Perfume Reviews

Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer who is known best for his Armani suits. He has created a conglomerate of different business ventures with lines of boutiques, jeans, home collections, clothing lines, and fragrances. He might even create a hotel in Dubai. Giorgio Armani has a very decadent and sensual style. He has been a favorite in the haute couture circles for years, especially with businessmen who favored his Armani suits. His fragrances also have much of the sensuality and luxurious feel that he has endowed his fashion line with.

Giorgio Armani Mania Summer is a lighter fragrance than some of the other romantic scents in the Giorgio Armani perfume line. It is a bit more sophisticated than old-world, which is a mark of the Giorgio Armani style. It includes some new modern fragrance notes like pink peppercorn and tangerine. The top notes for Armani Mania Summer are: Moroccan bay leaf, green mandarin orange, black currant, and pink peppercorns. The middle notes are: Muguet, peony, magnolia, and iris. The low notes are: cedar, amber, vanilla, musk, and white sandalwood. The scent can be classified as a woody floral scent.

This is a light, fresh scent that is perfect for the summer months. Spritz it on and you can wear it anywhere. It’s casual but a sophisticated fragrance that can be worn with pride. The scent is good enough to stand up to the summer heat and sun. It’s vanilla and musk notes lend for a sweet finish to this perfume. This is sensual only in that it makes you feel good. It’s not really a sexy evening scent. It does have a hint of the same base notes that makes the other Armani scents so alluring, but in a much lighter form. It is not over-powering and wears well.

Dunhill was founded by Alfred Dunhill as a company that specialized initially in saddlery. The times changed, however, leading to the use of the motorcar instead of the horse as the preferred mode of transportation. Alfred Dunhill took the knowledge that his company had amassed in leather goods and changed the company’s focus to accessories for motorcars, like leather overcoats, goggles, car horns, and more. This began their long tradition of selling luxury items dedicated to men, which now includes fragrances. This company continues to reinvent itself and now also offers women’s fragrances too.

The expertise in men’s quality, luxury items extends to their fragrances. The scent is very masculine and even the advertising campaign seeks to attract men who want a more conventional, manly scent. It’s called the scent for men who crave adventure. It has patchouli, pepper, and cinnamon spice notes. It adds the requisite citrus notes along with some woodsy notes too. The bottle itself is broad-shouldered making you think of John Wayne, a man’s man with a big heart. It could best be described as an oriental spicy woody fragrance. The amber liquid is visible through the clear, glass bottle, which has little adornment.

This is a complex fragrance as well as an ultra-masculine scent. It is versatile enough to wear during the day with jeans, as it is to wear it to the office without too much trouble. People who love Dunhill fragrances will definitely love this elegant new fragrance too. It is long lasting but not too heavy. It’s character remains firm and robust throughout the day. It is classic Dunhill with the emphasis on casual elegance for the man about town. It will quickly become a favorite in your bath cabinet. It comes in a wide range of products from aftershave, shower breeze, deodorant, and eau de toilette.