Candie's Men

This is my first review on here, and I figured I should start with the first fragrance I ever purchased. When I was in high school, this hipster-y kid walked by me in our auditorium. This amazing smell trailed and lingered behind him. I wasn't particularly friendly with this kid, but I couldn't resist tracking him down and inquiring to know what he was wearing. He told me he was wearing a mixture of canela oil and Candie's for Men. (Later I found out mixing fragrances was called "layering".) I complimented him and forgot about it as I never wore or bought fragrances. Without any intentions of buying cologne, I quickly browsed the fragrances offered by a local half priced store. There, I found a three piece gift set of Candie's for Men. I remembered the name Candie's, and I immediately purchased it. ON TO THE REVIEW: This fragrance opens up with an inviting freshness not found in other "fresh" or "ozonic" fragrances. The freshness breezes with a faint, smooth green sweetness, almost forming a finger and beckoning others around you. I would describe this green sweetness as something very synthetic but pleasant. After the top note freshness subsides a bit, it becomes smooth, musky, and woody. While smooth and woody, Candie's maintains its brightness and green notes. I received so, so, so many compliments on this fragrance. The scent memories attached to this fragrance are invaluable. Smelling it today takes me back to the chilly spring mornings of 2004 when I would marinate myself in Candie's for Men. I don't detect any of the notes listed. I wish I could smell watermelon. Candie's for Men is very fresh, and there's an undeniable element of youth. It's extremely bright and playfully enticing. I would highly recommend as a starter fragrance, but Candie's has been discontinued, and the bottles left on the market are completely overpriced. If you have a bottle, cherish it.

This has been my signature scent since it was released in 1999 and I was in middle school. Every year for xmas Id get a candies gift set. It is a fresh sour/ citric / candy scent. Not overly sweet, and doesnt smell at all synthetic. It starts out with a sour watermelon note and fades to a critic musk. I stocked up on these, and the going price is above $100 now! The aftershave can be had for under $10, so I bought some glass atomizers and keep this in my car / work bag. For a summery scent, it lasts a long time. I get 6-8 hours on it, and since Ive been wearing it so long I cant really smell it anymore, even after applying, but I still get tons of compliments from others. This fragrance has led me on a never-ending quest to find a similar fragrance thats still in production (aka not ridiculously overpriced). Yes, its a young scent, yes it has a cheesy name. Back when the ads were still running, it was all about the sex appeal of this one. This is my most complimented fragrance. Ive bought some bad bottles of this, where they smell burnt / anise notes, but the "good" ones of these of mine are straight up candy scents. The bad ones were probably fakes, or improperly stored considering how old this is now. I switched to blu mediterraneo arancia di capri as my signature scent, but thats just as expensive, albeit the best replacement Ive found.

This came out the year I got married and it was one of the first things my wife bought me...at the time, to broke 21 year old college students, even a bottle of Candie's was a luxury. She loved it and so did I...just a nice floral and citrus musk. Nothing special or earth shattering. As my nose matured and my budget improved, Candies didn't get as much use and then, before I realized it had been discontinued. My bottle ran out and I didn't want to pay niche prices for something I used to get at CVS for $30...so that was that. Nostalgia is a powerful thing because a couple years later I had turned Candies for Men into the best smelling fragrance I'd ever had based on my memories. So I bit the bullet and bought a 100mL from ebay. Boy am I glad I did...it smells just like I remember. Like being young and hopelessly in love in the late '90s. Grapefruit and melon and musk...the scent pyramid for a hundred fragrances - but this just smells different than the rest to me. I don't think I would pay the price for Candies if I didn't have such powerful memories associated with it but personally it was worth every penny. And my wife still loves it.

This scent is a sleeper. Really, out of the bottle it wasn't something that blew me away. However, after about 30 minutes the magic happened...at least on my skin. It's basically a sweet and sour scent in the beginning. Melon and lemon. After a few minutes magic happens and the musk kicks in while the sweet sour combo lingers. I love this scent. My wife loves it as well. Sad it's discontinued. I ran out last year and have been looking around the auction sites for a deal. Unfortunately I am not the only one looking for it. Prices are high. Got some KC Reaction as a sub, and while I really like it, as both share notes of melon and musk, Candies is special to me. KC Reaction smells a lot like Candies, not in the opening, but the drydown, but the sillage and longevity issues with Reaction are not problems with Candies.

