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Garri_mr – :
An UPDATE:
Back in 1983 I bought Armani Giorgio for Her at the airplane on the way to my new job as an au-pair-girl in England. -I loved my new perfume, and bought another bottle later on.
Much later, it was no where to be found in Norway, and I have been hunting high and low to fill the gap my beloved Armani left behind..
Yesterday I sniffed at Ivoire of Pierre Balman for the 1st time, and to my surprise it smelled nearly the same as Armani :))
There is a lot of similarities between the two of them:
-They both have a huge buckett of GALBANUM in it’s recept,
-they are both very powdery and soapy, just what I like, they are both woody, green and balsamic,
-and I can smell the cedar, the rose and the sjasmin in the background.
And of cause a bottle of Ivoire came home with me today!
I can highly recommend Ivoire as a replacement for Armani for Her 😀
andrick7744 – :
I feel very lucky I found this masterpiece.I have an extra bottle if anyone is intrested in.
Oxibiadig – :
Yes: “Dear mr. Armani, bring this back!”
-I worn this wonderful perfume a lot, and I miss it so very much!
dashenkakukolk – :
My first Armani and for me, still his signature scent. Warm, sensual and very sophisticated without screaming it to the population. I wish they still made this.
merinnn – :
Is in some country or some stores nowadays any bottle???
explay – :
This is for the EDT 1992-1995 Vintage.
Typical Cosmair superb blending.
Ingredient rich, smooth Feminine Chypre.
It has the Classic,Cool,Casual elegance of an Armani suit. The feel is silkier than that of Armani Eau Pour Homme, but follows the same path of finesse.
Mild Aldehydic opening with a whisper orange and a touch of Spearmint/Galbanum to cool, reminds me of Hermes Orange Vert Concentre for a moment. A floral bouquet with light indoles has non-cloy, as Bergamot weaves into the fabric of the exceptional Oakmoss/Sandal billow. Drydown is similar to Givenchy lll and closer to the sweetness of Jubilation 25.
Dare say the Parfum was all Feminine. Mixed with the skin scent of a woman would have me ravenous.
The EDT is Unisex enough for those of us who know and are comfortably Masculine.
Lovely stuff and recommended!
hunter6996 – :
Dear mr. Armani, bring this back!
It was maybe 1985 when I bumped into this beauty and couldn’t leave the department store without purchasing a bottle, although it was quite expensive back then when I was still studying.
This perfume you may call rich in any level. I think the best perfumes were made ages ago and it can be seen by looking at the notes listed, usually wide range of different kind of notes which create an amazing symphony together.
Lasting power of this georgeous scent was enormous. It was there next morning, stayed in your clothes without fading away or turning bad. Wish I had a time machine to buy couple of bottles to my retirement fund.
Sometimes I wonder why the houses don’t bring back some of the hit perfumes of e.g. 80’s? Don’t they have the recipes available anymore? These kind of classics would sell out sooner they can even dream.
Xeroxmadgi – :
I bought a mostly used bottle from an estate sale last month and finally got around to trying it. I smell powdery, sweet florals. There is marigold, narcissus, oakmoss, galbanum, and pineapple. This definitely smells like the 80’s. Its a stunning, bold, sophicated beauty. I’m so glad I was able to get this bottle, too bad there is only about an 1/8 of the bottle left..
roma199021 – :
Would be good to know that the creator of this masterpiece is
Ron Winnegard (also the father of Furyo, Rumba Balenciaga or Lagerfeld Classic). This is the first fragrance from Armani brand.
ermak592009 – :
I have the pure perfume (vintage).
It is surely very, very green and bitter in the opening.
A bit overwelming as I was not prepared for it even if I understand looking at the dominant notes that galbanum mixed with oakmoss gives a chypre powerpunch.
Very shyly the flowers blends in and soften the hardest green edges. As time goes by more notes appears but now it is complex and wellblendet.
Hard not to sniff the wrist – it is surely intoxicating and a very wellcrafted perfume.
Well I must say this is the first perfume I feel I would not pull of wearing.
