Heroic Man

Surprisingly this $10 fragrance smell amazing on my skin from the opening till drydown. The cardamom & lavender accord remind me to my JPG le male le parfum in the opening, actually watered down version of Le male Le parfum to be honest, and the drydown remind me of discontinued Zara Amber Ego. I have no idea about Armani SWY because I don’t have one. I totally agree if other say this doesnt smell like chippie. The performance It last 1-2 hour with medium sillage, then it goes close to the skin in 3rd hour and its totally gone after 4 hour of indoor uses. this fragrance only cost $10 for 100ml in my country, I dont wanna act like noob that complaining about performance with this price point. we can move it to travel size bottle and re spray it anytime we need. If you want good performance one and smell similar like this, just get ur self $100 JPG Le male Le parfum or Armani SWY.

It smells quite nice. In the opening ur met with an stronger with you intensely opening with pink pepper,cardamom and some cinnamon it smells very candy sweet in the opening. Soon after when it dries down you get hit with an chestnut,vanilla combo that smells fantastic. This smells like stronger with you/stronger with you intensely but there differences because the chestnut makes it smell like stronger with you while the vanilla and cinnamon combo with pink pepper makes it smell like stronger with you intensely. Going on to performance: Longevity: 5-6 hours Projection:decent.Its quite strong for an cheapie Price 10/10 Overall 8.5/10 If you want an stronger with you / stronger with you intensely but nerfed get this.

Opened and instantly didn't expect anything for a product so cheap, still was surprised to how similar it smelled to swy intensely, it opens up pretty synthetic but it then stays and smells of vanilla for about half an hour or so? well my final opinion is, it is AMAZING for its price but its downside is that it has almost no projection after half n hr and completely disappears after 1 hr

Prolly the best SWY clone on the market for $15 or less. Basically a lighter version of SWY, the sweetness is not as syrup-y, more vanilla-ish type sweetness. Performance is pretty good (6h on skin/8h on shirt) but the projection doesn't last more than an hour. Overall a very good SWY clone for $10 and it will be suited better for warmer days bcs it isn't too rich/heavy.

A perfume worth buying because it only costs around 150 thousand rupiah and you get 100 ml. The scent is predominantly warm spicy (top notes), aromatic (middle notes), sweet, and slightly woody (base notes). Not everyone likes spicy or aromatic scents, but I like the scent of this perfume, especially since it's affordable. the scent is very masculine btw.

Parfum is great,On my skin it lasts for 4h max 5h when its not hot outside,But on my shirt it lasts about 6h Its very sweet,i recommend wearing it on fall,winter or summer on late hours when its not hot for better performance. I rate it 10/10 Probably buy another bottle of it

This perfume really makes me question the perfume prices. I have some expensive perfumes and some great 20-40$ clones, but this sells for 7$! and you get a very good armani stronger with you/intensely/oud scent. Nothing cheap about it, it even lasts 6+ hours. 10/10

It's a very good smelling fragrance but it's extremely weak so your gonna have to overspray the crap out of it and projection wise it only lasts for a couple minutes and then dissapears into a skin lotion it smells cheap and synthetic but damn is it good.

Heroic Man is a very nice fragrance well done La rive im impressed i love this fragrance it smells very similar and i get mostly vanilla and chestnut only problem is that it doesnt last that long but for the price its good i recommend it!

I never smelled SWY but...This is an amazing winter date night hidden gem cheapie! A spicy frag with a deep rich scent profile. I would highly recommend it for any collection.

This is the best fragnance for this price (i got it for 4$) it smells soo sweet like vanilla, cupcake or something like that. it doesnt last long but the smell is great

Best cheapie I've smelled in a long time. If you get past the initial sweet opening, you get a beautiful dry down that lasts and lasts, reminding me of patchouli.

The smell reminds me a bit of SWY as well as Valentino Uomo Yellow Dream, I got my 100ml bottle for $6, so it's a great value for the price and I do recommend it.

Great cheap fragrance for cold weather also great longetivity for the price,you get 4+ hours on skin and decent sillage,great fragrance for less than 10$

Smells very similar to SWY Intensely for a fraction of the price. Got it for about $6-7 where SWY Intensely costs around $110-120 here in Sweden.

This Smells Fresh and Vanilla Exotic Version of Swy with the Pineapple and Melon and Only Costed Me 8 Euro I'm Very Happy with this Purchase

Good value, good scent. For 6-7$ its unbeatable. This is the best cheap perfume I have tried.

