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Galenripx – :
This smells kinda like after my baby wakes up and fills his diaper with urine. I then take off his diaper and put on big boy underwear but am in too much of a rush to give him a bath so he has a slight urine smell to him. That’s what I smell with Stetson. It actually doesn’t start off too bad but the dry down to me smells a bit too musky and borders on a urine smell. Sorry… Honest opinion.
ruslan-68 – :
It was ridiculous for me to be wearing this old man scent as a 13/14-year-old! It does smell very nice though.
Irremkesehumnte – :
Studly. That’s what I recall thinking when my beau from the early 80’s wore this. Also had a good friend back then who sported this fine cologne. Heaven….
I’ve got to round me up some of this precious gold, and refresh my memory. Yum!
vinix777xx – :
Sweet floral – honey – aromatic
Color impression: sand
There was a long classic romantic miniseries named The Thorn Birds, taken from a book with same title. I have no idea why Stetson only depicts that classic movie. I still clearly remember some scenes and Stetson with its strange musky floral lavender and brutal back-up of honey takes me to the movie location. It’s a true classic for watching classic western and romantics.
★★★★
pmk238speagoessenda – :
I’ve been an Old Spice guy for a while. But P&G really cheapened and neglected The Classic. I bought Stetson as a blind buy at my drug store. I had a feeling I’d like it. I ended up loving it. It goes on strong but settles to an Old Spicy kind of sweet, earthy, flowery, vanilla scent. It costs a little more than Old Spice but doesn’t have a cheap scent and comes in a glass bottle.
tjom – :
Stetson is a wonderful scent for the money! Not the least bit cheap, it’s complex and beautiful. I know only the modern Stetson versions (Black etc), all are good, but the original is the best.
I do consider this unisex, a fragrance that transcends gender assignment. 🙂
Lovely and not at all overpowering, Stetson is a real treasure.
ysi961Negeltzex – :
One of the best colognes for the money. It always felt a little oily to me but I like that.
enettickinnib – :
Stetson is super sweet and floral. This leads some to blabber about it being feminine or unisex. Actually it’s quite the opposite. What this fragrance, especially in its aftershave version seems to recreate is what a rough cowboy smelled like after walking out of the old west barber shop following his bath at the bath house. All purtied up he’d be sporting a fresh shave and haircut, wearing town clothing including a new derby and emitting this sort of sweet powerful fragrance. Soon this aroma would be melded with the strong odors of tobacco smoke and whiskey and whatever scents he picked up from the ladies he would have rolled with. To really appreciate Stetson one needs to make sure to add the other essential ingredients.
morTurnerie – :
Foul. Smells like the inside of a neglected 1974 Toyota Corolla that was owned by a heavy smoker.
goreez – :
Must have cheapie. Tested modern version at Walmart today. First thought: smells like women’s oriental musky perfume. Second thought: reminds me modern Arpege by Lanvin or Original Musk by Kiehls. I would call it unisex musky well made perfume for a song. Very strong.
serialkillazzz – :
Masculine woody floral fragrance with a touch of sweetness (honey) and lavender to give it a barbershop stylish vibe that never goes out of style. It’s canny how this fragrance sparks so many memories just like other classics Old Spice and to a lesser stint Brut and English Leather. But Stetson is much more classy than the latter. When I wear and smell Stetson the following comes to mind EVERY time…
1. Legendary
2. Masculine
3. Undeniably a male fragrance (not unisex at all).
4. Feminine woman in my world love it on their man but not on themselves. Your world and definition of feminine could be different.
5. Amazing memories growing up. Dad and uncles wore it, can’t imagine my mom and sisters splashing on this aftershave.
6. Christmas (Not that it smells like Christmas but it’s a common Christmas gift from teen years to middle age)
7. Reminds me of men in my family (Often wore by Dad, brothers, uncles). Thank God mom did NOT wear this because it would of been really strange if mom and dad has the same signature scent. YIKES!
