Champion Black

Fragrance -Champion Black Al-Rehab Bottle(roll-on) from - 2016 Mister reminds me of a walking on a path through a early spring forest just before sunset.It is a woody,earthy,musky and a little bit floral scent,with a deep and sophisticated touch of tobacco leaf in the drydown."Quality/Cost Ratio is extremely high.It has similarities to Green Irish Tweed by Creed and Cool Water by Davidoff,there is no question about it.Nice fragrance,unbelievable price. Longevity - 10/10(10+hours) Silage/Projection - 7/10(moderate to heavy projection and silage for the first 2-3 hours) Weather - For more or less any time of year.Best in spring and summer.I personally wouldn't wear this on a really cold winter days. Versatility - 9/10 Age - 18+ Compliments - 8/10 Scent - 7,5/10 Main notes according to me - moss,musk,cedar,floral notes,patchouli. The drydown is nice and i get some woodiness,musk and tobacco leaf. Emotions - early spring forest,fresh,elegant,clean,relax, pleasant,timeless. Occasion -For more or less any ocasion.

I have the roll on oil. Do not judge this upon first sniff when applied to the skin. It needs about 5 minutes to dry down and settle. The comparison to Cool Water and Aspen is correct. More like CW. I don't have GIT so I can't compare them. If you like CW and Aspen you'll definitely like Champion Black. But again you must let it dry before judgment because the top notes are frankly horrible like a chemical mixture or something. By all means, do not smell the roller ball directly. That's what I did and I almost threw the fragrance away. After I let it dry it became one of my spring time favorites. It's strange because although I liked CW, it was never in my top favorites. But something about Champion that is so intoxicating. It's Cool Water but greener. And that's what I assumed GIT would be. So maybe it is a GIT clone, or close clone?

This is a deep one. At first the scent is ok at best, nothing original; woodsy, aftershavey, unexciting. Be patient. Give it an hour or so, and then let the curiosity commence. You get the oakmoss and musky patchouli, but something else. That something is held together by a dusty ylang ylang. I couldn't place it at first but trawling through these reviews I think I may have it - Play-Doh. Ok, if it's not Play-Doh it's something similar. There's something warm and mischievous that brings back memories of childhood play. Quite bizarre. Longevity is good at about 12 hours. Sillage, moderate - but when people do smell it they want to smell it some more. A most intriguing fragrance.

I own both the oil and the EDP spray versions of Black Champion. The spray is a tad sweeter. The oil lasts longer and is almost identical to a Lattafa fragrance called Raghba for men limited edition, which is GIT clone that I also own. So I use the oil to layer with the Raghba for men fragrance. Can't afford GIT so I gotta get creative ;) Overall, Black Champion is a good fresh scent that works almost all year round. Synthetic, but I don't really care. Good longevity and very affordable. Roll on oil costs 2 dollars for 6ml and the EDP spray costs around 9 dollars for 50ml where I live. Hell of a bargain if you ask me.

When I first tried this, it smelt abrasive and jaggy. I have never tried GIT and instantly fell out with this DNA. Some months later, the abrasiveness is gone and it's nice and smooth, quite a crowd pleaser. Phenomenal value for this roll on. I love it! I absolutely hated the initial smell though, that makes me want to buy it and let it macerate but I don't know if that needs doing for oils too. Either way, the scent has changed for the better. Very masculine scent. Good for even warmer days in winter but best for spring I reckon.

I've tried Blanc, Silver, Al-fares and Dakar from Al-rehab. All of them are good, but Champion black is the scent that I like most. Tips, try layering them and you'll get your own signature scent. I love to layer Al-fares with Silver or Blanc.

Straight up best GIT dupe on the market. I like adventure knight for its powderyness, but this is GIT for pennies on the dollar and it actually performs well. 8.25/10

I prefer it over Cool Water... And the price is great!

