Cuba Gold

I wore this daily for the last 20+ years with my wife. Cheap plentiful 10$ 100ml for daily compliments from customers and co workers is a good deal. I've had coworkers and customers say how good this smells and no other perfume I own has garnered more attention. We buy 10 of these at a time and burn through them all as we both wear this . It's my go to daily driver and dumb grab if I can't be bothered to pick something in the frag cabinet. It's warm cozy and clean and safe around a lot of people in my experience. I have a coworker that really hates perfume and likes this scent. I was saving my perfumes for a rainy day and finally decided to cycle through them. I wear this less now but still love it. When I first got this It just smelled awesome and every time I had it on people spoke up. People who are generally not outspoken. Sometimes a few in the same day Years later i ran across a Le Male wearer and assumed cuba gold....he set me right on his choice of scent. I recently got Le Male and the fragrance is very different albeit with a similar dry down. Cuba Gold is a safe bet. a sweet cigar tobacco dry down that brings us to a mossy vanillic drydown in Le Male. Similar. far from clone. But I mistook it at a distance due to the similar note. I have no bad words for this generous scent. Lasts a full workday and is detectable for a good while...but its 10ish sprays body and clothes without being agressive to your surroundings. In it's own right its a great scent without comparing it to anything. There's definitely a unisex zone inthis one. Smells sweeter on my sweetheart and the tobacco note is more prominent on me. I gave a scent sensitive coworker a bottle because her son wore something loud around the house and she liked this on me and my wife. That says alot.

"CLONE OF" OR "CLONED BY" ? I don't have many doubts that "Le Male" is what the market considers the original fragrance and that Cuba Gold is a very well-made and very inexpensive look-alike of the JPG bestseller. Although some people claim that Cuba Gold's launching preceded the JPG "Le Male" launch. I own both of them and I don't care about it. Usually, I don't like to write about clones just because they are clones, but now and then I may give an opinion like "This fragrance X is a very good dupe of fragrance Y" (or a bad dupee for that matter). Having said that I would like to make a statement and tell you a story: Statement: Cuba Gold is probably one of the best market clones of a very well-known designer fragrance called "Le Male" designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. Story: I sprayed Cuba Gold last morning, twice in my chest, twice in my hair and twice in the side of my neck. So, it was a total of 6 sprays. My wife told me during that morning breakfast: "I guess that oday you are wearing Le Male. I do like it. You are a lot more yummy with the real thing. Just put aside that other thing you have". Today I had a day off. I wandered a bit and went to the bank, to a mall, and to a Leroy Merlin shop. I received 8 compliments and two of them identified the "Le Male" scent. I never said to my wife that I use Cuba Gold often pretending to be wearing JPG Le Male. I consider to go on doing it every now and then. And the bottle is even cute. I may try the same trick tomorrow with Cuba Prestige... It will be a harder challenge as my wife loves every drop of juice inside Thierry Mugler's A*Men bottle. Music: "The Great Pretender" sung by Freddie Mercury

Just WOW.......as someone who always does their best to double check on smells of designer fragrances at JCPenney or Sephora, this beats out Le Male by a long shot. This instantly gives you a beautiful powdery smell that is not overpowering and damn near disgusting like Le Male, but has a nice deep smell behind that powder that makes it irresistible for under $10. The lavender comes through beautifully with vanilla following right behind, anytime I wear this I feel like Fabio on the cover of a romance novel. Personally for me, a compliment magnet from all genders and ages whenever I wear it. Having smelled Le Male multiple times over, I really could not bring myself to spend $50- 80 on a tester knowing Cuba Gold is just so much better. Do not listen to anyone here being a snob because they have a bottle with some bulge on it, and if you are getting BO or think it smells like nut sack like the comments below there is a possibility you stank in the winter and cologne cannot save you. If you know you are a suave dude and not a damn chud, BUY THIS!!! Go to Ross, Marshalls, Ebay, whatever and just spend the $10!!!! a damn cheeseburger combo from McSploinks cost more.

To start with, Cuba Gold was released before JPG Le Male, so in actuality JPG copied this one and a more competitive price. On the initial spray of Le Male, its rough and rugged but then after a few minutes it mellows out into a sweet and soft blanket of lavender. Cuba Gold on the other hand, has that sweet and soft blanket smell straight out the the atomiser. I get similar projection and longevity from both Le Male and Cuba Gold. One is a fraction of the price for the same performance, the other is double sometimes triple the price of Cuba Gold. People do generally tend to gravitate towards this one over Le Male. I've put them both together to get people's views and opinions and the vast majority of them say Cuba Gold is more rounded, smooth and soft. Realistically this is the better one of them both, not just for the price difference but for the over all subtleness and blanket soft scent it produces. Try layering this with By the Fireplace, the warm chestnut and woodsy smell combining with this beauty. You will be the best smelling guy/gal in the room.

This is suspiciously 1-1 to Le Male and this is way older than Le Male, hmmm.... Well, people have been always saying it's similar to Le Male from JPG, but I didn't think it was that similar. Trying out Le Male and comparing it to Cuba, I found out there is almost no difference. If you're comparing EDT, longevity is the same and projection is also the same. A very versatile scent, that doesn't get boring, smells sweet and has this heavy, masculine character that is really nice. EDT is making the scent appear a bit light, but I feel like that's an advantage. EDP would be a bit too much for such a scent, that's why Le Male le Parfum causes headaches and is rated usually a bit lower, Cuba knew. Anyway really nice value with this one and you save about a 100€ without lacking anything, except the designer bottle. Even the atomizer on Cuba is exactly the same, amazing quality. JPG just really made a knock-off of Cuba, charged extra 100€ and it worked out.