PS Fine Cologne

This fragrance is a timeless masculine masterpiece. If Lavender based spicy masculine fragrances (barbershop fragrance DNA) give you the retro feel then please stay away. PS Fine Cologne works like a slow-building composition, where each layer blends smoothly into the next. The result is a confident, traditional masculine aura that feels cohesive rather than segmented. The fragrance opens with lavender, sage, and warm spices (like nutmeg). These notes immediately establish a clean yet authoritative presence. Lavender provides a soapy, freshly groomed feel , a hallmark of traditional masculine colognes and Sage and spices add dryness and warmth, preventing the opening from feeling too soft or sweet. The top notes, rather than being bright or citrusy melt quickly into the heart. The herbal and spicy elements act as a bridge, setting up the deeper florals instead of sharply contrasting them. This creates an opening that feels controlled, composed and alluring. As the opening settles, ylang-ylang, jasmine, rose, and clove emerge, but they are muted and blended, not loud or decorative. The florals add warmth, smoothness, and richness, not sweetness and clove reinforces the spice from the top notes, keeping the heart grounded and masculine. The heart notes deepen the scent’s character. The florals don’t stand on their own; instead they are wrapped in spice and shadowed by the base. This creates a rounded, confident masculinity, where strength is expressed through depth rather than freshness. The drydown reveals musk, amber, oakmoss, and patchouli, which give PS Fine its lasting power and identity. The Musk adds warmth and skin-like depth. The amber smooths everything into a slightly resinous glow. The Oakmoss and patchouli provide earthiness and structure, anchoring the fragrance firmly in classic masculinity. The base doesn’t abruptly replace the heart but it slowly absorbs it. Floral and spice traces linger within the mossy, musky foundation, creating a scent that feels solid, steady, and self-assured, confident and alluring. This is where PS Fine truly becomes its signature self. Overall PS Fine Cologne evolves as one continuous masculine statement; Clean and confident at first, Warm and expressive in the middle, Deep, grounded, and enduring at the end. The performance on this fragrance is absolutely amazing with a day long longevity and a constant projection of at least 3 - 4 hours and persistent sillage. It will garner admiring looks and perhaps compliments if worn right. Don’t wear this when the weather is warm or hot - you have been warned! At this stage I couldn’t help but compare it to two of my favorite modern day aromatic fougeres Tom Ford’s Beau de Jour and Nicolai’s New York Intense. Beau de Jour opens brighter and cleaner than PS’s spice-heavy top notes. The lavender/herbal blend feels more refined and modern. Think of Beau de Jour as a contemporary, elevated barbershop/ fougère — crisp lavender and herbs with just enough warmth — compared to PS Fine’s more nutty, spicy, and musky classic profile.Both can feel classic — but Beau de Jour is a modern reinterpretation, leaning cleaner and more versatile and costs 4 times as much. New York Intense has layered warmth and sweet spice that PS Fine generally doesn’t emphasize. The resinous base (Tonka Bean and Styrax) gives it a more opulent, heavier character than the lighter classic fougère feel of PS Fine. New York Intense is built for today’s luxury perfume market, with complexity and depth appreciated by modern nose palettes. New York Intense and BdJ come across more modern and luxurious but PS fine cologne costs a fourth of those 2 or even less and performs much better than both those esteemed fougeres. In short, PS Fine Cologne embodies the classic virtues of dependability and quiet confidence but doesn’t shout masculinity — it embodies it through balance, depth, and cohesion, making it feel timeless, distinctive, and unmistakably classic. I give it a solid 8/10.

