Acqua Di Gio Eau de Parfum

Crisp, clean, and heavily underrated. It keeps the traditional ADG roots with the marine and veviter, but builds on it with more metallic zing and some heavier sage, which for me opens up my nose with a menthol-like effect. It stays true to it's roots with longevity and projection (4-6 hours and arms length at most), but makes up for it with the sheer ease of wearing it. This fits perfectly into errands, a shift at the office, even sitting at home. It just works. I have yet to test this when it gets sweltering out, as I got this as a gift this Christmas, but I have a feeling it'll be juuuust fine. The downfall of this comes with the uniqueness. It's very cologne-y and clean, so it doesn't stand out compared to other scents, especially to untrained noses. Price is where it'll get iffy big time. Through Armani, you should expect to drop around $130 USD for 100ml. Discounters will get that down to around $70, but it'll feel pricy with how fast you burn through it. The atomizer isn't pressurized, but it sure spits some juice out. So, for final ratings - and these will be revised May/June for warm weather updates.

Got this recently, so I’m still on the fence about a few things. One, the performance. While this is a summer aquatic fragrance, it’s currently too cold to give this a thorough rating while wearing for the day. It definitely has the classic ADG dna, but is far more herbal in practice. The underlying aquatic note is ever present, unlike the elixir version, which is more violet than anything and it doesn’t have the smokiness the parfum or Profumo have. It’s somewhere in between the two in terms of profile, but there is this stickiness to it that reminds me of a very fresh cannabis. It’s a good fresh aquatic, if you like the classic edt.

I still own this bottle and use it occasionally. It’s not a bad scent don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I have others that are slightly better. This was one of my first few purchases from a store which was a nice experience. This does well at being a classy, daily, almost professional scent. Very clean-smelling but also very basic profile. I’ve smelled many fragrances with similar DNA to this and it gets old quickly, hence another reason why I don’t wear this often. To close, a decent choice if you’re looking for a good designer scent that isn’t overly expensive.

Wow. It’s actually something I don’t remember to hear in designer fragrances at all. Absurdly photo-realistic fresh flower leaves right after watering in a high humidity flower shop, with full-blasting AC to create the perfect climate. Sometimes it changes to a crushed between fingers grass. Also, the smell reminds me of mint shampoo freshness, which was applied inside an open shower on the beach, but without a single hint of chemical nature. Very interesting mix of aquatic notes and greens

8/10 fragrance for me. Perfect for late spring and summer. Works really well with the heat. I wear this to the office when i need something clean and crisp. I quite enjoy the base notes of mineral + patchouli + vetiver. I respray this between 3-4 hours if I'm still outdoors/in office. I especially wear this for important meetings. It gives a good clean impression whilst not overpowering the room.