Candies was like a young man's dreams: fresh and optimistic before the mind numbing drudgery of life beat you down... I bought the gift set (cologne, skin cream, deodorant) for myself in Texas when I was in the service. I was in my early twenties. I guess this was like Drakkar was in the 80s, only we can't wear this now like forty somethings do with that. At any rate, I really did love this. I only remember a melon scent and I wouldn't really say watermelon, but it was pleasant. One of the few fragrances I've actually gotten attention from women for. It worked and I enjoyed that too. Technically I still have this: it sits on my bathroom shelf but it's spoiled. I'd love to have this recreated in a fragrance oil.

I'm partial to Candies for Men because it was one of my first colognes that I wore as a teenager in the late 90's and early 2000's. I would remember the scent anytime and I think Carmen Electra was in the advertisement campaign which was awesome. It really was a generic and cheap green "freshie" that did not have great projection or longevity, so the experience is more nostalgic than anything. I refuse to pay eBay prices, so the closest clone that I have been able to find was #Candy by DUA. However, #Candy was overly cloying in that it was an extrait de parfum...way too strong for me. Simply the scent of my youth.

Purchased the DUA dupe of Candie's for Men - called #CANDY. It smells IDENTICAL in the opening. DUA states that they hammed up the "watermelon" note. I didn't notice anything different about the opening. The difference is that the DUA #Candy has a drydown identical to Aventus. Similiar to Aventus, the birch notes in #Candy are suuuuuuper smokey compared to the original Candie's for Men. The DUA drydown is that cheap metallic Azzaro Chrome metallicness. I will use the rest of the DUA dupe, but I can't be certain I will bother repurchasing it. Definitely check it out, you really can't go wrong.

Folks - I finally CRACKED THE CODE. If you've ordered from FragranceNet, they always send you a sample of their in-house fragrance "Exceptional Because You Are." They will send you a men's or women's sample depending on the target gender of the fragrance you bought. The men's version of Exceptional Because You Are smells like Candie's for Men. It's playful, bright, and smooth woody suede. Unfortunately, the attractive opening of Candie's sweet greenness (that is just so damn attractive) doesn't last long in Exceptional Because You Are. Check it out!

This was my signature scent in jr high school. I loved it, from what I remember it just had a unique inoffensive somewhat masculine scent. The past 10 years I've purchased about 3 bottles of fragrance for myself. I was reminiscing to my gf a couple months ago about candies and looked up a review of it on YouTube. Since that video I've been watching and buying new fragrances and loving the "hobby" of collecting and wearing fragrances. So I guess I can either thank or blame candies for the start of a never ending expensive hobby.

Used to wear this back in my highschool days when it could be had for very little I still have all my empty bottles and some maybe 1/4 full when I'd replace because you know id overspray to make it last til that bell rang lol such a great fragrance that has yet to be duplicated Im glad I saved my bottles because I love spraying this every once in a while and transforming into the top g in highschool

I have the new Edt of this that came out a couple of years ago and it's a fantastic scent! If you like Polo Blue and Acqua Di Gio then you'll like this! This is a fragrance you wear for women's attention! This is a recognizable scent that you probably have smelled back in the late 90's to early 2000's. Again the new Edt for men is fantastic!

This was on every Christmas wish list I had in the late 90's. This smelled so good, this scent is the full on vive of the late 90's. Every bubble pop MTV music video with dudes in bleached hair smelled like this I guarantee it.

This is bizarre... the reboot of Candie's Men 2021 opens very similar as the original, with orange-y tangerine facets replacing the aqueous fruit sweetness of the original... Then it turns into an orange soap blob.

Man this was a classic cologne in high school. The women loved this and the compliments never stopped. For younger guys for sure but I will still wear this if I had it.

The new reformatted Candies is awful, don't waste your time and money. Gone is the best note, watermelon, utterly ridiculous. Smells cheap and gives me a headache.

I have 2 bottles of Candies for men one has 4 digits and the other one has 5 digits anyone knows why?

