Eros Versace 2012 Eau de Toilette

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Ranked 47 in Men's Perfume

7.5 / 10 3885 Ratings

A perfume by Versace for men, released in 2012. The scent is sweet-fresh. It is being marketed by EuroItalia.

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Main accords

Sweet

Fresh

Synthetic

Fruity

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green apple Mint

Mint

Italian lemon

Heart Notes

Venezuelan tonka bean

Ambroxan

Geranium

Base Notes

Bourbon vanilla

Atlas cedar

Virginia cedar Oakmoss

Oakmoss

Vetiver

Perfumers

Aurélien Guichard, Givaudan

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Ratings

Scent

7.53885 Ratings

Longevity

7.63644 Ratings

Sillage

7.53644 Ratings

Bottle

8.13743 Ratings

Value for money

7.92674 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 03/24/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is the American model Brian Shimansky, set in scene by the photographers Mert & Marcus.

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Reviews

116 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/12/2022

5
Pricing 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 6
Scent

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 6

The good old days

Imagine you go out clubbing with the cool guys from work, for a change. Halfway the night you realize that you are the oldest guy on the dance floor. Not just a bit older than average, at least by a decade. That’s when that universal sense of awkwardness kicks in. Reality is a b*tch and it stings. I associate Eros with that feeling.

Actually, I like Eros for what it is. Minty apple that turns into tonka-ambrox-woods. It contains pretty much every ingredient that I dislike normally, but somehow it works here. Still, for me it is something of a while ago, those good old days. I have grown too old for this and so has Eros.

09/18/2024

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

AdrianPapaki
70 Reviews

AdrianPapaki

Helpful Review 3

A classic with a bad fame

"Basic Bro fragrance", "Frat boy ahh" and idk what else. Say what you will but this started the game for many of us in the community, and its a victim of its own fame as well as Sauvage Eau de Toilette or Aventus .

Honestly I don't consider this a gem or a masterpiece, but it's a decent scent for people it's targeted at, teens. Coming from a designer, it's understandable that it's not gonna be something remarkable BUT it sure has its distinctions.
Green apple, mint, vanilla/tonka & ambroxan. It's a sweet, green shampoo in a fragrance! It does unfortunately remind me of Zara fragrances and cheap alternatives, but when found for a decent price its a good pick up.

11/03/2023

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Lotusmaglite
8 Reviews

Lotusmaglite

Helpful Review 2

I'm going to lose this war, but here's my shot, anyway

This is about Versace Eros, but bear with me, because I need to talk about Drakkar Noir first. For the past couple decades, Drakkar Noir has been seen as a scent from an increasingly distant past, a loud, youthful mess of callow, overbearing, blithe self-assurance, the kind you find in the halls of American high schools and in clubs around the world, young men bathing in the perfume that clings to your memory long after their names have faded.

If it isn't already, Versace Eros will one day be thought of in the same way. You can already see embarrassed older men walking away from it, as if to bury the mistakes of their youth with their bottle of Eros. Frag heads - many of them the same men - are joining them, dissing Eros because it is/was popular. Hey, remember when ear tech was only for d-bags? Well now everyone is walking around with earbuds all day. Taste-makers are often just gatekeeping b-holes. They think Layton is too mainstream, even though no one outside the frag community even knows what Layton is.

Like Drakkar Noir, Eros got so popular for a reason. It frequently beats all comers in blind tests of scents women prefer to smell on a man. It's fresh and sweet, a combination most people enjoy. It's fine to smell like other people. Your fragrance doesn't make you an individual. You do. You'll never find that niche fragrance no one has heard of, that will make you popular yet unique, because everyone is already wearing it. It's fool's gold. A snipe hunt. Quit trying to outpace the tragically hip; their entire raison d'être is to be soooo over whatever you're doing.

Get Eros. It smells great, performs well, projects a little, and for a designer fragrance, is pretty affordable. What more could you ask for?

03/01/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 3

Surprisingly decent

Eros opens with a fresh and minty accord (apple, mint, citrus) surrounded by the usual metallic-ozonic notes, however supported by a pleasant and slightly less predictable (for this type of scent) base of warm, rich, aromatic spicy-woody notes (tonka and cedar above all), sweet and quite “round”, perhaps due to tobacco and/or patchouli dusted with vanilla - the “uncommon” side is that these notes smell actually good and solid, more than the average in mainstream scents. I smell a couple of “niche” nuances here, for example the ambroxan note which provides a “modern” feel of dusty grayness (quite reinforced by aldehydes) – not far from several niche products of the recent years. Also, another “niche” factor to me is some of the contrasts this scent is built on – the tart-mint head opening and the almost gourmandish base, which is quite sweet, warm and resinous, and smoky too. Overall it smells safe and crowdpleasing, but if pay attention and smell it more carefully, it’s not as common as it may seem. And it’s definitely decent. Plus, Eros has also an unexpectedly nice evolution too: instead or remaining identical and just getting drier and lighter, it gets softer, warmer, more resinous, actually more pleasant as hours pass, once the sharp metallic-zesty opening fades away. I’m wearing it since a couple of hours, and now is remarkably better than before. Nothing great and nothing new, but not bad and not (too much) boring.

6,5/10

08/21/2021

4
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

JavSantana
59 Reviews

JavSantana

7

My first love (And first review here)

Greetings. I am moving from the "Frag..." named site since my computer doesn't charge it properly and usually crashes when i visit it. The thing being, i am starting from scratch in here and i will even change the language i write my reviews in, i am from Mexico, but hopefully my english is still understandable.

Going back to the review: I smelled first formulation Eros around 2014 or 2015 from a tester decant i had. I went crazy when i smelled it, i couldn't understand how that could exist. Eros has been called the King of Clubbing and it certainly is, i personally prefer it above its "similars" like One Million, Ultramale, and stuff. Even the reformulated version has an above average performance, still nothing to see with the vintage.

Eros starts with a nice blast of mint, lemon (smelling like the juice of the citrus) and apple, having a distinctive mix of these notes. As the cologne goes into drydown we can note a slight touch of geranium, a pretty heavy tonka bean note and some vanilla as well in there. Woods are also included in the fragrance, such as moss, vetiver, and cedar, to name a few, i don't smell them that much, though.
The reformulation made the fragrance heavier on apple and vanilla, took down the aromatic touch and the citrus from the opening and overall made it sweeter. As i told you, i don't think it's bad but it's not simply as good as the vintage.

Eros remains my first love when talking on perfumes, even after some six or seven years since i first smelled it. It brings memories from a club that existed in my hometown (Zacatecas) where they used to put Flume songs in our middle high school parties, the place closed in 2015 and a few years later i discovered the Flume songs (Which i didn't knew the name of) that i loved from that era. I overally relate Eros with the deep house / chill music scene, a certain haircut i used to have, my lack of facial hair from that time, that club and even a shirt that i used to wear back then and which i am keeping unused for the time i get the vaccine and finally go dance those songs on one of those places again, spraying pretty heavily first formulation Eros which i am pretty lucky to have bought recently.

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