Azzaro Pour Homme isn’t bad … Not bad at all! My first sniff reminded me of my dad's Old Spice, but it mellowed on my skin to something less over-the-top testosterone-y. It was still spicy and clean smelling, and the Old Spice resemblance never completely faded, but there are much worse things than smelling like Old Spice.
In addition to the spiciness, there's a definite sweetness there, too. Vanilla? I think so. I’m noticing that my skin (or nose?) seems to pull out the sweetest notes in almost anything I wear. Scents that guys review as “animalic” or “woodsy” smell almost gourmand on me. That’s an interesting trend for me to note.
I enjoy this well enough, but I don't think I would buy a bottle. It's not something I would wear on a regular basis. It would be too rugged for me to pull off, I think, unless I were in deep drag ... blue collar drag, not the awkwardly, scruffily, dandified boi I like to pull out on occasion. If I did ever want to smell like this – and the possibility isn’t out of the question – I might just save myself a few dimes and opt for the Old Spice, instead.
Image note: I think the kind of guy who would wear Azzaro Pour Homme is the same kind of guy who might have a poster of this pin-up girl hanging on his wall. Heck, who could blame him …
UPDATE: I've since revised my opinion that one would be just as well off buying Old Spice. See my follow-up post.
2 comments:
I'm passing along a comment that BitterGrace Notes left on my blog because she couldn't log in here. Says she, "Great Azzaro review!"
You've taken to perfume reviewing as a duck to water (sorry for the cliche). I hope you don't lose interest too soon, for your reviews are damned entertaining.
When you run out of samples, I think "we" should all send you more!
Hmm ... I thought I disabled the requirement to log in ... I'll have to check into that again. Thanks for passing this along, though, Julie, as well as for your own comments. And thanks, too, to Maria, if you're reading this!
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