Stronger With You Powerfully

Goodness, while the reviews of this scent from the users are all greatly positive, it still blows my mind that this perfume doesn’t receive as much attention and praise as Intensely and Absolutely!? Well perhaps because it is newer and needs more time to climb the ranks. But regardless, this is my absolute signature fall / winter cologne. It is the scent of a smooth, seductive, bad boy, gentleman, and confident male all into one who is a little more in touch with his feminine. More masculine, but the cherry and vanilla give a beautiful feminine feel making it possibly unisex. SWY Powerfully has the warm spice, vanilla, and booziness from the Intensely and Absolutely, but with a sweet and soothing cherry note that is literally the cherry on top! And I prefer this one far more than those two(they are still great don’t get me wrong), for this is SWY in its whole and complete form.

Cherry done to perfection. The cherry here blends in flawlessly with vanilla, its one of my favorite winter fragrances. It is unisex, both men and women could easily wear this on a daily basis and on a special occasion. It is my favorite swy so i may be a little biased but it clears intensly to hell, both in smell and in uniqueness. The performance is pretty decent, i have gotten compliments around 3h after spraying it on myself and i smelled it around 6-7h on my skin after i sprayed it, and on clothes j sprayed my sweater, left it for 3 days in the wardrobe and it still smelled like it pretty strongly - so the performance is pretty decent as i said. The bottle is nice, price is pretty justified in my opinion - not a bargain, not a ripoff. It fits autumn the best for me, but it is very nice for winter as well.

This is slowly creeping towards being my favourite fragrance, my favourite will always be bianco latte but this is literally stronger with you intensely but more mature and improved. The cherry note isnt like super overpowering and not medicinal thank god, but it improves the fragrance so much it stops cinnamon notes from being so overpowered and adds so much depth that just makes it so much more intersting, the dry down is quite similar but i still get a richer and slightly more fruity dry down whoch i typically dont like but because its cherry it just works. Projection is okay ill have to let it sit for longer to see how it goes but yeah highly reccomend if you enjoy that slightly nutty vanilla dry down without being too spicy but is still sophisticated its a defienite purschase very worth it.

i am actually in love with this cologne!! i am very picky when it comes to men's fragrances so whenever i smell one that's actually unique and delightful it genuinely makes my day lol. the cherry note in this is just absolutely divine, i am all for more "feminine" or untraditionally masculine notes such as vanilla in men's fragrances!! even though cherry is often considered to be a more feminine note, this fragrance definitely has a masculine smell. the cherry is prominent and sweet, but the amber and spices really ground the scent into a masculine aura. the mandarin is noticeable, but it doesn't explode the fragrance into a citrus-bomb, rather, it very nicely accompanies the fruitiness of the cherry. which is refreshing because i am not a fan of citrus-heavy colognes.

Having tested this fragrance since its initial release, I can confirm it suffers from batch variations. Earlier bottles smelled very close to Absolutely, only spicier with a faint hint of cherry in the opening. However, the newer bottles are aggressively fruity and cherry forward. Even if you don't explicitly pick out the cherry, it remains a very fruity fragrance backed by heavy vanilla and nuttiness in the base. It lacks the balsamic, roasted chestnut depth of Absolutely and Sandalwood, leaning instead into a hazelnut nuttiness that I'm not a fan of. and unfortunately, this cherry fruitiness never wears off and lingers straight through the late dry down.