After an extremely long break in buying fragrances, of which i am talking 10+ years, except for the occasional Christmas gift here and there it wasn't until i had a wedding to go to and decided to buy some new fragrances for the event which kicked off my crazy buying spree over the last year.
So, other than older blues like Deep Blue from Hugo Boss and Blue Jeans by Versace which don't fit the category of what i would describe as what we call blue fragrances today so i had not yet entered the world of the Blue fragrances that we talk about now and Dylan Blue was my first of the new blues that opened me up to a world of what seemed to be a market flooded by them, but to me it was all new and i actually got Dylan Blue while i had COVID and most things smelled bazar to me.
An example, i thought i had wasted money buying Club De Nuit, a clone of Creed Aventus because to me it smelled exactly the same as Dylan Blue, then the next day all it smelled of was Blackcurrant juice. Needless to say i wasn't sure how either were actually meant to smell lol. I knew one thing though, and that was if Dylan Blue continued to smell like it did while i had Covid once it was gone and my sense of smell would return to normality, i knew i was going to love it!
Spoiler, i LOVED IT! The only slight difference was that i could smell the smokeyness of the incense once i recovered which i enjoyed all the same. Just as a note, i have done several tests of old scents that i have stored in memories which i had bought when i was a lot younger and had bought again prior to getting covid and ranged in several different kinds of fragrances so, once all of them smelled exactly as they should did i start reviewing and smelled all of my new fragrances again to see just how close to what my perceptions were while i had covid, another spoiler, Aventus does not smell like Dylan Blue LOL! One of the things i love about Dylan Blue is the changes from when you first spray it on to the subtle changes at different stages of the dry down, there are so many stages and all of them smell great!
The one thing about the dry down though is you need good longevity for that to happen and there is something weird about Dylan Blue in which i am not alone. For some reason my initial spray will fade really quickly, we are talking 30mins to an hour and i need to respray myself because the smell just vanishes, no skin scent, just nothing. Here is what is strange though, when you do that 2nd spray and you don't need to go nuts by overspraying. Just spray on the same places you did the first time and boom, it unleashes this sudden amazing ability to project and last for ages! Obviously clothes are a different situation but i personally prefer to be able to spray on skin so that if i wish to wear a different scent later in the day i don't have to change all the clothes that have the fragrance i was wearing through the day before spraying a different fragrance at night. I also think fragrances should be able to perform on skin alone without needing to use clothes as a booster but at the same time i don't mind having it on my clothes as it truly is a beautiful smell to have on ones clothes. :)
Back to spraying on skin though. So last night I put my first spray on at about 9pm, i had to do a respray at about 9:45pm and here i am at 7:25am after a nights sleep and i can still smell it radiating off of my skin. This was just after i had taken a shower and moisturized my skin that i done my first spray so it wasn't anything to do with dry skin. I don't know what the reason for this is but like i say i am not alone as i have seen other people saying the exact same as me with the same results after that 2nd spray. So, if you plan to go out you need to use this method if you find you are having poor longevity and bad projection. Just spray earlier than you normally would and allow enough time for you to be able to do that 2nd spray before heading out and you will have great performance for the rest of the day or night.
Talking of the different stages of the dry down, they actually remind me of some other blue fragrances such as Sauvage and even the Elixir at one point but without the liquorice sweetness to it.
If there is one good thing i can say about Versace, it's that they are really good at giving us some amazing smelling fragrances for prices that allow for so many people to enjoy and the same goes with Dylan Blue.
If you are new to collecting or like myself are just returning to buying fragrances and want to know what all the rave is about when it comes to blue fragrances without breaking the bank then you really can't go wrong with Dylan Blue as a starting point. People may think this is my signature scent with my avatar picture but it actually is not. I don't have a signature scent tbh, i just wear what i feel like when i feel like it. The reason i picked it for my avatar was that it was this scent that got me really excited about fragrances in the year 2022 and started me down the path i am on now of buying new fragrances and hoping that my next purchase is going to be as exciting as the day i first smelled Dylan Blue which filled me with such excitement and happiness from just using my sense of smell alone. Fragrances really can have an influence on our emotional state and Dylan Blue for me was one of excitement and another of sheer joy that i hope by writing this review can maybe convince others to get in to blue fragrances even though there seems to be some hate towards certain blues by some people. I am here to say, don't let others dictate your enjoyment of fragrances, it is you who will be wearing it after all and Dylan Blue is absolutely a compliment getter.
There is only one thing that i wish was different about Dylan Blue and that is that i wish Versace would give it the Eros treatment, by giving us an EDP and Parfum flanker because it truly deserves it and if anyone can create more amazing blues it is going to be Versace and with Alberto Morillas at their side it will be all the more so!
So to end it off here is my ratings and batch info.
Batch: 2144SE
Production date 2022-05-24
Age 10 months 20 days
Scent: 10/10
Sillage, Longevity and Projection will be going off of the 2nd spray spoken about above.
Longevity: 8/10
Projection: 8/10
Sillage: 8/10
Price: 9/10
Bottle: 9/10