8. My first shave (splashed on Stetson after shave)
9. First school dance (poor girl must of been drowning in my over-sprayed application… sorry! 🙂
10. My first car. (Yes, stetson came for the ride).
adepten – :
I am a feminine woman who enjoys wearing men’s fragrances. I scored a beautiful gift set of special edition bottles…two, to be exact: One is cologne, the other after shave. They both wear beautifully. I was expecting leather and spice, what I pick up on my skin smells so familiar…and then I realized, Stetson smells like Chantilly, a vintage fragrance I have loved since childhood. I don’t find it masculine on me at all…just comforting and comfortable. It is a true honey scent on me, which I love, mingled with some lavender, lime, vanilla, orris and the faintest hint of clary sage waaaaay in the background.
karanduh 45802 – :
Well, I guess I am preposterous because Stetson wears on me like a honey and lavender dominant oriental. It reminds me of the long discontinued Blue Jeans cologne I loved in the 1970s as a little kid. Languorous and feminine like Karen Carpenter’s alto, but without the ethyl malitol sticky sweetness of most “feminine” perfumes. Smells like the outdoors, like open meadows. Not particularly like the West, or my memories of West Texas, which include sage and creosote.
Women’s fragrances used to be constructed along these lines before society decided we all had to smell like baked goods, candy, or neroli.
Stetson does not smell expensive, but it’s not gaudy or cheap either. Just comforting and easy to wear. I get the barbershop vibe (side effect of lavender), which makes me remember my dad and how much I admired him.
Funny how everyone chimes in about its essential masculinity. A scent starts off neutral, but waxes masculine or feminine depending on the wearer. I have a below average body temperature and female hormones, so of course this would wear differently on me from how it would on a man. It’s a casual comfort scent for me, one that takes me back to the past. No doubt it is uber macho on men. On me it’s a rich retro oriental.
maklayt111 – :
Scoff if you will… but Stetson is the real deal. No, certainly nothing you’d ever wear if you live in NYC, London, Rome, or any other world-class city. But on a Friday night in a rural town, along with Jack Daniels, your best jeans, and your finest cowboy boots… Stetson is clearly the fragrance of choice.
vch2195 – :
This is a sweet and soft fragrance that reminds me of Chanel No. 5. It isn’t overly masculine but definitely gives off barbershop vibes. However, like Chanel No. 5, is it easily becomes someone’s signature scent and will ruin it for you because of their association with it.
pnevmatica – :
An icon. So strong, distinct and uber masculine. To say this is unisex or feminine is preposterous. This is a fragrance a real man wears simply put one of the greatest scents I’ve ever come across.
jacksonn – :
Stetson Splash Cologne (1981)
C10H18O geraniol is all over this cologne. This is composed of geranium, citronella oil and rose oil so for the reviewers who’ve made remarks that it’s ‘feminine’ are not being inaccurate since we tend to associate flowers and their scent with women and not men. The honey note and amber note are as one. The amber-floral scent is very honeyed. The scientist in me can see how this is still based around geraniol which attracts bees as it is produced by the scent glands of honey bees to help them mark nectar bearing flowers and locate the entrances to their hives. The citronella oil gives it it’s amber honey orange color. The honey in this fragrance binds geranium, rose, carnation, jasmine, iris, and above all an aromatic lavender together. There is a rustic setting to this cologne – the American prairie and this Stetson hat wearing cowboy has had enough experience riding his horse in the prairie to identify the floral scents that waft into the afternoon air.
For a man’s cologne it is possibly the sweetest and most floral but that’s what makes it so fascinating. Starts off with a potent citral chemical note, the citral is the corresponding aldehyde-alcohol note for geraniol. There is also a smudge of limonene and orange so yes it’s citrusy but that citral blast is what has some people’s heads turning aside at the first whiff or (in the drugstore cologne spray) the first spritz. Studies have shown that about 1 to 1.7% of people are allergic to citral. Citral on its own is strongly sensitizing to allergies. The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) recommends that citral only be used in association with substances that prevent a sensitizing effect but in ’81 this rule didn’t apply yet.
Green notes added to this formula are clary sage, vetiver not to mention aromatic herbal patchouli leaves. The root of iris does tend to become a powdery note but it’s refreshing because of the citrus and soft, but in a pleasant way, like others have truthfully pointed out, as in a barbershop classic scent, a fougere. This is powdery but not baby powder or dusting powder at all. As such it’s a formal and casual scent rolled into one. A cologne which can be worn to Church as it can be worn to a baseball game. With the matching after shave it really does set off the fragrance. Despite the floral femininity, it is musky as it dries; greenish and woodsy with cedar. The musk takes over the scent on my skin as it fades into nothing and gets into my skin.
