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Chiz Anton – :
cheap in price but great tobacco fragrance, it has the character and strength on a different level of its siblings like “cigar” (Remy Latour, Burberry London and Havana (Aramis house); it’s a very linear eau de toilette; opening with strong tobacco/wood scent and spices in its combination, after forty minutes or so the dry down turns it to a very pleasant sweet tobacco, wear this eau de toilette around your neck and chest, get intoxicated with the nice clean tobacco sweetness and the dry woods that combines turning this fragrance in a melody of notes so simple but enchanting scent;……….a fragrance doesn’t have to be expensive to put a spell on the people around you, but it has to have the power of turning heads when you walk among them.; and CUBA RED will leave your personality printed in the people’s memories.
minina-n – :
Tobacco is one of my favorite notes but im just not getting alot here. What i do get is a nice cedar. Fresh, mildly soapy cedar with an old school vibe. Superb rendition of the closet or anything cedar really.
вадимов – :
isnt cuba magnum red the same as cuba red? just diff size? then how can ingredients be diff?
Subaru – :
very close to Nicole Miller for Men & Remy Latour Cigar
freid7488 – :
Smells like youre walking through a pepper patch while puffing on a stogie. The sun beating down on the plants, while simultaneously shining off you’re sweaty hairy manly chest after chopping some timber to use with your wood stove. Youre comfortable in your dirty skin from the labor you just performed and don’t give a damn what anybody thinks. Supper will be exquisite in the cabin tonight with fresh venison and cheap bourbon.
Wolf 88 – :
I own both this and London Men by Burberry and they are very similar, but I seem to get better longevity and projection with London than this one.
It’s definitely a you-get-what-you-pay-for with this fragrance unfortunately. I don’t mind finding a bargain at all and I certainly look for them! Price isn’t always everything, I understand, but this one just fell short.
London is definitely a colder weather fragrance and seems spicier and projects more than this one, but with the other notes for this I can see Red being a cooler summer evening wear. I still keep this one on my shelf for this reason as I’ve received compliments when it’s a colder summer night out while wearing this. 6/10 for me!
Semera 775 – :
Burberry London clone
litvinov_valera – :
Cuba Red is exceptionally similar to Burberry London for Men. That’s a good thing. While I like London, I don’t like it enough to want to pay for it. London isn’t that much, but Cuba Red is dirt cheap. Per typical designer imposters, the original is better, more complex etc… but for cheap, it’s not bad. I tend to use cheapies like Cuba for travel so that if they are lost there is no big loss.
Merpa513elipseskism – :
Nasty. Old Spice old man smell. If you want to smell like an old man in there late 50s and up, this is for you. Luckily I have the 1.7ml that came in as a set along with Gold, Orange and Blue. And out of the whole box set, Gold is the only worthy scent.
Andrey51 – :
i dont think i like it:( I just got it today as a blind buy and it hasn’t grown at me at all yet. I think ill give it to my dad. It reminds me of him. I do LOVE the cuba gold though! its very similar to JPG LE MALE
laperuza – :
Nothing special, childish and cheap smell. Nothing like Burberry London witch has class.
rfkbnf – :
Strong alcohol and aldehyde open, so strong that you can’t smell the fragrance. As it dries down, a strong spice bouquet of cinnamon, pepper, clove prepare you for the heavy tobacco and suede center. It is a little generic, reminiscent of Old Spice, but the tobacco holds it together. The woodsy notes are there, and blend well with the tobacco. Great night scent.
Alex Kristall – :
This is one of the better Cuba Paris scents, along with Gold and the Prestige Line. Now, before you buy this, know that what it smells like is dark, earthy, aromatic TOBACCO backed up by some wood and spice, not the other way around. If you tend not to like tobacco scents, smell it before you buy. If you like Burberry London, Versace Dreamer, and other tobacco scents, still smell before you buy. This is very different and literally smells like the style of bottle it is in. Now, I like it, it’s simple but rich, and dirt cheap. It’s an attention grabber but more compliments come from fellow lads than ladies.
But honestly its $5 and a blind buy won’t hurt.