Its back but is not the same .😣 no watermelon thats sad :(

EDIT 2: Basically if you take the ‘watermelon’ out of the notes (especially the number one spot because it’s just not there) you get basically exactly what this smells like. Incredibly safe, generic, ‘meh’ of a Frag. I’m happy I only got a few samples of this because this scent can already be found in almost everyone’s collection in some form or another in many generic scents. Certainly a drugstore cheapie from the 2000’s. Only thing about this that makes it anything unique, are the Rodman/Electra ads for it, those are cool, and good. This scent, nah. Let the house train leave the station please and thanks. Original impressions: Yeah.... finally got my hands on some of this ‘godly’ juice... hahah. This is like many other frags... Paris Hilton for Men doesn’t cost the hilariously crushing prices people are trying to sell this for. No, just nah, I’m super happy I didn’t spend a small fortune to try this out. Honestly, it’s not like this smells bad, it smells good... and you can find an amplitude of smells just like this... no, the hype is not real... andddddddd performance is pretty shitty lol, Sillage is poor and it becomes a skin scent remarkably fast... I’d like it if it even lasted... but it doesn’t and the price people want for this stuff is troublingly scary... I kind of feel this is a big problem in the frag community in general? This is not at all, and I repeat, worth a months worth of groceries.... this is one of the scents that you could find in grocery stores... not just in the 90’s, this doesn’t smell like the 90’s, smells like something you can find cheaply, right now in soon to be 2019. UPDATE: Yeah... having worn it all day (and had to reapply it to get the smell back to noticeable)... it smells good... not unique... if this wasn't discontinued this would be a scent no one would really care about or be talking about, and would just be around for 20$ at Walmart still. Nice smell, kinda sweet, mostly green I suppose... mostly I would assume dudes here are remembering how awesome it was to have chicks (or dudes, or zigs or zers whatever you want) alllll over them etc etc.... except haha, that was high school... I don't think it was Candie's doing. Final thoughts, smells good, id like to find something that smells like this (I don't think any brands tried to clone what was formally a cheapie) that doesn't cost as much as a couch. PS... longevity is a bit better than I initially gave it credit.... but sillage is TERRIBLE... soo if you want to keep smelling your wrist, its good.

I was under the impression that Candie's, and Lucky Brand were both owned by Liz Claiborne, oh well... I first smelled this scent while hugging a friend in 2002 and just loved it. He and his girl had bought each other the pair for their 1st anniversary, aaaww! This cologne (it says edt but to me it's an edc) blends fruits and flowres into greens then woods and finally musk and sweet dry mossy finish. This sounds very scent by numbers (and 90ish) but it is surprisingly sweet fresh and yet unassuming. I especially enjoy the teaberry like birch that takes you from heart to drydown without the overly stong birch tar note so many scents have that include birch. I pair this with the deodorant (christened UnderArmour)as it adds to the overall aura. As far as the name goes: a.)it is named after a line of shoes put out by the same company and b.)I agree with Chandler Burr that the juice is where the payoff is, the rest is just window dressing. Question: Would you wear it or like it better if it were called "Waterfall for men"? Food for thought... Sillage: could be better Longevity: average Overall: 2.75/5 It is a slice of 90s pop culture but it does have its place now and again...for those who do like it and are looking for it its available for @ 10 USD at Wal-Mart for a 15 ml bottle, I bought 2!

When I first tried this, all I smelled was unscented baby wipes. I tried it a few more times after that and I actually picked up on the grapefruit, watermelon, and basil in the opening with a green, fruity, light woodsy and light musky drydown. It's not as sweet as some reviews say. It's actually quite light and a bit powdery. I think of it along the lines of D&G Light Blue but without the lemon and citrus. Instead, the watermelon replaces the lemon and the only citrus note is the grapefruit. Think of a lightly fruity, green, baby powder wipe or baby powder in general. It's a decent scent but nothing special and definitely not for anyone over the age of 25. Sillage and longevity are excellent as well but the reason I give this a neutral is because it's just the same scent over and over again. So much that it becomes too boring and bland after a few wearings. Trust me, it's nice and safe, but you will get bored of it, and fast!