Rochas Man

Rochas Man EDT opens with a moderate projection of sweet, coffee, vanilla, amber, and soft fruity notes. The opening is very pleasant, it feels gourmand, balsamic, well-balanced, not too heavy, and not faint either. The sweet cappuccino or coffee note is the most prominent, in this fragrance, this note is evocative of blond coffee with a little milk, aromatic but nothing bold or harsh. The vanilla and amber are very close; the vanilla makes the fragrance feel very sweet, delectable, very inviting, on the other hand, the amber contributes with a light resinous, and warm touch. The opening brings light floral and fruity touches, specifically, jasmine, lavender, lily of the valley, and raspberry, but they are support notes, and as such, they are not identifiable as individual notes, but as a group of notes working together to enhance the fragrance and the featured notes. The fragrance transitions from its opening to its dry-down state very quickly, with this transition, some of the initial moderate projection drops making it a more personal space fragrance, more intimate, but noticeable. The sandalwood joins the amber and vanilla enhancing the gourmand characteristics. The cedar and patchouli are enhancing notes, they sharpen the featured notes of the fragrance. The fragrance does not have any significant opening to dry down changes. Once Rochas Man EDT has reached its full-down, it can be summarized as a moderate to low projection, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and resinous fragrance with white floral, fruity, and light woody accords. The fragrance feels aromatic, casual, comforting, cozy, slightly creamy, delectable, delicious, slightly fruity, gentle, gourmand, intimate, invigorating, inviting, light, mild, slightly milky, moderate-quality, modern, natural, nicely-blended, light resinous, relaxing, rich, sweet, unisex, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#24J16J063). WOW RATING: 8/10. A very pleasant, personal-space, gourmand coffee fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The coffee and sweet notes are noticeable but not offensive in any way. UNIQUENESS: 5/10. Gourmand coffee fragrances are relatively common. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 2/10. Low, about 2 feet around the wearer. A personal space fragrance. SILLAGE: 3/10. Moderate to low, about 3 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 6 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 4/10. About 4 hours, it projects for about 1/2 hour then it becomes a more intimate scent. SEASONS: Winter, fall, colder days and nights, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 6/10. A delicious and versatile coffee fragrance for mild or cold weather. GENDER: Unisex. Advertised for men, the coffee and vanilla, which are the most prominent notes, are unisex. AGES: Any. RECOMMENDATION: Rochas Man EDT can be found for about $30. Its longevity and projection could be better, yet, it is a very pleasant and well-balanced fragrance. This is ideal for those looking for a reasonably-priced, more intimate, coffee gourmand fragrance. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: Yes. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Grand Parfums Angel Men is a good clone, sweet, fruity/orange soda-like, and blond coffee fragrance; Hugo Boss The Scent Private Accord EDP is a weak but unique, sweet vanilla, maninka, coffee, and cacao fragrance; Jesus del Pozo Halloween Man X Men EDT is a great coffee, cinnamon, boozy, cardamom, and leather fragrance; Kilian Black Phantom EDP features delicious coffee, rum, caramel, and dark chocolate; Mancera Aoud Café brings coffee, woody, sweet, warm spicy, and amber notes; Michael Jordan Legend Men Cologne features coffee, spices, leather, amber, and woods with excellent longevity; Montale Intense Café features floral, coffee, vanilla, a great fragrance for sure; Montale Ristretto Intense Café is great, very aromatic, very sweet coffee and roses fragrance; Nasomatto Black Afgano is a potent, green, and incense fragrance; Ralph Laurent Polo Red Extreme is a slightly sweet, dark, and slightly smoky wood, and coffee fragrance; Ralph Laurent Polo Red Intense is a very sweet, cranberry, ginger, amber, coffee, woody, and leathery fragrance; Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo Men EDT is a nice tonka and tiramisu fragrance but the tiramisu note isn’t lasting; Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo Signature Men EDP is a good sweet, leather, coffee, and tonka fragrance; Thierry Mugler A*Men Kryptomint is a great minty, green and touches of coffee fragrance; Thierry Mugler A*Men EDT is a good, sweet, fruity soda-like, and blond coffee fragrance; Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka is a strong and delicious, warm sweet coffee, and cacao fragrance; Rochas Man EDT is mild, delicious, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and resinous fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate to low projection, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and resinous fragrance with white floral, fruity, and light woody accords. The fragrance feels aromatic, casual, comforting, cozy, slightly creamy, delectable, delicious, slightly fruity, gentle, gourmand, intimate, invigorating, inviting, light, mild, slightly milky, moderate-quality, modern, natural, nicely-blended, light resinous, relaxing, rich, sweet, unisex, warn, and very pleasant.

