![]() ![]() Heart notes: Aromatic rosemary, the subtle spice of Sichuan pepper and sensual rosewood. Starting Notes: Refreshing bergamot, juicy Sicilian mandarin bathed in the sun and the clean fragrance of frozen grapefruit skin and aromatic juniper. Dolce & GabbanaLight Blue Pour Homme Smelling Notes : This perfume is the winner of theFiFiFi Award Fragrance Of The Year Men`s Luxe 2008. The fragrance captures the fresh, spicy and sensual aromas of the Mediterranean, which we consider the ideal setting for seduction. According to Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana,"Light Blue Pour Homme was created for the sensual and modern Dolce & Gabbana man who likes to take care of himself and maintain an athletic body. Of course it was probably not Light Blue Pour Homme that I smelled, but the scent of modern mainstream male perfumery into which Light Blue Pour Homme blends effortlessly.Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme: the quintessence of joie de vivre and seduction according to Dolce & Gabbana. The week I sampled Light Blue Pour Homme I came upon some 50-60 tuxedoed teenage men standing together on the sidewalk in front of a Cheesecake Factory restaurant (“Welcome Class of 2007!”) As I passed this bunch, the smell of Light Blue Pour Homme was powerful in the air. And what to make of the advertisements? There’s a tan man in a boat, legs splayed, aiming his crotch at we viewers, and wearing suspiciously flat white swim trunks - weird and prosaic at the same time! (I did a quick search of Vogue Hommes and L’Uomo Vogue to see if European audiences were allowed to see the bulges that normally appear within a man’s swim trunks but could not find a Light Blue Pour Homme advertisement.) The commonness of Light Blue Pour Homme’s juice is matched by its bland-as-can-be bottle. ![]() Light Blue Pour Homme is a mid-strength fragrance and could be worn year-round. ![]() Not being a chemist or perfumer but having no fear of making a fool of myself, I imagine the formulation of Light Blue Pour Homme thus: add to a bottle’s worth of alcohol, water, fixatives - one tablespoon of ‘fresh’/ozone notes, ½ tablespoon of “bright” imitation citrus, ½ teaspoon ‘musk wood’ and ½ drop of all other (exotic-sounding) listed ingredients. The long-lasting base of Light Blue Pour Homme’s composition is ho-hum ‘musk wood.’ Rosemary, incense, pepper and oak moss were nowhere to be smelled. In this well-blended fragrance, one strains to find individual notes, but I did “sense” for a split second ‘juniper’ and maybe a driblet of ‘rosewood’. Light Blue Pour Homme begins with zippy citrus (accent on the ‘frozen’ grapefruit peel). Before smelling it, three of Light Blue’s notes caught my attention: mandarin, rosewood (the King of Woods to me) and incense, but my imagination created a fragrance very different from Light Blue Pour Homme’s actual synthetic, and instantly recognizable, scent. Light Blue Pour Homme is a fresh citrus-musk its listed ingredients are Sicilian mandarin, ‘frozen’ grapefruit peel, bergamot, juniper, rosemary, Szechuan pepper, rosewood, ‘musk wood’, incense and oak moss. Sniff a department store perfume area and what you will smell is a dull and artificial aroma, the combination of all this perfume “stuff”: fruity-florals and fresh citrus-musks. A ‘fresh citrus-musk’ fragrance contains large quantities of “fresh” (ozone or marine) accords, all types of sharp citrus (mandarin, bergamot, lemon, grapefruit, tangelo, etc.) and a base of soft, vague ‘woods’ and light musk. Finally, I asked point-blank about Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme and she said, “That’s OK - but it smells like lots of other colognes.” Her response was unusual at Nordstrom all scents are “wonderful,” “fabulous” or, at the very least, “ interesting”.įemale perfume lovers have an overabundance of fruity-florals to contend with, but men, we are plagued by too many “fresh citrus-musks”. I told her I had already tried Gucci Pour Homme II, so she suggested Lancôme Hypnôse Homme or Terre d'Hermès or Dunhill Pursuit or Fleur du Mâle or Viktor & Rolf Antidote or Lacoste Elegance or …. When I went to Nordstrom to smell Dolce & Gabbana’s new Light Blue Pour Homme fragrance, I asked the sales woman, “What’s new and doesn’t smell like everything else?” She clapped her hands and gestured towards a large Gucci Pour Homme II display. ![]()
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