See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

L!ve Lacoste 2014

5.5 / 10 110 Ratings

A perfume by Lacoste for men, released in 2014. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It is being marketed by Coty.
Pronunciation Compare

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Synthetic

Spicy

Aquatic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lime

Heart Notes

Green leaves

Aquatic notes

Base Notes

Liquorice

Gaiac wood Iris

Iris

Perfumer

Jean-Michel Duriez

Videos

Watch video

Ratings

Scent

5.5110 Ratings

Longevity

5.283 Ratings

Sillage

4.983 Ratings

Bottle

5.6106 Ratings

Value for money

5.920 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 07/25/2024.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Pride

Hummer

L.12.12 Blanc Eau de Toilette

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/11/2014

3Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

NazguL2
5 Reviews

NazguL2

2

boring stuff

The opening is good and fresh but nothing new. The drydown is awful,in my skin at least smells bad.
I give thanks that the sillage and the projection isn't better and this scene gone in less than 5 hours

02/05/2016

3Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Meggi

Top Review 18

Into the Distant Past

L!ve wants to take us back to the past. In films, time travel usually happens very quickly - within seconds, eons are bridged to move the actual plot forward. Lacoste has taken this as a model; after all, a long scent development would only slow things down. That's why even Fanta Lime has more to do with lime than the top note of Lacoste. A bit of acidity for a few minutes, that's it. Without any announcement, I would have guessed mandarin. It tends to turn musty and somewhat diffuse-aquatic on me, which elegantly means that the so-called heart note would already be essentially checked off. Dull-synthetic so-called aquatic with the often common plywood charm underneath. Wow, in just one paragraph, two pyramid levels have been celebrated. For me, that's a record.

For about an hour, it looks like L!ve might still make the curve. The woody must recedes, a bearable sweetness emerges, which even has a bit of spiciness to it, possibly clove and its companions. Unsupported, I would have guessed a DIY sandalwood made from cedar, artificial wood, cinnamon, and a bit of eugenol plus something sweet-woody (at least that fits!). Maybe also coumarin. Guaiac? Alright. On a quality scale for guaiac in fragrances, L!ve would, from my humble experience, certainly be at the lower end - the upper end would probably be marked by Bois d’Armenie. Anyway, it doesn't last long, as soon the lab wood pseudo-aquatic takes over, sweetened up. We didn't want to be held back.

So let's finally get to the destination of the time travel: In front of his cave sits cave man Grumpf in the rain, thoughtfully chewing on a heavily chewed piece of licorice. In his hand, he holds a L!ve bottle - the Rubik's Cube for Neanderthals.

------------------------------------------

Rubik's Cube was already mentioned in the first comment. I honestly came up with that all by myself - it’s quite obvious.

I thank Tiara for the sample.

08/06/2014

6Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Leimbacher
2873 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Leimbacher

Top Review 6

A small step for the perfume world, but a bigger one for Lacoste in the right direction

After the color perfumes in the style of their world-famous polos, Lacoste had 2 options: a) close the store, stand in a corner, and be ashamed or b) muster the courage to take time for a brand new scent and move back towards former strength. The heavily advertised new fragrance L!ve lies somewhere in the middle of these two options, perhaps even closer to the positive direction, which makes me very happy.

L!ve is, at its best, a casual office companion for the modern man of the world. At its worst, it reminds me of the men's locker room at the gym. But one step at a time, the rating is almost too harsh, and it is a good scent. However, I didn't want to make it too easy for the Lacoste failures and cash grabbers of recent years.

The cube, marketed as a cool lifestyle scent, starts off slightly citrusy but muted. More lime or woody-citrus notes than the usual citrus blast in the mainstream top note. This beginning is pleasing, not cheap, and not ordinary, as even in the year of the World Cup in Brazil, lime has not yet become the 08/15 citrus fruit. It still has something down-to-earth about it, a bitterness, and a lot of green. This simple-sunny summer top note could also have a chance with me. Then, in between, some sweaty notes come through, which likely lead to associations with cheap lavender and wet socks. Unfortunately, the middle part falters and cannot connect to the great beginning. The finish is then a solid wood base that could have been sweeter and more licorice-like for me - that sounds better and more spectacular when reading than in the actual test.

Bottle: urban, young, stylish, and brand-true - successful!
Longevity: with 6 hours, it is at least not a quick shot.
Sillage: follows the counter-trend to oriental powerhouses.

Even if not everything that glitters is gold and there are still more than a few steps to old class, rather a day's march - the beginning is made for me with L!ve. And the will counts.