Opening: 7/10
Development: 2/10 (linear)
Drydown: 7/10
Longevity: 3/10 (lasts an hour or two max on my skin)
Sillage: 7/10
Price: 10/10
Business Casual through formal. Could pull off with polo or button down shirt. Fall through Spring scent. Lacks in performance. Not generally a lady pleaser but is smells good to other guys (whether that’s your boss, bros, or partner). Classy scent for cigar puffing and scotch sipping.
Overall: 6.5/10
Snargydeedind – :
Ive been wearing this for 3 weeks straight. It’s become one Of my favorites.. Very woody and masculine. Check it out for 7$ you wont find a better scent. Projects for 4 to 6 hours and stays on clothes for days.
18021977 – :
Road tested a sample spritz today and not that impressed. Poor sillage and longevity, but not overpowering either. It’s okay. I guess you have to be into Tobacco fragrances to really get your mileage out of this one.
Evang3 – :
Cool frag. First blast into box i get mentholated synthetic scent abd the chlorine note described below but after applied heavily to skin i get straight dry patchouli. Nothing else .. Maybe thats tobacco?? Nice frag for 7$
etb211bedyWelty – :
Love this scent!! Smells very close to Burberry’s “London” the opening gives me a warm “vicks vapor rub” after the sweet woody ,tobacco comes in!the dry down is good!!
mar183speagoessenda – :
I don’t know why people are saying that this smells like Burberry London, it absolutely does not! I love London and this frag is nothing like it! I don’t get any sweetness or spices, just tobacco and strong harsh woodsy notes, even in the drydown. Quite disappointed. Perhaps I’ve got a bad/fake one. Well, at least it’s cheap.
jeollaKem – :
By far my favorite scent out of the four Cuba Paris fragrances I got in a set (Blue, Red, Orange, Gold). This smells like a humidor, with a clean leather note in the dry-down. The performance on this fragrance is very poor, but it is a lovely fresh tobacco smell while it lasts. I may put this on just for fun and comfort when I’m bored, but it develops into a nondescript skin scent after an hour or two.
BelormoJoeIIIvanHen – :
Fantastic cheapie that outdoes any of its stablemates in the Cuba line because although it is derivative like all of the releases in the Cuba line, Red based on Burberry London and Aramis Havana, it still manages to be somewhat original because it is so bare bones tobacco with almost no embellishment layered on top.
I have a bottle that’s about 4-5 years old, and what I get is pure freshly cut tobacco leaf with some light spices and woods. The first 30 seconds are synthetic, but Red distills quickly into a very earthy, linear brown salt of the earth accord that is exceedingly minimalist and refreshing for people who are tobacco lovers. This stuff sticks around too, especially on clothes, I get easily 6-8 hours a wear with moderate projection on rainy fall days and evenings when it seems to excel best and although it’s not much of a compliment-getter, it’s a great masculine wear that projects classic pipe smoking coffee houses in Vienna, Havana or Paris in the early 20th century, but without the dirty smoke vibe. This just has a very nice tobacco leaf accord that brings me back to the fields in North Carolina and Ol’ Virginia. One of the best tobacco and woody chypre scents on the market, if you like Polo, Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme or John Varvatos Vintage but are looking for something that isolates the tobacco note by limiting the palette, this is a very good scent to buy.
vanek2010 – :
There is no tobacco in this. No spice. No oakmoss. I don’t know who makes up these notes. It is a refreshing, crisp typical men’s cologne. Smells like something you get dad on Father’s Day from the drugstore.
zhuravlev12 – :
Just from opening and smelling the nozzle: this smells like MAN to me! Straight up (old spicy?) aftershave. No androgynous middle ground I can play in like the other three (Cuba orange, blue, and gold). But haven’t even sprayed them yet, so we’ll see. Might turn into a gift, only to whom, I wonder.
markinserega – :
This is my favorite Cuba fragrance.Nice tobacco and spice.
ПоФиГиСт – :
This was given to me as a gift. It has a harsh opening that I really had to wait out. Just as I was about to scrub, I found a semi-pleasant drydown. There just isn’t enough reason for me to wear it. I’d rather apply the equally as cheap Burberry London and not wait for a drydown to actually find something I like.
