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.
I completely agree with you. The saleswoman actually tried to sell me that junk as a good fragrance today. I briefly told her what I think of all the "color scents" from Lacoste. Then there was an icy silence.
Time really sets the trend and vice versa... but it's surprising how few real men there are today when it comes to BOLDNESS in fragrances and their buyers. I like gourmands and all that too, but these safe, boring aquatics are just so ANNOYING!!
It smells like Lacoste fragrances from before. However, I have to say, like with Hugo Red, that for me it's subjectively a step forward. Synthetic or not, I don't think you can expect anything else - this is how a 15-year-old today should smell.
Aside from Zino and Opium EDP, not much from back then excites me anymore, just take a look at my collection. If I were rich and my hobby were more pronounced, I would add a few Xerjoffs, Sospiros, Rojas, etc. to my wardrobe.
Aside from that: I still find plenty, my closet is full. But a lot of beautiful things (Lacoste Original, the Caron fragrances) are only available online in Germany!
2. What’s "IN" today reflects the spirit of the times just like the scents from 1. did 15 years ago. But I don’t like that either, and I rarely go to regular perfume stores.
Now I need to be a bit straightforward: :-)
1. What you liked 10, 15, or 20 years ago, I don't like at all anymore. Luckily, I don't find that in the perfume shops anymore.
1. What you liked 10, 15, or 20 years ago, I don't like at all anymore. Luckily, I don't find that in the perfume shops anymore.
They rely on the fact that it will sell x100,000 during the initial hype, pocket the money, and - goodbye!