Stetson gets a bad rap sometimes because it is so cheap, linear, and a unisex that not every guy or girl cares for but I highly recommend it for fans of fougeres, honey, musk, and geranium lovers. It’s a day wear cologne that really does match up with Stetson hats and plaid shirts and T Shirts, but it can also be worn with a tux or suit. This scent is an old fashioned lavender fougere that has, truth be told, similarities to such fragrances – popular and beloved ones I might add – as Clubman Pinaud, Old Spice and Dana Canoe. These are affordable fragrances, subtle and vanilla based, powdery, musky, unisex, amber, woodsy and fragrant.
This then has more to do with personal taste in perfume. Whether you’re a man or woman, as long as you enjoy scents that are unisex and based on florals, but has enough of the other notes to turn it around to classic men’s notes of patchouli, vetiver and musk, this should be easy for you to handle. I wear this when I meet up with relatives and old friends casually. I don’t spray it. I splash it. I have the splash cologne typically sold in drugstores and this might be the only known men’s fragrance that comes as a splash.Available in drugstores like Wal Mart, CVS, K-Mart, and online on ebay and Amazon.com
csgamer – :
Back when I was less chronologically challenged Stetson was strictly my dressing-up and special occasions cologne. These days it’s a regular in my Fall/Winter rotation or days like today when we have Spring snow. I think Stetson is a beautiful fragrance that should be in everyone’s collection and I can’t imagine not having a bottle in my rotation.
appalpemi – :
I realize this is a drugstore cheap cologne but it has it’s moments. It reminds me of Dana’s Canoe and Old Spice. This is a powdery vanilla based musk scent with a lot of sweet notes that are unusual for a man’s cologne but no less engaging. It’s fresh as it starts and smells like an old time Brooklyn barbershop aftershave & powder scent. John B. Stetson was an icon of the West and he made the hat famous but this does not smell anything like one imagines a rugged cowboy to smell like (i.e. leather, musk, dark woods). This is all about the florals, honey, amber, vanilla and cedar.
The opening is a distinct lavender with a fresh but fleeting bergamot orange note. The lavender and the other florals take over almost immediately. I smelled orris or iris, carnation, jasmine and geranium. The florals are easily unisex so I can see why some women would go for this. It’s powdery floral but on me the musk and the cedar wood are well balanced and as it dries the scent leaves behind it’s feminine side and turns into a musk and cedar wood note, along with something like vanilla scented honey booze. It’s boozy, rich, intoxicating, creamy, and mature.
Hard to pull this off as a young guy but it can be done. This is a bit of a luxury cologne, I mean at least as far as it smells and so it seems to want you to wear it in formal suit and ties, dressy shirts, slacks. Formal wear. It’s a cologne for Church or business meetings. Because it’s not an aromatic bomb or too masculine, it’s easy for a girl to snuggle up to you and trust me she’ll love the cologne. I have received many a compliment with it.
Stetson is best worn in the cold winter months. It smells like a vanilla booze in the Catskills, and I have visions of log cabins, cottages and older men by a fireplace smoking a pipe. The traditional leather and tobacco notes are missing and this is why some people think of this as a woman’s fragrance. But for me it’s just a different type of men’s cologne. Very enjoyable and smells great.
kol1090 – :
I am familiar with the smell of Stetson from its aftershave and never questioned whether or not it was a men’s scent. It was an aftershave, which by its very nature is masculine. Later, when I purchased the cologne, I didn’t necessarily equate the powdery floral notes with anything feminine.
Until I bought my wife Bijan for Women. This perfume smells very much like Stetson. So, that either makes Stetson a uni-sexual fragrance, or Bijan.
Want to pump up the sillage of your Stetson? Layer it with Bijan for Women.
genakokt – :
What the heck!! ??!!
This is a woman’s perfume disguised as a man’s cologne.
