Dolce&Gabbana Pour Homme Intenso

I really had to think about what this fragrance reminds me of for a long time, but it came to me today that it must be fresh, cherry-infused pipe tobacco, like the kind smoked by youngish bearded hipsters I used to know on the West Coast. It is a pleasant and reassuring fragrance based on a theme rather than a season; therefore, it transcends the seasons or time of day, and I like that, too. The packaging, especially the faux suede box, might be reminiscent of a humidor or a tobacco pouch, such as one uses to hold loose tobacco, and pipes are a completely masculine implement which supercharges the macho feeling of the whole presentation. After that initial, intoxicating opening of cherry tobacco wonderfulness that lasts an exceptionally long while, the hay and bran emerge, giving weight to the bouquet and preventing the fruity tobacco from becoming cloying or gourmand while evoking a pastoral element not often appreciated or even found in fragrance. The floral notes and exotic Moepel are there as well, but waft along in a warm sort of aromatic breeze, not making themselves completely known, but adding an expressive, romantic score to the radiant tobacco heart. Something like the way Rachmaninoff can make you weep for joy if you just listen to the music and forget all the clichés about the music. I guess if I had to pick a season for this fragrance it would be summer, but not in the typical cooling way of citrus, mint and aquatic notes. (In fact, although water notes are listed, I don’t find them here at all.) I feel it more in the way of ripening fruit, tobacco plantations, fields of tall grass or lavender, and tropical Africa: many imaginative, corpulent scenarios that are pleasing and far removed from city life and the crush of humanity. Wearing it is like taking a private jet to St. Barts while everyone else is flying coach to Disney World. That is what DGI should be and most definitely is, in my opinion. I did an awful lot of traveling the last few months and found myself wanting to wear this everywhere I went with positive inquiries following. Should I address the hatred? Well, it’s that whole synth vs. niche thing that seems to be the eternal struggle here on Fragrantica. I was reading a review one purist wrote about another widely available fragrance which I happen to know (and he had to acknowledge) was quite good, but he laid out his acclaim in the most disingenuous way possible, as if he were traumatized by his own words of praise as he wrote them and made sure to include contemptuous salvos like “cheapo”, analogies to McDonald’s hamburgers (made of pink slime, but oh so tasty!), and qualified his remarks by saying he isn‘t used to “this side” of the fragrance world (the $100 or less slums), as if the development and marketing of any successful fragrance with broad appeal isn’t a complex and thoughtful challenge for anyone to undertake. Pretty soon, the reviewer was no longer coherent and his dismissive pseudo-tech snickering became a neurotic treatise which should have been titled “Why I Must Like This Vile, Mass Produced, Generic Crap“. Perhaps it's the unrelenting conceit I find objectionable in these matters. So, I say trust your own judgment here. If you think DGI is insipid, then don’t wear it, but don't make a pastime of low-balling others who may be willing to embrace molecules for which you hold antipathy. There are P&G fragrances I avoid, but this isn’t one of them. I started out liking DGI and now, to borrow a McDonaldism, “I’m Lovin’ It!”

Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 243 ------------------------------------------------------- Purchased December 2025 Noticed this in the shop recently and decided if I have to, it's the 75mL. It was their last in the 75 and the most affordable versus the 50 and 125. I also own the original in 75mL, as a small collection of Italians it's a brilliant aesthetic. Intenso is excellent, I could wear it basically whenever I want and as much as I want because D&G have still got what it takes to make this and the original smell about 99% true to the 90s-2010s. I wouldn't be upset once I run out of it because it's 75mL, it lasts a long time, projects, sillage and all, is manly yet not overboard and distracting or upsetting to others. This is what one needs to remind why you're off the coke yet remember how good those times were, also to bare your rugged chest and smell like something great as if there isn't a 'tomorrow'. To be honest I don't get much hay, more of a freshly opened garden shop. Hay is an animalic green due to its farming origin, and there's nothing completely wrong with animal based auras/notes. I haven't chucked out the box yet because it looks fucking amazing in the dark brown nubuck, suede velvet - this looks completely different in real life, do not go by what it looks like in the cellophane, the shop window, nor online; The box appearance has to remind you of the leather jacket, saddled up westerns and coastal lowrider cruises checkin the machines out, the babes too..babes too. They'll love it, you will, and anybody else. This somehow works in the desert and coastal. It keeps selling out in my area for years now. Are they birthday gifts or unisex dumb reachers? I dunno, but the people in my area love D&G for decades I'm sure they wear to enjoy. This more than competent cologne has to be better than the normal version and I remember preferring this after testing it earlier this year. The normal one has too much soap and not enough tobacco. The pepper spice is nice but it's simply not enough; this is where you call upon Intenso. I smelt this for about 24 hours on the first day I bought it, that simply never happens with cheap EDPs. I also never wear anything 3 times a week, almost, but with the Intenso I have so far. Spray 5 to 10 times per area and it'll last late into the night. It's a crime to smell this good with no fucks given thanks to Dolce & Gabbana. Batch: B12802 from 7th May, 2024.