The person I imagine wearing this is a mix of Greta Garbo and Paloma Picasso.
I imagine her in a chignon and a perfectly fitted wool suit. She walks with a strong posture and her profile is both distinct and beautiful.
And she smells wonderful of Armani’s masterpiece.
софик – :
Fragrance Review For Armani
Giorgio Armani
Top Notes
Aldehydes Pineapple Mint Galbanum Marigold Bergamot
Middle Notes
Cyclamen Tuberose Orchid Orris Root Jasmine Rose Lily of the Valley Narcissus
Base Notes
Sandalwood Tonka Amber Musk Benzoin Oak Moss Cedar
The First Armani Fragrance
Casts a spell when you have worn it and experienced it in it’s entirety like watching a classic film in black and white, an Italian foreign film starring Sophia Loren. This is a perfume of such sublime potency that it’s a tragedy to the perfume industry to have discontinued it or to reformulate it.
The fragrance sold through the 1980’s as the Armani label became a bigger name in the fashion industry. Armani suits were the must-have designer suits. Just like an expensive and well tailored suit, this scent is elaborate and each note a stich and patch in the outfit of glamorous and beautiful material. It does smell like a classic Italian fragrance. It has a unisex and womanly aura all at once:
The top notes are sweet fruit which tickle the nose with pineapple and bergamot, and swimming in aldehydes, lots of aldehydes. The aldehydic content is retro and brilliant like champagne bubbles. It also a bit like glossy hair gel. Deep galbanum emerges to provide the fragrance with it’s nocturnal air and evening cologne air. It’s luxurious and most definitely a chypre.
The florals come and go and they include: tuberose, jasmine, rose, narcissus, and lily of the valley. For the most part it is a white floral aroma. The white flowers of jasmine and narcissus not to mention those lilies are prominent. The white floral texture is soapy and clean. They are not too heady and they are softened after the blast of aldehydes.
Florals gone, the scent develops into it’s true chypre persona. The galbanum is still there but now it mingles with moss, musk, and woods. The dry down is the true spirit of this perfume. It smells like the night. Like walking around barefoot in a garden. It has flowers in the distance and green aromatic herbs and woods in your nose. The woodsy dry down is to die for! The woods and moss become warmer deeper darker and more mysterious. Out of somewhere there’s an incense.
This smells a bit like the colognes and perfumes that were deep and dark Orientals at the time: Paco Rabane’s La Nuit, Ivoire de Balmain, and Coco Eau de Parfum. This is a fragrance of maturity, complexity, and refinement. It matches up with a black evening gown or midnight blue gown, very grown-up, very glamorous and opulent. It smells like a million bucks and truly honors the label that is Armani.
I am wearing it now for Milan Fashion Week and I couldn’t be happier.
xxxvipxxx – :
I only have a tiny bit left in a miniature, but I can smell how complex and fresh the chypre it is. Smells a lot more modern and subtle than you would expect from a fashion house scent from the early eighties. Absolutely worth giving a try if you can track it down!
radoslavo – :
This is so well blended, but the note of the marigolds does really stand out for me and makes me love this perfume. I was able to nab some of this while it’s still out there. A chypre that’s not too tart or soapy with galbanum. It has just the right mixture of galbanum and oak moss and sweet florals to make it enjoyable for everyone, not just diehard chypreheads.
The IFRA should be shut down for making beautiful perfumes like this impossible anymore. It’s just a little oak moss, not some nuclear reactive waste, for heaven’s sakes. This was a particularly elegant and well done chypre. I class it with the unreformulated Dior Dioressence for refinement in that perfume category. It makes you dream of classy dinner parties and beautiful clothes and moonlit views out of expensive hotel rooms. Even if you don’t have those, you feel like you’re there in your head, starring in the main role.
Александр11 – :
There is nothing more that I can express except for my most deepest gratitude to this perfume. I am so grateful to have been able to get my hands on a bottle of this as there is no more beautiful green flowery galbanum fume than this one. If you ever get a chance on this do take it. It is a masterpiece. Truly. Refined and magical.
edit::: I ‘ve promised not to buy anymore back ups on anything but I just had to on this one as it is getting really hard to find. Grab it if you can!