5/10
Paproulp – :
Don’t like the opening, but after 10 minutes i was very surprised. Longevity about 5 hours, sillage weak on my skin. Very subtle, masculine, with great woody/tobacco aspect.
vitez koja – :
This has a very faint and inoffensive note of chlorine. It reminds me of the swimming lessons I took when I was a kid at the junior high school pool.
Probably best worn in casual settings, sunny day business casual also works. Year round, day instead of evening. It’s not very formal and the average, or slightly below average, performance doesn’t really have a commanding presence. On the plus side, you’re not going to choke out anyone at work. I applied liberally at 8am and by noon it had pretty much evaporated. It’s 2pm now and it’s not even a skin scent.
If you’re into trying new stuff on the cheap, the Cuba 4 pack that includes this one isn’t a bad buy. Smells good but isn’t quite special enough to warrant a second purchase.
inviting – :
Cuba Red is a subway token. It takes you where you want at a reasonable rate and in a safe manner. Sure, we can talk limos and taxis and other forms of transportation. But sometimes, a subway ride gets you where you want to go.
For a short ride cologne, I will do a short ride review.
I paid around $15 for it a few years ago and have worn it well over 50 times.
I don’t really like this one but its mostly because I rarely am a fan of tobacco scents. This one smells a bit cleaner with a bit of synthetic sanitization that has less ash and a lot of clean. I wear it mostly on colder fall days and in winter when I want an inexpensive dumb reach that goes with the season.
I own both John Varvatos Vintage and Burberry London. To my nose both smell different than Red, better, and I like them more. And yet, nobody has ever complimented me on either though I have worn both to “occasions” and events. Today I got a compliment having worn Red which one ups the beloved designers.. It was a genuine compliment from someone that sees me often and whom does not compliment my fragrances choices more than once or twice a year. And it was a compliment freely given without need of the fish. I think it was the cleanliness of the tobacco that she liked. I would describe Red as being more clean than fresh.
Usually fragrances like this are ones that I practically get for free when I add it to an order to tip my order into free shipping territory. But I will be repurchasing another 3.4 ounce bottle. This fragrance keeps me smelling nice and lets me save my more expensive niche for special occasions. I’m usually wearing this guy under heavy clothes or a heavy coat and its a first scent of the day fragrance.
Longevity is adequate. I get 5-7 hours of noticeable scent and it seems to be appreciated by others. A Cuba Red day is usually a one and done day. I rarely reapply fragrance on days that I wear this one. Subconsciously the dry down must linger even 8 hours later when hopes of smell enter try to find territory.. When I wear this one, I don’t need reapplication, boosters, replacements, or anything defined as more. For whatever reason, I just do not want to put on anything else until after a shower.
Overall Im going to grade this one out at 73. I’m not a huge fan of the scent but Tobacco is just one of those notes that doesn’t do it for me. This one is cleaner than most and more tolerable because of it. And sometimes, I want to get away from the Gourmands and Angel type scents and wear something with a bit of pasture and field. For me, it gets about a 67 for its scent which is a half tick above a D and a passing grade. I’m giving it some bonus points for versatility and because it has a legit compliment in my world and it gets an obvious 100 for value. Its a dumb reach. Nobody hates it. Some like it. I like smelling clean and a bit country. And I probably will never love any tobacco scent with even likes hard to find and yet I do not hate this one nor feel that I overpaid for it.
Red is a fragrance that gets you smiles from others on a subway when a cab or limo ride would be of greater comfort … but alone. It is social with a smile, gets you where you want to go and can be purchased at price level worth a token.
Lamavoi – :
Cuba Red is a really cheap tobacco scent with qualities of Burberry London in the drydown, but different character. For that price, you can´t go wrong. A common topic for a very reasonable price.
By the way it´s not similar to Must de Cartier for Men, wich is a cinnamon scent. Burberry is there, but tobacco in Cuba Red is toned up.
Jean Louis Vermeil Pour Homme is the closest that comes to my mind.
roman123 – :
Excellent.
This is the simple, linear goodness of cedar and tobacco for very little money and decent quality for the price. I really, really like this.
It’s my favorite of the four “main” Cuba releases. Two thumbs up for this go-anywhere, comfortable fragrance.
