Azzaro Pour Homme Summer Edition 2013

Just wow. Found in a local flea market and tried without expectation but i was thrilled and bought immediately! I love Azzaro PH original and totally understand when people say it smells a bit dated or old-manish. Well apparently Azzaro already had a solution for this with this flanker which i had no idea it existed. The backbone of the original is still there but very bright and fresh with a cool mandarine smell. Very, very good indeed. Buy it when you find it!

Great stuff, just like Azzaro Pour Homme, but a bit fresher. Not a lot fresher, just a tid bit, enough for me to able to wear the OG Azzaro during the hot summer days. It's a bit redundant to Azzaro PH, and that's probably why it was a limited edition that will not come back. Had luck to find a new 2012 bottle for a good price - this has been macerating 13 years before I started ruining it with fresh oxygen. Cheers!

One of the best "summer" fragrances ever. Totally agree with 1welshdevil,the opening notes are amazing.The dry down is soft,clean & fresh.Everything you would want from a summery fragrance. Sillage is good but nothing exciting. Longevity,as are all Azzaro fragrances,is very impressive without being too overpowering.

I seriously love this, the sun is out, and this fragrance bursts with a citrus opening, lemons and mandarin. The dry down is really lovely, light and soapy. I prefer this to the original.

As the original marketing materials mentioned: "For the summer of 2013, the original fragrance is enriched with..." the vote-able scent notes listed above on this page. The scent itself still contains the usual stew of Azzaro-style spicy aromatic fougère notes below the newcomers... they just aren't listed. This 2013 summer flanker really is just a slight variation on the pillar fragrance and certainly not some sort of summer freshie despite the charming breezy artwork on the bottle. If you know Azzaro pour Homme you will have a pretty good idea what to expect here. The short-lived opening leans a bit more citrus-colonia / less zippy-barbershop and the drydown is moderately smoother, creamier, and less spicy; beyond that it has much of the same core character as the original. Projection and sillage are more discreet than the powerhouse original. Personally I find the original 1978 fragrance wonderful to sniff in passing but too potent to actually wear. Summer Edition 2013 solves that problem for me: it retains much of the original vibe but with the sharp edges smoothed over, making it just mellow enough to be wearable without being too-far removed like the L'Eau flanker is. My favorite of the "still mostly smells like the original" ApH flankers I've tried.