IanKo – :
This is the David Bowie of perfumes! Deeply sexy, mysterious, playful, cold and warm, light and dark. Shining almost too green and woody when opening and after two hours (yes, the dry down takes time here or it wouldn´t be called dry-down) it starts to sweeten with all those florals. I have already written a review, but I am happy to say that this absolute beauty is tingling my soul: sweet tubers, but mild, mint, carnation, excellent vetiver and moss and the most classy pineapple ever. And so much more. Do or die, really!
hbq856Unlogrere – :
I picked up a bottle from an estate seller and it was in good condition. It had been sleeping for 30 years. Oh the green opening! The pineapple.. the complex mix of the opening shakes you up on her ride. This is elegance from a long time ago.
When you smell something like this –you revere it.
After a long opening (the quality!!) the heart opens into the most beautiful, elegant heart of a perfume I have ever smelled. So blended, so floral beautiful of unique notes… then the drydown with the cedar and oakmoss..keeping it tinged chypre green on the edges.
So fortunate to have come across this in the EDT vintage version. IMO it puts the chanel 19, the ivoire de balmains clearly in second position. Its so complex. Personally, I dont see it close to vintage cartier panthere at all…Best Chypre of all time.
systemerror – :
Iconico, ammaliante, maestoso.
Il primo Armani. Unico.
<3
Loganheroes335 – :
Icon from 80s … What can I say or add … I don t know how this masterpiece are missed … Why not come to nowadays as Armani por homme ??? I wear this great one, I bought this last bottle in 1999, got it yet, and I only wear in winter … It is as a precious posime … Smell unisex may be, similar or in the La Nuit by Paco Rabanne and Van Cleff pour homme style …
vit7702 – :
one of the absolute great floral chypres of alltime in my book. the complexity and deep darkness make this endlessly mysterious. it borderlines on ‘powerhouse’ but is so refined and timeless. the edt is an anytime wear but the parfum is special. masterpiece and a sad reminder of armani’s frag potential
Сергей23 – :
This was my first ever perfume, one I would share with my sister. My dad always loved perfumes so every year that a business associate of his would travel from Italy for a fair, he would bring a perfume to him. When I was about 14-15 my father asked that associate to bring him a women’s perfume for me and my sister; you guessed it, it was Armani. I remember I was so excited to open that black box and I was mesmerised by the scent. For me and my sister it was an expensive potion that we would use with caution so that we wouldn’t run out of soon enough. All I can remember is that it was so beautiful, feminine, floral and earthy. I believe that I would recognise it if I accidentally smelled it.
Makaveli – :
I have jut succumbed and brought an EDP of this on ebay. I had a little sample bottle from years gone back which leaked much to my dismay. I can’t wait to get this again. It is at once sweet and sour in a good way, fruity and woody, dense and light. They just don’t don’t make them like this any more. Overall it is – for me – the smell of confidence with a hint of foxy thrown in. I wore this as 17 year old and remember getting sacked. In the process of ‘letting me go’ my soon to be former boss broke her conversation to say ‘What perfume are you wearing? It’s fantastic.’ This was the first time I’d been complimented on a perfume and I was so chuffed about this I forgot about getting the boot from my job. So this reminds me of my first sacking but in a very fond way…
However, I recommend going subtle on application. I caould drown myself in this quite happily but it packs a punch. If you like L’Arte, Poison, Paloma, Jacoma etc this is worth trying to get your mitts on. PLEASE Armani bring it back – in its original formula.
FelixSerg – :
this is the smell of a beautiful summer holiday I spent in Kent in 1989, it was a present for the girl who hosted me, she wore it all the evenings we spent together out…..
some years later…
lost in my thoughts on a bus in 1998 a girl passed me by while memories of that Kent summer flooded my mind, after a few seconds I realized she wore that scent..wonderful green wood
Mezyn841Bessinepome – :
Pleasant classic chypre. Little sour drydown. Average longevity and silage. Impossible to find.