A professional dance partner and friend of mine wears this and he showed me the bottle. He has the John B. Stetson Orignal Cologne Spray. Ok. This is my two cents on it. I put my nose to the spray nozzle. It smells like honey and very floral. It has an iris, and lavender, very fragrant. A sweet vanilla and honey. It lacks the big musk in most men’s colognes, no tobacco, patchouli or heavy woods. Absolutely a fragrance modeled after old time fougeres.
I also detected vanilla and powder notes amber and cedar wood. As you put it on the fragrance feels like a 19th century barbershop powder. It smells like a mustachioed man at his barber’s shop getting his facial hair shaved with a pleasant vanilla scented cream. It smells very old fashioned which is why many consider this to be an “old man or old lady” scent.
It reminds us of our grandparents. It’s soft, powdery, fresh and sweet. On both men and women this smells great. You put it on after you’re nice and clean with a shower and it’s flexible as both a day and night scent.
I wear Lady Stetson but I can see myself wearing this. However I was so shocked and surprised by how feminine it is. You might call this a unisex because of the spicy air it also has, and the cedar wood, but for me this is a sweet powder perfume.
I love it! I don’t think I’m going to tell anyone I wear this though but now you know if you read this review 🙂
палартура – :
Fine, although I prefer the one for women. It’s a fabulous antidote to those damn aquatic scents that still dominate men’s fragrance markets.
Heecreascap – :
Stetson is my husband Scott’s signature scent but after sleeping with him for over 15 years, I have come to love this fragrance so much that I wear it myself.
I want to start this fragrance review by asserting that Stetson For Men is a unisex fragrance and can even pass for a woman’s Oriental Vanilla.
On a man it’s more of a FOUGERE.
This is such a lovely sweet powdery vanilla based perfume. I’m speaking of the Original Cologne Spray bottle.
It sells for affordable prices in most drugstores and stores like Wal Mart.
So if you are on a budget, and you want to wear something nice, especially in winter time and during the holidays when your family and friends get together for parties, this is a delicious and well-received fragrance sure to delight you and everyone around you.
I don’t detect any of the citrus notes despite Fragrantica’s page including lime, bergamot and lemon.
There is perhaps only a faint bergamot orange at the first spritz but it’s not at all citrus based or citrusy like Calvin Klein Eternity or CK One. The fragrance jumps into the floral note of lavender. It’s pure lavender.
There is also an iris in the form of powdery orris root. So if you like orris and lavender those notes are quite strong in the cologne spray, which is less concentrated and softer than the pure splash bottle concentration.
On me this is a soft powdery floral and honeyed Oriental with the floral notes coming through in a beautiful bouquet of lavender, carnation, geranium and iris. If you pay close enough attention, these flowers are clearly there.
Even with carnation in it, the lavender reigns supreme, as does the iris.
A sweet honey is mixing and mingling with amber and vanilla & these 3 notes of honey amber and vanilla, give this scent the unisex body.
Sweetness in a bottle.
If this is supposed to be a rugged cowboy he has a soft side that he can only express through his cologne which is not musky or heavily masculine at all.
I don’t get any patchouli, however the cedar wood and vanilla/tonka and amber are coming through.
Beautiful amber and a soft cedar wood like the scent of the bottom of a wooden cup.
It smells mostly of vanilla so everything holding it together is vanilla.
There is no denying this is a sweet vanilla scent. Men and women both enjoy the scent of vanilla and if you do too, this is a good gourmand vanilla scent.
I think this is best worn in cold winter months and smells like a nice hug from your grandfather at a Christmas party.
It’s sweet, delicious and inviting. I never thought I’d wear this after wearing Lady Stetson but now this is far superior as L. Stetson is too much talc powder.
This can be powdery too but it’s not as intense.
It’s also nothing like a typical man’s cologne of strong musk/leather, or patchouli/dark woods. It’s a fragrance that has more in common with unisex gourmand vanilla based frags like OBSESSION FOR MEN by Calvin Klein or a lavender based fougere like Old Spice.
Beautiful! Just beautiful!
