Adidas Active Bodies

Absolutely fantastic! Masculine and powerful. Active Bodies is a heaven! For once, it is a truly classy fougere juice with a powerful woody-ambery kick with a spicy edge, secondly, it possesses brilliant lasting power and silage - both with more than just a reasonable price tag! (Approx £18.00 per 100ml EDT concentree version) My impression is that Active Bodies is one of the long forgotten gems, released 2 decades ago and highly underrated and unappreciated. I am convinced that had it been released to the market with a Dior or Rabanne's logo, it would have attracted far more attention. Despite being released under Adidas logo, the fragrance has hardly anything to do with being a casual juice best worn when jogging at 7am in the morning. The fragrance evokes a vivid image of a professional wearing perfectly tailored suit, self confident, positive, bright, enthusiastic, energetic, rushing to deliver a presentation in front of a chief executive panel. Active Bodies is really unique. On one hand, it is sad to see it's underestimated. On the other, I am happy that one can wear it without the feel that half a population walking passed wears the same fragrance. Notes: 9/10 Silage: 9/10 Lasting power 10/10 (skin-8-10 hours, jacket/scarves - several days!) Considering such a silly price tag versus quality, you would be silly not to try it :-)

The Astor-Mainz version of Active Bodies I never owned but I did come across 2-3 times in the 1990's and it was every bit as amazing as others have said before, maybe in some ways fueling my obsession with collecting! The newer (Coty) version isn't the same in the top or mid notes but reminiscent in the dry down. Gone are the sharper, more articulated notes, the pine and green notes up front, and perhaps a little less tonka (not quite as sweet as I recall it once being) but the aldahydes, amber, and labdumum are still there. It's also weaker in cedar and sandalwood, but I still love the dry-down and get enough of the "original" in the reformulation to keep a bottle in my collection. Nice stuff indeed!

Adidas Active Bodies... ...I used it a lot when it came out and I gifted Active Bodies to my dad as well. In my opinion and arguably the best Adidas fragrance together with the original Adidas from 1985 in the blue/clear bottle which is not in this database. I do not understand why Adidas is listed as an American brand just because the fragrances are marketed by Coty. Coty is owned by the German company JAB Holdings so it simply doesn't make sense. Interistingly Joop for example, also part of Coty, is listed as a German brand.

The Active Bodies is a fougere manly scent. Piney and fresh, blue and green, modern and classic vibe in one bottle. For my nose it is similar to Giorgio Beverly Hills- Red. But i think the AAB is overall a better frag anytime! If you like rugged and fresh classic scent and afraid to pull the trigger on this, please don't! The performance is good, but not awesome, the price is okay.

"Black Adidas"....very popular in Poland, nonetheless it's one of the best man fragrance on the market. I had a lot of perfumes from exclusive brands but really -from time to time I have to buy Active Bodies -very strong, super masculine with unique aroma...When I use Adidas I want to move, run, train....masterpiece 10/10.