Hunter Intense

Armaf Hunter Intense opens with a moderate projection of citrus, spicy, and floral accords. The citrus accords are sweet, the lemon and mandarin are the most prominent notes. The opening is fresh, sweet, and delectable. The cardamon and pepper create the spicy tone, the pepper is the most noticeable spicy note. The geranium, rosebay, and lavender create a pleasant floral accord, aromatic but not overpowering, the lavender adds the clean-like accord. As the fragrance commences to dry-down, the vetiver and patchouli add a soft sharp green touch, maintaining the lemon-like opening as opposed to adding a herbaceous accord. Both, the musk and labdanum are the projecting notes, the musk creates an ambroxan-like accord, projecting and slightly powdery; the labdanum adds an ambergris-like tone, also very projecting. The most noticeable opening to dry-down changes in this fragrance is the citrus and sweet accords which are stronger during the opening, but they gradually dissipate towards the dry-down, and, the vetiver and patchouli add a sharp green accord that blends well with the clean, white musk which develops towards the dry-down. The combination of these last two, maintain the citrus nature of the fragrance. One Armaf Hunter Intense Men EDT has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, mildly sweet, citrus, and clean musk fragrance with spicy, green and soft floral accords. The fragrance feels airy, clean, cold, diurnal, energizing, fresh, intense, masculine, white slightly powdery musky, playful, slightly powdery, refreshing, sporty, versatile, white, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#296993) WOW RATING: 9/10. This a very impressive sweet, white musk, citrus, spicy and green fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The white musk feels clean and projecting, evocative of ambroxan. UNIQUENESS: 9/10. Common notes, but an intense and unique scent. MASS APPEAL: 10/10. This is a mass appeal fragrance. PROJECTION: 4/10. Good, about 4 feet around the wearer. Up close is intense. SILLAGE: 5/10. Very good, about 5 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations will suffice. LONGEVITY: 3/10. Moderate to low, about 3 hours, with a consistent projection but close to the third hour it dissipates entirely. SEASONS: Spring, summer, fall. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, gym, office, business, casual, holidays, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 9/10. Very high, this fragrance can be worn most of the year almost for any occasion. GENDER: Masculine, the spicy accords lean it to the masculine side. AGES: Any. RECOMMENDATION: Armaf Hunter Intense Men EDT can be found discounted for about $20. An intense, impressive, high mass appeal, and highly versatile fragrance, it could last longer yet, it delivers fantastic value. This is a must-have. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes. SIMILAR: Armaf Hunter Intense is similar to Dior Sauvage. Both fragrances have similar compositions and scents, however, Dior Sauvage contains a more prominent woody accord, cedar to be specific, also Dior Sauvage contains ambroxan which makes it feel slightly powdery. These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Dior Sauvage EDT is great sharp citrus, spicy, amber, woody, and musky fragrance; Dior Sauvage EDP is great sharp citrus, spicy, and ambery fragrance; Versace Eros is an outstanding mint, apple, ambroxan, and woody fragrance; L’Artisan Parfumeur Caligna is a great sweet fruity (fig), floral, green, piney, and herbaceous fragrance; Prada Luna Rossa Carbon is a fantastic, bergamot and peppery fragrance, metallic, earthy, and powdery fragrance; Parfums de Marly Percival a low projection, slightly sweet, lavender, and fresh woody fragrance; Ralph Lauren Polo Ultra Blue is great lemon verbena, basil, and white musk fragrance; Tiziana Terenzi is a good powdery, and clean musk fragrance with soft woody and spicy accords; Versace Dylan Blue is a great mildly sweet, citrusy, and green fragrance with some fruity, musky, powdery, and spicy accords; Armaf Hunter Intense is a great mildly sweet, citrus and clean must fragrance with spicy and green accords fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, mildly sweet, citrus, and clean musk fragrance with spicy, green, and soft floral accords. The fragrance feels airy, clean, cold, diurnal, energizing, fresh, intense, masculine, white slightly powdery musky, playful, slightly powdery, refreshing, sporty, versatile, white, and very pleasant.

I'm going to go against the grain here, but does anyone else find this similar to Parfums de Marley Layton without the Vanilla? I'm actually not finding this to be too similar to Sauvage and Invictus, but instead it's my fix for when I'm craving Layton. This has everything that Layton has for me, a heavy dose of Ambroxan, sharp apple, a touch of smoothness... I mean, it REALLY reminds me of a brighter batch of Layton, just lacking the vanilla. (And yes, I have noticed batch variations in Layton.) Performance is lacking on my bottle, but many other people are getting great performance, so I'm going to go ahead and blame that on my bottle in particular, which was bought used from someone who was unhappy with it. Price is not an issue, so I overspray this one and then spray it some more a couple hours later. :) I expect my next bottle of this will probably perform better, like I've seen others report, and I just ordered another bottle to see if that's the case. The scent is SEXY! Women have really loved it on me. My ex loved the scent of this one, but even she said she wished it were stronger when I would wear it. Still, for the scent and price, this one is great. UPDATE: Okay, looking at the notes, it becomes apparent as to why this reminds me of Layton, as most of the notes are shared between this, Layton, and Sauvage. Shared notes are in bold. Top Notes: Bergamot , Lemon, Mandarin orange , Cardamom Heart Notes: Geranium , Lavender , Rose, Pink pepper Base Notes: Vetiver, Cedar , Musk, Labdanum, Patchouli UPDATE #2: Okay, so it turns out my first bottle was a bit of a fluke... I love this scent so much that I went ahead and ordered a 2nd bottle, and this second bottle basically smells like an improved Dior Sauvage with a splash of fruitiness like everyone else is getting. Apparently my first bottle is heavier on the top notes and lower on the base notes. My first bottle is sweeter, while the 2nd bottle is much more bitter like Sauvage. The 2nd bottle also out-performs the first bottle by lasting nearly twice as long, and even staying underneath my shirt collar until the next morning, however I still much prefer my first bottle of this. Update 3: Okay, so out of desperation to replace my dwindling first bottle, I again bought a 3rd new bottle, and this time it smells just like the first. So, my first bottle was NOT a total fluke, however, that tells us that you should expect some level of batch variation with this scent.

