Jimmy Choo Man Intense

Jimmy Choo Intense EDT Men opens with a strong projection of very sweet, fruity, citrus, and spicy accords. The opening is delectable, and the notes are intense, sharp, and very projecting. The melon, mandarin orange, lavender, and black pepper are the opening most noticeable notes. The melon and mandarin create a delectable, sweet, moist, and inviting, fruity accord; both the mandarin orange and melon complement and enhance each other. The lavender is a very fresh aromatic purple floral note, not as prominent as the fruity notes but noticeable. The artemisia and black pepper are the green and spicy notes; the artemisia brings a bitter herbal soft-touch, whereas the black pepper adds its well-known spicy note. The tonka bean, listed as a base note, comes up almost as soon as the fragrance is applied, it quickly grows, and it makes the fragrance very sweet and delectable; the patchouli and artemisia are a soft green touch that feels fresh and bright. As the fragrance moves towards its dry down, the labdanum surfaces and becomes the projecting accord; the labdanum in this fragrance can be described as a sweet, fruity, woody, with a musky ambergris-like and leathery accord. The fragrance has some important opening to dry down changes; the opening favors the citrus, fruity, and lavender notes. However, these notes lose some of their great initial intensity leaving behind the sweet tonka and musky fruity labdanum lead the fragrance. Finally, the strong initial projection takes one step down to moderate. Once Jimmy Choo Intense EDT Men has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, sweet tonka, musky labdanum, fruity melon, mandarin, green patchouli, and spicy fragrance with faint some floral accords. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, delectable, dense, fruity, invigorating, masculine, modern, rich, sharp, sweet, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#08143J239). WOW RATING: 8/10. A delectable, sweet, fruity, green, musky, and spicy fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 0/10. The fragrance contains no offensive or harsh notes. UNIQUENESS: 4/10. Tonka and fruity fragrances are very common. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 3/10. Moderate, about 3 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 hours, it projects well for 2 hours. SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 7/10. A good fragrance for mild or cold weather. GENDER: Masculine, the spicy and musky notes creates a slight tilt to the masculine side. AGES: Any. RECOMMENDATION: Jimmy Choo Intense EDP can be found for about $40. Its notes are not unique, but it is a pleasant fragrance with good performance. This is a good buy. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes. SIMILAR: These are examples of other fragrances in the same genre. Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo Signature EDP Men is a good, sweet, leather, coffee, and tonka fragrance. • Alfred Dunhill Desire EDT is a good, mild, citrus, vanilla, fruity, fresh, and green fragrance. • Alfred Dunhill Icon Elite EDP Men is very soft, mildly sweet, ebony wood, suede, and sandalwood fragrance. • Armaf Hunter Intense is a great, intense, mildly sweet, citrus, and clean musk fragrance. • Diesel Only The Brave Extreme EDT is OK, mild, a very sweet, resinous, tonka, styrax, leather, and labdanum fragrance. • Salvatore Ferragamo F Black Pour Homme EDT is a good, fresh, woody, and peppery fragrance. • Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka EDT is a fantastic, intense, very sweet tonka, coffee, cacao, and vanilla fragrance. • Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit De L’Homme Le Parfum is a good, soft, sweet, spicy, anis, pepper, and lavender fragrance. • Jimmy Choo Intense EDT is a good, delectable, sweet tonka, musky labdanum, fruity melon, mandarin orange, green patchouli, and spicy fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, sweet tonka, musky labdanum, fruity melon, mandarin, green patchouli, and spicy fragrance with faint some floral accords. The fragrance feels casual, comforting, delectable, dense, fruity, invigorating, masculine, modern, rich, sharp, sweet, warm, and very pleasant.

