"This is a soft, gentle scent, which always gave me an impression of a gay scent for somehow.."
D&G Masculine is a soft type woody aromatic scent launched in 1999. It was created by nose Max Gavarry. Not an uber successful nose when we look his creations. This is a soft, gentle scent, which always gave me an impression of a gay scent for somehow. Also mind you, it's now discontinued. It wasn't a very popular, successful fragrance at all.
D&G Masculines blend consist of:
top notes: petit grain, bergamot
middle notes: orange blossom, clary sage, mint, basil, jasmine, caraway
base notes: teak wood, fig leaf, musk, vetiver, cedar
Not a too common blend we see here. There's only petitgrain and bergamot on top notes, and then some fig and teak to soften and cream the base notes. The only problem with this is; all the blend smells quite artificial and anharmonic. But to me its the paradox it has, scent is quite feminine, despite bearing a "masculine" tag. And I'm not talking about a slight feminine scent, it's a so feminine scent, a woman could easily wear it. With this and the syntheticness together I found the blends a loser.
Let's look at the scent then. D&G Masculine has a general scent character as a flowery, sweet lemony scent. But either the lemons sweetness and the jasmine's dominancy make the scent overly feminine to a man's acceptance levels. To me, this sweet, flowery concept would be too heavy event for winter. Some people accept this as the best citrus scent but for me its so far away from that, when I think there are tons of other much better citrussy scents than this. This was a so so fragrance, but as in most discontinued fragrances, users of discontinued fragrances transform them to masterpieces in their minds when its gone, same case here. So don't be hasty or over excited to get one after reading other reviews.
In summary, it's kinda a harsh, moderately heavy scent with bad synthetic blend. Definitely not the masculine old school men's scent you'd have imagined despite the masculine badge. Rather; a soft, a bit too musky, flowery gayish scent. Modern was it? Yes. Successful? no.
Longevity is under average and the silage is average on my skin. Tends to fade fast. I'd suggest this to users between 25-45 with no red lines. If you like the scent, it can suit casual or formal situations,
indoors and outdoors. I suggest
using in second half of the day. Mostly in fall or winter.
Olfactory group: Woody Aromatic
Scent: under average 4/10
Silage: average 5/10
Longevity: under average 4/10
Quality feel: under average 4/10
Recommended: No, I would not suggest this to anybody, there are better options.
This was extremely Masculine! The above review isn't even close to being accurate. Flowery? It smells woody with lemons / pines coming over, nothing feminine about any of that! It's also not remotely sweet either. As for it not being successful? It really was. It was only discontinued because D&G moved from P&G as fragrance producers to someone else and the rights to Masculine didn't transfer to the new producers. But it was extremely successful. I've worn over 200 fragrances some middle level, some very expensive. But this got me more compliments than any fragrance ever!! What a shame it had to be discontinued.
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