Azzaro Pour Homme

So so damn good! I have two back up bottles (so 3 in all). Sandalwood, vetiver, anise, lavender, spices, shaving foam, black amber aftershave, powder, resins, etc. Objectively it belongs in the top 5 all time greatest fougeres and subjectively I personally put it in the top 3. Incredibly comforting effect on self and those who smell it. Nice respectable projection and good scent duration. Never a skin scent. It rocks until the end. Compliments. Timeless. I think it is fine for any age as long as the wearer has at least a little bit of spine and courage in whatever form. I don't mean mean macho bravado. Any season day or night in colder months but only at night in the summer. In the must try category for any halfway serious collector. Stronger and longer lasting than Paco Rabanne PH and modern Polo edt. I guess some people can get a bit nose blind to it but for an edt I get nothing"watered down" about it at all. Does not smell at all like Obsession which is cloyingly sweet (which isn't necessarily bad but very different from APH which is sharp spicy resinous wood). And Paco Rabanne Pour Homme is a more traditionally green minty lime grass fougere but yes also very much a shaving foam scent. PRPH will do better in the day time and in high heat and is probably more work place friendly. PRPH has no amber to speak of and that is kind of the glue that holds all of the other ingredients together in APH. APH is the darker and more mysterious of the two. I definitely don't think that it's redundant to have both if you love fougeres. But if you do think of most barbershop fougeres as old man scents or too bold then obviously this won't be your cup of tea.

Beautiful scent that’s held up extremely well to time. High quality juice and blending that’s well deserving of a spot in any man’s collection. In the realm of men’s vintage fragrances, Azarro PH represents a nice middle ground between a fragrance like Polo Green, with its dank and earthy tobacco woodiness, and Platinum Egoiste with its metallic freshness. It smells a bit classier and more upscale than either of those scents, to me. I’ve hated every other Azzaro scent that I’ve tried, but this is in a league of its own. Easier to wear than Polo Green but slightly more challenging than Egoiste. PH will be right up your alley if you enjoy either of those, or other similar classic men’s frags.

An all-time classic that I have come to appreciate in my older years moreso than when the dads were bathing in it back in the day. It demands respect and moderation. Despite its opening being a bit scratchy, what it dries down into is a classic fougere that I absolutely love and what it leaves behind after it's done is wonderful, even if I'm the only one who's able to catch it at that point. With my intense love of Pinaud Clubman, APH was the most recommended to compliment it and the combo was not disappointing in the least. It had been decades since I last caught this in the air and the instant nostalgia was incredible. Very happy to have it and it's my dumb reach.

Azzaro Pour Homme is a yummy cooling anise (liquorice-like) shaving cream scent. It is not sweet, but has a comforting foam quality to it. Unlike some old-school barbershops, APH remains modern because of the fresher, smoother notes. It's a classic masculine scent, in the same ballpark as Drakkar Noir. Very well blended. Not particularly flashy or interesting, but just smells high quality and put together. I sampled a 1997 bottle so I imagine it has more naturals in it than the modern formulation, but still, a solid scent overall. I like it better than Drakkar Noir. Solid 8/10.

So Ive had my bottle of Azzaro Pour Homme for almost a year now, and must admit that when id initially recieved my very first bottle, I was NOT at all impressed with its performance. Well, fast forward nearly a year and this fragrance now lasts nearly 7 hours on skin and easily till the following day on clothes. Smells super amazing, very masculine, Sharp Citruses with a slightly anamalic Musk in the base, and very soapy idyring the opening. I love this classic, mens Fougere. A must in ANY man's collection fo sho!