I got this and Cartier panther vintage and Fend original side by side. All are pleasant, similar in style of being floral oriental /chypre classic perfumes. Fendi is my favorite of all three.
alkonavt – :
It was 1982, I was fifteen years old, still at school but had just acquired a Saturday job in Boots the chemist. It was back in the days of the awful blue pinafore dress uniform with co-ordinated floral blouses. Boots put me on the cosmetics counter and I distinctly remember that the two cosmetics rep ladies, one from Helena Rubenstein and one from No 7, didn’t have to wear the awful uniforms. Both would parade up and down, made up to the nines, and I am sure in their own minds thought that they were supermodels! I thought they both looked a bit ‘Ronald MacDonald.! Anyway, on the Helena Rubenstein counter I noticed some really interesting black shiny boxes with gold writing ‘Armani’. Even the dark mysterious packaging drew me in! The counter displayed tester bottles and as soon as I smelt this wonderful fragrance, I was hooked. I had smelt nothing like it before, or since. Every Saturday as soon as I got to work I would smother myself in this wonderful fragrance – much to the disdain of the heavily made-up Helena Rubenstein rep. I was earning a pittance but never-the-less would spend my Saturday pay on buying either 50ml or 100ml bottles of this perfume. I have read detailed descriptions of this perfume on this site and I must say, I marvel at the way people seem to be so accurate in their descriptions……….I don’t know know what all the ingredients like tuberose or aldehydes etc smell like, but I do know what I like, and this fragrance was a complete one off! To me, it is dark, mysterious, dynamic, powerful, complex, sexy, dramatic and magical! It is multi-layered, very sensual, musky but also refined. There is something ‘witchy’ about this wonderful potion! It is spell binding. Nothing else on the market smells like it. I have seen comparisons to Magie Noire by lancome, my mum used to wear this, but to me, MN smells less refined and more spicy and gingery that Armani. Armani is subtle and yet at the same time arresting. It lasts absolutely ages and is totally unique. I wore this fragrance all through university and I was totally mortified when I learnt that it was to be discontinued. As a student I didn’t have much money then and the thought of stocking up before it disappeared forever was beyond my means. I purchased Armani’s follow up perfumes diligently, Gio, Aqua de Gio, Mania etc etc but none of them were a patch on the original, classic, Armani. Why oh why did they discontinue this wonderful fragrance? However, I have to say, that I am also rather smug that it has become so rare. A couple of years ago when I was feeling a bit flush with a new O% on purchases credit card, I found a stockist on ebay and I totally cleared him out! £1200 worth of boxes of Armani fragrance! I have enough to fill a shoe box – and a couple more besides. I am now 47 and confident that this beautiful fragrance will now ‘see me out’. I did write to Armani a few years ago to enquire whether they would bring this perfume back, but alas, they have no intentions of reintroducing it. I suppose that is just as well as I have stockpiled about 1500ml of it! I keep them in their original packaging, in a shoe box, out of light, and guard it like an elixir! To all of you out there who lament its loss, be assured, you can still acquire it, but it is getting more and more expensive and harder to find. It is a very indulgent purchase in these days of austerity but as perfumes go, Armani was my first love, and you never forget your first love do you?
Dimas Climat – :
Oh how strange and wonderful….. Got an eBay treasure…100 mls of vintage edt. Wasn’t sure if I liked it at first but now I am quite mesmerised… Just lovely …deep green wood…drama and comfort all at once.
Why are modern scents so poor?!
rxmen – :
Have both Armani and Cardin and if I was to choose which one I liked better , it would be Cardin , but Armani has also a place of honor ,as a brother of Cardin . Same family , same love.
jeanmicheljarrie – :
Armani is a tagetes-chypre-floral foghorn, with one arched eyebrow and one perfectly-manicured hand on the wheel of her Ferrari: loud, proud and fabulous to know.
In the crook of my elbow, I swear it lasted for days….
I love this perfume, it’s sexy and elegant, grown-up and confident. It was my signature when I had such a thing and I am sadly regretting all the times I didn’t buy extra bottles in the nineties when it was readily available. Although who knows if those bottles would smell as good as now!