DaNek95 – :
Cuba Red Cuba Paris tiene inicialmente una fragancia fuerte, al aplicarlo, pero muy varonil. Esa fuerte fragancia desaparece a los pocos segundos, dejando un olor a limpio, absolutamente varonil. Para mi gusto, de la comparación con Havana Aramis y con Burberry London, de entre los tres, Cuba Red es el que más se aproxima su olor a tabaco. Sin embargo, el olor a tabaco no es excesivamente fuerte. Recomiendo este producto. Su cubierta con forma de tabaco es elegante y especial. He comprado tres botellas para regalar a mis tres hijos.
Cuba Red Cuba Paris initially has a strong fragrance when applied to the skin, and its smell is very manly. That strong fragrance dissapears in a few seconds, leaving a smell of cleanness. It is absolutely made for mens use. For my “taste” when compared with Havana Aramis and with Burberry London, among the three, Cuba Red is the one whose smell approaches the most to tobacco. Nevertheless, its tobacco smell is subtle, not extremely strong. I definetely recommend this product. Its cover with tobacco shape is cool and fancy. I have bought a total of 3 bottles to give to my sons.
mav_sm – :
First initial wearing:
The opening scared me a little bit as it opened up very harsh and honestly smelled like potpourri that you expect to smell in your grandmas house growing up.
After it settles it does become nicer as that harshness dissipates and that tobacco note becomes present. To me it smells the same throughout the duration of the fragrance. The Heart/Drydown to me smells like you take the tobacco from Pure Havane and then add the spices from Burberry London but that being said the spices and tobacco arent as natural smelling as it is in those fragrances.
With that being said, for this being as cheap as it was I was pleasantly surprised how good this smelled as it doesnt smell cheap at all.
My initial wearing score id rate this a 6.75out of 10 ! It doesnt wow me but I can appreciate this and I do enjoy this when I want a tobacco scent.
I may give this a higher score later because the more I smell this the more I like it as it has a very addictive smell.
gombtshoppingla – :
I’ve re-visited this fragrance after taking some time away from it, getting my nose on other things, working to isolate and identify different notes… Know what? I now smell mostly basil in the heart of Cuba Red. I also smell a carnation-accord (eugenol figuring prominently), along with touches of cumin, coriander seed, black pepper, anise, geranium- and definitely cedar- over a light base of frankincense, vetiver, and sandalwood. I am seriously only sensing the slightest touch of tobacco-leaf… but it bonds so well with the cedar that it makes a nice “humidor” accord.
I like the spicy-herbal-woody, vintage feel of this frag… and I’m also feeling it is more suited to be a cool-weather (fall/winter/spring) daytime frag- longevity is under 8 hours for me, plus the base isn’t heavy enough for me as evening-wear. The initial spray with its ooompf of citrus quiets down immediately after, exposing a light- but rugged- character. Nice for the price!
SypeSletSek – :
I love this scent. It truly reminds me of my vacations to cuba. Has a nice spicy tabacco scent and some wood.. If you’ve ever walked in to a cuban cigar shop and smelt the air this is what that smell is!
Great smell and maybe one of my new personal favorites
DiffGarma – :
On initial spray it smells like it is going to be a synthetic nightmare but after the first few minutes it settles down into a nice tobacco/suede accord. Think of the smell of cigar tobacco in a spanish cedar humidor on top of sueded leather. The tobacco is pretty well done but I feel that Cuba Red is an incomplete fragrance. I can definitely see the comparisons to London and JV Vintage but where the prior two have a fruit/sweet note to compliment the tobacco (Port Wine and Rhubarb), Cuba Red does not. It is very linear to the finish. This one stays very close to my skin so projection and sillage are weak. Longevity 3-5 hours at best.
If you are looking for a casual tobacco only based fragrance this is definitely an option. If you are buying this to replace or in place of Burberry London you are going to be disappointed. Final rating 5/10.
TrenerPV – :
I like this. Super cheap and reminds me of Burberry London. Really nice warm scent that is great for colder days.
