IrisMann

Why only?

Isn't "Dior Homme," its offshoots, and the other fragrance classics of this brand enough to make money? Does the good name Dior really have to be used to bring something like this to market?!

Anyone who has read my comments on Davidoff's "The Game," "007," and Chanel's "Bleu de Chanel" knows how much I despise the current in-fragrance nuance in the men's sector, which is "sour-fresh." With "The Game" and "007," it all feels very synthetic-chemical. At least Chanel managed to incorporate a natural or nature-identical grapefruit.

Dior takes a middle path here. They opt for this strange but very trendy synthetic-sour direction, but let it appear natural with a lot of embellishment, offering decent sillage and about 12 hours of longevity on my skin. The aforementioned ingredients cannot be distinguished separately. They merely underpin the sour base tone, make it bearable, and push it into a more natural environment. I was almost inclined to make peace with it.

But!

With a house that has produced men's fragrances like "Eau Sauvage," "Jules," "Fahrenheit,"....... and the modern and innovative "Dior Homme," the disappointment is all the greater when they jump on a bandwagon that apparently fills the brand's coffers with a lot of money. "Bleu de Chanel" was also such a disappointment for fragrance lovers. These scents are just so mediocre.

Where are the innovations and ideas in the mid-price range?

I love the Eau de Toilette beyond measure! So far, I have not encountered a more beautiful, radiant lemon in the top note of a fragrance. Then, a carefully woven spicy heart note follows. Everything transitions wonderfully into one another. No awkward shifts. Finally, there is a very skin-close warm and slightly creamy chypre base.

No wonder this fragrance has survived to this day. If you want to make the transition from boy to man in terms of perfume, you should ultimately end up with this masterpiece.

I just got a new 100 ml bottle. The scorching summer can thus be stylishly endured. What I have noticed, however, is a slightly changed color of the liquid. My last 50 ml were a true grass green, now the content is green-yellow with a tendency towards yellow. Am I mistaken? Is it due to the different sizes? Was there a small revision? The scent seems even more natural to me at the moment.

This also leads me to the Eau de Parfum!

Is it a new fragrance? Is it just a new name for the "Eau de Toilette Concentrée"? Even the specialists at parfumo seem unsure, especially since Chanel is stingy with information.

So I had a bottle of the Eau de Parfum sent to me.

Since I do not know the Eau de Toilette Concentrée, I am now only comparing the current Eau de Toilette with the new Eau de Parfum.

In direct comparison, I find the same scent progression in both! The Eau de Toilette feels brighter, lighter, and more cheerful to me. The Eau de Parfum gives me a more dramatic, deeper, and melancholic impression. The lemon does not last as long in the Eau de Parfum, although it is clearly present. However, it reminds me more of the top note of Yves Saint Laurent's "Pour Homme (Eau de Toilette Haute Concentration)." There, too, I was fascinated by this slightly "dirty" lemon.

The Eau de Toilette could be compared to a beautiful summer day with a light breeze, captured on film with pastel Agfacolor. The Eau de Parfum represents the same summer day in black and white. Here, too, you can almost feel the sun, but black and white also dramatizes light and shadow.

Two wonderful fragrances for spring and summer, and for those who do not confuse style and elegance with ostentation.

With my order of "Chanel pour Monsieur Eau de Parfum," I was actually given a sample of this expensive "deo." Outrageous!

What can you do! You don't look a gift horse in the mouth! I can't hold back either. Unfortunately! I always forget that you should first test on strips.

This scent belongs to my absolute hate category. Synthetic, with no real scent progression, sour chemistry as a base note, and it could also be named with the addition "Sport." Here, they tried something different with "Rhythm." That doesn't make the concoction any better.

Synthetic sour pseudo-freshness with a slight spicy finish. I really can't recognize the listed fragrance notes. Instead, I notice a similarity to another "masterpiece" of perfumery. The ever-popular "James Bond 007." If the master spy, sold in drugstores and supermarkets, is too flashy for you, you can try this slightly more expensive version.

I am usually a calm person, but I really feel taken for a ride now.

If the manufacturers happen to be reading this: Please fewer new releases per year. Please more innovations per year. Please stop copying each other. Please fewer flankers per year. Take the customers a bit more seriously again.

Two days ago, I happened to have the opportunity to test this little water with the great name at the supermarket. A marketing masterpiece. However, that cannot be said about the scent.

A large cardboard stand featuring the two flagship products (women's and men's versions) of this pseudo-brand caught my eye; along with an almost unused test strip block, and I couldn't resist. If only I had listened to my common sense.

The scent itself mainly consists of a sour component that I have frequently noticed in recent releases in the men's fragrance category. Here it is called "green apple," while in "The Game" by Davidoff, it is referred to as "Gin-Fiz." In both fragrances, this ingredient is used very intensely. It overshadows everything else. This type of scent reminds me neither of a green apple nor of a long drink but rather of sour chemistry or sour-smelling sweat. Sweat does take on a slightly sour direction before it completely drifts into the stinky. That is exactly the first thing that comes to mind with this smell. I never thought James Bond's tuxedo would smell bad. You never stop learning. The man has a lot on his plate. ;O)))

I don't know who came up with this scent molecule and why it is currently in fashion. I only know one thing! It smells neither fresh nor elegant. There are better options, as seen with "Pour Monsieur" by Chanel. This just smells cheap.

By the way, I had the "pleasure" of sitting next to a man at a musical performance yesterday who had doused himself with "James Bond 007." Yuck! This association with sour sweat wouldn't leave me, especially since even my not-so-subtly applied "Rive Gauche Intense pour homme" couldn't compete. So with intense use, the sillage of "James Bond 007" lasts for 3 hours.

Oh! I also dared to try the women's fragrance. Ladies! Be careful with your teeth when using this! So much cheap, cardboard-like sweetness all in one place is dangerous for your dental health.

By chance, I came into possession of a sample size of Luna Rossa. The design of the bottle and the fragrance pyramid didn't really inspire me to test it. The promotional material suggests a cheerful aquatic sport scent, which is my least favorite category!

Well, since the sample is there, it will be used.

I sniff at my wrist and am quite surprised. The scent itself has nothing to do with its cool aquatic exterior.

What wafts through my nostrils is something very artificially sweet, warm, and rather cozy. Who would have thought!

At first, there's a light very sweet fruitiness. But I can't identify bitter orange in it. Then the whole thing offers a comfort wrapped in sweetener. Lavender, clary sage? If those notes are really in there, I can't sniff them out. What I can identify is mint, and that gives me an idea.

Luna Rossa vaguely reminds me of Body Kouros! To represent olfactory warmth, camphor has been replaced with mint and a very heavy unnatural sweetness. I would like to know where this massive sweetness comes from. I don't find it too intrusive here, but it is very dominant. Luna Rossa is not an Eau de Toilette for spring or summer for me. It seems more like the previously mentioned Body Kouros, a cozy scent. Unfortunately, just a cheap imitation. When I read the previous reviews, I wonder if my nose is playing tricks on me.

The PR managers at Prada deserve a spanking. To lure someone with the advertising campaign onto such a false trail. But I still won't buy this little water. I already have something better in my collection. Body Kouros!

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Comment slightly revised after another test at 10 PM.