Jimmy Choo Man Intense is pretty awesome. Jimmy Choo Man Intense is perfect if you don't have a mass market scent. I find Jimmy Choo Man Intense is very much Invictus but still has Jimmy Choo Man in it and even some elements of Usher He. That said, it is far more Invictus is smell and length. For some reason I do find Jimmy Choo Man Intense a little more cloying leaning than I do Invictus honestly, especially if you get a hot breeze. It isn't cloying like a gourmand can be but it is a slight knock. I feel Jimmy Choo Man Intense is a lavendar, melon, pepper and tonka heavy scent. Those fourr notes are the strongest that I notice. I do get some mandarin orange as well. These notes are honestly why I do find the comparisons to Invictus and Usher He I find on top of this being a true intense Jimmy Choo Man flanker. Jimmy Choo Man Intense performs really good. It lasts about seven hours on me with really good projection, like Invictus. Jimmy Choo Man Intense is similar to Invictus in use and seasonality, though with the Jimmy Choo Man like all season. it can nearly be a signature scent except there is a lot of other scents in the Invictus wheelhouse: Azarro Wanted, Coach Man, Zara Seoul, Zara Man Blue Spirit, Cuba Paris Cuba Winner, Antonio Banderas King of Seduction Absolute, etc. It shouldn't however be worn in formal settings. I happen to love the scent. I happen to find this to be the best of the Invictus clones I've smelt and it had some originality to it. I rate this a 8.8 out of 10 and maybe a scent i can replace Invictus with.

I don't know about anyone else and their reviews and expectations.. but for me.. this scent is Amazing and lasted on my skin for 18 hours.. Just 1 spray onto my hand from the store in a tester bottle. That's after washing my hands through the day and also a shower.. I woke up the next morning and my hand still smelled like it. It's amazing. I told my wife and she smelled my hand and was like That's insane lol. Smells like the Men's department in a Macy's. It is to me the way a man should smell. I don't know if i am going to buy this or not. I want to but it's powerful. I love it but i dress like a bum everyday lol. It's a scent where you would have to dress a little bit more casual than a t-shirt and jeans or shorts to match the scent. I could be wrong.. but i'd have to buy and wear to be sure. I'd say it's made for both day and night. I loved it. I would say sample it first before buying. I've seen reviews that say it has crap longevity and smells synthetic and etc.. I personally don't need a cologne that lasts for 5 days and i spray it on me 8 sprays every time i use it. I spray maybe 2 or 3 tops. And that depends on if it's a strong scent or not. Something like this i would maybe do 2. I can see it not being for everyone but to me this is a great one. I've never written a review because most of the time anything i would say has already been said like 10x before.. But this time i couldn't pass it up. I would recommend this to anyone but sample it first to see if it is for you or not.

This fragrance has been one of my go-to fragrances when it's warmer weather and I just don't know what to wear but I want something a little more unique than the typical blue fragrance scent profile of heavy ambroxan and aquatic notes. This is much more rounded and sophisticated than most heavily sweetened fresh fragrances of today as well. I recently got a new bottle and I bought a tester for under $40 and for this fragrance that's an absolute steal! Jimmy Choo man Ice is very nice when it's extremely hot out, and Man Aqua and Man Blue aren't bad scents either, especially for the price. However I do get a slightly different note breakdown on my tester. Top notes: Lavender, Honeydew Melon Mid notes: Davana oil, Black Pepper Base notes: Cistus Absolute, Tonka Beans While I do get a little mandarin in the opening of the fragrance, the rest of it definitely follows along with the notes listed on the bottle much more closely than the notes listed here on the site. The earthyness and spice of the Davana and Cistus Absolute are clearly noticable and are what make this fragrance much more interesting to me than many other year round type of fragrances were getting lately. Just don't write it off as boring, because it gets better and better throughout the wear, and performance and sillage are both above average. 8.25 out of 10 for me, and that's high because I prefer heavier, cold weather oriented scents that are spicy and sweet in nature and this is not boring even considering that.