SIGH!
My remaining supply (a vintage mini) is in a steel underground vault only accessible by a scan of my retina.
Well, it’s actually in my jewellery box. But still.
gorec-perec – :
Hi there. this fragrance was one of the thirst ladies perfume I ever wore back in the early to middle (80ts) as a friend who was also male wore it as his Signature fragrance and I just had to purchase a bottle of the eau de perfume I studied catering but it was this iconic Armani scent that inspired me to go on to work within the fragrance sector. I didn’t know much about fragrance at the time but having worked in the industry since (1998) but more theses days with the more High End Niche and Bespoke perfumery knowing what I know now I think that the thirst fashion house of Armani’s first perfume launch is the classics fragrance of the channel and the Guerlains of that era I would like to have a bottle of this chypre perfume but it is extremely hard and rare to find. it was recently Relaunched as a one off Limited edition exclusively to Harrods by the perfumery and cosmetic company Coty or Unilever. it was made as a one off in a special perfume decanter made by Baccarat or Lalique I think and it is worth over a thousand and a half pounds. the fragrance is such a distinctive smell nothing else comes close to the real thing as un like the famous Claude Montana fragrance for women with the twisted bottle. I did see someone else’s comment on the same page and how they said that it was old fashioned. but vintage is in at the moment and a lot of these old perfume fashion houses are beginning to realise that people are requesting for the classics as the fragrances of theses days. not all of them mind u smell just like one another and that there has not been much effort that has gone into creating it. a lot of them are chemically enhanced and more about the advertising then what actually goes into it. from my experience in working in the industry in some cases feed back gets back to the perfumery companies as customers usually request for a particular fragrance witch is no longer in production sometimes they may Relaunch based upon the over whelming request for that fragrance. but so far I have not heard that they may produce it but I think they should as it is well overdue.
beon13 – :
If you love this fragrance then you should definitely try Jacomo Rare/ Coeur. Jacomo Rare/Coeur is also, like Armani discontinued, but you can still find it on the net. I find these two perfumes almost identical.
Penaidedgenop – :
Some time ago I fell head over heels for Oriza Le Grands Chypre Mousse. It´s minty opening reminds me of this vintage Armani. Different in drydown, though.
Armani is a beautiful scent but feels somewhat dated, IMO. Chypre Mousse is similar in many ways, but with a more modern feel to it. If you yearn for the classic Armani, but can´t get it, or want a more modern alternative Oriza Le Grands Chypre Mousse might be something for you…?
de_dok – :
This 1982 creation from Giorgio Armani definitely smells like it came from the 1980s: brazenly “old lady”–or people might say today, this is a no-holds-barred rather intense and dense creation. A classic combination of aldehydes and dark oakmoss and possible animalia along with big, bold flowers such as marigold and narcissus combine to create a perfume which honestly will smell dated to younger perfumistas now that the age of SSRI fragrances is well and truly upon us.
There is a good deal of big florality here and also a kind of richness which is no longer considered appropriate–if we are to judge by what has happened with marketing-based trends toward simplicity and cleanliness in more recent fragrance launches. Just look at the awe-inspiring note list!
I am grateful to Action for having sent me a well-preserved mini of this, the very first Giorgio Armani perfume!
dante1982 – :
Precious precious scent! In the words of Carrie Bradshaw: “Real love!! Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love!!!” ~ AMEN!!!
But I just found a very similar one in L’ARTE di GUCCI! It shares most of the same notes n is long lasting as well! I agree w Mals86 that “L’arte has a smolder, a smoky-eyed stare, that one rarely sees outside film noir.
Also good are Eau de Gucci & 19 Channel (both hard to find & also discontinued), Salvador Dali (very close & the best modern equal) and Leonard de Leonard (close but not as lasting). I will have to try Climate Lancome, Y YSL, Potion DSquared & Passion Annick n get back to u… But Weil de Weil does not work on me at all.. I agree w Maeculpa that Champagne (now named Yvresse) is good but not the same.. yes true that!
vfxmjotovpkhts – :
I have stocked up on this perfume. The quality is supreme. It has not gone off for me. It smells perfect. But you need to store this perfume in a dark and cool cupboard. Do not put it on in heavy light, or place near very hot areas.
