Guess Uomo Acqua

Supposedly this was inspired by a veritable cornucopia of summer fragrances: Acqua di Giò, D&G Light Blue Eau Intense, Ferragamo Acqua Esselenzia...quite the amalgamation. It opens with a bit of juniper sweetness, lemon, an unusually crisp cucumber (like if you snapped a cucumber in half and sniffed it), and some cardamom for spice. The heart goes in a green direction: sage, cypress, more juniper. The base is where the sea notes come through to crash some waves of salty water mist against mossy palo santo and sandalwood. Which of inspirations is it closest to? The Ferragamo. It's a very similar herbal heart feel, but the sweetness gives me a bit of a Profondo vibe. Ultimately I think Guess did their own thing on this. Kudos to them.

I really like this fragrance. Once you sweat, the smell projects really well. Definitely a gym/summer scent but this one is a really intimate fragrance. Sillage is not that good unless you're intimate to the person. Good for one night stands. Palo Santo kicks in on the dry down. If your wear this in office, scent quickly fades away. That's the only issue wearing this. You must do some physical work to see it's projection. Good for daily wear.

I'm just trying this today and so far it reminds me of an aquatic version of CDN Iconic Extrait de Parfum, with weaker projection but it's a very pleasant skin scent for me. For only $14.99 this was a great blind buy deal.

How are people this clueless? This is an exact clone of Acqua Esselenzia. Its a niche quality aquatic. You CANNOT go wrong with this one. Very very lovely italian style aquatic scent.

Edit: at first I liked this fragrance. It's got some clean, slightly fresh, blue aquatics going on. The lemon pokes through. There is a warm bubble gum vibe. Some green in the background.... but it does have some, "Hey, I just walked into Sephora" synthetic aroma-chemical stuff going on. At first I thought that it was nothing that smells cheap, but as my nose improved with time I began to realize that there was just too much ambroxan and not enough unique qualities to make it worth keeping. So, I had to get rid of it, but unfortunately that is the way it is with a lot of modern blue ambroxan loaded fragrances. They smell good too noobs and people trying to experiment with different fragrances, but after a while your nose may become more discriminating and find it distasteful and dreadfully common and overdone. Also unfortunately what can happen is that you startgetting tired of one heavy ambroxan fragrance, and thatcan you make you get tired of others that have the same strong note.