Great scent but the problem with every la rive fragrance is that they do not last.

They managed to capture the spirit of SWY for a fraction of the price. It's a bit of a miracle, considering that La Rive usually makes fragrances that I find really mediocre. This is probably their best men's fragrance, by the way. However, the performance is quite poor, but I forgive it given its price. In terms of quality, nothing amazing obviously, but we can still see thanks to the new European legislation that they use natural oils (lavender, juniper, cinnamon) in addition to traditional synthetic ones (this one is a super iso E bomb). As for the scent, nothing to report. It follows the SWY DNA with less depth and richness, but it definitely does the job. I wouldn't ask for more.

Beautiful chestnut fragrance! Honestly, the best $10 I've ever spent on smell-good juice. Even without the amazing price, it's just wonderful. To me, it feels like it's in the same zip code as Ramz Silver or 9PM with its vanilla and spices, but this tones down the vanilla, adds warm chestnut, and feels more mature. Imagine a gentle, warm, chestnut hug, and that's what this smells like.

I bought it as a joke 5$ fregrence and its accualy kinda good 😭 atomizer is great and it smells really close to original stronger with you but less sweet and more hazelnut heavy, it lasts like 3-4 hours but what can u expect but im accualy shocked how great the projection is. I would say its so funny to have u need to get it 10/10 It costs less than a burger King meal

smells amazing like a smoky, sweet, ever so slightly refreshing, smells kind of luxurious. but sadly it does not last although its not as bad as people make it out to be it has moderate projection for around 3.5 hours with around 10 sparys. would recommend for day to day use, has actually gotten me alot of complements, people keep asking if its stronger with you.

i went truh the bootle i was on vacaion and i needed a frangrence and this is what i got my freind said it didnt projeft for shit and i dosent i used like 25+ sprays and more and no one noticed i think if if it was anothr frangrance evrybody would notice but is a good cheepie but thank good i came back to my evryday franfrancses

great cheapie, longevity isn't even that bad, but it becomes skin scent after 30-60 min. It's really sweet, has that syrupy sweetness to it. I see the comp with SWY, but it smells more youthfully sweet and wouldn't exactly say it's a great clone, more of a same DNA

Acceptable SWY clone, there are certainly better ones, but they are more expensive at te same time. The longevity is rather poor i.e. 2-3 hours at the maximum before it evaporates completely. However, considering how inexpensive it is, the value for money is 10/10.

In the opening you get that one million And stronger with You scent. When it dries down You get that nice vanilla and chestnut scent. Just a little bit more synthetic vanilla scent than stronger with you. But for 7€ it's great👍

Amazing for the price, bought it yesterday because it was very cheap, turned out to be way better than I expected. I bought this for 7 dollars, which is insane considering the smell of this fragrance. Very similar to SWY

Overall great fragrance for the price. The opening smells cheaper than SWY, but after the drydown the scent is almost identical. The performance is not long, but acceptable for the 10 dollar price tag.

My husband gifted me this today. It smells very nice! Sweet but not too sweet for a Man perfume. Wouldn't say its an exact dupe of the original but similar. And for the price its great!

Smells good, I like it more as it drys down. Although, I like LR Password better, but I guess that’s subjective. It is good generally, even better when you consider the price

The only difference between this and Cuba Royal is that La Rive Heroic Man is a bit stronger, warmer, darker... It's ok, but not exactly what I expected based on reviews.

Cheap one but smells pretty good. Of course it's synthetic but you can't expect anything better from a perfume that costs only €8.

I am Very happy about this fragrance, it only costed me 8 dollars and it smeels amazing aswell

I can be tripping but i smell pdm althair in this

For clarification, I'm a woman. I've been looking around for sweet or gourmand fragrances marketed towards men, to see if I could find any cheapies with good performance. I don't want to miss out on something I may love just because it's marketed towards men. That being said, I think this leans more masculine than I personally enjoy. I'll probably still use it to layer or maybe give to my husband. I'm not sure yet. For me Heroic Man smells super sweet and super woodsy. It smells like walking through a forest. I do get whiffs of some individual notes at times, like pineapple in the opening. I can tell there are different herbs and spices. I think nutmeg is the one I get the most. Other than that it's sugary and woody. I would say pineapple, nutmeg, cedar and vanilla are really all I can tell apart in this fragrance. It lasts and projects a pretty good amount of time, at least 4 or 5 hours. I spray on clothes too though. Overall I do like this, but the cedar is just too fragrant for me and makes this more masculine leaning than I hoped it would be. I don't think I will repurchase this, but if it grows on me I will do an update. Update: It did the opposite of grow on me. Something in this makes me nauseas. I think it's the prominent cedar smell I get, it's kinda sharp mixed with pineapple and it makes me feel sick. The drydown is good but I don't want to wait it out and feel sick the whole first 10 min of wear time.

