he had accompanied me well and gladly for quite a while and had pleased me.

03/20/2019

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Oldish2002
121 Reviews

Oldish2002

1

Why so low rated ?

Guys, dunno why is this fragrance scored that low here. I had it many years ago (2011) and it was still going on the market by that time. Now it’s very hard to find and it costs too much. This was by far my strongest fragrance. Even if I had to compare it with any other that I have tested until today. I remember that I used 4 sprays one time (instead of 2), 1 to the back of my head, 1 on the chest and 1 on each sholder. Those sholders smelled for about 1 month. If you want to believe me, of course. Eveytime I opened the closet were that sprayed jacket was, I felt like the fragrance was still projecting even after 2 weeks. I mean even after too weeks ? Wtf ? Guess what ? I picked that jacket for a date (after 2 weeks with that fragrance on) and I dated a girl. I still remember, late fall, pretty windy outside. As soon as I got into my car, I already felt the fragrance (from my jacket only) spread itself into the car. I didn’t sprayed myself anymore that night. I left only with the ghost of the fragrance on my jacket’s shoulders from 2 weeks ago. The girl noticed so fast my fragrance and told me it was so sexy. Like never before. She called me the next day to tell me that she is dying to know the fragrance. A slightly woody, coffe-based mixed with that patchouli and dark notes, cardamom- lemony which gives it a perfect dark, masculine&seductive kind of smell for fall and winter. Great for dates and special nights. No casual either or blind buy. Test it first.
People, this is my story. I don’t know what batch I had at that time, what was going but that fragrance was all of me. I loved it since first day. It was a blind buy and it was the best blind buy ever. I think I will not buy it again because I see that is scored very low here and maybe it’s not that strong like before. Maybe it suffered some reformulations or something.
I am not paid by anyone to “advertise” it this way
but It is my favourite. Great looking bottle, great sprayer. A bit pricy (even in the past) but it all worth it. Performance ? (at that time, in 2011)
Unbelievable !! 14+ hours on the skin only (always still catching it in the next day ) Projecting ? No problem sir. 6 hours + for skin. Monstruos projection. 2 sprays on clothes and bam ! 2 weeks later you can still smell it on your clothes. And pretty good, not hardly (like a bit lighter projection).
I repet, God knows what fragrance I catched by then or what batch it was but it was out of this world. And the smell ? AMAZING+ (lol)
Overall rating 20/10.

11/21/2018

9
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Morpheus1
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Morpheus1

Helpful Review 3

Until one learns to appreciate some scents correctly ...

... sometimes 10 years have to pass.

I had bought it when it appeared, I didn't like it any more after testing it a few times at home. I found the mixture of staramis, coffee and incense too funny and too strong. I was too young for a scent like that, too. I stamped it as Opaduft and gave it away.

Time passed, he was hired. Often I thought about him, how I would find him today.

Until today came and I got 30ml with a lot of luck to the bargain price.

After 10 years, it doesn't smell that strong, but it's still present. I like it better that much better. It goes in the direction of Barbershop smell. Cardamom, staramis and cedar are paired with coffee and incense. Woody-spicy, with coffee indicating the main undertone in the entire fragrance. He didn't become a hit, that's why he was hired. I have personal memories of him and he probably wanted to come back to me.

The bottle in black glass with hinged closure inspired me already at that time. Very nice and elegant.

Overall not a bad scent, but that certain something was missing.

06/12/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 2

Nothing extreme, but there's some attitude!

Quite a class act, really (really!) similar to several niche scents playing the “dark spicy-patchouli card”. The thickness, the dark refinement, the velvety texture, it’s quite all there. And apparently, back then the “extreme” flanker of a fragrance still had some meaning: this smells in fact clearly connected to Armani Attitude, but as you may expect, drifting towards a darker, bolder version of it. The key notes – patchouli and dusty amber - are still there, but they’re just all “amplified” and made denser and gloomier, mostly thanks to a clever use of spices, something “nutty” I can’t detect more precisely (slightly balmy, like the balmy woody notes used in Escada Magnetism for Men) and a louder presence of musk. Attitude was smoother and smokier, this is richer, more “challenging” in a way, but also more sophisticated for me – just in a darker way, less versatile, less office-safe, maybe a bit harder to pull off. The “night” version of Attitude, shortly, made to please that “night” crowd instead of coworkers and daytime contacts. A sort of more mainstream version of Donna Karan Black Cashmere and similar fragrances, even with a touch of Norma Kamali’s metallic incense, and somehow “Lutensian” too thanks to something resinous and thick resembling to fir balsam, and to that balmy-nutty note. Crap longevity with a nearly-only ambery drydown, but worthy a try.

7-7,5/10