Acqua Di Pino Cologne Pino Silvestre 2020

Do you know what you smell when you take the cap off a (used) bottle? - Exactly, the base!

With ADPC, this bottle sniffing gives a good preview of what it will smell like half an hour after spraying. And that is the fragrance experience of a fine hand cream!

This creaminess, in my opinion, is caused by iris and musk. For a summery cologne, this is a lovely innovation. I would enjoy smelling this on a lady on a warm summer evening. Just not necessarily on myself, as I don't want to smell intensely like hand cream.

Upon spraying, this creamy impression is already present in the background. It is overshadowed by the cologne-like freshness. Interestingly, unlike Eau de Cologne, there is no (potentially cardboard-like) neroli used here. Another difference is that, firstly, greenery and, secondly, ginger make the scent more complex and substantial. Thus, the first half hour after spraying is characterized by a citrus-fresh, herbaceous-green, ginger-tinged, and creamy scent impression.

This is a welcome reinterpretation or development of the cologne theme. I enjoy it conceptually and on a test strip. However, to truly embrace the scent for its intended purpose, namely to wear it at least occasionally, one should like the creamy iris-musk base.

The hand cream base is too sweet and too greasy for me - simply not my thing. Just as I also don't like a musk-tonka bean base (like in Tasmeem Men). But that's just my taste. Those who enjoy such things will experience a great combination of this creaminess with a green-gingery cologne with ADPC. And that for a small price (currently around 30 euros).

So far, only men own this cologne at Parfumo. This surprises me; I would have guessed two-thirds female ownership. Probably this scent is simply not yet known among women. Or they already have good hand creams...