Renanarma – :
This is a great tobacco scent. I agree with Jersey Joe below.
lintilinki – :
I love it! Cuba Red is good enough for a tobacco lover like me! Opens with tobacco, a good blend of spices, I sense a bit of sweet cinnamon. it is sweet, rich, it smells like a cigar before you smoke it. I think that it could be unisex, although a bit masculine with rich dark tobacco and cinnamonny musk in the drydown. I found this for $4. I could not stop smelling myself, the sillage is huge but then it disappeared from my skin after 1 hour, but that doesn’t bother me, it was only 4 bucks.
kitkat – :
What kind of dirty scoundrel Republican Wall Street capitalist wouldn’t like something this good, this cheap and this portable? First, its kitschy and campy packaging are a true ode to the great Cuban cigar innovators; the legendary Taino-Arawak peoples that crafted over centuries the fine art of cigar making that only Cuba is truly admired for; who were rewarded fantastically by the Spanish for their innovation by being rounded up en masse to mine for gold and quickly exterminated by the Spanish in the 16th century when the resources of the great island were exhausted.
Secondly, nothing says 17th century plantation Chesapeake and thus American democratic roots more than the smell of freshly cut dry tobacco of the John Rolfe variety on a Virginia or Maryland plantation. Want to know what Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Monroe, Patrick Henry or for god sake even Robert E. Lee’s grandfather smelled like on a typical fall afternoon? Put this up to your nose and inhale. This is the scent of man, or at least plantation owner, the first “noble American capitalists” who later bought themselves respectability in the House of Burgesses and laid the foundation for oligarchical representative government in the United States that looked after the interests of the well-to-do with religious devotion ever since.
Only a true indentured servant, of low birth scoundrel wouldn’t like this scent. It’s pure dry leaf tobacco bursting at the seems, with a sprinkle of vetiver at the top that quickly fades into pure tobacco bliss for about 1-2 hours depending on your skin before toning down into a skin scent for another 1-2 hours that remains tobacco dominated but with the slightest hint of woods. 4-5 hours is what you will get out of this. Projection? Moderate early and quickly toning down into a skin scent. Cheap as can be but quality is not sacrificed here, worth seeking out a bigger bottle if 1 oz. isn’t enough for your luxurious lifestyle, will cost you about $15 for the 3.4 oz. and will give you years of joy soaking in the real smell of money of America’s first colony (tobacco was the official currency in Virgina and Maryland).
AlisaSexieat – :
Perfume con olor a tabaco muy masculino, excelente precio, es ideal para los que comienzan a coleccionar perfumes y que no quieren gastar mucho dinero en un buen perfume
sesidnev – :
My least fav of the Cuba line, cinnamon, spice and woods, a little more serious than the others.
lapinua – :
for me it smells like coke and a lot of spices ..
aua306speagoessenda – :
smells cheap and no good…
it’s first tobacco scent that i smelled and i think i really don’t enjoy this kind of scents…
PaulJY – :
I’ve developed a theory about the Cuba frags- hear me out, ok?
Cigars are traditionally handed out to celebrate the birth of a child in both the US and Europe (though of course it is not as common these days as, say, a couple decades or so ago). What if… each of the Cubas is also a “child”- in-and-of-itself- born out of a note-analysis of two popular, mainstream frags- an interpolated average between the two “parents”- then produced and packaged in cigar form.
Rather witty inside joke, no?
‘London’ wasn’t released until AFTER ‘Cuba Red’- sorry, this one is out as a parent-contender. I say and stand by ‘Cigar’ by Remy LaTour (1996) being one of the parents of this particular child.
So this is a little game, fraggies- for those who’d like to play: see if you can figure out the parents of all of the Cuba “boys” and “girls”. They are all high-quality knockoffs that take inspiration from TWO similar originals.
ARON – :
The tobacco in this is done in the same vein as tobacco vanille minus the vanilla note, but instead i get a patchouli note. I am wearing TV on one arm and this on the other, and the tobacco notes are very similar, i find this to be very so slighty soapy. Its a gorgeous smelling tobacco, and quite a natural nuance!
uhan3 – :
Shamus is a fabulous reviewer, I’ve always appreciated his point of view and on Cuba Red he once again is right on the money. Cuba Red is like visiting North Carolina in early October when the tobacco plant is being harvested. It’s an incredibly organic and fresh scent that is strictly tobacco and very little else (a hint of spice and woods but no evidence of oakmoss here). Sure, there are other options out there from Remy LaTour and Aramis that are great and fun to wear, but why bother if you just need one and you can pick this one up at such a cheap price and it more than does the job at giving you that fresh cut tobacco leaf scent.