If you took an old school barbershop fragrance, stacked the notes of an autumn-spice scented candle on it, and topped it off with some powder, you'd have PS Fine Cologne. And I am 100% here for it! Regarding notes, the lavender and sage are noticeable and give the fragrance a clean barbershop element. But, the dominant player is the clove (and other spices). The florals are there, but kind of come off as accent pieces to the spice. The base notes listed above are noticeable as the fragrance dies down and give the product longevity. Additionally, there is something in the deep dry down that comes off as just a pinch like anise or black licorice. It is subtle, but it is there. The overall effect of this fragrance communicates that the wearer is a handsome gentleman who is not afraid to be a little bit ol' school. The gentleman wearing PS Fine is likely to come off as warm and approachable, and his wife is probably prone to spend her quiet moments snuggled up with him. For comparison's sake, it is true that PS Fine is in the same wheelhouse as Old Spice and CK Obsession for men. I would say that if you took Old Spice, turned the florals down, and turned the spices and the performance up, you'd have PS Fine. As for Obsession, I have always noticed a note in Obsession that I do not quite like. There is some kind of sharp note at the top of Obsession that puts me in mind of the ladies from the 1980's T.V. show Dynasty-- something that says shoulder pads and snooty attitudes. I'm not sure what that note is in Obsession, but it is NOT present in PS Fine. And so, the best way I can put it is that PS Fine is what I WANT Obsession to be when I wear Obsession. Now, the drawback is that PS Fine is a little more "ho-hum" than Obsession. I recently had my teenaged daughter test out PS Fine and Obsession side-by-side. She said that she preferred Obsession because it was more "interesting" where PS Fine was kind of "generic man cologne." I'm inclined to agree with her, but I still prefer PS Fine. Obsession is more brash. PS Fine is perfectly happy to be more gentlemanly and laid back. If you own Old Spice or Obsession, I doubt PS Fine is a necessary purchase. But, if you run out of Old Spice or Obsession, seriously consider replacing it with PS Fine. He is kind of like the stable middle brother between those two classics.

Wow, this really is VERY close to classic Old Spice, at least in the opening. Just got it in the mail and sprayed it on one test strip and Old Spice on the other. 95% same, with the 5% difference being PS deeper, richer, more "fleshed out". Now, 10 minutes in, PS starts to differentiate with more floral manifestation. Also much more musky as the accord stack listed on this page indicates. But I was looking for the frag that best represented a fuller, deeper, richer, more fleshed out and fully realized EDP or Parfume level version of Old Spice. And I think I've found it. It may even be more similar to Old Spice Musk, due to PSFC's amped up musk. And I can understand those saying Paul Sebastian Fine Cologne has similarities to, but is not very close to, Old Spice. Saying it merely shares a "similar vibe" is understandable and defensible. But to say this smells "nothing like" Old Spice is just something akin to dumb. Even given the subjective nature of scent perception. There's one bloke above writing that anyone who thinks it does smell like Old Spice possesses no basis for comparison, which leads to uninformed generalizations. Me and my hundreds of bottles of fragrances disagree. After a few hours now, I also get the dry down comparison to CK Obsession, given the ambery cinnamon accord. But I think the dry down is even closer to Hermes Equipage. I have all four on test strips comparing them. All in all PS Fine Cologne is closer to a richer, fuller classic Old Spice than either of the other two. Not the 95% I mentioned above in the opening, and Paul Sebastian Fine Cologne is roughly analogous to a deeper, fuller, more musky classic Old Spice. Sort of like Old Spice pitched an octave lower. Update: wearing this again a month later. I will reiterate again, a fragrantica rating below 4 is way, way, way too low. This is a masterpiece as the fuller, richer analogue to the classic Old Spice. Way under rated.

i love this! this just got in from the mail as suggested by some here... i love it! very refined! it doesn't smell "old"... it really is classy... very manly... it smells sophisticated! the opening can be really strong and you can get turned off... but wait till the dry down... it's just so formal... crisp shirts and khaki, golf with friends... the oakmoss is so beautifully done that you wouldn't think that those are floral scents as it comes out in a more green-woody scent with somehow hints of leather! i also appreciate perfume that are really strong and projects insanely... my joop, my obsession by ck gets mixed reactions but this one... not even a single one reacted in a negative way. i think the "dated" issue is because some do not like oakmoss in a perfume and it reminds them hints of Brut Faberge with the metal on its neck in glass bottles... it does have some of that hints... but Faberge also gets a mixed reaction... but with this one, i was beside a teenager, an older woman, an older guy, a younger guy and a lady and nobody acted like they are offended or they make certain body movements that suggests it's suffocating them which i witness in some of my other heavy scent hitters... and for what you pay for it, you're really getting more than what you're paying for strong projection, longevity and sillage... i actually have the vintage Must de Cartier and Paul Sebastian can be lined with them in terms of the target market tjhat they are hitting... a refined and sophisticated scent for such kind of people but in their relaxed hours... the crowd that requires respect and needed to be called "sir" even if they are in their casual khaki shorts and polo shirts... however, the scent can be very good in formal attire as well. this is not the typical scent for the casual-sporty type of person who laugh and talks loudly... this scent is best for people who have a more refined decorum