I have the roll-on oil of Champion Black. It smells very much like a more simple, more mossy, less fresh imitation of Green Irish Tweed, and somewhat similar to Aspen. It smells only vaguely like Cool Water. It does not share the fresh aquatic nature of Cool Water. The performance is excellent, beyond that of Cool Water and Aspen. If you wear it in the summer, use it very sparingly. As far as quality goes, I wanted to say it was comparable to Aspen in that regard, but now that I put it up to my nose again, I have to admit it would be a bit difficult to distinguish from GIT in a blind test IF not smelled immediately before or after GIT. Therefore, it's a great value. Also, unlike GIT, it is linear, so in that way it actually beats GIT, as crazy as that sounds, at least on my skin. For me, GIT dries down after four or five hours to a weak, less impressive scent that is similar to the Cool Water drydown. Update: I'm going to let this one go. When I'm real with myself, the quality just isn't there. If you smell it carefully, it does come across as a bit cheap.

I have around 10 different Al Rehab roll ons which i consider beeing the best ones of the house. I have GIT,Cool water, Très nuit, and Rasasi egra. -Champion black: Top notes are like GIT, in a darker way as it is oil, with of course an important inferior quality. 6/10 -Middle notes are a good quality GIT, i mean, literally. 8/10 -Base notes are a mix of GIT and Cool water base notes, i definitely detect some marine notes. This is very good. 8/10 Longevity is very good, around 10 hours. Sillage is i would say average. Sum up: a very interesting cheap fragrance, if you can wait for the mediocre top notes to settle into the middle notes that are a good quality clone of GIT. The base notes are a perfect mix between the GIT and CW base notes. 7.5/10, highly recommended, 100% hit from Al Rehab.

I did a deep dive on this brand a few years ago and bought several of the 6ml roll-on vials to try, thinking I had found a gold-mine of inexpensive dupes, but more than a few of them were questionable at best, but this fragrance was one of the few standouts that was worth far more than the asking price. To compare this to Cool Water isn't fair, because this is fresher than cool water, but without the aquatic elements or the obnoxious mint note that Cool Water is known for... which makes this more of a dupe of Green Irish Tweed than anything. This fragrance is certainly a step above Coty's "Aspen," itself a questionable dupe of GIT. I'm not a fan of roll-on fragrances, so I'll be keeping an eye out for a spray-on version.

Much closer to GIT and GIT clones than Cool Water, Animale, Fahrenheit or any other fragrance listed here, though the drydown is considerably earthier than anything else in that family. It actually smells pretty close to Tres Nuit in the opening though, and given the choice between the two, I'd definitely take this one because the longevity is excellent (roll-on oil version). This is the somewhat darker forest to GIT's grassy field. Really nice stuff.

Lasts...not sure really, I've never noticed it ever going away, it just stays. Projection's about an elbow's length. Smells very clean & musky. I clearly got the ylang-ylang as listed from the notes, the musk, and oakmoss, but I didn't get the tobacco. At times it'll smell like coconut because of the musk. Musk is thick during the first 2 hours and can be nauseating if you breathe it too much, so apply away from your face. It's a clone of cool water.

I'd describe it as a business-perfume (if such a thing exists). Not a super-outstanding killer scent, but could work on office clerks and even on mid-level employees. Or at least that's what my imagination made up about this scent on first smell. Long lasting, doesn't changes much. Wood, patchouli and very slight sweety notes are definitely there, I'm not sure about the rest.

I just got this today and it's a very cheap and synthetic copy of Green Irish Tweed by Creed. What's funny is that this stuff, which cost me $3.20, is better than Cool Water still! This will hold me over until I get a bottle of GIT but until then this is pretty good stuff for the price.

A lot like Davidoff Cool Water but heavier on the skin, muskier, mossier and generally greener. Less a fragrance of the ocean, more the fragrance of the woodland surrounding a small English lake. It's very good for next to nothing!

I haven't sniffed CW or GIT, so I can't compare them. In my opinion, it smells clean enough and a bit sweety without being too soapy because of musk and tobacco. I like it.

Cool Water clone with low sillage and 8 hours of longevity. Nice considering the prices of Al Rehab as this is my second from the house.

this is a cool water clone but projects and has longer longevity, and is half the price of the price of cool water, well done

much closer to blanc al rehab, nice fragrance for everyday activities, and for all situation.