I bought this fragrance back in 2014 when it first came out. I used it as my daily driver and loved it. One year later in 2015 I moved on to a different fragrance and left Intenso on the back shelf. I tried to hand it off to my 21 year old son, but I assume it must’ve been too mature for his taste. Because I gave it to him in 2020 and I don’t think he ever wore it. Fast forward to today, June 2nd, 2023. I was in my son’s room playing scavenger hunt because I’ve given him so many of my fragrances that are really good but had grown tired of and felt they were too good to never get used. As I’m looking amongst his 20 or so bottles, low and behold, sitting in the back of his closet, looking like it hadn’t been reached for since I gave it to him, was D&G Intenso. The bottle has a certain sex appeal to it. Modern and elegant. So I decided to make it my fragrance of the evening since I hadn’t worn it in almost 8 years. It still smells amazing! Something else I didn’t catch onto before is that Intenso is actually a flanker to Dolce&Gabbana pour Homme (1994). Even the bottle is shaped similar. I used to LOVE the vintage Pour Homme version and for the first time after all these years I’m just now picking up the vintage DNA is very prominent. After wearing it tonight, it’s going back into my rotation. This fragrance has always been signature scent worthy. Perfect for office or date night. It’s basically good for any occasion when you are well dressed and want to smell like you have your life together and not a stranger to successful outcomes. Very underrated and unfairly hated by the fragrance community. But that’s no surprise as it seems to be more and more common. Hype for things that are mediocre and hate for things that are works of olfactory excellence. Versatility- 9/10 (great day or night, any season) Longevity - 9/10 (lasts a solid 8 hours on skin - longer on clothes) Projection - 8/10 (projects more like a parfum) Sillage - 8/10 (has a noticeable presence) Personal Enjoyment/Nostalgia - 10/10 (I love that I can smell the OG vintage Pour Homme DNA)

An updated version of the old school type of male fragrance. For $30-35 it's a bargain compared to most. When first putting it on I get a balsamic hay note. Then a sort of molasses type vibe, it reminds me a bit of shoo fly pie type of molasses. Combined with the hay note and a sort of oatmeal note... don't assume this is a bad thing, it then reminds me a little of a sweet feed vibe like you get from the sweet feed given to horses. Not saying it smells like sweet feed, but the vibe is there for me. This is just for the first 30 minutes or so and there's also the herb notes and florals with it. It also has a herbaceous quality to it. It's kind of what a wealthy cattle rancher might wear when cleaning up to go to town. Or a guy that misses old school type scents, but doesn't want to smell old school. If that makes sense. I am retired, but if I still worked an office it would be a perfect wear to work scent in an office where strong projecting scents would get you a trip to see HR. Don't let my description scare you off because the top doesn't last really long and the dry down itself is very nice albeit subdued. Which is perfect for the office. I get a unique take on tobacco and the florals are there in the background and not overly sweet at all. It is more of an up close scent and if you think it's completely gone after 4 hours, it comes back when you move around, wear it to bed and the dry down is still there the next morning when you wake up. It lasts longer than most think. I would agree with the folks who say a woman could wear it, but it's a man's fragrance. Not sure if it would draw compliments from women working in an office, but it will give a nice vibe that you smell like a man. It's a comfort scent to me. Never tried the original, but this I really do like. It's pretty unique as well.

Classic Dolce&Gabbana men scent. One that maintains its relevance and charm even today. It’s indeed a very intense fragrance, very complex and nuanced, versatile, distinctive smelling and beautifully blended. It has a bit of sweetness and it does feel silky. It doesn’t smell like anything else from the designer world but it doesn’t feel outdated. Bare in mind that it was launched a decade ago... This has a very nostalgic feel to me. It was my husband’s first designer scent, when we met. Since then, throughout the years, I have gifted him two others big bottles and I don’t think that it’s been butchered like many other older releases. It’s mainly a very smooth lavender combined with tobacco, basil leaves, clary sage, cypress and some floral notes. What makes this absolutely gorgeous is the juxtaposition between the aromatic, greenness, freshness of the top and mid notes against the warmth and heaviness of the base. It has a healthy dose of amber and labdanum plus some creamy sandalwood. It’s such an interesting blend of notes that fit most of the seasons. It’s a year round fragrance, except high heat, that still performs impeccable and, being an old release, can be found everywhere for such an affordable price today. If anyone would smell this blindfolded, I bet most people would think it’s niche or Tom Ford private blend. Smells ten times more expensive than it costs! This is an interesting designer release that I would recommend to every men that’s over the age of 25 in 2024. So underrated and sooo good!