What can I say , but WOWIE WOWIE. The best cheap fragrance for men imaginable. $17 on Amazon for a 2 oz. bottle. I bought a fancy empty perfume bottle with an excellent sprayer and now I have what could be a $100 cologne, if I didn't know any better. The fragrance itself is a true gentlemen's fragrance similar to something like Chanel Pour Monsieur EDP. How do I know this ? I have 2 spays of CPM on one hand right now and 2 sprays of PSFC on the other. Quite similar except for the price. For $17, the Paul Sebastian has incredible longevity . I can't detect Sillage on myself but it's probably pretty good. It's one of those classic scents , some might call barbershop . Manly, but sweet. A nice blend of spice and florals. I'm an old guy , but a good scent is a good scent and I don't believe in classifying something as modern or dated. Just because some genius perfumer came up with something great 40 years ago , doesn't make it less appealing . A word for you young guys.......In my "worldly" experience ,women, and I've been living with one for 40 years, like a man's fragrance based on what they like in their own fragrances... They like florals over citruses. They like on you ,what they will wear themselves . In the end you have to wear what you like. I wear my fragrances for me and it's just chance that my wife and I have the same taste. It just appears to me in my own circle here and even watching young and middle age women in YouTube videos sniffing strips on the street , they seem to prefer the sweet , floral, or call it ,the "beautiful" smelling fragrances on men. That seems to be my perception.

A few rules about Paul Sebastian cologne (especially the vintage stuff): 1. Use only 1 - 2 sprays your first time, even if you are an oversprayer (the vintage is a splash, but I put mine in a spray bottle for more accurate application). More than this will practically guarantee that you will choke yourself and everyone around you, and you will say that it is cloying, old-mannish and awful. 1 - 2 sprays, though? This stuff is phenomenal. 2. Vintage is stronger and denser; modern is still good, but plays a bit younger/more modern. 3. If your preferences run to Bleu De Chanel and 1 Million, don't even bother with this. 4. This smells different to almost everybody. For my part, ignore all comparisons, especially the ones saying this smells like Old Spice, Brut or Coty Musk. This does not smell like anything else - period. To me (vintage), this is a spicy > floral > musky. The nutmeg and clove (and cinnamon) bloom and stick around for 8+ hours. The floral note (ylang ylang, carnation from the iso-eugenol, and geranium) blends with the spice accord. The musk/patchouli base just keeps going. 5. This smells much better in the air than nose-down-shirt or nose-to-wrist. 6. You will not slay the ladies with this, unless your target demographic is over 70. This is one that I wear for myself. 7. This is not office safe, formal event safe, or romantic date safe. This IS something to wear if you are a boss, a CEO, or someone who doesn't give a damn about what anyone else thinks. I think that covers it.

This is a really exquisite musk-forward scent, with a gentle back up of lavender. There's also a dab of spice, but nothing as heavy as, say, Sex Appeal, or Pierre Cardin Pour Monsieur from the same era. The lavender reins it right back in. The musk is of the "clean" type - Musc Ravageur, it ain't. (Although I do love MR.) Also, I live in the UK - this has 0 nostalgia references to me, unlike for American reviewers, apparently. It just stands or falls on its abilities as a here-and-now scent. And it really does stand! The scent is basically eternal. Incredible performance for a scent of this type. Ignore all the "I have the vintage... I was there first... I spend more time online than you... I have more money and learning than you..." about this scent. The current version is just peachy. I loathe post-1990 "freshies" - AdG, Platinum Égoïste, Eternity and all their follow ons. But this - this PS Fine Cologne - does fresh, clean, open in a remarkable way, completely unlike them. Obviously, if you're into scents that smell of food or oud, or all the "bleu" scents running riot at the moment, then you're not going to immediately love this - but then again, you probably don't read reviews that are this long anyway. Basically, if you're still reading, then you should try this scent. I think you'll love it, because it's a scent that knows where it's going, and sets off to get there with confidence. Perfumistas love that sort of thing. And it's dirt cheap.