This stuff smells amazing. Semi-dark, sexy, manly, and seems somewhat versatile to me. Here's all I have to say about how women like it: I asked the lady (older) at the Macy's men's fragrance counter what her favorite fragrance for men was. Her response was Jimmy Choo Man Intense. Walked across the mall and met another nice girl at Sephora, and to her I posed the same question. Her response was Jimmy Choo Man (they did not have the Intense in stock). I asked her if she knew about the Intense version, and she said she didn't know that there was one. She asked me to go grab a strip, so I ran back to Macy's, grabbed a test strip, and brought it back. She then had a new favorite - Jimmy Choo Man Intense. Bottom line: this one is a lady killer. Update: Wore this to a dance club. It got 10+ compliments in one evening. No joke. That's all I have to say for how much women like it. I don't understand all the hate. Yes, it has relatively poor performance, but overspray this and wear it to a club or a party and you are sure to see just how much women love this scent. It's intoxicating to women. Irresistible.

I blind bought this from FragranceNet, I like it and I bought it because I like pepper in a Cologne, so I would choose a Savauge type Cologne over an Aventus type Cologne. I get decent performance out of this. I can smell it on my skin even the next morning, but it is a skin scent by then. This has one of the best atomizers in the Cologne business. The cap is metal clad, the bottle is heavy and it is embossed in silver with name/type. This is a modern type fragrance that is on the sweeter side but not to sweet. I also think you could use this anywhere anytime. The mix of notes is spot on and the scent has a great non linear life. Starts out soapy sweet, then some spice kicks in and dries down to a sweeter but calmed down with the patchouli and labdanum., and I still can detect some pepper which I love. Skin chemistry can possibly cause performance issues, or could be nose blindness for those having performance issues. On me this is not a beast, but no whimp either.

Jimmy Choo Man Intense is a fragrance that I would recommend for everyday wear, particularly in an office or school setting. It has a mass appealing smell that is inoffensive and easy to wear, making it a good choice for those who want a safe fragrance option. While it did not receive any compliments from the ladies, it did receive compliments from my male colleagues. In terms of performance, Jimmy Choo Man Intense has moderate projection and lasts for about 6 hours. To me, the scent of Jimmy Choo Man Intense is reminiscent of Dior Sauvage, but with a bit of added sweetness and less of the spicy kick. This makes it a bit more laid back and easy to wear, making it a good choice for those who want a more casual scent. Overall, I think Jimmy Choo Man Intense is a solid choice for those looking for a reliable, everyday fragrance. It's not particularly unique or attention-grabbing, but it's a safe and inoffensive choice that is sure to please a wide range of people.

Picked up a sample vial off of FragranceNet. Wow! This stuff smells really good. Just a great fresh masculine smell that's got a really nice light body to it, ideal for spring or summer months. The main scents I'm picking up on are patchouli first, then comes the nice roundness of the tonka bean and lavender, ending with a crisp finish from the black pepper with melon and citrus. I really think this stuff is underrated. The only real con with this stuff is the performance. It's not cheap, and if you want people to smell you you'd have to spray at least 6 sprays to have people smell you from a few feet away. I'd say it's pretty expensive for the performance you get. Scent lasts reasonably long, lasted me a solid 8 hours at the office until it started to fade. Other than the sillage, it's a fantastic cologne, if I could find it at a bargain price I would definitely pick some up. 9.3/10

The scent has a special place in my hearth being one of my first full bottles in my collection. I remember when I bought it. After just a couple of boutles on my shelf, I viseted a frag store for a first time and bought Code Profumo and Eros flame. Both I consider as a true pieces of art. And on the check it happened I misscalculated the price of my frags and I had some spare cash. I just asked the cashier to recomend me something just to fulfill the limit and she answered “Why not this one?”. And why not indeed? A good frag, rich but unoffensive and as it happened, my girlfriend liked it too. The truth is, it is not a sillage and longevity beast, but it is a good sweat-infusing scent and pops up when ‘reheated’. Still a good one, but will tecomend it for people with larger collection. It is probably not the best choice for starters.

