Masculin Acier

I love this! Beautiful combination of oakmoss+lavender barbershop cleanliness, with honey+sandalwood warmth. So good. Picked it up for €7 in Leclerc. I won't feel quite so bad when my Beau de Jour runs out now. Goes quickly to a rich skin scent, but sticks around for a long time. Update: I had the dry down of Chanel Pour Monsieur EdP on my hand today and it smelled familiar - it's very similar to this, although Acier lacks the lemony top section of the Chanel, and goes straight to the deep stuff.

This exists on a continuum with Stetson at one end and Habit Rouge on the other. Givenchy Gentlemen, Giorgio of Beverley Hills, Hugo Boss Number One and Pierre Cardin Pour Homme in the middle. It's less skanky than Stetson, less sweet than Habit Rouge and Pierre Cardin. To me, it seems like a more refined and more barbershop version of Giorgio of Beverly Hills. Exceptional value for an old school dude or a chick like me obsessed with honey and oakmoss.

Darius HIldenbrandt - the reviewer below is spot on !! The Masculin Acier is a fantastic romantic fragrance for men! I bought it for the first time 20 years ago in Paris. I bought another one last month and thankfully has exactly the same smell.Well done Bourjois!!

You can always count on Bourjois to fragrant you well if you don't have (or want to give) the money for a Guerlain. Of course you should not expect much, but then you don't expect much from your fragrance anyway. The great thing about Bourjois fragrances is that they are actually very nice. And i would take Acier or Equateur over Guerlain's Homme Ideal any day. But that's about it :) Quality-wise, art-wise, sensational-wise Bourjois fragrances are nothing more than nice aromas with low profile. Sometimes this is enough, in this case - a sweet lavender. ***(**)

When Bourjois was owned by the Chanel group, the bottle design of the "Masculin" line was awful. Since 2015 and the takeover by Coty, the new design is very Chanel, fun fact. By the way, excellent old-school french barbershop scent, full of honey & oakmoss goodness.