This fragrance is a hairy chested but classy middle aged man in a bottle. It's Old Spice's more refined sibling who shows up wearing a nicely tailored suit instead of a "wife beater" tank top and denim shorts. Betas need not apply here. You have your Invictus. This one is for the alphas in the room. Spices, lavender, florals, and a very oakmoss and musk heavy base with a touch of sweet amber. It's in the conversation with stuff like Drakkar Noir, Aramis, Paco Rabanne PH, and Azzaro PH as the kind of fragrances you associate with the manly men of the 80s. I'm a 45yo guy and this stuff smells divine to me. But it's hard for me to see this appealing to anyone much younger unless they just happen to enjoy this genre of fragrances. It's pretty linear on my skin since there's really no citrus notes to burn off in the opening so what I get after the alcohol settles is pretty much what I get for the entire life of the fragrance. Performance on this is quite impressive. It lasts on my skin easily for 8 hours with the first couple offering decent projection as well. Where it is lacking is in the presentation. The bottle is pretty tacky and just feels cheap, but it's what's on the inside that counts...right? And I can look past the bottle of a $20 fragrance if the fragrance held within is this good. Great stuff!!!

My grandma got me some of this when I was a kid in middleschool (mid 2000s) because she loved it back in the day. It was the ice breaker that got me my first girlfriend back then, so the DNA still kicks with the right people lol.. Girl had to smell me every day, always wanted my jacket. So, well over a decade later I've gotten 2 bottles of this. One was AWFUL. It really disappointed me how awful it was, with my nostalgic expectations so high. I figured I had misremembered the scent, until coincidentally enough, my grandma grabbed me a bottle because she saw it out shopping. This bottle smelled EXACTLY like what I remembered, and I love to pop the cap and smell the atomizer a good few times a week. The quality (in the right batches, I guess) is still there. Its also very potent, in fact. This to me is a fougere-y white/yellow floral-y barbershop-y soapy type fragrance. This is NOTHING like the designer fragrances of today, it hits with the oldschool vibe right off the bat and it doesn't let up. Its what you'd think a sauve, successful and socially inclined cool dad would be wearing to the late night function in the early 80s. Yeah, I might end up wearing this out, but for me this is a keep for personal tastes and sentimental value.

A blind buy simply because it's Patrick Bateman's cologne in American Psycho (novel). This is the scent that radiates from an older gentlemen at the country club, or as you pass him outside the stock exchange. Well dressed, well moneyed, but classy & in control. He doesn't need to rush, he's the master of his own time. It's that classic smooth, warm masculine smell you wish you could ask that older man who just passed by in the street what he was wearing. You've had this experience before and you've never been able to quite find something like it. It's smooth, warming, and softly spiced. Masterfully blended. Warm spices & bitter herbals tamed by musk, coumarin, sweetened with a touch of vanilla, freshened with lemon & florals, heated with nutmeg & amber. It's talc, shaving cream, lavender, oakmoss, warm spices, musky, smooth. It literally warms the nostrils. Yes, it DOES smell like it's from the 80's, but in the best possible way. This is actually a timeless scent. Nostalgic class in a bottle. Fully wearable today if you're a confident, classy, well put together man. Powerful performance, this radiates and lasts ALL day if you splash it all over. DIRT CHEAP - I bought 240ml for around £30. 10/10. A Lifetime Signature scent.