This fragrance is just like all of the so called generic fragrances on here they get people rating them bad when they haven't worn or smelled the fragrance,how can people vote without even owning or ever wearing a fragrance?please stop rating fragrances wrong and disliking fragrances cause of the bottle or because others like it or dislike it,u have your own opinion and my opinion of this fragrance is that it's a mixture of first instinct and Invictus,it gets 7 to 10 hours longevity and it will get u plenty attention from women,so what it smells like something else it smells amazing and it cost under 40,my personal rating is a 9 out 10 and could be a signature scent that could be worn all year around.......peace

This is nice, very nice. It has a lovely fruity opening, the orange and melon combining beautifully. You then get the sweet lavender with a slight hint of geranium. This quickly rolls into the bitter green of the patchouli and artemisia with the spicy black pepper keeping things dry and stopping the sweet fruit from becoming cloying. And the background to all of this is the tonka bean - delicious sweet sweet tonka bean. If you really sniff deeply after about 10 minutes or so there is a light musky scent as well. One small spray should give just over 6 hours. Sillage is only moderate though, and that's my only negative. I wish it was just a little louder. Jimmy Choo Man Intense, very impressed with it.

I see a lot of negative reviews on this,and it's true ,longevity 's really weak after 2 hrs and it's smell similar to blue de chanel edp ,but as one guy pinpointed it's a lady killer, I just got it for my birthday from my gf and she can't stop ellining me, she got really good taste likes blue Dr channel and ysl la unit de l'homme from my collection. Will test it more but smell itself is really great and intense (first 1,5 hr) then kind of disappears ,I guess gonna have to carry pocket atomizer, also not a summer scent (got it 26th may ,25 degrees outside sunny

This is a legit cool weather fragrance. It's relatively punchy... with a nice uniqueness to it with the melon note. Really nice scent. And performance is kicked up a notch from the other Jimmy Choo offerings. Quality of composition is pretty high too. Folks complaining about it being "generic" or "run of the mill"...... for a designer scent at this price point?! That melon accord is different, and catches your nose. Honestly, some of these comments are pretty silly. Really solid fragrance for a designer cheapie. Definitely worth having a bottle on your shelf.

This is one of the better "modern" smelling cheapies out there. It's got some of that sweetness that's reminiscent of Invictus, but with a little more spice. I wouldn't call it an Invictus clone, though. It's got a little bit of its own thing going on, but while standing firmly in the same category. I would say that it's verging on generic, which is probably its weakest quality. The performance is probably where it stands out, though. It's got really remarkable longevity and a respectable sillage, which I wouldn't say is typical for a fresh cheapie like this.

I got this for my birthday over a year ago and i have to say this is a very nice cologne. It gives a lot of masculinity and a very fancy smell to it. Its very good for like a date ,a wedding, a party, not so much for school. ill say I've gotten quite a few compliments from using it and will always be my favorite. With it on you smell like a man. Its very strong but not long lasting so ill recommend not a lot of sprays with it. It gives out very fancy and a very formal smell with it and i will strongly recommend.

This was the first cologne I bought years ago and I've never grown tired of it. Warm, sweet, and a touch of spice makes it inviting to everyone around you. It's a scent I love to wear on dates when it's cooler outside but it's inoffensive enough where you can wear it socially throughout the year. It projects well for a couple hours and offers crisp, warm, and sweet floral base notes. Really hard not to find a reason to pick this up for the price it's going for. 9/10

In my opinion, this has a slight resemblance to the original Invictus simply because it is a sweeter scent. The best I could describe this fragrance is a more refined, creamier version of A&F First Instinct which I think is amazing also. All you “frag heads” bash these fragrances that smell amazing and get compliments from girls and I truly don’t understand it. Trust me, if you want to smell amazing and garner tons of positive compliments, buy this..

Smelled it and thought to myself: Melon Sauvage. Great scent, though not powerful enough as other versatile options. This is a combination of Abercrombie & Fitch First Instinct Extreme with a blue fragrance such as Dylan Blue or Sauvage even. The atomizer is the whole point of this, since it's well pressurized and outputs a lot of juice. Great cheapie with excellent presentation/mechanics. Blind buy this if you've got $30-40 from discounters.

