Perry Ellis Red

An unspectacular fragrance with alluring powers. Perry Ellis Red is a haunting ghost. It is impossible to find because Perry Ellis sells FOUR other fragrances creatively given the name "red". I have my doubts that anyone will ever stumble across this web page to read my review. I picked up this version of "red" up in the form of a gift set with a damaged box from Ross for around $13. You want to know what's so wild about "red"? "red" is my most complimented fragrance in my collection. "red" to me smells like walking up to the unattended men's fragrance section at a Belk with used tester strips haphazardly shoved in the little boxes. It's fresh and spicy with noticeable juniper, sage, and sandalwood notes and a vague fruity accord I guess they wanted to call "red" apple. It's a clean, modern, fresh masculine without any aquatic, tonka, or ambrox notes. Maybe that simplicity and slight sidestep of modern tropes is why people seem to demand I tell them what I am wearing when I don "red". Family. Cashiers. College girls. Older women. Landscaping coworkers. Office coworkers. Random people walking by. Unsolicited compliments are honestly a pretty rare occurrence for me but it was my daily driver during the summer of 2018 and I felt like a Youtuber puffing up their compliment count when I wore it. "red" sits at the back of my collection but even still, wearing it once every probably 2-3 months, I still seem to get random people complimenting the stuff whenever I wear it. Go figure. If you find this floating around somewhere for $13, scoop it up and give it to your lame nephew. Change his life.

I get tones of complements from this one,smelled it at Dillards then ordered some samples off eBay I would highly recommend this

This is the best Perry Ellis men cologne I smelled and I had 360 red and Perry Ellis M

Lady at Dillard's sprayed some of this on a card for me today. I really do like the smell. Not offensive at all and quite easy to please with this one. It smells extremely similar to some other scent I couldn't quite remember at the time. But, it would be a pretty safe purchase in my opinion, especially if the price drops to bargain bin like most of the others from this house... I would definitely snatch up a bottle without a second thought.

Solid, if not spectacular fruity freshness. It's crowd-pleasing, but I wouldn't call it generic. The performance is mediocre, though that's to be expected from this house and for the price this goes for. I could see this as a good choice for a high schooler or someone who's just getting into fragrances, and I might actually take it over any of the other fragrances in the Perry Ellis box-shaped line.