I decided to try this one again as reviews from around the internet differ wildly and my experience seemed way out of step with most of them.
I've only tried the 2025 version so don't know whether or not there have been any little tweaks here and there.
I applied a little more than I would typically from my two milliliter sample spray; four on each forearm, four around the neck, just to get a feeling of wearing this as my scent for the day.
The opening I can smell well for, perhaps, half an hour by which point it is a skin scent. It seems to last a goodly while as a soft skin scent.
The first 20 minutes or so I get a fruity type of smell, at one point smelling like tinned pears in fruit juice, along with a general perfumey smell. No flowers, vetivert, patchouli, dusty powder, in fact nothing much of anything. Maybe a bit of musk.
But what I do get is a slight sour lemon disinfectant note that repeatedly wafts up to my nose for a good five or six hours but with my skin smelling like I had a bath earlier in the day with a perfumed soap (about that strength of smell).
Despite the amount I put on I don't feel like I have put on a lot which is quite unlike the Fiori di Captri I tested out where despite not smelling much I felt saturated in perfume.
The smell of this on my clothing isn't all that different to that on my skin, a softly fruity scent rather than a floral so I think that's just how I smell this one rather than my skin doing odd things.
A bit underwhelming for me. If 5th Avenue were an 8 strength this would be a two and likewise for complexity.
But that's just me. Worth a test I think for a non-obnoxious option -but I could be wrong as I have seen reviews saying this is very long lasting with a strong sillage. Perhaps there are some aromachemicals that I don't smell all that well, or my own smell cancels out some of them (like my mum's skin cancelled out the musk chemicals I bought to try - we could smell them on me but smelt nothing on mum).