Wow! This one is really good! Better than the normal version,its more depth and dark, The opening just like A&F first instinct with melon notes,combine with paco rabbane invictus aqua, Then become this one,reminds me of new release coach for men,without ambroxan, The dried down similar to paco rabbane invictus vibe, I really love this one,!! longevity and perfomance 5-6 hours,, Its panty dropper! Amazing!!! Overall 10/10

Fantastic smelling juice! I think the notes are wrong on Fragantica b/c its a pretty sweet scent but is more well rounded than the original. Performance could be better though, this is one you definitely spray on clothes. Lasts about an hour or 2 on skin and I'm talking barely a skin scent. The atomizer is beastly. This is the atomizer your girlfriend tells you not to worry about.

Casual, pretty generic mall fragrance, BUT IT WORKS! I've gotten a ton of compliments, it last around 8 hours on me and testers are rediculously cheap. I've used this at work, in classes, casual nights out and even clubbing and it works for all of the above. This is an easy blind buy and has become a signature easy-grab spring/fall scent for me. 8/10

An absolutely sweet and spicy beast of a smell and is the best smelling cologne I ever smelled. The only problem is that the projection/longevity is really not that good. But, if your gonna be going out for not that long, it is absolutely perfect as it is suitable for almost all occasions.

Really great smelling fragrance, just very, very weak. You'll need to re-apply after only a few hours. It seems to, unfortunately, be a trend in the fragrance industry over the past 4-5 years. Seems like they're choosing money over customer value. Shocker.

Jimmy Choo Intense is soo underrated and not talked about enough. Yes the performance is not the best, but so is for many other hyped fragrances. It smells really good, with decent quality and almost year round versatility, for a very reasonable price.

I look forward to hearing more about this frag, the original one smelled amazing, but as previously said, longevity and projection was poor. If it's the same smell with great longevity, we may have a huge thing here

It smells to me like sauvage mixed with suede I smell a small amount of fruity flower notes but mostly pepper and suede it's got a really really nice atomizer and projects average but last a while on skin

Obsessed with this on a man. Delicious and lasts forever, I can smell this on his skin the next morning. Everyone always compliments him when we go anywhere I almost don’t want him wearing this without me

Personally one of my all time favorites, a sweet, mature, fresh and mass appealing fragrance. Great prices online for it and i love the pressurized atomizer. Doesn’t last very long tho 🙁

To me this smells like car freshener but not in a bad way you’ll smell good. You can use it as a gym cologne but I can see it be used as a date night. It’s like a mature sweet fragrance.

I really wanted to love it, but I'm struggling to smell anything....what's intense about it? I still bought the bottle because I have mental problems..

Stunning, deeply satisfying. Similar to the original Man, but a bit less sweet and definitely longer lasting. 10/10, one of my staples every week.

This is my favorite scent. I've worn for about 2 years now reminds me of summer night hangouts with my friend and I'm on my 2nd bottle of it now.

Love this one. Dumb reach/blind buy worthy. Crowd pleaser, inexpensive and unique. What more could you want?

Dark, floral scent with below average projection that lasts a few hours, solid for price.

WEAR THIS IN THE HEAT FOR MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE, 80° OR HOTTER ESPECIALLY IF IT'S HUMID

Head turner. Its not a mall scent, you tools. Non-offensive and office appropriate.

Very nice clean and fresh out the shower smell no complaints.

Fragrance lover and lives in hot temperatures? Get this!

The year is 2020, I am in the Marines on tinder and come across a women named Ruby. Thank God it wasn't Jody. We get to talking and take things a step further by trading snapchat usernames. She sends me pics and vids. We talk even more and she randomly sends me a picture of her card and tells me I can buy whatever just don't go crazy. Got myself some beats headphones for the gym. We finally plan to meet up. If you didn't want to sleep with a girl who slept with other Marines, you are driving at least 2 hrs away which is where she lived. We met up and she took me to the outlets. Came across a fragrance store and smelled this cologne. She bought it for me. Call me Captain Jiggalo. It was my first ever cologne that got me into fragrances. Went back to her place. She was Mexican and her and her sister made these spicy ass tacos that my Italian ass couldn't handle. Dropped one in her bathroom. Cracked a few times. Hung out a handful of times since but then got hit with the ole "So what are we" line. All good things had to come to an end and we haven't talked since. Wonder how she's doing these days. Hopefully not on meth

