Hugo

The 1st frag i ever bought, STRONG performance back in 1996! One spray was enough! Someone stole my first 2 bottles of cologne and my watch while growing up. I use to wear this in middle school because my cousin in college dating hot girls use to wear it and i not only wanted that lifestyle but also it smelt sooo good to me. When i bought the bottle for myself back then, i immediately felt like i smelt of young money, youth sexiness, fashionable and bold! I really loved it for the mid 90's. Bright, clean, strong, linear - the opening smelled like the dry-off as far as i could remember. It's solid and true to itself. Kinda curious what it smells like after 25 years, might by a bottle for my keepsakes. *Update: Fucking INCREDIBLE! <3 Wow, i had good taste in middle school!..lol Smells very close to the original formula, still performs, just fill-the-room beast it use to be. Im fairly certain majority of the original formula is here tho. Now that my nose is more educated, id bet money that this was Hugo Boss' answer to Chanel's masterpiece 'Egoist'. Both same power suit spicy-apple-piney scent genre, without it smelling like a pine tree. It was a strong scent, but in a good way, and i loved it! I would sometimes get out of the shower in the morning, dress in my expensive clothes cause i was the only person in my school that not only had 1 job, i had 2, and id spend a good chunk of my weekend playing the newly released Playstation 1, the next-gen games blew my mind then, being able to finally eat whatever food i wanted to buy and wearing all these sexy clothes paired with this frag and dating the hottest girls that i could find in the city is the nostalgia this frag gives me when i smell it. This not only smells fabulous, but it's an insane deal! Cost me like $300 in today's purchasing power of the dollar back in 1996, today you can get it for like $15 in today's dollars! What a score! What a forgotten masterpiece. What a hidden gem! 100% rocking this frag this summer in white t-shirt & jeans! Im glad nobody talks about it today, now it's all mine! :P Like Egoist, it still smells good, so it doesn't smell dated to me. But it's strong, so i wear it maybe once every 2 weeks so i don't get tired of it. Also has a kick-ass scent bubble. Lasts on my clothes for a half a week! You know how people fight to get the 90's Jordans 11's-14's to wear to show off in public? Well to me, this is like wearing late 90's Jordan's for frags! <3 4/5 Woofs!

hugo by hugo boss: maybe it isnt relevant as it used to be, but this fragrance has a special place in the man's parfumery. it was released for the young crowd of the 90's, very dynamic, joyful and appealing. a great blend of green apple, lavender, sage, mint with a touch of sugar. yes it is synthetic, but it's so fresh, invigorating and the dna of the blend was copied many times. the niche snobs of nowadays underrate this edt, but i dont care about them: hugo is still pleasing, well performing and solid. it was still very popular in my glory days at university in the early 2000 and i still love this edt. if u want to be in the right mood to wear this scent just watch an episode of Friends, then play "disco 2000" by Pulp on the stereo and spray hugo. welcome in the mighty 90's! hugo fu concepito come un profumo per i giovani degli anni 90, e mantiene tuttora quell'atmosfera colorata e dinamica dell'epoca, che tra l'altro ricordo con tanto affetto. ora viene denigrato da tutti i "grandi intenditori" che imperversano su varie piattaforme, ma chi se ne importa: hugo ha il suo umile e piccolo posto nella recente storia della profumeria maschile. da indossare dopo che guardi friends e metti nello stereo disco 2000 dei pulp..magari con giacca jeans e marsupio :-) scent-8 longevity-7,5 sillage-7,5 versatility-8,5 uniqueness-8 bottle design-8 compliment factor-8 back up bottle worthy?maybe my vote-8 in one word- friends alternative- tommy by tommy hilfinger(not the same fragrance, but the same young 90's vibe) ps- the review is based on a bottle with the old "red box" logo, the word "hugo" inside like the picture above. dont know how is the new bottle with the big "H U G O" on the front.

I have a vintage bottle with 0.5 cm left I sometimes open just to cheer myself up but never use anymore. It has an après rasage top instead of a sprayer. There's nothing of a kind today. It would elevate you into a world of being protected underwater with Selkies dancing around you offering you fruits and spa services being kind to you and will never hurt you. It was the smell of extreme exotic elegance and kindness. %100 original while %100 classic. %0 Offensive/ boring/ antiperspirant/ deodorant. I'd wear it to school just a tiny bit and it would stay eternally till washing machine and classmates around me would say "Wow what smells so good?" It would just shift the air and the day into something better hypnotic and fantastic. I wasn't around in the 1950's but I guess this had the freshness of a barbershop before barbershop was a synonym for dirty oud and boring wood. If I had to rename it I'd call it: 🌊🦭Sheltered by Waves🦭🌊 There's nothing in the frag industry like it today. The new formula is cheap, dirty, nauseating, basically boys antiperspirant. I sniff the new version every now and then hoping maybe the new formulas has gone closer to it's roots. New formula is also longevity garbage and disrespect to consumers. This was a dream fleeting. It lived up to its look. Contrast between extreme originality and total tradition while being sheer green fantastic. It was eating an apple flavored popsicle in a lavender field after a shave. I miss you.

Exactly what Zyleric said! More than 20 ago years traveling to Gothenburg to summer course on a big ship and after purchasing in duty free, with my nice Swedish travel mate, and using there and going back to my university and then in my beautiful city of Budapest, coming from the 'West" this Hugo and that Polo what was vibrating and came from the same, trip were the favorites. My favorites and the girls favorites to around me. To be honest might not he best ever fragrance of my entire collection from the today's perspective, - I mean in a special way yes, as that time in my knowledge this was the all best ever - (and don't you believe I do always re-purchase this to have with me to be on the safe side), this was what opened my mind and wallet for the fragrances, and I will never forget the this to HUGO! So guys and girls, this Hugo really is a nice safe blind buy ever, like Davidoff Cool Water, those are still and ever are modern, sophisticated, office-proof, compliment getters, so take those, enjoy those. Peace. ps: and don't forget the Polo Ralph Laurent as Zyleric told. :-)

My number 1 or 2 most favorite fragrance the other being Polo Sport by Ralph Lauren. This is pretty much the perfume i have been wearing for the longest time and i really didn't care if i get compliments or not, Although this gave me one of the most important compliments of my life. Basically after wearing this consistently for years and years i decided to stop using it for about 3 years and just recently i bought a bottle and use it, my wife gave me the sweetest compliment by saying that the way i smelled brings her back to our early years as a couple. :) I reverted back saying i have been wearing this one for so long because i love it and i want to impress you by smelling this one on me but i didn't get a single response from you till now only ahahahaha! So i guess to compensate from that every time i wear this she will always say hhmmm... i smell you and your bringing back memories...