Aspen For Men

*EDITED* Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 059 ------------------------------------------------------- Purchased June 2017 It's true this one is closer to Green Irish Tweed than Cool Water. I hadn't known this because I didn't get to test Green Irish Tweed, and I had spammed Cool Water usage in 2013. Getting this one was definitely a breath of fresh air of sorts. It showed me something can be so clean, fresh, yet green and herbal, somewhat soapy. This is what you want if you don't want to bother with the pricey and unnecessary alternatives. Those are extremely strong vs. Aspen, so if you're always around company that just hate fragrance, we all know what to say about that, then stick with Aspen because it's the unique one in its category. If Cool Water reinvented Green Irish Tweed, then it was Aspen that last reinvented Cool Water. More manly and versatile. Clean scents aren't supposed to be extremely strong or overpowering, that's what control and overspraying are there for in a clean scent. You dial it in, like a guitar amp. Don't put too much bass! The mids is where the tone natively and naturally sings and shines; let the treble follow the mids and the bass rest behind the treble. Aspen is like the 'woman tone', it just works every time you hit that vibrato. Brassieres loosen and the swoons erupt. You almost cannot ever get enough of things like this. I haven't worn it in a long time but always respected the hell outta it. I ran out of my Green Irish Tweed decant a few years ago because it's truly iconic. I'm not a freshie/sports scent guy, yet that's what I partly grew up around and that category has always been addictive to the point of nose-blindness. Cool Water is Aspen Night - pretty good for evening outings. You could also say Tsar/Jaguar for Men is Aspen Intense!! A lot of excellent actors wore Green Irish Tweed when it was new, they probably still do now. Batch: 6067 from 7th March, 2016.

Aspen is a classic scent that I never had the chance to own until adulthood. Growing up, this was very much the fragrance of the “cool kids.” Recently, I found myself thinking about it out of the blue and decided to see if it was still available. To my surprise, it was — and at around $15 on Amazon, I couldn’t resist picking up a bottle. Rather than reviewing the notes in detail, which are well documented elsewhere, I’ll focus on how it feels for me. Aspen does have a noticeably synthetic character, especially when compared to the fragrance lineage it’s inspired by. That said, it’s still instantly recognizable and nostalgic in the best way. I wasn’t aware of Creed Green Irish Tweed until much later, nor that Aspen ultimately traces back to that DNA through a chain of inspirations. I did wear Cool Water more than twenty years ago, though I don’t recall making any connection to Aspen at the time. Recently, after receiving a sample of Green Irish Tweed from Dillard’s, my immediate reaction was, “This reminds me of Aspen.” I don’t mean that dismissively — the difference in quality and refinement is obvious, with Green Irish Tweed being noticeably fresher and smoother. Where my experience diverges from expectations is in performance. On my skin, Green Irish Tweed faded fairly quickly, becoming a faint skin scent within about two hours. I still have some of the sample left and plan to revisit it in warmer weather. Aspen, by contrast, lasts a respectable four to six hours for me. Aspen will remain in my collection as an easy, outdoors-friendly option — something I can reach for when I don’t want to overthink my choice. It may not be refined, but it’s familiar, reliable, and carries a sense of nostalgia that I still enjoy.

I'm done with these fragrance sites. They're ridiculous. I need to point out, my signature fragrance for the last 40 years has been Guerlain Vetiver eau de toilette. Recently this last year, picked up Aspen, and though it is a completely different fragrance, it shares the same characteristics of being modest and masculine. It's great for just tooling around in the yard etc. Lasts about 7 hours as a solid skin fragrance on me. I save my Guerlain Vetiver for the rest of the time. The dry down on Aspen smells understated, like fresh laundry drying outside in the country. It doesn't smell earthy, it doesn't smell woody, it doesn't smell minty, It doesn't smell musky, I smell zero vetiver, I smell zero cedar, it doesn't smell like a ski jock getting laid in an alpine forest in the mountains. Let's start off with the basic fact that there are no oak trees or oak moss in alpine areas. The name Aspen has nothing to do with the price of wheat with this fragrance. If it smells like a place, it smells Iike the area of Zephyrhills, FL, which is rolling green hills with oak trees with lots of oakmoss and clear springs that have a 150 foot visibility. I smell a bit of lavender, a hint of conifer, oak moss and amber and that's it! Very nice, fresh, clean, green but not sappy, snotty and pretensions like Green Irish Tweed. The marketing stuff is nonscience!!! It's even worse when you see all these people repeating it on here. Perfect example is Stetson Cologne. There's nothing masculine, cowboy, western or rugged about it. It's flowery, powdery, feminine and extremely sappy.

The perfumer creator is Harry Frémont known for also for CK One and Estée Lauder's Miracle. Looks like perfumers only get credit on here for a fragrance based on its price. I think we need to get scientific and actually get down to what things (chemistry) smell like as opposed to the hallucinations people are having on here mostly related to the price. Most of us take a bath (I hope), wear a deodorant and most of the newer ones are now actual (not linear) fragrances. For example, Old Spice Pure Sport deodorant is also a soapy/ sports/ citrus /musk skin fragrance, Dial 3 in 1 Recharge, Cedar leaf is also a lasting green sharp/ Sports/ camphoraceous and herbal skin fragrance. So whatever you're wearing, I don't care if it $1000 a bottle eau de toilette you will smell like the combination of all those things, plus of course your particular skin type. So, you want to get to GIT and even slightly improve on it (less like a French whore)? Get the Dial Men's Recharge bath wash , Old Spice Pure Sport clear blue deodorant stick and add three (3) spray of Aspen on inside of you cotton shirt upper chest (terrible sprayer 3 = about 1.5). You get GIT that I like more because it's slightly more understated, sharper, less floral, less powdery, more masculine, soapy (athletic). Long lasting good 8 hours, low projection, close to the skin (totally different but a natural part of you like Guerlain Vetiver is). You can ask the most experienced perfumer in the world about what I'm saying and they will agree. This is not rocket science. Is chemistry not pretension girls? Man up!

I will unabashedly exclaim my love for Aspen, although looking around, I see a lot of blase reviews. This will not deter my affection or enthusiasm, over what I have gifted to every man in my life as: "The Right of Passage Perfume". This was also released on the shirt-tales of Irish Tweed, in 1989, and just as Cool Water's uber-synthetic archetypal aquatic was boldly issued, and became the world's new cliche. Aspen, not to be outdone, also delivers a grand dose of dihydromyrcenol, which was still a budding science at its novel unveiling. Bright and frosty notes of verdant herbaceousness, align with coniferous astringency, like rays of light drawn to a center point of refraction. Further incandescence is projected through radiant citrus and mint chords. Aromatic cedar and benzonic lavender create a clipped freshness, as sharp as lofty atmospheric air. Oak moss, amber and musk cast the shadows, and ease the spritely tension, cunningly created thus far. Stunningly low prices only further stir greedy purchase impulses. With fragrances being more widely accepted as gender neutral forums, I wore this the other day, receiving compliments almost immediately. When I returned home to my bottle, I winked at its lovely simplicity. Despite seeming to portray the caricature of a lumberjack, this is a very polite scent. Manners are kept and courtesy maintained, while sweet sillage slips around the room with proper refinement. Even the prissiest noses about can't help but exclaim, "Oh, Yeah!".