Hugo Urban Journey

The 3.45 rating is a crime. This fragrance is a daily partner. It literally has a second opening with the tea. You can count on the tea awakening between 30 to 45 minutes in. My left side spray always opens before my right. Very enjoyable. I have a hour and a half commute to work from the country to the city. I own 80 bottles of cologne. It is very hard for something else to take Hugo's seat. Very efficient clockwork vibe with a control fetish to tame the subtle uniqueness of each day.

It smells amazing 3 hours than it dies out in 15-20 minutes. Never experienced something like this on any of my 150+ bottles collection. They usually die down in minimum 1-1:30 hours. Very weird. It projects mildly for the first hour. Overall very weak scent. It remainds me of something of my childhood, can't put my finger on it, but I love the smell, too bad it is so weak. I would only buy this after it makes it to the discounters to remind me of that childhood olfactory memory.

I actually really like it, not as good as Boss Bottled but makes a really good gift for someone who's not into sweet (1million) or spicy scents. It goes with everything and it can make a perfect fit for office job

I went through a few different sets of feelings about this but I’m going to start with the positive, I really like the flacon. Love the original Hugo bottle at the best of times with all its nintiesness and army issue, military flask appearance but this one has a rough, graphite texture and bluey silver colouring which both looks and feels great. The fragrance itself was something I was half expecting to be good due to the last flanker Ice which was actually pretty decent. Sadly the opening waft even before settling or putting my wrist to my nose was a disappointing, dull, generic, aquatic affair in no way spellbinding or new. There’s touches of the green, masculinity in there from the original but generally another Azzaro Chrome/ferragamoaqva/versacepourhomme...etc etc... sort of thing. However, when settled does change for that middle section with the tea coming through and an almost mint like coolness. Unfortunately the drydown then reverts to a monotonous scent we’ve all smelled before, but this does briefly glimpse something more interesting. I don’t know if it’s my nose, giving urban journey more credit than it deserves, but I really can’t hate on it.

I was watching the reviews on YouTube and all of them was quite positive but here it's a mixed bag. I like it but I don't love it. I bought it to add to the collection. It a nice kind of scent but if you are going out for the day you will need a traveller spray because it won't last. Nice sums it up but plesant enough!