D&G Anthology Le Bateleur 1

Before I even talk about the actual fragrance I want to talk about the bottle. Really? D&G? Ok, now I'm all about "It's the fragrance inside that counts, not the bottle..." but damm. It's a really ugly bottle! Lol! But whatever. Using a plain sticker for the name? C'mon... "You get what you pay for" is one of my favorite sayings. And it applies to D&G #1 but not in a bad way. For it to be $65 retail, the ingredients are good quality but it is not potent like your usual fragrance. It's really light. Maybe it's suppose to be? I don't know. I'm a little confused on this huge 5 fragrance launch anyways. The watery notes combined with the vetiver and cedar is quite nice. I wasn't very fond of it initially but you must always give a fragrance their time. I didn't like any of my personal top 5 fragrances at first but I gave them all that second chance. As it dries down it reminded me of D&G's Light Blue for men without the heavy musk/incense aroma or the opening of Givenchy's Blue Label, which I liked. As it completely dried down it smells identical to Versace's Man Eau Fraiche but not as sweet, complex or in depth. As far as the lasting power it's mediocre. Projection could be better and it stays very close to the skin. It's definately worth getting. I'm getting it for sure in the near future. I'm falling in love with the olfactive group woody aquatics and D&G #1 is a great addition. I have to say it again, the bottle is ugly! Gah damm! :p

This is one of those fragrances that is wholly dependent on your natural scent. If you smoke, have bo or a naturally strong body odour, it messes with this cologne. It's somewhere between aquatic, woodsy, fresh, sweet and because of that it is hard to pinpoint and define. Some might disregard it as bland, but I love it because I cannot exactly pinpoint what I am smelling. People usually like to know the overall dominant scent in a cologne and assume it's more memorable because of that, but this scent is a little ambiguous and hard to describe what it is, makes it memorable to me. I do not get bo or have much of a natural scent so the cologne smells exactly the same on me as it does when spraying it in the air. After time it does lose more of the fresh, sweet side of the cologne and settles into more of a aquatic, woodsy smell. This is definitely a spring, summer scent for daytime and evening, but not night time. It does die off after a few hours, so keep in mind you will need to spray yourself from time to time.

Omg I love this scent!!!! I sprayed the tester on my husband’s arm and just loved how it smelled! I was lucky to buy this perfume for AU$49 at half priced and was the last one left in the store. Although this was promoted as a male fragrance, I believe this is a great unisex scent. This may be perhaps my perfect woodsy, aquatic and fresh scent for all year round. I already own L’Imperatrice which is my go to scent for work. Looks like I’ll have to check out the rest of the Anthology series.

I got this in 2016 though first came across it back in 2009.Very juicy fresh scent slightly aquatic but the Juniper berry carries this pretty well all the way through to dry down.I think it has a hint of plum but either way it has similarity to Rasasi Hawas in the fruitiness aspect. I wish longevity was slightly better but I get an easy 5 hours with it. In fact I sometimes layer both of the aforementioned frags,smells amazing!

I think this is perhaps my favourite from the collection, none of them were what I'd seen wow fragrances, but they were all very nice, this being to most wearable. The opening is very good, juniper berries and fresh aquatic notes, it soon dries down to a nice Woody base, for my money, the best part of the fragrance. Unfortunately it's not the best performer, I got just about three hours. It's not a wow, but it's very good.