Ventana Pour Homme

Okay, I’m dropping my two cents while this stuff is on the back of my hand, having been sprayed about 25 minutes prior to my thumbs constructing this sentence. Having never smelled Aventus for myself (unless by chance in public and my plebeian nostrils couldn’t make the connection), I couldn’t be bothered to assume how close L’Aventure by AH is to it. Knowing that it’s a clear dupe of Aventus, I notice similarities in how Ventana and L’Aventure both open, and dry down. Not exactly the same, but I pick up similarities straight away. I read a comment illustrating a sort of Aventus(*L’Aventure*)/Suavage hybrid olfactory assault, sans suavagean metallic notes in the dry down, and I’ll admit it’s eerily close to that exactly. The opening though, in particular is quite peppery to me, like L’Aventure. Which I can take or leave depending on the mood I’m in, but it’s worth it to make it to the dry down of that juice. The pepper becomes lost in the aroma that surrounds me. Easy to pick it up when I smell close to my arm within the first 4-6 hours. Ventana is a lot like that, but it loses the pepper even up close within half an hour. Nice little plus in my book. There’s obviously a brighter citrus note with a strong semi-realistic pineapple (at first) and that peppery bite to start things off. Of course all of this is nuanced faintly by alcohol, and it dies away within minutes. We don’t spend much time with the top notes of the juice upon application and, by my standards, bravo to the master who crafted it. The dry down has every beautiful component of a dark “blue” summer evening fragrance. It evokes the same joy as Suavage for me, and while it really does lack the metallic note, I don’t miss it. This opinion will certainly raise an eyebrow or two; I get mostly just the bubble gum type sweetness of Dior’s entry, and the rest is more similar to Dylan Blue. Like that... sprayed on fresh clean leather. A small piece though. It’s just there kind of smoothing things out. These are first thoughts, bearing in mind, I am a novice in the world of fragrance. I’ll update again once I have this bottle broken in a little bit. All in all so far, I’m happy with this one. It seems like it will be easily worn any time of year. We’re over 100° daily where I live right now, so I’m thinking nighttime on this one until we dip back toward double digits again. This is most definitely a safe buy if you’ve ever smelled and enjoyed any of the aforementioned fragrances. It’s just easy to like. I think if one doesn’t apply too much scrutiny based solely upon comparing Ventana to other fragrances, they’d find themselves quite pleased by it. Thanks for making it this far. Keep ‘em high and tight mommies 👍🏻 P.S. Packaging is as described ubiquitously in this thread; cheap. Its contents tell its own special story though. It may not be a very long, or intricately detailed story, and that’s okay. EDIT: I finally smelled Explorer from Montblanc and they’re so similar it’s almost uncanny! Explorer has less of the peppery thing going on, but they’re basically the same otherwise.

I am a huge fan of Dior Sauvage. I don't care that everyone and their brother wears it. I've loved it since I first smelled it in 2015. Bought it on the spot before it was discounted. Along the way I've also picked up its three flankers - Very Cool Spray, EDP, and Parfum. The original EDT remains my favorite and lasts the longest on my skin with more sillage than the others mentioned. This is, of course, not a Sauvage review, however I felt I needed to include all the above info to demonstrate I am someone who considers himself a Sauvage aficionado. Have seen the percentages other reviewers have assigned to Ventana smelling close to Sauvage. Disagree with 90%. It's closer. Also disagree with 99%. It's not quite that close. I would (as objectively as I can) say that Ventana is 94% Sauvage after a thirty minute drydown. Not a clone, but a near clone. It does not have all the strong pepper of Sauvage. It does seem to have just about the same amount of ambroxan. It is as crisp and fresh as Sauvage in every other way. Not as long lasting, but I get a good six hours. Sauvage lasts a lot longer on me. I blind bought this because I wanted to see just how much of a clone it was. I would never want to give up any of my four originals for Ventana, but I am a satisfied customer nonetheless. If you can't afford the original this is a very close alternative. I have enough of the original and its flankers that I did not need this. But I did want this. Not disappointed in the least. I am recommending this strongly to all fans of Dior Sauvage EDT.

This is the best fragrance i have ever had the pleasure of smelling on a man. Opening smells bad for me but the dry down stage is intoxicating. I will say this though; it's a masterpiece in general but i only love love love it on one guy in particular. He always smells so sexy-babyish-soft and comfy-delicious and seductive-clean-cool-young but mature-bad boy, all at the same damn time! I compliment this guy every time he puts it on, which leads me to believe that it does smell different on different people. I smell it on this one guy and i feel the need to compliment him but when i smell it on other guys i just think what a good scent it is and keep it moving..... It definitely lasts long enough and leaves a trail. I will never get tired of this Scent.Also, I think it's more for younger men. like 26 to 40. I wouldn't want someone like my dad putting it on because when i smell this all i can think of is, "I believe in miracles, what is wrong, you sexy thing". So yeah definitely for the less seasoned. One of the best male fragrances for me but i haven't smelled Sauvage Dior, imagine that!

Nose Note #583 To my nose this is a better dupe of Sauvage than Urban Elixir, but this is still not an accurate clone... To my nose it still translates a closer image than Urban Elixir, but it's still very very far, for one - it has no pepper, and it doesn't feel like it has ambroxan. Urban Elixir is not bad, but it has other issues which in my opinion are worse than ones Ventana has. Let's just put it this way. Do you like Sauvage? Don't consider this a dupe. Imagine it's some cheaper european brand like Jimmy Choo that "accidently" made something that really smells like Sauvage. This is not a substitute, but damn it comes at least 80% close. Sauvage is also much stronger, but being just above average like this one comes as an advantage - you won't get tired of it like you probably will with Sauvage... Although it doesn't have the pepper I so adore in Sauvage, this is still so so good of a clone. 8.5/10, maybe the best clone of Sauvage I've come across so far despite its obvious drawbacks

So let me start with this; I love Sauvage and I can't help it. The Sauvage DNA is pretty much my favorite of well over 80+ frags I've smelled. I've got Prada LRC, Ventana, Ajmal Kuro, even Franck Olivier Bamboo.. I'm a sucker for this DNA So with a lot of experience with Sauvage and its clones, I can say Ventana is absolutely the closest 1:1 Sauvage clone unless everyone is missing a gem. For the price and similarity, this is a BUY if you're trying to get Sauv on the cheap. Ventana has the bright, metallic and synthetic blast that Sauvage does, its LOUD, albeit not as loud as Sauv. It lasts, projects, the whole 9 yards. Even if you want to get snobby about it, I still dont think you could make an argument that its not a good frag for the price, regardless. Armaf did really, really well here.