The funny thing about Jimmy Choo Man Intense is that at least for me, it bears less of a resemblance to its original namesake and more to the likes of Invictus and its innumerable analogs. Where the original JCM leans more in the fresh peppery/fruity/patchouli direction of BdC and Acqua Essenziale, Intense removes the pink peppery kick and doubles down on the heavy sweet elements, using labdanum and tonka as co-anchors along with the prominent patchouli. This one is sweet, but not cloyingly so, thanks to just enough florals. Aromatic, but not heavy after dry down. And, after several hours, it finally does soften up into something similar to the original Jimmy Choo Man - but by a wildly divergent route. This is much better than Invictus IMO, and like the JCM, this is definitely a scent that many women appreciate. Lots of compliments. I am a HUGE fan of Versace Dylan Blue - my daily driver - and this one dries down to something akin to its sweeter, more relaxed cousin. The two have very little in common, but somehow I think they work in similar ways - hard to explain it. Jimmy Choo Man Intense is a keeper for me.

I just had the opportunity to try this at Macy's and the SA tried to convince me that it is an EDP when it's clearly marked on the bottle as an EDT. That being said, I can see how she would think it was an EDP because it initially comes out of the bottle with both strength and purpose and the promise of decent longevity and sillage. It starts out bearing a quasi-similarity to Invictus, but then after a while turns into an even more generic, unremarkable scent (if that's possible). I don't want to say that it's a flat-out copy cat, but it's just like a million other modern scents lacking any qualities that differentiate it from many of the others. I like it, but I have at least 5 or six scents I can think of off the top of my head that dry down similarly, last longer and have better projection. That being said, chicks seem to dig this, so there's a selling point I suppose. In terms of longevity, this one is better than its predecessor, but here I am at about 2 hours after initial application and it's faded pretty significantly with projection of about 4-6 inches. I doubt it will last beyond the 4 hour mark.

*EDIT* - Actually - I am returning this to rotation status. It smells too good not to. So I replaced the towel duty with Davidoff Cool Water and Hot Water. I never reach for either of those and they also are pretty short in longevity. I'm going to wear the crap out of the Jimmy Choo Intense, just super soak in it and just roll with it. Love the smell. I had this in my collection for a long time. Never reached for it, so I put it in the "bathroom towel airfreshener" group. Then- after using it on the display towel for a few days It hit me. This actually smells REALLY good in the mid to dry-down. I wish this had longevity. This would be a daily for me if there was. That is why I would never reach for it.. I suppose if you soaked in it you could get some. Its a shame. The dry-down is killer. I was about to take it out of the towel duty rack and put it back for rotation but I didn't. I didn't want to supersoak myself with this for the extra hour of longevity. Its not from going anosmic, it just honestly does not last.. So, I must agree with many below - Smells very nice...but just does not perform.

A highly underrated fragrance - and I'd have it no other way. This can stay my little secret. To me this sits in the category of highly versatile, mass appealing, easy to wear fragrances. Think Bleu de Chanel, Dior Homme 2020, Dylan Blue etc etc - and is my go to for this category. Definitely a compliment magnet IME - especially from women. The most prominent notes are Melon, lavender, pepper, and tonka, perfectly blended for a clean, fresh, smooth, slightly sweet fragrance. I will say that "Man Intense" is a strange name for this. It's fresh, smooth, and sophisticated, not obnoxious and in your face. I'm a bit perplexed regarding some people's experience with the longevity. I sprayed 2 sprays on my chest 10+ hours ago and can still smell it quite prominently as I type this review. In fact, I directly compared this to Blue de Chanel EDP, and JCMI lasted noticeably longer. It might not be Sauvage Elixir, but not many fragrances are - especially in this category of scent.

