L'Homme Lacoste Intense

Lacoste L’Homme Intense opens with a sweet and delectable combination of mandarin and orange accords; the green and fruity accords of the rhubarb mixes with the citrus accords making the fragrance feel like a combination of citrus and other fruits. The opening projection is moderate. In just a moment ginger and pepper touches can be noticed. The almond note is barely perceptible. The vetiver and woods add a soft fresh woody and green accord which adds depth to the fragrance but just a soft touch. As the fragrance dries down, the initial moderate projection loses power moving down to a low projection fragrance, also, the notes blend into groups of notes losing individuality. The vanilla enters the blend with a soft projecting and aromatic accord and makes the fragrance mildly sweet. Once the fragrance has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a low projection, mildly sweet, fruity, vanilla, and woody fragrance with soft spicy accords. The fragrance feels modern, masculine, relatively fresh, light, sweet, versatile, a bit synthetic, weak, but pleasant.

A nice sour/sweet and quite juicy explosion at very first spray. Has a smooth slight green tone on that initial blast that mixes very nicely with the sour and slight sweet vibe. 15 minutes in it’s fresh, citrusy with a bit of the ginger coming through with a creamy like almond note, not strong but, just there balancing it out. After about an hour on my skin the citrus freshness is much more subdued and just a soft, woody sweetness lingers for the rest of the drydown that is very enjoyable. Maybe 6-7 hours of total duration from start to finish and that’s not bad at all. A very inoffensive scent that almost everyone will enjoy and will get you a couple of compliments along the way. Not a Gamechanger by any stretch of the imagination but, it’s relatively cheap with good quality ingredients and decent performance. This is great for the spring/autumn days and cool summer nights. A solid performer from Lacoste, period.

I was happily surprised with uniqueness of the scent upon sniffed right at my hand. Totally new experience, new excitement and new database just stored in my mind. Never smell like this before. Salute Master Perfumer Michel Girard on this art of scent. Indeed it would be great in my fragrance collection. Allow me to skip on the review and description, thus i only want to share this is good. yeah it is good. Lacoste intense is not generic, its not ordinary. I wish one day the Parfum version will be produced for the greater longevity and more depth. Despite of EDT, the projection quite good for 2 hours, more least. Longevity around 6 hours. Ain't hurt for pocket, not a bad bottle presentation even though regular style square. Great and thank you for this!

The people that said this doesn't last was not kidding. It's a 1-2 hour fragrance. Which is a shame because the scent is glorious... masculine, gentlemenly, and a different take on a summer freshie. The rhubarb brings me back to summer days as a kid riding my 10 speed bike (yeah I'm that young lol) by my neighbors rhubarb patch. It's unique but not totally unique because it does smell like a mixture of several heavy hitters (Bleu, YSL L'homme, Sauvage, etc) Some people are saying they get good longevity so take my review with a grain of salt. As always test yourself.

This is "a different blue fragrance", which is great. At the end, it reminds me a little of Bleu de Chanel, due to its "creaminess" and "woodiness". However, don't get it twisted, this smells nothing like Bleu de Chanel or any other fragrance on the market. I love Lacoste tried to do something different here and actually achieved it. I'd say the smell changes over time (maceration), so keep that in mind. I know there'll be people that won't appreciate it for what it is, but for less than $50 USD this is a banger if something versatile is what you're looking for.