I absolutely LOVE this cologne on a man. My husband absolutely loves it as well. This scent is also what my Grandfather, Uncle and Cousin wear and let me tell you, I've been complimenting them for years on "wow, you smell great" but never bothered to remember the name when they told me. I'm in Macys' one day looking at all the pretty shiny fragrances, and in my mind trying to find my family cologne. Sprayed a few and came to this one. It was all the way at the end of the row. The bottle looks cheap as hell with that gold plastic cap- can't they do better? But the glass bottle isn't bad containing that pretty golden liquid juice. I smelled the nozzle and yes, this is it! I suppose if I didn't have a familial memory / association with this cologne that it wouldn't be so special to me. But, I do believe that this stuff is beautiful on a man. It's funny that there are no spices listed in the composition, because that is exactly the olfactory equivalent I smell. I guess it must be the musk and amber blending with the sage, lavender and florals. My husband says over and over that it smells "clean" but that's not the word that comes to my mind. It is spicy-woody-fresh.

Mmmmmmmm finally an almost fully rose-dominated men's fragrance :). If you smell this without knowing the notes, what you get is warm, woody, youthful shaving cream. But once you know that there's a lot of rose, that almost all of what you smell from then on out with of course a little bit of lavender and musk. Its nice to find sultry scents that all age groups can wear. It's definitely not a watered down aquatic and it's certainly not a brick of spice and headache inducing other things. Instead it's a kind, soft woody floral that gently whispers "cuddle with me, clothes optional." and exudes masculinity at the same time. This is something I prefer to wear during the winter months and to also spritz on my black faux satin sheets. Although it's really inexpensive and the packaging is sub-par to to the cheesy cap and sprayer set-up, I get a dreamy, warm and erotic effect from it that makes me wither want to curl up in my bed and slumber or perhaps some other things often performed in the same area. If you're open minded and enjoy warm scents or rose scents in particular, you need to check it out!

This has been my husband's signature scent since we met in 1998. I first smelled it on a guy at the bar pre-hubby and I literally followed him through the bar to find out what it was. It just smelled so distinctive & like nothing I'd smelled before. (I don't think this smells at all like Old Spice, because I can't stand Old Spice, but I lerrrvvv Paul Sebastian!) Hubby started wearing it per my recommendation when we started dating & I can't get him to wear ANYTHING else. Even "the good stuff." He says he always gets compliments & that he can't count the times he's had women chase him down to tell him how good he smells & ask what he's wearing. My 17-year old has started wearing it & says the girls love it. It's really hard for me to identify specific notes. If I think about it, yes there's rose and for sure oak moss, but I guess it's the ylang-ylang that pulls it all together. It really is the sum of its parts though. There's nothing else really like it. Its one of my favorite scents on a man, and I'm not afraid to admit it!

The poor guy below my review (if he hasn't been down-voted off) thinks Paul Sebastian Fine Cologne is competing with the likes of Creed Aventus, Dior Sauvage or Invictus. Apples to oranges. Don't be foolish like him. PS Cologne stands tall among the other greats in this category: the classic, manly, barbershop fougere. It checks all the boxes we love: masculine scent, good longevity and performance, mass appealing, low price, still in production, etc. At first spray I wasn't impressed. After the dry down, then I realized this is a great cologne for men. It really does remind me of Old Spice. One thing that's different about this one is that it doesn't have that prominent oak mossy scent of the typical 80s-90s manly colognes. Instead, this has a light floral note that softens the whole composition and makes it somewhat creamy to my nose. Warm vibes. While PS Fine is more suitable for a mature guy, I could see someone in their late 20s and into their 30s rocking this. $8 for the 30ml, and now I'm considering the bigger bottle.

If Old Spice wears a cable knit sweater, peacoat, and has a seabag on his shoulder then his son, PS Fine, wears an Armani tailored suit and carries a leather briefcase. PS Fine is a testament to the axiom: "Quality fragrances need not be expensive." This fragrance is tragically overlooked, underrated, and discounted by today's users for the quality and value PS Fine delivers. Another reviewer mentioned PS Fine as a Swiss Army fragrance. I agree. PS Fine is equally suited for casual and formal occasions in all seasons. PS Fine delivers above average longevity, projection, and sillage than many other fragrances 3x-4x its price. PS Fine is truly a classic for those of us in the know. PS Fine does have a quasi-linear drydown but what a gorgeous drydown it has. PS Fine is Old Spice and British Sterling combined with stamina. Sweet, spicey, musky, and warm with tons of old school charm and class. Guys, PS Fine is a diamond in the rough. It's been around for decades for a reason.