I don't know why this fragrance is glazed so much. At first when I bought it, it was smelling ok, but then I started to hate it, because it is very synthetic. The opening is synthetic, in the middle notes, it smells a bit like milk and the base notes are the best but it has a synthetic vanilla and karamelised sugar Note in it. I am not a big fan of Swy but this one smells 85% close but way more synthetic. It is good for the price, but it can cause headaches if people are sensitive to a synthetic smell. It also smells kinda burnt in the drydown. Would I recommend this? Maybe. For the price it is good but there are still better options. Longevity: 6 - 7 hours on skin, decent projection

It's a great dupe for the price. Smells great... Until you smell the original. Having compared both on my wrists I would say the fragrance is at most 'similar' to SWY. The original smells a lot more smooth and natural. After the dry down I get a lot more spicy and earthy fragrance from this clone and it's when it starts to falls apart. For less than 10 euros it's one of the better clones.

The opening is very similar to 1 million, sweet spicy scent. The dry down is on the sharp side which I personally don’t like. Great value for money, cost me 8$ for 100ml.

in my opinion this fragrance really similar to stronger with you BUT with 1/3 longevity and poor projection also more not juicy than stronger with you

Bad longevity otherwise pleasent scent, good if you want something for 5€.

smells like SWY, higly recomended for the price.

Another one of those Fahrenheit knockoffs.

It is a surprisingly faithful dupe of the original imo, standing out among many La Rive releases that fail to capture the scent they're imitating. The opening features a strong, cheap alcohol note, but the dry down is remarkably close to what it aims to replicate. Projection and longevity are minimal, which is unsurprising given the price . For better performance, consider overspraying, layering with lotion, or applying to clothing. 2/10

I've been wearing heroic man the last winter and got a lot of compliments from my friends, but looking back now, i think that this one is way too sweet and I'm probably not gonna wear it again, that's a matter of taste though

Very good clone of Stronger with you. You don't get alcohol opening. In the opening it smells like one million then it dries down to a nice version of stronger with you. Smell: 7/10 Value:10/10

I can still feel the t-shirt the next day :) bye bye 200euros fragrances

I saw this at my local store and thought "i bet the reviews will be bad if its even on fragrantica". This genuinely smells horrid, no clue how people like this or if its just pretend, its grossly synthetic and smells like sweat.

It is not as strong and does not have the same sillage as the SWY clone from Maison Alhambra... but it only costs 5 - $7 (Your Touch, it's 15 - $18) and La Rive is enough to go to the gym, go shopping, just in time for such occasions. Is it a very good clone? Probably not, Alhambra did it a little better... but it retains the basic SWY DNA and I guess that's what it's all about. It is quite a nice, not offensive scent... which, like cheap fragrances from the UAE, must be subjected to the so-called "home maceration". 3-4 months is enough to improve its parameters. No, he will never be a beast. Can you imagine a beast for $6??? Exactly... 😉 For this price it's really worth it, it's just pennies for a pretty good scent.

In general a great perfume for the price, not bad. The opening is pretty sharp but gets better after a minute. It starts with this spicy and fruity synthetic blast, but slowly goes into the cinnamon, woodsy, powdery and vanillic continuation i love. not bad for everyday use at all. just requires a respray every 4-6 hours. The woodsy part of it reminds me of By The Fireplace which makes want to keep on sniffing my wrist lol. The SWY replication is felt but it feels like it's own fragrance. The tropical part of it makes me want to say it's similiar to althair.

yea nvm brawg, shiz like a diet stronger with you intensely or for the europeans like me out there, stronger with you intensely zero :pray: gingerbread cookie-like scent. the pink pepper or sum in this throws me off even if this is pretty wearable. not deadly. every densely sweet fragrance from la rive like la rive blurry, la rive brave def has this weird soap smell. i said it's pink pepper, but i prolly gaslighted myself