Versace Man Versace 2003 Eau de Toilette

Versace Man (Eau de Toilette) by Versace

Bottle Design Valentinitsch, Donatella Versace

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7.6 / 10 119 Ratings

Versace Man (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Versace for men and was released in 2003. The scent is spicy-oriental. It was last marketed by EuroItalia.

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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Woody

Floral

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black pepper

Angelica

Bergamot

Neroli

Heart Notes

Saffron

Cardamom

Base Notes

Amber

Cashmere wood

Labdanum

Tobacco

Perfumer

Domitille Michalon-Bertier

Ratings

Scent

7.6119 Ratings

Longevity

7.495 Ratings

Sillage

6.998 Ratings

Bottle

7.2107 Ratings

Value for money

7.517 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 28.03.2023.

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04/08/2018

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Carlitos01
378 Reviews

Carlitos01

Very helpful Review 9

The elegant tobacco head-turner

[short review]

This jewel is the best Versace fragrance for me. Other gems like The Dreamer Eau de Toilette and Versace pour Homme Oud Noir also appeal to me but not as much as Versace Man Eau de Toilette.
The nose behind this perfume is a lady - Domitille Michalon - very competent although a little unknown. Bear in mind that this fragrance was launched in 2003 pioneering a bit this type of scent. I consider it the softer older brother of Oud Noir.
It is not an overly masculine fragrance. Quite the opposite. Its scent seems to be on the edge of permitting a unisex aroma classification.

My opinions:
- Scent - Near perfect oriental background with warm spices and tobacco as frontrunners.
- Longevity - 8+ hours
- Silage - 4~6 feet (intense projection in the first 3 hours, faint 1~2 feet till the 6th hour, and skin scent for the remaining time).
- Where and When? - Spring, autumn, winter (day and night); Formal events, intimacy, at a night out, office, at leisure... you name it!
- Age - from 30 till 120.
- Compliments - From everybody who likes a good intense woody/spicy masculine scent. A bit ladies magnet :-)
- Presentation and Quality - Nice quality sprayer and sturdy bottle but a bit tacky design.
- Price/Value for money - I bought it in the price range of 20~25 Euros for 100ml. Great value for money. Now it's an E-Bay rarity so it really depends on your wallet and your desire to own it.
- Main Notes According to me - It is a complex scent very well mastered that presents a moderate opening with pepper and flowers + strong closing with immense tobacco, amber and cashmere.
In between, you sniff some very well defined notes of saffron and cardamom.
- Emotions - dark, sexy, classy, elegant, a bit beasty, woody and spicy.
- Exclusivity - It has a faint resemblance with Magnetism for Men Eau de Toilette, who is just some months younger. I would say it is pretty exclusive.

The combo that I get in the dry down it's a peculiar one composed of an amber base with a pile of pipe tobacco, a wonderful cashmere woodsy scent and a hint of labdanum. The combination is a real head-turner.
This fragrance is devoted to centring the feminine attention in elegant men between 30 and 60 years old, using a signature suit, white chambray shirt, silk tie and leather black derbies. George Cloney probably wore this perfume while shooting the Nespresso commercials.
I just love this fragrance. IT could easily be worthy of a blind buy if you find a bargain on the web or in an obscure small perfumery.

Music: Prince & The New Power Generation - "Sexy M. F."

11/10/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 3

Spicy metrosexual tobacco

I am firmly convinced that if a niche brand came up with this very fragrance in the past season, probably many would be raving about it. “Smooth tobacco gem”, “luxury modern Oriental”, “classy underwear killer” and so on, they’d say. I would even dare to think Creed could easily make something like this and sell it for ten times the price, but I’m too young and handsome to burn in hell yet. Anyway I say all of this because Versace Man has them quite all: it’s elegantly sweet, it’s really easy to like, it smells quite above most of other Versace offerings quality-wise (it didn’t take much), and it’s mild and light enough to keep it classy. So either this fragrance is quite underrated, or perfumery has gone down to the point any average-quality designer from a dozen years ago smells like today’s finest. Most probably it’s the first for me. Either way, Versace Man is really nice – and only that matters. I think it anticipates many “smooth and sweet-smoky metrosexual” scents based on similar notes, and to some extent, also floral-musky sweet fragrances with a shade of dusty dark like Dior Homme (I am not saying they smell similar; just that it anticipates some of Dior’s key features and the overall concept). It bears quite some similarities with Versace Dreamer as well, but it smells decidedly more modern and with some significant differences, notably more warm, spicy-musky powderiness and a typical “sweet-plushy nondescript woodiness” which so many scents from the 2000s had.

If you’re wondering how it smells, well: saffron and tobacco are quite the main notes here, surrounded by a warm, a bit synthetic but cozy enough accord of amber, clean musk, mild peppery spices and a tad of citrus-infused light flowers. So basically a warm, smooth, aromatic and slightly “dusty” blend with a fresher-gentler feminine touch, but also a whole “classy, kind of dark masculine sense of confidence” due to amber, tobacco and spices. It also quite linear though, evolving towards a disgracefully short-lived ambery-woody-musk drydown still with nuances of saffron and spices, mostly cardamom. As for tobacco and saffron, which dominate the first couple of hour or so, I surely don’t get any difference with several more expensive or praised saffron or tobacco scents from today – from L’Artisan Parfumeur to Santa Maria Novella Tabacco.