After wearing this going up on a year now, I still can't believe how good this is for the price. This fragrance should be well over a 4 on the Fragrantica scale. To me, it's in the same ballpark as Chanel Pour Monsieur , Creed Bois de Portugal , Nicoli New York Intense, and Chanel Antaeus. That masculine Fougere . Powerful upfront and then eventually drying down to a soft lovely powder. For $17 on Amazon the performance is unexpected. I would say this is a 3 1/2 season fragrance with everything but 85+ degree heat and humidity. If you want another gentlemen fragrance that some say is "old school" ,buy a 2 oz. bottle. If you don't like it , put it down the drain, recycle the glass and your out $17. Since the bottle top screws off, I transferred my juice into a really nice fancy bottle that resembles the Xerjoff bottles. If Fragrantica did a yearly vote of fragrances that were "more bang for the buck", cheapies that are excellent fragrances, this would be up there.

This smells pretty similar to old spice, not exactly but similar vibe. This is better than current old spice in every way. More dimensional, higher quality smelling, lasts way way longer. This stuff is pretty long lasting and pushes fairly well off my skin. This can easily be dressed up a bit outfit wise, and is cheap enough to wear casually. I got a 1oz bottle for about 6$. This smells way higher quality than many current designers to me. Probably not a teenager scent unless you like more vintage stuff. To me it doesn’t smell grandpa ish, but I like a lot of barabershop scents. *update: Wife said I smell like an old dude that just got his hair cut. Or an old dudes soap. She said it’s definitely an older smelling scent. Not bad, just not what she’s into. ***update update *** Wife has blind smelled it multiple times now and has complimented me almost every time I wear it. I really love this fragrance, I will probably pick up a 4-8oz bottle soon.

I used up a whole bottle of this stuff, so I'm pretty familiar with it. To me, I get the Old Spice comparison, but it smells more like the Classic Cologne version than the aftershave which is probably what most people are familiar with. Old Spice Classic Cologne is warmer, spicier and just denser than the aftershave. Anyways, both the Old Spice CC and PS Fine Cologne have this warm, pumpkin pie like aroma that I would also compare with a classic bay rum. PS Fine Cologne, however, is much much stronger than Old Spice and it lasts and projects all day with not many sprays. When you consider how good it smells, how strong it is, and how inexpensive it is, really if you like this style of scent which is admittedly pretty old school, you can't get much better value than this. I highly recommend this to people who are into classical perfumery and the kinds of fragrances that I've mentioned, as well as other barbershop/aftershave type scents.

As of late, i have been on an "Old school" perfume kick. Just got Eau de guerlain from 1974 and this one, PS fine cologne. I am so happy that both my father and my brother put me on to "colognes" as a child. These old schools scents have something magical about them, something that these new creations (nothing wrong with modern perfumery but, these older scents have this beautiful charm to them that are unfortunately and sadly missing in today's perfume) seem to lack. PS fine cologne is this soft, musky and somewhat sweet and floral type fragrance. It is in fact a more smoother, more refined version of old-spice to my nose. To call this scent "dated" is to say a Picasso is ugly or a davinci out of style, these are creations that will forever live in a time capsule of a bygone era where fragrances had no boundaries! 10/10 for me, beautiful, reminds me of my dad. A family man, a man of honor and morals. God bless, H

Talk about a major flood of nostalgia—PS Fine Cologne is one that gives me instant flashbacks of childhood. It somehow reminds me of my Dad's CB room (he used his CB radio well into the 80s). His handle was Scrimshaw, my Mom's was Dynasty. Mine was Little Scrimshaw. This is a Scrimshaw smell. I'm not sure why, I don't recall seeing this on my Dad's dresser, but perhaps because PS is what I perceive as an amalgam of Old Spice with its melange of spices, Brut with its ylang-ylang floral heart, and Avon Musk for Men muskiness, all three of what my Dad wore. That would likely explain it. I've never tried more recent versions, but the bottles with "Fine Cologne" printed on the bottles are apparently the ones to seek out. Vanaris Ridari on Basenotes has an excellent write up on the history and deeper context of this release which is well worth reading.