3 MONTH UPDATE: Absolutely love this now. The projection and scent massively developed and now this is a phenomenal men’s fragrance. Smells way more expensive than it actually is. If you get a bottle and find that it’s a little weak, spray a few sprays put it in your closet for a month or two - magic will happen. 8.5/10 for me. Excellent year-round fresh masculine scent if you like YSL, Sauvage, and others in that category. Smells nothing like Sauvage. Same category? Sure. Smells *like* Sauvage? Not at all, which is fine. If you like that style though, you’ll likely also like this. I find it to be “okay” for a number of reasons. 1. It’s a good, but very generic clean scent. I’ve heard people say that before about fragrances and never understood that knock - I kind do get it now. Totally blind-buy safe, but no one is going to smell you and go “WOW! 😍” It’s more of a, “yeah, you smell nice” if you were to ask someone to smell you. You’d never get outright noticed - which isn’t always a bad thing. 2. It’s weak. You can over-spray it and can only smell it if you’re right up on your skin. At least that’s how my bottle is and it’s “matured” in my closet for a little over a month now too. 3. It’s a clean scent, but it’s heavy on the spice/pepper so it’s not a totally clean scent. Which may not work as well during the day or heat like a normal blue/fresh fragrance would. Not necessarily a bad thing depending on how you’ll want to wear it. 4. The bottle/cap is terrible. I’m not counting this against my rating, because I really don’t care of a bottle sucks as long as the fragrance is good, but this one really is bad. So, overall it’s good to okay. The price I paid was $19. Zero regrets for that price, but I likely wouldn’t rebuy it. I’ll wear, enjoy it enough, but there are better options for like $10 more. Great first fragrance, very safe buy. Armaf continues to be my favorite brand. This is maybe my least favorite Armaf, and it’s still quite good. If you can get it for under $20, I’d say try it, but it won’t blow your mind unless you’re totally new to fragrance.

This fragrance is honestly the best in my entire collection. I started getting into fragrances around 2020 during COVID, and early on I realised I loved fresh, bubble-gum sweet scents. Invictus was the first one that really stood out to me after testing it in duty free. When I was building my collection, I bought Armaf Hunter Intense alongside Rasasi Hawas, and I was genuinely shocked. Firstly, Hunter Intense had a better opening to my nose and secondly it was an Eau de Parfum, and lasted longer than Hawas. After watching youtube videos, people described the opening as a fresh, sweet Invictus-like scent with a drydown similar to Dior Sauvage EDT, and that description could not be more accurate. This is easily the most versatile fragrance in my collection. It performs solidly, works in almost any situation, and is my most complimented fragrance. Recently, I bought Invictus as it’s my favourite designer opening. I tested Invictus, Hunter Intense, and Rasasi Hawas Ice side by side on strips. Hawas Ice is fruitier and lasts the longest, so use that for summer. Invictus has the best opening, deeper and more complex, but also the weakest longevity. Hunter Intense opens about 75% similar to Invictus, but fresher and lighter, then outperforms it and dries down into a more mature blue fragrance similar to Dior Sauvage. This is still very much a fresh, bubble-gum blue fragrance, so don’t expect a completely new or unique scent profile. What it does, it simply does so well. This is one of the cheapest fragrances I own, and I’ve genuinely gone through six bottles. I always keep one in my gym bag, and the other in my room and it permanently sits in my “versatile” category because it does everything well. If I had to keep only one fragrance for life, this would be it. I don’t hear any hype around this fragrance anymore, maybe because it came out years ago and the clone market has exploded, but don’t overlook it. This is top top stuff from Armaf. Please never discontinue this. PS: The bottle design is awful, but thankfully it's juice inside that matters.

My (strictly) Spring/Summer Signature-scent. It CANNOT be worn in cooler or cold weather; it won't perform, unless indoors. After receiving and wearing for an entire day, my findings are as follows: This fragrance is of a high standard. The opening is good; it's a cross between PR Invictus and Invictus Aqua. I have Invictus, so I'm not really concerned with that. The opening is so short-lived (2-3 hours max) then it becomes a beautiful, intimate, vanilla-rich, creamy, caramel-y, slightly peppery scent that'll radiate off of your skin for 10 hours, which has me completely STUNNED!😳 Here you have Armaf giving away high-performing, top-tier fragrances for pennies on the dollar, while ultra-rich fragrance houses churn out mass appealing, top-selling fragrances, watering them down, to the point that they become useless to the financially savvy individual, who refuses to be conned, just to smell nice, albeit similar to 50 blokes that day, for all of 2 minutes. This fragrance is top-tier quality, especially in the dry-down, which will last 10 hours in warmer settings. At this rate, Armaf could bottleneck the market, putting tons of fragrance houses out of business, unless they clean up their act. Signature-scent worthy, for sure. Completely blown away, but very pleased; as now I can stop searching and searching for that mega fragrance, that's a rare find, a steal, and unique enough to satisfy my hunger, while simultaneously burning through my bank balance, trying to find that one special, unique-smelling fragrance, but never quite getting there, amassing 100 - 200+ fragrances in the process, wasting money... now I've found it; it's here: it's Hunter Intense👏🏾🔥