Contra For You

**Update 2** I wore this fragrance out today for the first time, and I got a compliment! **Update** This scent has done nothing but improve with time! The notes are even more well blended now, and I myself have been wearing this fragrance regularly! While I do find it to be masculine leaning, the sweet melon and pineapple make it more unisex to me. I've noticed the scent lasts about 6 hours on my skin, but can last days on fabric. I first bought this fragrance for my husband from Marshall's; I was smelling many fragrances, picked up the Contra, smelled it, liked it but put it down and ended up walking to a different part of the store. Every couple of seconds, I kept catching a wiff of the most amazing smell, and at first I just assumed there was a scented candle or someone wearing cologne nearby, but then I realized I had gotten a tiny bit of the Contra on myself, and that was the amazing smell! I went right back to the fragrance section and bought the Contra For You immediately. This is such an amazing scent (with a pressurized sprayer!!) for less than $20, you definitely get the most bang for your buck!

Happened to be wearing Stronger With You Intensely when I walked into my friends room and seen his collection of colognes. He happened to have Contra For You on his shelf, and as I was trying his colognes, I tried CFU and thought I was mistaking the SWYI on my skin, but no, it was CFU. For $15-$20, this is a ridiculously close fragrance to SWYI. The blend lacks a little bit of quality compared to SWYI, and the fragrance comes off a bit more sweet (rather than a bakery style of sweet) compared to SWYI, but its absolutely brilliant for what it is. The cinnamon style notes aren’t as strong and fade off much more quickly than SWYI, however, this makes it a more versatile and all year round sweet unisex (maybe slightly masculine) scent, and less masculine than SWYI. The longevity is poor, with the smell fading from to a skin scent in less than a hour without overspray, however, for $17, you really cannot complain all that much. It’s good cheapie that you would never expect to come out of TJ MAXX.

A nice sweet and spicy, very affordable fragrance. Tried this at a discounter store and got it for $17, was not disappointed. It projects really far early on, then dies down to about 2 arms' lengths for a while, and lasts many many hours. I love the smell - warm, spicy, a bit sweet. However, the polarizing part of it I'm sure, at least for me, is the Bubble-gum aspect that is very noticable. It must be from the combination of Guiac wood, Tonka, Chestnut, Melon, Cinnamon, and Violet that gives this powdery, artificial bubblegum smell that I personally don't like. BUT, despite that, the rest of it really pulls the whole scent together and actually makes for an EXCELLENT layering option. I spray this after first spraying another inexpensive Smoky, woody cologne, making the result much more complex and enjoyable, and reminiscent of other designer colognes with the Woody, smoky, spicy, pineapple combination. This will last far longer than most under $20 perfumes.

This fragrance is either a clone of the original Stronger With You or Stronger With You Intensely. My wife and daughter surprised me with this one a few months back. I believe they bought it from Marshall's for about $15. Wow, what a steal! It's sweet, with vanilla, smoke, pink pepper, maybe some cinnamon. It's a perfect fall and winter fragrance. It definitely punches way above its price point. And it does not smell cheap at all. It's actually a rather addictive fragrance. If you like the Stronger With You DNA, don't be afraid to pick this one up and to save yourself lots of money.

This is very reminiscent of SWY / SWY intensely but def not a 100% similar, but I'd like to attribute that to the added fruits. I remember testing this in perfumania the same day I smelled SWY intensely for the first time, and I actually preferred this one to intensely. It's an amazing fragrance Loud vanilla, lavender, and chestnut paired with the added fruits and good longevity and projection. Not to mention the pressurized atomizer. My only gripe is finding out I could've got it for cheaper at marshals instead of for 60 dollars at perfumania. other than that it's really good.