Red

This...is...absolutely...BEAUTIFUL! This is definitely a woman's perfume, not a girls perfume, at all! This is super sexy and sophisticated! This reminds me of the strong business women of the 80’s. With their designer outfits, shoulder pads, big hair, brightly coloured makeup and a real “I am woman, hear me roar” attitude when they stride down the halls of a workplace, as you hear their high-healed stilettos crash like the sound of glass breaking with each step as a reminder that they can put you in your place, even if you’re a man and fire you on the spot, so watch what you say and do...as they fill the air with RED each time they rush by! But at the same time, this is very comforting and motherly for a stay at home mum who hugs and kisses her children in the morning as they leave the house for the school bus and before she spends her day caring for her proud home and preparing a heart warming meal for the family she loves more than life! And the first thing her family smell as the walk in the front door is the caring, warming and inviting scent of...RED! This is NOTHING like the first and original Giorgio! So if you have smelt that before and even HATE IT...you will still love this perfume! Think of Charlie and how strong that is and then what it was like to smell the romantic Charlie-Red and you’ll understand the big difference between Giorgio and RED! Despite most of the notes in RED seeming sweet, this is NOT a sweet, candy, flower perfume that most perfumes seem to smell like today...NO WAY! This has a lot of Cherry, plum, black currant and orange blossom that all have sweetness, yet also a smooth sour way of blending perfectly with rosemary, gardenia, amber, cedar and vanilla! This is very close to being an actual oriental because it does have real Asian notes! Most perfumes think sandalwood, musk and oakmoss represent oriental...wrong! Read all the notes on this page above, for the full details, and see how many wonderful notes are in this one perfume. It’s a very unique variety, that at first would make you think is way too much for one perfume to handle, but every single note seems to have it’s own time in the spotlight for a couple of minutes throughout the whole time you’re wearing this! Very well done to the Giorgio team for being able to make so many notes shine together! The best thing about RED, is that it’s not a spray, it’s actually a light mist, making it perfect for all pulse-points (Both sides of the neck and both wrists) because it's very gentle! Whereas Giorgio blasts like a water cannon in only one spray, making it hard to use more than one spray on yourself. Does not fill a large room but people can smell this within 6 feet, and it draws in many, many complements! Very good for both dry and moist skin types. Has great longevity, up to 9/10 hours! Perfect for day and night time use (Does have that slightly more night time feel about it) and also smells and feels like Autumn when you wear it! So great for the fall season. 8/10 for me...will buy another bottle once I’ve finished! The only bad thing for me, is that the bottle is very oddly shaped, making it, not hard to hold exactly, but almost uncomfortable when spraying yourself because of it’s sideways shape! I didn't even notice the shape of the bottle when looking at the picture before buying. It was not until I opened the box and held it in my hand, that I noticed it's strange shape!

Ahhhh the smell of my early 20's. I wore this all the time in the 90's l loved it, l haven't had a bottle since then. Since l recently fell back in love with Giorgio Beverly Hills the original yellow floral liquid after a 30 year gap l thought I'd try my other old favourite. I was a mere girl when l first started wearing this around 17, or 18, it was gorgeous. I saw a bottle on ebay for a pitiful £13 for 90mls it almost hurts my feelings when these top class scents go for so cheap, they deserve better. So l sprayed it on and boom💥 there I am back in my younger days getting ready to go clubbing with my girls up in my room music blaring, mum screaming up the stairs that she cant hear the F****** tv, were drinking wine and laughing, sharing makeup and hair products a thick mist of georgio red in the air, looking all good, everyone's got their Gossard Wonderbra's on and our breasts are practically bouncing off our chins, and the bra is sooo bloody uncomfortable but we thought we looked so good. We had grown up being told by our mums that you have to suffer for beauty so we wore the torture bra that felt like we were being sliced like a piece of ham on that sliding meat cutting blade machine behind a delicatessen counter, our dresses were short our heels were high, we had our hair blow dried and sprayed within an inch of its life, and we're feeling like it's going to be a good night, painful feet blisters and all, we had three things on our minds drink, dancing, and meeting hot guys. That gorgeous spicy currenty talcum powder floral mix in this perfume is everything. I'm smelling Cinnabar and youth dew in this, very woody smells, with a bit of fruity tootie to stop it being too harsh and scratchy, it's a spice bomb, l haven't yet identified the creamy vanilla element but l know its on its way. I love this. I'm so happy to have it in my collection again. I'm on a bringing back the old siren perfumes vibe right now, the best from my past I'm enjoying the memory journey they take me on, and truth be told I'm a bit bored with perfumes of this time at the moment, none satisfy my needs they all seem to be fruity, patchoulli, sugary syrup sweet blah..l love this. I give it a 9/10. I've never tried Giorgio Blue but l might try that too, see if it's my vibe l love the yellow and the red, it's also going for less than a packet of cigarettes it's so cheap. It's rude not to. Love this.