08/15/2014

2.5Scent 4Longevity 4Sillage

FabianO
1008 Reviews

Translated · Show original

FabianO

11

Piercingly sour mainstream in a game console design bottle with a coffin nail message

Gone! gone! gone!

I no longer believe that the traditional brand with the crocodile will be able to create a men's fragrance worth buying again.

It just doesn't make sense anymore. I don't want to overdramatize, but I'm slowly reaching a point where it no longer brings me joy to test new men's fragrances in stores. When will this qualitative downward trend come to an end?

It can't be that after 20 visits to perfume shops, one hardly manages to come across a nice, charismatic new scent.
Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, that was common.

Not to mention the 80s, which I unfortunately did not experience "l!ve" (to use that dreadful fragrance name meaningfully), when you look at the milestones that were released monthly or at least annually back then.

I keep coming back to the original father of Lacoste fragrances from 1984, "Lacoste Original," a masterpiece, a milestone, a timeless classic.

Available on every corner in France and taken for granted, here it has been phased out to make room for the ridiculous red-green-white watery scents of the label.
Even the "Booster," released in the 90s, while by no means a masterpiece, is still miles better than anything that came after.

Procter & Gamble is truly selling the olfactory soul of the brand, and "L!ve" is another coffin nail.

A piercing, sharply sour start - a scratchy lime. And then - once again, like with almost every third new release - aquatic notes. Great! Creative!
If someone could just get the synthetic aspect out, it would already be a step forward. But apparently, no one cares.

The green leaves give me a somewhat immature, unnatural, slightly
sweaty impression. The whole thing remains sour, narrow, and trivial.

Guaiac wood, another mainstream essence for about 3-4 years, just wafts monotonously, slightly rubbery-sweet-woody. Iris? I don't recognize it. Licorice? With a lot of imagination in the background.

The bottle is yet another fashion joke, somehow reminiscent of game consoles, bulky, sterile.

It's probably not entirely fair that my anger is now directed at Lacoste as just one representative of many soulless canned fragrances of this decade - but my level of annoyance is simply increasing.

Especially considering that for every lousy new release, a classic is increasingly disappearing from the shelves (see "Lacoste Original," see "Zino," see "Boss Elements".....). Otherwise, I wouldn't care what comes along.

06/06/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Shamrock
39 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Shamrock

Top Review 7

L!ve, nananana, L!ve is L!ve

Recently, when I got off work early and didn't feel like going home, I paid a visit to my perfume dealer.
Once a month, I check out what's new and was actually hoping for new scents from Varvatos, but unfortunately, no luck.
So I sniffed Valentino, avoided Davidoff Night Dive, and stopped at the Lacoste shelf.
Immediately, my favorite saleswoman stood next to me and pointed to the new scent from Lacoste. "Reminds me of a Rubik's Cube," she said, already holding the bottle and a test strip.
What I smelled was really good, and I made my decision quickly.
We talked about the fragrance notes, and she even fetched the internal marketing folder from Lacoste to show me the fragrance pyramid and the proportions of the scent.

To be honest, that wasn't necessary because the scent convinced me anyway. After all the fragrances Lacoste has launched in hopes of connecting to the original Lacoste, L!ve stands out pleasantly from the red, blue, black, and left scents.
The bottle alone is very high-quality and resembles an ink bottle more than Rubik and his cube; besides, it also makes a great projectile.

The scent starts very fresh with lime, then makes way for warmer tones. I must admit, I can't pick out aquatic notes for the life of me, but I do smell the licorice in the end.
L!ve is not a loud scent, and to be honest, after an hour, it's only noticeable if you stand very close to the person, but it's not aggressively intrusive.
I think it's about time I say goodbye to the eighties and their powerhouse scents.
Today's fragrances serve more as accessories, as an olfactory "close companion," not as an expression that is perceived even in the last corner.

L!ve is a very good office scent, unobtrusive, pleasant, and suitable for surviving a meeting. More of a Casual Friday than a Midweek, it accompanies you into the weekend by the lake or at the sea - of which we have plenty here on an island. It's definitely not mainstream-capable, and that's a good thing; it's more of a scent for people who have matured with dignity and don't necessarily want to stand out, not rushing around on the tennis court - rather atypical for Lacoste :), but for someone who plays golf and strolls leisurely from hole to hole. A scent that W.B. Yeats might have worn.

I believe Lacoste can still do it if they want to.

More reviews