Emporio Armani - Stronger With You Amber Giorgio Armani 2023
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Fell Short
The Stronger with You line has a large following within our fragrance community and every single flanker even thought have small minimal changes made an impact, however this one flops in that regard.
Nose behind this is Cécile Matton. She is the nose behind the whole line and well deserved to continue the flankers in my opinion.
This flanker as of this date is a Middle Eastern Exclusive release like Oud, Leather and the new Tobacco which will be coming out soon. As I’m from North America and many of us require to either blind buy this or pay for a sample and then purchase it at a inflated price which will affect the review a bit.
Upon smelling Stronger With You Amber, I could tell that this was a subpar SWY flanker, perhaps one of the worst of the line, especially the exclusive line. The opening starts with the usual stronger with you sweet base of vanilla but also is joined by spicy facets (cardamom and cinnamon). You lose the nutty aspect of the original which made the original kind of unique within the designer realm and this is where Amber loses me. Each flanker had it’s unique take within mostly the opening, either it’s boozy or more woody but it made a difference. This one felt it was taking away everything you like from the original and made it blander.
The opening is very vanillic with those short bursts of spices that you will lose towards the end. You get met also by a lavender note which is actually good, it does not smell like a dryer sheet or any cleaning supply. Lavender does well to bring down the sweetness and make the scent thinner and more aromatic and does help the versatility of this one. The lavender sadly once added with the vanilla fog reminded me of Quentin Bisch recent releases namely 1 Million flankers and Le Male flankers which utilize the same vanillic fog that drowns out any other notes and lavender to balance it out. It makes this scent neither exclusive or worthy of a blind buy as a North American. It smells like any other mass produced top seller.
The drydown is exactly that of lavender with heavy vanillic tones that can be powdery. The interesting pieces aren’t there, the amber gives a little brown hue but nothing resinous here or balsamic which is a shame for a middle eastern release. It’s just a big vanillic bomb at this point.
Overall, it seems all the interesting parts of SWY was removed here, while the other flankers brought something to the table, this one did not. It removed more than it added. We are left with a stripped down SWY EDT with more vanillic sweetness in the backend. It reminds me of a Bisch 1 Million flanker to be honest.
My recommendation is don’t pay the premium price to get your hands on this and don’t blind buy unless you’re a collector, sniff out the 1 Million flanker or the new Le male elixir and you’ll get this same recipe.
Projection: 7 (average)
Longevity: 7 (6-8 hours)
Compliment Factor: 6 (little above average)
Uniqueness: 5
Pricing VS what you get: 4 (retail or at discounters at an inflated price)
Versatility: 6 (average)
Smell: 6 (decent but I think the rest of the line gave me more)
Overall: 6
Buy Try or Pass: I recommend this one as a Pass
This review was based on a decant that I purchased.
Youtube channel: Robes08 (video of this can be seen there)
Nose behind this is Cécile Matton. She is the nose behind the whole line and well deserved to continue the flankers in my opinion.
This flanker as of this date is a Middle Eastern Exclusive release like Oud, Leather and the new Tobacco which will be coming out soon. As I’m from North America and many of us require to either blind buy this or pay for a sample and then purchase it at a inflated price which will affect the review a bit.
Upon smelling Stronger With You Amber, I could tell that this was a subpar SWY flanker, perhaps one of the worst of the line, especially the exclusive line. The opening starts with the usual stronger with you sweet base of vanilla but also is joined by spicy facets (cardamom and cinnamon). You lose the nutty aspect of the original which made the original kind of unique within the designer realm and this is where Amber loses me. Each flanker had it’s unique take within mostly the opening, either it’s boozy or more woody but it made a difference. This one felt it was taking away everything you like from the original and made it blander.
The opening is very vanillic with those short bursts of spices that you will lose towards the end. You get met also by a lavender note which is actually good, it does not smell like a dryer sheet or any cleaning supply. Lavender does well to bring down the sweetness and make the scent thinner and more aromatic and does help the versatility of this one. The lavender sadly once added with the vanilla fog reminded me of Quentin Bisch recent releases namely 1 Million flankers and Le Male flankers which utilize the same vanillic fog that drowns out any other notes and lavender to balance it out. It makes this scent neither exclusive or worthy of a blind buy as a North American. It smells like any other mass produced top seller.
The drydown is exactly that of lavender with heavy vanillic tones that can be powdery. The interesting pieces aren’t there, the amber gives a little brown hue but nothing resinous here or balsamic which is a shame for a middle eastern release. It’s just a big vanillic bomb at this point.
Overall, it seems all the interesting parts of SWY was removed here, while the other flankers brought something to the table, this one did not. It removed more than it added. We are left with a stripped down SWY EDT with more vanillic sweetness in the backend. It reminds me of a Bisch 1 Million flanker to be honest.
My recommendation is don’t pay the premium price to get your hands on this and don’t blind buy unless you’re a collector, sniff out the 1 Million flanker or the new Le male elixir and you’ll get this same recipe.
Projection: 7 (average)
Longevity: 7 (6-8 hours)
Compliment Factor: 6 (little above average)
Uniqueness: 5
Pricing VS what you get: 4 (retail or at discounters at an inflated price)
Versatility: 6 (average)
Smell: 6 (decent but I think the rest of the line gave me more)
Overall: 6
Buy Try or Pass: I recommend this one as a Pass
This review was based on a decant that I purchased.
Youtube channel: Robes08 (video of this can be seen there)