For the price, you can't really beat this. I paid less than 30 including delivery and taxes, and for it I received this absolute gem of a fragrance. I feel like this comes from a long line of scents that came in the wake of the highly successful Thierry Mugler A*Men, which might just be the most influential fragrance of the last 35 years. This doesn't really smell like A*Men, but it does go in a sweeter direction the way that A*Men does, and unlike any other fragrances that came out before it, or at least to the extent that A*Men did. This is lighter, sweeter, whereas A*Men is a complete beast mode powerhouse of a fragrance that some may even consider to be challenging with it's notes of leather and patchouli, yet it has a gourmand coffee accord that makes it seem almost edible, and this is very much in the same style. It smells like dessert, or breakfast as some have said. This is so wearable, you could wear this anywhere and I feel like I've been saying that a lot lately, but it's one of those things that you can wear almost anywhere and it just fits, and I think you could even wear this as a Netflix and Chill type of scent with your significant other, I feel like this is almost the perfect Valentine's Day scent in that regard. To me, anybody 25 and up would probably really like this, it has a little bit of a maturity/sophistication to it that makes me feel like younger than 25 probably would be less likely to enjoy this, but this definitely isn't an old man's scent even though it came out in 1999. It's somewhat notorious for having poor performance, and indeed it does quickly become an intimate scent, but the longevity seems completely fine, I've been wearing it since about 7:30 (it's almost 11 now) and I still have a nice scent bubble, but I'm sure that I don't have much of a trail. I feel like even though this is my first full wearing, I know more or less how this is going to go: 4-6 hours of longevity, and the first 90 minutes it'll have some push but not much. You have to spray a little bit more than other fragrances I'd say, but not by much. I really feel like this is going to be one of my go-tos this spring oddly enough, I live in a cooler climate, so it stays pretty cool especially in the evenings until summer, and even then I think this would work real well. I cannot say it enough how much I like this, I feel like this fits in very well for someone who likes those more ambiguous/unisex style mens releases, where maybe you can tell that they're masculine to an extent, but the way in which they're masculine is quite subtle. Fragrances like Dior Homme and Dior Homme Intense, the Valentino Uomo line, VC&A's Midnight In Paris, Bvlgari's Black, and even YSL's La Nuit De L'Homme and Chanel's Allure Homme come to mind for this category. If you like those kinds of fragrances, you should add this to your collection.

I bought this one because I am a woman who loves Replica Coffee Break (and so does my boyfriend, who steals it often) and this was recommended by many people as not a dupe, but being in a similar vein to Coffee Break. And it definitely is, though I think women looking for a cheaper dupe for Coffee Break should definitely just go for the original. Rochas Man has that same intoxicating lavender-coffee-vanilla opening of Coffee Break, and upon first spraying it I was impressed with how close the resemblance is. Coffee Break is misunderstood by many, but it is a truly androgynous fragrance -- not unisex, but rather flirting with both very traditionally girly and manly notes in a way that feels timeless and masculine but also girly and coquettish, and there is plenty of that here as well. However, as it lingered for a few more minutes, and then more and more as time passed, it morphed more and more into a fresh and rather generic feeling '90s/'00s men's aromatic. I don't find a masculine scent unappealing on me, so my dislike doesn't come from that -- but to me at least, the generic locker room aromatic cologne that dominates after is not nearly as beautiful as the opening, and Coffee Break's milky vetiver cedar dry down manages to have that gender-bending quality without smelling as out of fashion or smelling like a young dude's clubbing cologne. Performance is indeed low, maybe lower than Coffee Break -- but unless a fragrance is exorbitantly expensive, I really do not mind that -- I don't want my fragrances to speak for me, just to give a subliminal good impression of me. I'm just a little let down by how dated and teenage boy-ish the dry down smells, and for that reason, it is a strong like and not an absolute love, despite the opening minute smelling like a dead ringer for my beloved Coffee Break. But for somebody out there, my loss is your gain, and it's still worth the sample, because it's a delightfully fun ride nonetheless!

Coffee, chocolate and lavender. Looking at other reviewers I see most votes go to the winter and fall. I disagree. Yes, this is a gourmand, and those are the seasons gourmands are typically good for. But this is not a typical gourmand. This is a spring scent. While yes, you can get away with this in fall and winter, this is the kind of fragrance that extends the gourmand season, not shines when its at its highest. The lavender is really prominent and makes it smell really fresh and clean. Too fresh to feel comfortable if you're cold. This smells like sipping a hot cappucino, outside, in a field of lavender, and unless its weather where you could see yourself doing just that, I dont think this scent comes fully to its right. It does not perform bad on me, as I've often read on others. On skin lasts till the end of the day, on clothes wont leave till you wash them. It smells really good and ladies do seem to love it. I got this as it was compared to A*men, and I love amen (pre-reformulation, haven't tried the last one yet). But I dont think this are comparable scents at all. Amen is a much heavier, fullblown cold weather fragrance. Of the two, I do prefer amen, but certainly not unhappy about this addition to my collection at all, and doesn't feel redundant either. I'm wearing it quite often. One thing to note: the bottle did require a few months of maturating to come fully into its own though. I really didn't like it at first spray. Oh, and the bottle itself is simply atrocious. I can get beyond the part it looks like a sex toy people put in places where the sun dont shine, the person who thought it was a good idea to have the atomiser facing down when the bottle is standing up really needs to rethink his career options. Fear of leakage drives me so nuts I can't store this thing anywhere but in its box, upside down.

Gourmand Fougere (Maurice Roucel, 1999) Scentrack: The Rhye - Fall During my college, I used to wear Rochas Man. Relaxed, fun and cheerful like my college days, Rochas was so appropriate. After ten years I bought it again, and I recall it being more powdery and dirtier. The current version seems cleaned up, but still possessing that naive charm. Rochas is still a wonderful example of gourmand fougere, patented by great perfumer Maurice Roucel. Like a proper fougere, Rochas Man starts with clean, but soft lavender note, later found in Roucel’s Hypnose Homme. Apparently, reformulation took away the fizzy top note of bergamot. The lavender is followed by amazingly complement mocha coffee note. What a perfect blend. A beautiful chimera of fougere lavender and gourmand notes of coffee and cotton candy, replayed in Bond No. 9 New Haarlem. After these main notes, I do sense a subtle fruity note raspberry and pink lily of the valley note. There is also some cedar, like a backbone leading to wonderful base consisted of affable vanilla and dark amber. Unfortunately the performance of this fragrance are questionable, but I still prefer over more expensive New Haarlem. Sweet, magnetic, attractive, fragile and celestial. A perfectly intimate and introverted fragrance. Rochas always made brave, yet somehow commercially unsuccessful fragrances. I always have been weak on commercial losers, like I always preferred Wile E. Coyote over the Road Runner. Rating: 7.5/10