Cigar

Quick review of Cigar Special Edition for Men by Remy Latour - Very preety box and bottle (I bought the Spetial Edition - It does have a gorgeous box and bottle quite different from the normal edition). Good sprayer ! - Fruity sweet, quality pipe tobacco, woody ! - Smooth, well blended, good notes harmony during it's evolution ! - Compliment grabber! This attraction is a result of a gourmand aromatic scent in with the top fruity notes and flower middle notes, as well with a gourmand tobbacco and woody bottom notes. It presents a long and calm dry down. Does not have a loud projection. Its sillage peaks at 3~4 feet till the end of the second hour. It presents a generous skin scent till the 8th hour. After that you get a faint skin scent for 2 hours more. Slightly above average performance! - Does not smell cheap or syntethic ! - Special edition costed only 1,00 more than normal edition! - It's quite more agreable than Cuba Red - I just mention it because a lot of people compare the 2 fragrances! It does share a vibe with Burberry London for Men. My rates for : Scent:.........................9.0 Longevity:...................8.5 Sillage:........................7.5 Versatility:...................9.0 Compliments...............8.5 Uniqueness:................8.5 Quality:........................8.0 Presentation:...............8.5 (special edition) Price:..........................10.0 (€17,00 for 100ml) Average:....................8.61/10.0

I truly love this scent..... Unfortunately Remy Latour made a decision to change the sprayer under a removable cap for an integrated sprayer. The result of this is that maybe 60% of one squirt actually ends up on my body and the rest shoots out at such a weird angle that it ends up on the inside of the non removable cap and then slowly runs down the whole bottle which constantly has to be wiped dry after usage. Sooooooo annoying. Ideally any sprayer should have a funnel style spray pattern. Interestingly my Remy Latour Cigar Blue bottle, identical in design sprays perfectly fine without drenching the whole bottle in liquid. Back to the scent... I can see how many compare it to Burberry London but i could only detect similarities after the initial spray. In the dry down, Burberry London remains sweetish, the whiff of port wine recognisable and it ends up as a soft woody scent. Remy Latour Cigar has a wonderful sweet tobacco dry down and it really does smell like a nice aromatic pipe or cigar tobacco which was just rubbed on your body. It lasts long even on my skin, which usually absorbs scents instantly . Beautiful scent, beautiful designed bottle, catastrophically executed sprayer. Please Remy Latour, go back to the solution with a separate bottle/sprayer and cap. I'm happy to spend more money for that.

I blind bought this because it was so cheap and most of the reviews are positive. However, I didn't expect it to be so good. I'm captivated by it from the first spray. Really enjoy the succulent plum and pear fruity notes at the open right down to the tobacco dry down. The whole thing just smell so inviting and delicious. The sweet and smokey contrast of this fragrance gives it complexity and it's really addictive. Longevity and performance are very good. For people who have never tried this fragrance, believe all the raving reviews about it here. I'm glad I did. I also bought Black Wood, but found it less interesting. Hope that over time, I'll grow to appreciate it more. Right now, it's a poor second to Cigar. 2 MONTHS AFTER ABOVE REVIEW I've not used my Cigar and Black Wood frags for the past 2 months as I've been trying out other new purchases. Two days ago, I applied Black Wood to see if I wanted to keep it or give it away. I immediately fell in love with it. For some reason, I could appreciate a lot of the woody and floral notes which I could not smell before. Most of all, I really enjoy the sweet coconut smell. I'm a little surprised by my complete turnaround and I'm glad I gave it a second chance . It's a great scent and the longevity is very very good too. Now, I can't wait to get Black Oud.

I noticed that a frequently used term to describe this fragrance is "charming" - and that is a very accurate description for Cigar. The sillage and longevity on Cigar is amazing, yet there doesn't seem to be anything overbearing or irritating in the least. I think the reason not many people comment on the fruit notes is because they are so light and harmonize so well with the tobacco and patchouli instead of dominating the conversation and help lend the "charm" to this fragrance. I was really having a rough and kind of sad week while I wore this but Cigar refused to let me wallow too much in my sadness. It's a "happy" kind of scent that feels authentically happy, if that makes sense. It doesn't try too hard and come off feeling manic. My husband really liked this on me and a woman at work went mad for it and I had to show her this page so she could see what this was called and how much it cost - she wants it for herself as well - she wrote down the name and brand and was very excited. She thought the patchouli smelled terrific. Really can't go wrong with this little gem.

This was one of my first colognes in my early 20s - I've still got about 30% left of a 1996 bottle (it's an EDC, which I think was the only option back then), and I plan to use it judiciously - but I am interested to see how much more strength the current EDT has. Back in the day it was very hit-or-miss with the ladies - I suspect that many American women back in the 90's hadn't really been exposed to too many tobacco or spicy scents to that point, as they routinely would dismiss it as too masculine. For that reason I kept it tucked away in the back of my stash - and that's probably the reason I have anything left of my vintage bottle. It's remarkable how tastes in scents mature over time, as in recent years I've never received anything like the previous prejudice against this definitive sweet-tobacco gem - or maybe it's the difference between the young women of my youth and the mature women it's my privilege to engage with in more recent years. While preserving my bottle I'm venturing into the Cuba Paris line to see how they compare.