Overall this fragrance is really decent to pretty much all extents, and I’d mildly recommend it; there’s nothing astonishingly outstanding and it surely smells a bit artificial, but has definitely some nice “deep moments”, it is surely classy and versatile, it’s decidedly discreet so it can perform fine in any situation, and it doesn’t smell (overly) cheap or derivative – on the contrary, as I said, I personally see it as a neglected precursor of more recent trends. The longevity is tragic though.

6,5-7/10

09/23/2018

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

AmberScent
26 Reviews

AmberScent

The seductive obvious option

When I think of class, I may think of luxury, of money and then maybe of decadence. No ... this is not the way. I'll start over.
What if I think about class tied up to seduction and elegance? I can also extend to happiness. Yes ... I like this option more.

Class may make me think of dances, slow dances of an embraced couple, in a seductive environment, with intoxicating aromas, in sumptuous dance halls (music by Sinatra or Aznavour please), undeniably in a great class environment.
And I think whether or not will I fit in that picture. Will I have the requested class to fill in? What will cause the seductive environment? Is it the music? Or our sure dancing and compass movements? My perfume? What will be the aroma around us? ... Yes it makes sense that the fragrance exerts a strong influence on the perception of class and in a seduction environment. In fact I have always heard that a good perfume and class or class and a good perfume are inseparable.
Then what will my perfume be? Certainly it will be a rather masculine, somewhat citrusy and floral, with a semi sweet blend of spices, giving space to cardamom and aromatic resins, a bit woody, and evolving to a strong "noir" final base of dark amber and tobacco... With or without oud? I prefer to choose it later ... sometimes with oud and some other times without oud.
I think this perfume already exists and that I even received compliments while wearing it. I can only think of Versace Man.

It's a shame that Versace Man has been discontinued, but that makes it even more special to me. Well, having two full bottles do help as well. I want it to remain unique, and I say "unique" because I can not think of another designer fragrance with a similar scent. It's dark and rich, and it has a strong scent of moist tobacco leaves, just the way I picture a classy fragrance.
I suppose I may be the one wearing this perfume, confident and well-dressed, in a Mediterranean ballroom or club in Portofino, or Puerto Bañus, or Estoril. Or perhaps dancing at night on a ship cruise under the moonlight and going up the Nile... and always with the beautiful woman I love besides me.
Certainly class, maturity, and conviction, fit completely into this image. By the way, and if I chose the environment in a cruise boat up the Nile, I would add a touch of oud to the perfume, and I would be wearing Versace Oud Noir, a true flanker of the Versace Man.

02/18/2023

9
Pricing 7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Brenn
3 Reviews

Brenn

Sexy sophisticated tobacco!

This is my all-time favourite Versace fragrance. Not a big fan of most of the Versace designer fragrances at all. However this released in a time where designers were still creating original scents, instead of going commercial with generic freshies. This is the last good fragrance they released imo, there's not one release after this one that has woken my interest.

After smelling and wearing, this fragrance is probably in my top 5. It smells niche, rich, and absolutely non-linear. From beginning to end; this fragrance develops continuously.
Initial blast you get the freshness from the neroli & bergamot in the top, but it really starts to come alive in the drydown after a few hours with the notes of tobacco, saffron and labdanum blended into perfection. It's truely one of the greatest tobacco notes I have sniffed so far.
I don't smell the black pepper - there's a hint of spicy for sure - but I think it's the combination of black pepper and cardamom that balances everything out.

I blind-bought this because I randomly stumbled upon it here on Parfumo, however since I recognized the bottle from Eau Fraiche I wasn't instantly intrigued. But reading that it has nothing to do with Eau Fraiche and that it lies in a total different realm woke my interest (I'm not particularly a fan of Eau Fraiche to say the least).

It's not easy finding this gem in 2023, but if you've got some patience and stalk listings on resale sites you can still scoop this up for a decent price. I picked up a 100ml bottle for 80 euros.

I notice this scent is voted mainly fall/winter but in my opinion this is more suitable for spring/summer since it's light, fresh in the opening, and not cloyingly sweet. It doesn't wear dense and heavy on the skin; rather light and fluffy.

08/28/2012

6
Scent

Ysbrand
84 Reviews

Ysbrand

Helpful Review 1

Fashionable and sexy/raunchy

Versace Man comes in a very nice flaÇon, with a biscuit shape.

The opening is bright citrus, but not astringent with a fennel like note that i am guessing is the angelica flowers. I find already like i am wearing some type of flattering something. The spices rise soon, basically cardamom and in less ammount, pepper. Sadly i don´t get the saffron. In this mid stage i already start to notice a sweet tobacco and patchouli (not listed)... this combination of sweet spices and tobacco does the trick for me, and i am going to say it is sexy... doesnt smell clean or fresh, it can be a bit loud, but is attractive (as we can say about many men). I can see how this fragance could be original in 2003, or at least in the path of an uprising trend. Very metrosexual.

Versace Man is for a confident man who want to smell different to other men, genuine, but not TOO different (at least for our standards, my fellow perfumistas) But i like it an will wear it.

When the cardamom is tamed is more mainstream pleasant. The notes stated say it all: random fragant woods, but mostly a warm sweet amber and a more cigar type of tobacco. Definitely a cold weather fragance.

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