The drydown is where this perfume really sings. Upon first spray, you're accosted with a smattering of intense retro chypre vibes. YouthDew and Halston come to mind and apparently the Fragrantica hive agrees; this juice is not for the chronologically challenged. But before you relegate Red to a pile of "old lady" realize that it also kinda smells like weed, too. The absurd amount of notes here lends itself to some kind of alchemical herbal fuckery. The box top where I first sprayed this now smells awesome; when I initially sprayed it in my car (One spray! Only one!) it was overpowering and I had to close up the box and put it back in the bag so that I could drive in peace. The olfactory assault was really something else. The opening citrus and aldehydes are like bottomless Mimosas; sweet, fizzy and boozy. The woodsiness creeps in like a slow-burning incense you didn't even realize was there. A sensual seduction of chypres awaits you in this Beverly Hills boudoir. Almost church like but has too much of a naughtiness interwoven with the oakmoss and vetiver to be a strictly Catholic mass incense. I'm thinking more...Laurel Canyon sex party, sunken living room, coke on silver trays. Debauchery served with a side of modern 80s career woman. The way this fragrance now smells hours later is something like finding a roach (the kind you smoke) in the bottom of a vintage leather makeup bag. The bag has the animalic and floral creamy elements from the makeup, the rich butteriness of the leather met with the aromatic resin of burnt cannabis. The feeling this evokes is rich bad girl. She has some seeds and stems in the bottom of her Coach saddle bag. She drives a Le Baron convertible (red, of course) and can roll a joint faster and better than the boys. She's only passed out on her lush, Beverly Hills lawn once, but it was right after the huge rager for the first years at Gordon Rees. She loves Fleetwood Mac and is looking for the right guy she deems Spongeworthy. Sure, she knows how to make a bold opening statement, but what she leaves lingering might be worth even more.

Delicious. I own a reformulation bought from a Walgreen's store. The scent is rich, sweet, smoky cherry-floral with festive, playful, flirty, feminine vibe. It's warm and so perfect for winter and Christmas parties. In fact I love to wear this at Christmas parties. Red is the right name for it. Smells 'red' and like a velvety red Christmas ball decoration. The bottle is large and rectangular, clear-glass, and the liquid is a dark tomato juice style liquid. When you first spray it, the aldehydes are detectable. They are soft but distinct aldehydes. Then the cherry and soft peach-bergamot combo comes through. Even with these fruity top notes, the sweet fruits don't really own the fragrance. At heart it's all floral. The carnation, jasmine, tuberose, rose and hyacinth and later a full bodied iris. In my experience wearing vintage perfumes, I've noticed this perfume's floral notes are the kind you find in any other vintage. The white floral notes are bigger here than the rose or the ylang ylang. To my nose it's not yellow floral but mainly a carnation and white floral scent. The aldehydes and the rest of it make the whole thing boozy and sweet like liqueur. No musk. The dry down is a soft vanilla and amber. By the driest stage it's a woody scent; a soft wood; sandalwood and cedar. This gets powdery as it wears on. I would say it is more powdery than woody but the wood can be detected and it's lovely. This perfume is very long lasting for hours and hours (I counted over 5) but it is not a big bomb and sits close to the skin. Vibes I get from this as others have: a cool, fun, classy, sophisticated lady. She is all dressed in a bold red cocktail dress. She smokes and is still considered a woman at the height of her sexual prowess and her feminine power but mature and worldly. She shows up fashionably late. She likes the color red a lot. Red nails, red toenails. Red hair. Red dresses. This scent is far more luxurious and 'rich smelling' than the bargain price. A good evening cologne for parties this Christmas season.

After reading many reviews on this one, I felt it was right up my ally and a very safe blind buy. So I started keeping my eyes out of it... Today I was shopping at Walmart with my mother in law. I told her I had to go to cosmetics to "take stock" of the fragrances. I scanned the showcase and all the way down at the bottom was my hidden treasure. A small instantly recognizable red box sealed in a tamper-proof plastic case. The box was not priced but I didn't care how much it cost I just wanted to get my hands on it! After a few minutes and probably 20 different keys it was mine... and for $14.00!!!!!! Now I'm at home and I have unboxed and applied to my wrist. One word STUNNING It's everything I expected and more, rich smokey fruits and flowers with just the right amount of spice. Complex and ever changing it wears beautifully despite what some reviewers may say. I'm wearing Halston Classic today which I love, but I'm tempted to take a bath and properly apply Red all over me to get its full effect. I'm not surprised that the nose behind this has done mostly men's offerings, it's totally unisex ( if you believe in gendering perfumes, which I do not,but I digress) I'm extreamly happy with red and if you love loud n proud oriental fragrances you will be too! Update, so I spent the entire evening wearing Red sniffing under my shirt to get wafts of it's gorgeous notes. The more I handle the bottle the more familiar it looked and felt. I swear my Bobbie (Yiddish for grandmother) had a bottle of this on her dressing table when I was young. I don't remember smelling it on her since at the time she was a heavy smoker and that's all you could smell. But I do remember the bottle, I used to play with her make up , perfumes and costume jewelry for hours when we would visit. I feel that this is a fragrance she would have owned and wore at the time and maybe that's why I love it so much. It's the next morning now and I still smell hits of Red on my pjs and chest. This is long lasting stuff. Very happy to own it.