It can effect the perfume. I depends how the perfume has been stored in the first place. I tend to stand it upright, make sure the cap is firmly placed on it. Air is problematic to perfumes. While I do not have my Armani in the box, it found an alternative perfume box to place it in.
If the perfume is slightly off, you will realise that the top notes will go off, smell terrible: but the other stages may remain in tack. For example for my vintage Sublime from Jean Patou, the top notes smell like off musk with an alcohol stench which is not pleasant, so the strength of the perfume remains compromised.
It may be worth asking the seller, how the perfume has been stored, and if the perfume has only remained with them.
I do not wear the Armani perfume often and but will wear it early in the morning. Remember a little goes a long way.
If you look at Ebay, you may find it. I have seen this in bidding auctions, where some people do not even know that this perfume is a rare treasure. When, I bought my Armani, and the seller was not sure if the perfume was for men or women. So it does come along occasionally whereby the perfume is sold at a steal. So you will need to check relevant perfume sites dealing with vintage fragrances. Yes, vintage perfumes may change over time, this is the chance you may need to take.
epk770speagoessenda – :
Armani was my first perfume. It was a Christmas present from my parents. I love it and have just found out it is discontinued. I’m devastated! it’s only a perfume but to think I will not be able to smell that scent again is unbelievable. I was just telling a friend last week how much I lived this perfume. I used to wear it going out clubbing in the 80’s and early 90’s. I wish I still had a bottle. I felt very sophisticated and edgy in a confident way when I wore it. Is it worth trying to find a vintage bottle of Armani? Would it still be ok to wear?
Alex-Alex-666 – :
Been crying for this one for so long – then …. While being nosey in my Stepmum’s bathroom – rummiging through a minature perfume collection in a large seashell on display – i found 2 5ml minatures of Armani – from the 80s!! I informed her that I would be taking them home with me – hehehehe!!
hlp282speagoessenda – :
I bought it back in 1983 after I got a sample, which I loved.
But I found out it made me sneeze. After having used it for a while it changed on me, it became a scent different from the one I fell in love with and I began to dislike it. The sneezing may be one of the reasons I fell out of love with it.
капитан10 – :
To me this is THE PERFUME!!
The loveliest, the One I can’t do without!
I was charmed at first “sniff” in the early ’80s and have been a delighted prisoner ever since.
I have certainly stocked up on it, since I’m really afraid to be without it.
As many fragrances as I love, this is the one that I always think about as my all time favourite.
Not only a scent of Paradise, but also a piece of Heaven here on Earth. It takes me to another world – an enchanted one – and it lasts (even on my clothes) forever – always to make me feel excited and special.
Gorgeous – but sometimes a bit too much to wear on an ordinary day.
You only need just a little, because it casts its spell on everybody in a room (and sometimes even those in the next room) and you can’t expect to be invisible wearing it.
This scent is a true masterpiece!! I love it so much!
kgh371speagoessenda – :
ARMANI POUR HOMME WAS REFORMULED IN 2013, WHY ARMANI POUR FEMME NOT COMING BACK???!!!
MAZAXAKER – :
is this really discontinued? could someone please let me know if they found it and where? thank you!!
kai-69 – :
Armani original was the epitome of Giorgio’s true vision as a designer.Bold, elegant,feminine yet strong.
Its unfortunate to see the direction the “Brand” has taken with extreme commercialisation.Sugar sweet stinkers and starlets like Megan Fox fronting the franchise.Enough said.This one of my favourite Chypres(I am always hunting for backups)Mysterious,Authorative,Carnal and Sensual.
A genuine Armani creation.
MakcimkaUA – :
this was so very great!! i have a feeling it must be discontinued..why and how and how and why! so disappointing..
KlausAD – :
You utter beauty. Where have you gone? Why have you deserted me?
I fell in love with this in my late teens and early twenties. It was so easy to get and at the time I did not need anything else. And then they discontinued it! Why on earth?