Shockingly good, one of the more underrated scents on the market at a budget price. Don’t be deterred by the insinuation this stuff is weak and soft by some of the earlier reviewers. I consistently get at least six hours of wear with this and projection is fairly moderate and doesn’t really slip into a skin scent like many of the Calvin Klein creations of recent years. This is very good for a budget fragrance, absolutely worth your time if you like tobacco.
megorochkin – :
This guy is not an homage to “Burberry, London for Men” as many claim; it’s patterned after the similar-but-different (yeah, I said it!) “Cartier, Must De Cartier Pour Homme”. I know, I know…you’re thinking, “wait a second Big Al, London is a tobacco scent but MdC is not–how can “Cuba Red” (which everyone knows is a tobacco frag) smell like a non-tobacco frag?” Well…trust me, even though MdC does not claim tobacco as one of its notes, everyone knows it is a tobacco scent. In other words, while MdC may not claim to smell like tobacco, it does smell like all the things that tobacco smells like. Did that make sense? Let me restate: if you had to describe tobacco, it smells earthy and woodsy and sweet with some spice; MdC smells earthy and woodsy and sweet with some spice; thus, even though MdC doesn’t say, “hey, I smell like tobacco”, it shares the same scent profile.
No, I didn’t figure that out because I’m one of the “nasal elite”; I searched long and hard before finding another Web site that lists the “impression” which each frag in the Cuba line was going for [Blue=”Calvin Klein, CK One”, Gold=”Jean Paul Gaultier, Le Male”, Orange=”Alfred Dunhill, Desire for a Man”, etc.]. So it was there printed in black-and-white electrons on my screen: Cuba Red=Cartier, Must de Cartier Pour Homme. The reason for the first paragraph (instead of a simple statement of Cuba Red=MdC) is that it didn’t make sense *to me* that a tobacco scent (Cuba Red) could smell like a non-tobacco scent (MdC) so I had to reverse-engineer an explanation in my mind and I was kind enough to have just shared it with you.
Anyway, I wanted an inexpensive tobacco frag to mix with a cheap vanilla frag that I had gotten my hands on (Coty, Raw Vanilla); I was trying to see if I could whip up a cheapo Frankenstein version of Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille (for more on that story and to see if I was successful, look for my review of “Raw Vanilla by Coty” later today). After much research, I chose Cuba Red as the best combination of cheap price and decent tobacco scent (according to reviews anyway) and I bought it.
I’ll be reviewing Cuba Red by itself here (not as a mixture). First let me say this about the Cuba scents: they are, as others have claimed, STRONG (for the nose-nerds out there: tons of “sillage” and “projection”). They are stronger, even, than any of my $20-an-ounce everyday bangers or even my $100-an-ounce gourmand scents. All of a sudden I feel very cheated and used–apparently I’ve been paying a lot of money over the years for models and photographers and fancy ads and to line the pockets of designers when making a good scent only costs…5 bucks? Oh well, call me a sucker. Back to my story: not knowing the strength, I gave myself a squirt or two on each wrist, and on each antecubital, and behind each ear…WHOA!!! All of a sudden I was in a smoke-filled casino in Casablanca–or at the very least, a smoke-filled poker room in Brighton Beach. Yeah, it was that strong. I had to wash it off and even after that, I could still smell it! Yet despite this overwhelming throat-scratching karate kick to the sinuses, the longevity (as others have noted) was not equal to the more expensive stuff. Bottom line: Use less squirts, but squirt more frequently (did that sound gross?)
So how does it smell? Well, when it opens it’s definitely not a pipe tobacco impression–it’s a cigar tobacco impression. If you don’t know the difference, I used to smoke both and here’s my take: With a pipe I would kick back and say, “ahhh, this is pleasant…” whereas with a cigar I kicked back and said, ” UGH! Why do I smoke these again?!” In other words, the experience is much harsher with a cigar and like a cigar, this guy opens a bit harsh (perhaps harsher than it should have since I sprayed so much) but it settled down into something very nice and pipe-like. After the drydown (actually, the aforementioned “wash-off”) this scent was good…GREAT, even. While the opening had too much earth and cinnamon that I could almost *TASTE*, the middle was a very subtle sandalwood and tonka bean…a faraway pipe tobacco smell as opposed to an in-your-face cigar smoke cloud. Very nice; very mature. Synthetic? Yes. But so is everything else (cheap or pricey) unless you buy and mix your own essential oils no matter what all the redolence snobs say. That statement may be confusing because this is “cheap” in price but it’s not “cheap” in quality. Probably the best line of designer knock-offs out there today.