Chernova_Mariya – :
Love this. My stepdad wore this one and it fit perfectly with his chemistry. Manly, yet comforting with a bit of spice. Loved his huggs smelling like this…. 🙂 Nostalgia for me.
lottoqxg1 – :
I bought a bottle of this for my dad for Christmas when I was a teenager… somewhere about 1982-83. He loved it. I have since bought him many other “high end” fragrances over the years that have just sit in a gift box tucked away in the armoire.
This seems to be his favorite signature fragrance, and I can understand why.
It’s warm, manly, sweet, soft, rugged… all at the same time.
I would dare to say that if YSL or Lagerfeld had stumbled across this variation and put it in a bottle it would have gained more respect. But, as it is, the public seems to have a perception of it being cheap and basic like Old Spice or English Leather.
Coty took a different approach to marketing Stetson as a fragrance that was relatively inexpensive, yet it is very complex in ingredients.
You can’t help but love it. It smells great on my dad, and he is the epitome of a gentleman to everyone he knows.
aleks3107 – :
My late husband’s signature frag. We lived in Nevada during our marriage, and it was very appropriate, day or night. (He also always wore a Stetson hat & cowboy boots.). A very nice frag, surprisingly complex. Whenever I catch a whiff of this, I remember him…..
LoShak – :
Stetson by coty, the smell of a warm friendly man of wild west, the era of cowboys…
I’m talking about the vintage aftershave.
It is one of the good and desireable examples of honeyed musky-leathery perfumes.
You may ask me where is the leather note? Yes, it is not stated as a note here in the pyramid of notes but if you test it, most probably you’ll get the soft leathery aroma sorrounding the whole composition.
Is it sweet? Yeah, it is sweet but in a balanced and desirable way.
I think stetson is formulated in a way to depict the image of a lovely and kind young cowboy dressed in a leaher jacket (just like the cowboy pictured in the old advertisment of stetson) whose charming smile and eyes can attract and seduce any young ladies.
استتسون بوی مردی خونگرم و مهربان از غرب وحشی، دوران کابوی ها و گاوچرانان…
من دارم در مورد افترشیو وینتج این کار صحبت می کنم.
این کار یکی از نمونه های خوب و زیبای عطرهای مشکی چرمی هست که لایه ای عسلی و خوشمزه اونو در بر گرفته.
شاید از من بپرسید که نت چرم کجاست و چرا ذکر نشده؟ اما من به شما می گم به احتمال خییییلی زیاد وقتی شما این عطرو بو کنید حتما اون فضای نرم و لطیف چرمی که کل ترکیب عطرو احاطه کرده مثل من حس خواهید کرد.
شاید با دیدن نت های عسل و تونکا و وانیل و کهربا برخی دوستان بترسند و گمان کنند که این کار خییییلی زیادی شیرین هست اما من به شما میگم که نگران نباشید چون شیرینی ای عطر بطرز ماهرانه ای کنترل شده است که این هم حاصل ترکیب دقیق نت های شیرین با نت های خنثی کننده ای مثل وتیور و سدر و مریم گلی است.
من فکر می کنم استتسون بگونه ای تریکب بندی شده تا بتونه تصویر یک کابوی جوان و مهربون رو با کت چرمی اش به نمایش بگذاره که با لبخند و نگاه جذابش هر بانوی جوانی رو متوجه و مجذوب خودش بکنه. این تصویر در پوستر قدیمی تبلیغ این عطر خیلی قشنگ به نمایش در اومده.
elaman69 – :
A surprising graduate from the class of ’81. While Kouros, Antaeus, Quorum and Santos were trying to out-macho one another with animalic bravado, Stetson took a very different approach. Yes, it matches the laughably masculine names and branding of its peers, but the scent itself is far removed from those classic powerhouses.
Stetson is a warm, even subtle unisex oriental which combines creamy tonka bean, vanilla, lavender and musk with subtle florals and a touch of honey-sweetness. If it weren’t for the patchouli, as another reviewer noted, it could even pass as feminine.
Essential? By no means. Cheap but surprisingly cheerful? You bet. As vanilla musks go, you could do a lot worse.
kavash – :
An excellent oriental fougere in the school of Royal Bain de Caron, Canoe, Ambush, Gingham, Black Suede, etc., done in the style of 70s and 80s, but very wearable and IMHO, still modern.