Launched me on a quest to find something that made me feel rounded and sensual in the same way, which led to a frightening parade of lesser scents and an obsession with testing every new thing out there.
I’m an Armani girl for life now. Don’t know if that is a blessing or a curse. Emptied quite a few of his bottles and have some on my wish list. His stuff is modern but also accessible and lasting with no grande dame perfumyness and not many gourmandises.
I tried Annick Goutal passion based on the review below and i do not get the same mellow wholeness – it starts way too loud and then like all the AG fragrances I’ve tried it is a blink and you miss it experience. I have some drops of Champagne (the original) by YSL left and it is lovely but not the same. Nothing is the same. Sob.
Note to self try Y.
Like the memories of a first love I can’t remember the smell of this at all, just that it made me feel gorgeous like nothing else. Suggestions welcome!
Mario_21 – :
This is the best fragrance ever created. VERY classy and never boring, extremely individualistic without being the slightest bit off-putting. There is/was NOTHING like it! Intense, warm, chilly, minty, animalic, salty, lush, almost sexual, but without ANY overly cloying oriental sides to it.. A fierce yet comforting scent. Strangely natural even though there are so many components in it. A gem, a masterpiece. All these contradictory words make a completeness that smells so wonderful- particularly in the dry-down- that I could get a rush just out of sniffing myself when wearing it. Nothing will ever smell so much like me.
evbokarev – :
I like this quite a bit. I tried it based upon the comments I found here. I do consider it a unisex fragrance that is green and easy to wear. Easier than Chanel 19 but I love them both. Another chypre that is similar and now only available EDT is Y by YSL. It is worth a try. I have gotten the perfume on line. Y is the only scent my Dad got my Mom and she still has some. If you like Chypres Armani and Y are splendid.
john-07 – :
I do not think at all this is like Passion de Annick Goutal, like some of the previous reviewers do.
What is called masculine in Armani -by Elisabeth M- I call character.
Passion is a nice office scent, Armani is a mind-blowing breeze from northern Italy.
Le Climat de Lancôme could be a substitute, but it is more sweet.
I am with Action and Cisco.
Cold can be good.
Cold also means fiery and flying high.
Always, I am on the look out for more of this Ice Queen.
AntyGamer – :
If you like Armani for Women which is discontinued for quite a while now and you are looking for a substitute try ‘Passion’ by Annick Goutal. Passion is less masculine but has the same green oriental opening as Armani for Women and is also definitely an 80’s perfume.
Aleksander – :
oh, this one used to be my mom’s fragrance for years whe I was a kid; for me it’s just her… she used it almost since I was born, in 81, and she was soo sad when it was discontinued. Such a pitty! I remember it was quite sharp, fresh, a bit fruity, classy, a nice chypré, elegant, it was really perfect for her, so lady-like.
Jeorgebes – :
My first regular girlfriend wore this scent in the eighties. She wore a lot of other perfumes too, all of which I have forgotten. It is this very one that reminds me of her. I guess that is a sign of excellence.
It really has a double character and the age span is wide, about 17-55.
It is light but personal. It is sexy and loveable. It is fresh but intense. It is for blondes as well as for brunettes. It is for laughs and seriosity. It is cool and warm. It is for business and pleasure. It is for days or nights. It goes with denim or silk. It could be worn for any season. It has depth and shallow tones. But it always takes you to the top and embraces you.
Sometimes I wonder if this fragrance is the most versatile ever constructed.
It is indeed a very very fine fragrance.
It is a scent of excellence.
gonharov77 – :
i think its unisex.why???
VeliaveOblima – :
This was my all time favourite in the 80s and the only fragrance at that time suited my body chemistry. Sadly, Chypres are no longer available and I find it very difficult to find a (new) fragrance. Where can I find it?
TagievRoman2002 – :
I scored a beautiful NOS bottle, because if it is discontinued, I have to hunt it down, right? My first little test, I was not a fan. Surprisingly not. But I decided to give it full go today and it grew on me. It is different, and I could see falling in love with it. But, it disappeared from my skin in a rather short amount of time. I di