To recap: London is tobacco throughout. Must de Cartier is varying shades of tobacco. Cuba Red is also varying shades of tobacco. Thus, Cuba Red is a lot closer to MdC and consequently, more complex and mature. It’s also “mature” in the sense that it harkens back to memories of scents that my stepdad and uncles used to wear–to me, it smells like something a grown-up would wear (even though I am now, sadly, a 30-something grown-up myself). Extremely well done…and for $5-ish, it’s a masterpiece of value. It’s so cheap, it’s almost embarrassing to admit what you’re wearing. So if you’re cougar-hunting, tell the old broads who compliment you that it’s Remy Latour Cigar (they’ll be familiar with the name Remy Latour). If you’re kitten-hunting, tell them it’s Burberry London (they’ll be familiar with the name Burberry). But whatever you do, only share the fact that it’s really a $3-$6 knock-off called Cuba Red with your good buddies.
renad999 – :
Quite a strong opening but goes quiet not long after. I don’t get much tobacco in it compared to the Gold edition, rather do I get that beer vibe a lot which I do like a lot. There’s cinnamon flirting and floating about also quite well balanced too. It doesn’t hold it much on me though but for the buck, I can’t complain, I just splash myself with more when I sense it is fading and keep the compliments coming.
CafOffexyNify – :
As close you can get to a cedar/spice fragrance without smelling like hamster bedding. The masculinity to it is very classic, and a good statement fragrance. Can be a kicker though.
foma107 – :
This is indeed one of my most favorite scents! it gives such a delightful spice/tobacco smell to my clothes. I really like how tobacco is the main note, as it very much should be…it’s a cigar brand! and anyone who is even a novice of a cigar smoker can understand, and enjoy this cologne. I sure do, its presented well and smells even better.
RABOTAG – :
i love this works on my skin and last a good few hours love the tobacco
Алик – :
I bought this on a whim yesterday and for 12 bucks, not bad at all. It has such a sweet spiciness that I love, however, the longevity is not very good, but hey, you cannot beat the price. I ordered the four peice set and cannot wait to try them all.
yan_kio – :
does not smell like london. London smells like christmas and spices. This smells like sweet tobacco. Not bad for the price
re1oader – :
Kitschy Perfume at it’s BEST !
When popcorn and drink at the movies easily ring up $20 (at least in Canada), you’d be hard pressed to find a bigger bang for your buck than THIS puppy!
I (LMFAO)… the minute I pulled the giant cigar out of it’s authentic looking aluminum sheath. I mean Wow, this thing’s even ribbed! That’s $8 well spent, right there. But, wait…The cap is the cigar tip? Which I suggest you bite off with your teeth, for maximum effect.
Now…The scent (and i kid u not), smells EXACTLY like a CIGAR ! Not some perfume that kind of reminds you of a cigar. But a cigar. Albeit one of the cheaper ones on the shelves behind the convenience store guy. But certainly a better facsimile of a cigar than some of the pricier “tobacco” fragrances I’ve smelled. It’s salty-sweet, and really pungent. Musk, for sure.
Granted that this smells the most authentic from the sprayer tip to about the first 40 minutes on you; I was still rather surprised to get a whiff of it some 2+ hrs down the road. But by then, it had dried down to a soft sweet musky ghost of it’s former self, and no longer so cigar(ish). Still recognizable though. But who cares! Now you have more reason to pull out that big aluminum sheath…(in front of the entire family after dinner), and ask: Would anyone care to pass around my “Cigar” ?
For the shear Hysterics, Theatrics, AND Economics! It’s a no-brainer. You best fork it over for this Big Daddy!
P.S.—-Buy the 30ml version to get the most realistic presentation of a cigar. Or risk looking like “Cheech and Chong” *, trying to smoke the 100ml version!
Longevity:5/10
Projection(summer temperatures):7/10<br