Also IMHO, the reference masculine jasmine.
symba82 – :
This is a very western smelling fragrance is one that I have experience in both the splash bottle and the sprayer.
I got a 2.5oz/75ml sized splash bottle at Christmas time last year admittedly for the price. It was my first and only splash bottle. I got two and stowed the second away. After about two day, I had dumped the first bottle in a reusable atomizer (there was no real reservoir cap for the splash) and is very strong. Eventually, I did get a spray bottle as well.
I find that unlike most fragrances that I have come across because I typically like lighter scents like aquatics and fougeres that I can easily spritz twice to three times in the same spot, this one needs only one and still smells strong and lasts almost full day. I eventually learned how to use the splash and it comes out a bit lighter but is still rather strong. I find splashing tames it better.
The main notes I get even from the open are the honey, amber and musk. This smells not just 1980’s but 1880’s but in a good way and I am younger cologne user. For deserts in the American southwest which includes places like Arizona, Texas and California, it is not just a night and winter scent but almost an anytime scent.
I would say it is an 8/10. It is a classic that most people don’t like and make jokes on but it is a unique different scent. Just be prepared for people to make old man jokes about you since that is the common joke about this scent.
Poeliarieromb – :
The scents light
But its like a Amber citrus Whiskey
Iodicyhoridar – :
I remember Stetson from magazine and television ads from back in the day. I just assumed that Stetson would smell like Brute or Aramis or one of the big 80’s “powerhouse” fragrances(no slam on Brute or Aramis! They both hold their place in the fragrance/time continuum). I wrote it off as being typical. So, fast forward to the present. I read several reviews of Stetson here on Fragrantica, and found many positive reviews. Then I bought a bottle of Stetson, and boy, was I surprised! It’s beautiful. Totally not what I was expecting. For a cheapie, drug store cologne, it’s well-balanced and gorgeous. It’s already become one of my favorite colognes. Right out of the bottle I can smell the florals,lime and then the musk and patchouli come marching in. I am very happy to be proven wrong about this great fragrance.
rolstavnimoskva – :
I sometimes spray this on my faux fur throw so my bed will smell of cowboy and become more inviting to me.
Griediaalcoli – :
Stetson advertised as a cowboy cologne. It was something you’d expect to be worn by the Marlboro Man in the cigarette ads. The vintage 80’s original had more musk and it wore like a strong fougere. It had the signature lavender in the top notes and the woodsy base. However the old cologne was reformulated and that’s what is mostly selling right now. I bought this on Amazon.com for such a low price because I love the lavender in this and the carnation, and the woods. This scent is not unisex to me because of the patchouli. The patchouli is really strong and reminds me of the patchouli in Ralph Lauren Safari. However I really do love Safari and I don’t mind smelling this scent. I apply very lightly one spritz on my wrist. I don’t scent my clothes with this as I find that it turns a bit too masculine and ugly on my clothes. The fragrance is unisex because of the jasmine lavender geranium floral combination. The rest of the fragrance is clearly for men because it has the woodsy notes. But there is so much more to this fragrance as it changes and develops in the long length of time it has. It smells of honey, liquor, vanilla bourbon, it smells of a log cabin, it smells of the Ozarks hills in Arkansas. It DOES have an outdoorsy feel to it in a very good way, like perfumed mountain air. It’s aromatic, it’s sweet, it’s sexy and I like to cuddle up next to any man that wears it. I’m a perfume slut LOL On me it smells mostly of honey vanilla and lavender. Sweet and strong fragrance. The price is very cheap but the fragrance smells amazing.
lesya14 – :
I used to own this, many years ago. A fomer girlfriend loved the smell, which enticed me to buy it. It smelled good, but I have outgrown it. Its cheap and still available, but there are so many better fragrances to wear.
smaidiigaizzz – :
I have not tried this yet on my skin. My review is simply based on a whiff from the bottle of the aftershav version. It smells of boozy vanilla. Very sweet! It’s a little strange that a cologne marketed for a rugged outdoors male smells like boozy vanilla to my nose…and a little like Bal a Versailles? Perhaps I have unintentionally found a BaV knock off?
