John Varvatos Artisan Pure Eau de Toilette Spray, 125 ml

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I've found the performance of JVAP to be average and not as weak as others have reported, however everyone's skin chemistry is different. Artisan Pure opens up incredibly bright, crisp, airy, and fresh, with petitgrain being the obvious centre. Change country: -Select- Afghanistan Albania Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Cambodia Canada Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Estonia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Finland France French Guiana Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guernsey Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Maldives Malta Martinique Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Romania Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. When people say 'citrus', I thought this would be something along the line of Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche or Issey Miyake l'Eau d'Issey pour Homme.

A bit of ambroxan, clean modern musks, and a kiss of woody warmth begin to rise from the base, adding some bottom end, but always keeping the bright citrusy freshness at the heart. For example, some top note citrus scents smell stronger immediately upon application, while a lavender middle note may be sensed after some time from application as the top note evaporates. After about 3-4 hours the projection was about arms length and there was still an easily noticeable scent trail. There is a mouth-watering sourness and bitterness at play, the olfactory equivalent of tasting some citrus zest rather than the pulp. I still get this initial synthetic blast, however a minute or two it goes away and besides citruses I can smell amber, a little bit of musk and ginger?

Imaging pulling the leaves from a lemon tree, and gently breaking them in your hands - fresh, bright, aromatic, citrus, but not juicy, and fairly green. They do that if they’re incredibly extroverted, inebriated, or the scent is just too good to not know what it is. To me this is a classy masculine summer scent for the office or signature scent for people who don't like heavy fragrances.

The scent makes me remind of some dude with long hair and a beard wearing light-coloured shirt and shorts hanging in a hammock by the beach. When not in this 'aggressive' phase, there are moments when the perfume smells of an intensely sunny day in a citrus orchard. When you first spray it on (after the alcohol has faded) you are hit with an uplifting, fresh, lively, clementine / tangerine scent which mellows pleasingly over the next couple of hours.

Edit: I’ve had the bottle for about 2 months now, and it’s my least favorite in my collection, I don’t reach for it as often because I gotta be in a specific mood to where this. I was expecting to love this based on the notes and the hype but it smells like Fantastik disinfectant cleaning spray. So much so that I have a backup bottle for layering because its so versatile and fit for that purpose.