Smells GREAT. Blue fragrance style. To my nose, its a mix of YSL Y EDP and Coach For Men. Versatile, easy to like & can be found for a really good price on discounters, around the $40 price for a tester which typically does come with a cap. The Bottle is beautiful and has a pressure sensitive sprayer, reminiscent of Dior's atomizers. Cap has a snake skin embossed-like detailing. Longevity on this is CRAP.....it smells amazing for the hour that it's noticeable, then it gets close to the skin and pretty much falls off a cliff after the 3-4 hour mark (that's being generous). If this is INTENSE, I wouldn't want to try the non intense flakers. On a typical day of work, i have to respray 3x so bringing it along or a decant will be necessary. This would be good for running a quick errand or lunch and then you're still able to wear something else afterwards.

This is an intimate fragrance, in the sense that other people won't pick up that you are wearing anything unless they are within arm's length of you. That being said, I love the intriguing combination of the melon and lavender notes, and they most likely will too. It certainly helps this perfume stand out from the other mall-scent type perfumes that are out there. I will mention, however, that in humid weather, the melon and lavender notes I was mentioning get a bit muddled and turn this fragrance oddly sweet, think of a soda that went flat after you left it out in the sun. Not to mention that using it in such a setting nerfs the already short performance this fragrance has. Otherwise, a great fragrance and something that I would choose for close encounters with others (given the climate is good).

While I get the comparisons to Invictus, I feel the need to distinguish this as it;s own frag. The fact that this works well in the fall/winter months already sets it apart. It's denser and deeper than Invictus, it gives a whole different feeling to the wearer, not to mention the fact that it's much less screechy and synthetic than Invictus. I happen to dislike Invictus and feel like it's a freshie without any substance or depth, and that makes its sweetness unbearable IMHO. This one is sweet as well, no doubt, but it's a sweet cold-weather frag which to me is much more acceptable. I give it a 7/10, while I give Invictus a 3/10 just for the fact that it's a crowd pleaser and it lasts/projects forever.

Big fan of the opening, but I’m not into the dry down. It just doesn’t sit well with my nose. It starts off bright with a sweet melon note and a fresh aromatic vibe, but once it settles, it turns into this dark smoky spicy leather scent. I bought this back in 2017 on my way home from the Cancun airport duty free shop. I remember smelling the opening and thinking it was incredible, so I picked up a bottle. After wearing it a few times, noticed the dry down threw me off, so I stopped using it. I still have almost a full bottle. I’ll spray it once in a while, but not often. It definitely feels like a night time fragrance. Might pair well with darker clothes like a black shirt and jeans. 6.2/10

Jimmy Choo man intense opens up as a spicy fresh scent. It's calm and refreshing to the nose as it is a little fruity but still giving masculine vibes. The fresh spicy and aromatic is big on this fragrance. It can be used as an everyday scent, best during the fall, spring, summer, day and night. The only CON with this fragrance is that its longevity is horrible. It lasts up most to an hour and that is about it. The fragrance only performs well when it is first sprayed on, after an hour goes by the fragrance wears off almost immediately. I wish Jimmy Choo made it an eau de parfum or parfum version of Man intense because the smell is not bad at all, it is just the performance that it lacks.

Tried this through Fragrance X. I loved the opening. The colors were a gorgeous, swirling green and purple fugue. Melon and lavender apparently go together well. Fairly short longevity and not the strongest projection for something labeled intense. The middle notes and dry down are a fairly standard-ish powdery "purple color" with the tonka and patchouli. I like this significantly more than the original as I found it sweeter and smoother. I see someone compared this with Montblanc Legend, and I can see that although this is much milder and the opening is somewhat spicier. I'd consider this unisex and for more or less any age. Would be especially good for cool, grey days.

Good for a designer frag. Really like the scent. Reminds me a bit of Allure Homme Sport Extreme. Not on the same street but in the same neighborhood. I prefer Allure because it performs better and smells a little less synthetic. I think they’re close enough to be redundant personally. Man Intense is a good dumb reach though that you can wear anywhere. And is mass appealing enough to garner compliments every now and then. But it’s more of “you smell good” instead of “OMG what are you wearing!” kind of compliments. 6/10