Update–put a little on my wrists. It smells pleasant. I keep referencing BaV and Cher’s one hit wonder which also has a boozy vanilla vibe. It starts out pretty sweet from the beginning and then gets a little spicy.
gocha11 – :
I love original Stetson, and liking a fragrance myself is important – I feel energetic, fun, and confident when wearing it – otherwise, why bother? Stetson original has been a staple of my fragrance wardrobe for years, since around the time of its arrival in the marketplace, and I see no reason to change that. The floral and musk notes are outdoorsy, rugged, and Western and complements my Colorado mountain lifestyle. Fragrances don’t need to be expensive or pretentious to be nice and effective, and Stetson is nice and effective at a very affordable price, and has a name you can easily pronounce (or not mispronounce).
tqm915elipseskism – :
I really like Stetson Original, enough that I tried wearing it myself, but still I prefer it on men. I love warm, sweet, masculine, edible gourmand scents, & Stetson checks all the boxes. It’s definitely not quite as delicious as Pi by Givenchy, or The One (Men) by Dolce & Gabanna, but the price is right!
There is a danger that if you grew up smelling this on an older male relative, it may end up forever smelling like old man perfume to you. Just FYI.
374826 – :
Before I review Stetson, I want to put the whole “this is for women” business to bed. As far as I am concerned, ANY and ALL fragrances can be worn by men or women. I don’t care if it’s Kouros or Pink Sugar. END OF RANT.
To me, Stetson smells better on a man, but that’s just my personal opinion based on my experience. On me, it turned too powdery too fast. However, smelling it on various men over the years, I love the subtle powdery notes combined with a gentle muskiness which is not overpowering. The jasmine and other floral accords, as well as the green/herbal notes (and one of my faves, bergamot), add interest, while the honey/amber mix simply blows me away. It smells…..sort of edible.
Be careful applying Stetson, as overspraying will bring out too much of the patchouli.
This is a long-lasting scent with a good, but not “knock out your coworkers” sillage.
Perspect – :
This started the whole cologne game for me back in the 80’s! So for that reason I give it two thumbs up!
stanislavchuk – :
I bought a bottle of this for my husband and I couldn’t away from him! I would get near and inhale big whiffs. He didn’t wear it often, but I loved it so much that I started wearing it. It has a clean, powdery scent, but also has a musky tone. I love it!!
maxim12345 – :
I bought a cheap bottle of the edc from the drugstore because it was on sale and someone had once told me it was a bit like a far more expensive Serge Lutens frag that I like. Well, of course it’s nothing like the Lutens frag (maybe the pre-reformulation version was, for all I know). Stetson is pretty good for the price, and it smells unisex, with its well balanced spicy amber that isn’t too sweet or too dry. Anyone could wear this. I can see why there is a debate on whether this is masculine or feminine though, since so many of the notes are common in both traditional men’s fragrances and women’s perfumes.
alexSTdnr1 – :
Firstly, never mind the hypermasculine actors and athletes peddling Stetson, it is a classic by-the-numbers oriental for women. (Freud would have loved this study in behavioural compensation!) You only need to clear your head of the marketing/brainwashing and to trust your nose in order to prove it. That being said, it is a decent and really quite good fragrance, not deserving of all the loathing it has been given.
Secondly, if you don’t have the pre-IFRA restriction bottles, you will hate Stetson, or at least find it wanting. Remember that Coty Inc is bottling this. The standards keep getting lower– no exceptions, not even for their own brainchild.
I have a bottle that’s so very old (with the cowboy and bucking bronco glass-stamped 1865–yes, I know it came out in 1980’s), the top notes smell like varnish. But the heart and drydown are still intact and– surprise!—it’s a different scent from the one Coty is selling now. Totally different. Like, not even flankers.
What I’m trying to say is if you haven’t smelled Stetson from the 1980’s and early 90’s, please be kind. It was once good, but Coty Inc, Marvel’s Mister Sinister real world equivalent, corrupted it to what it is now,,,kinda like a parent mutilating his/her own child. Sickening. Poor hapless Stetson…
Breerturf – :
if it works on you it works.
very talcum slight leather and dusty musk smell. it works on few people. i bumped into this ‘adventurer personality’ who’s been all over the world who wore this one and another entrepreneur tight knit who also wore this.<br /