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shtirlets666 – :
A good old school scent. good for every day. not in summer and not in night. good performance. low price and clean smell.7/10
suhan99 – :
On par with Quorums / Azzaro PH / Paco Rabbane, Alfred Sung, etc
BUT! , a true step up in quality in all I’ve listed above, except Azzaro..another fellow Italian house – however not as artisan as Krizia. Done lived and learned enough to trust the quality of Italian frags. It’s a diffrrent beast!
This one is simply a very darker green and mossy, old school shaving foam/soap. I actually returned this upon first try. Few years went by and I smelt it on someone. Damn! So I went and picked some up. Old school no bs quality yoiu can shake a stick at LOL
10/10
sasha213 – :
…now I know and I can add to my below review: I shit you not, this has the vibe of a rainy day In New York City. Dark, wet, fresh, urban yet green, big & bold, while charming to no end!
oroma66 – :
So Cool! Pure Italian beauty from the 80’s! Love it! The pine/juniper/citruses/aldehydes combo is perfectly done with the main accord being still the pine. Its juicy, fresh, lush and green while also aromatic and classy! Very easy to use and cool looking bottle. This juice is in the same vein as Sergio Soldano (nero) for Men (1985). Performance is very good, the dry down lasts you til the end of the day. I consider this to be a signature fragrance for above 35 and though it has that outdoorsy, woody, forest vibe to it, I can also see this perfectly working in a big city environment like NYC. A true Italian statement! Love it!
aswer – :
Makes you smell like you’ve been out chopping down trees all day.
The pine note is crazy strong in this.
I like it, makes you feel fresh, and if you have an affinity for the outdoors and tend to go a bit stircrazy in city centres (as I do) will make you feel at ease .
Would not recommend wearing it to work (unless you cut down trees for a living!), this is real old school macho.
Good!
martin91 – :
A loud, brash powerhouse from the 80s, just the way I like ’em. Lots of dry, sharp-edged notes flying around, like pine, artemisia and cedar, balanced off with the obligatory macho patchouli and leather base notes.
I don’t recommend wearing this to work, unless you’re the boss. There is nothing discreet or subtle about Krizia Uomo AT ALL. In fact, I don’t recommend this for anyone except guys who like AND WEAR 80’s power scents.
Love this juice!
My rating: 8.5/10
jurok65 – :
One Man Show is a song with someone screaming the vocals at the top of their lungs; Krizia is that same song sung properly.
Can be cloying if you go overboard with the trigger. Get used to this one before you go crazy. Experiment at home, not at work.
Layers really well with Quorum Silver. The sharp fern mixed with the sharp cedar really makes something nice.
par-sek – :
Very good.
Opens with a sharp, acrid, green blast of pine/juniper, like scrambling through a conifer hedge. The harshness fades quite quickly. It’s clean, sharp and masculine. It feels very classy, something more subtle, smart, smooth and complicated underneath all the fir branches.
It reminds me of Quorum, and I can see it shares the pine, sandalwood, artemesia and oakmoss, but where Quorum is macho, this is more classy – manly rather than macho. I can picture a very masculine, smart, fit guy in a suit – a sort of James Bond character.
The remaining skin scent is smooth, aromatic and delicious. Sexy in fact.
Longevity about 6 hours and sillage moderate (I think, I always overspray everything anyway..)
It’s fantastic good value in my opinion – smells way more classy than the price tag would suggest. Worth a blind buy.
November 2015
luh452Negeltzex – :
A nice $10 blind buy for me. No regrets, definitely something I’ll wear…but I seem to be piling up the aromatic fougeres. Krizia Uomo, Azzaro Pour Homme, Le 3eme Homme, Yatagan, Rive Gauche…they all overlap in some ways and differ in others. Of these, Krizia is definitely the closest to Azzaro Pour Homme, with pine and juniper taking the place of anise and lavender.
shoker555 – :
Vintage Version – CRUDE Review
Sweaty but freshly washed man parts scrubbed with Old Spice soap on a rope, flopped up on the bathroom counter sprinkled with vintage Pinaud. This is what the scent basically smells like.
I get no pine but instead an herbal “skank” no not skank, but FUNK, that lingers until you bath with Lava soap to scrub it off.
Is it bad? No. But dated, very VERY dated. Better than Sung Homme, but for the money there are WAY better frags. Encre Noire for example.
Vepfluequevew – :
[Like many fragrances that have been around since the eighties, Krizia Uomo has been reformulated at least once, and perhaps more than that. This review pertains only to the latest formulation. As someone who’s been wearing it irregularly for about fifteen years, I’ve never noticed a significant change in its contents.]
So many scents created in the seventies and eighties have fallen by the wayside due to ever-changing tastes in fragrances. There are a few that remain on favorites lists, but these are the exceptions instead of the rule. Having watched YouTube fragrance reviews for about six months now, I’ve never seen a review of this, and considering the quality of the scent, it’s a shame. It’s not for everyone, but it wears so incredibly well in the winter that I just had to share how much I enjoy it with a bigger audience. (And since winter is just ending, what better time than now?) It’s too good to be kept a secret.
According to Fragrantica, on the top we have: aldehydes, Artemisia, juniper berries, mandarin orange, basil and lemon; in the middle, cyclamen, carnation, sandalwood, jasmine, cedar, pine tree needles and geranium; and in the base, leather, patchouli, musk, oakmoss, and vetiver. It was released in 1984, and created by the Swiss company Firmenich.
It’s really more complex than this, but in the beginning what you get is pine, pine, pine. Some reviews online accuse it of being a Pinesol-like smell, but I don’t get the medicinal or detergent-like quality at all. What the opening reminds me of specifically is going out at Christmas time as a kid and cutting down your own 8-foot tree in a gigantic, sprawling spruce or pine forest, and the smell of your hands for the rest of the day when you have that sharp, sparkly-smelling, resinous sap on your hands.
The opening has that harsh, resinous, pine-sappy grating quality in the nose. If you don’t over-apply, this only lasts 10-15 minutes on me before it starts to develop. It never loses that deep, sea-green earthiness, but as time goes on I start to pick up some of the more (very slight) floral notes, the oakmoss, and the vetiver. It never turns “floral,” per se, but there are the barest hints of carnation and germanium.
It is VERY strong – so strong that I usually apply with the atomizer at a fair distance from my skin so as to get a faint mist instead of a full-on spray. When I’ve sprayed this on my clothes, there are times when I could easily smell it a whole two days later. The projection and sillage with Krizia are off-the-charts good. With as few as three sprays, it will last over ten hours.
I would classify this strictly as a late fall or winter fragrance; you definitely don’t want to sport this in three-digit heat. If you’re light on the trigger, I don’t think it’s going to offend many people at work, especially if you have a commute to work where it can settle down on the skin first. This isn’t for everyone. It’s unquestionably bold, piney, assertive, and uncompromising, but some might not find it unique enough to be a “formal occasion” fragrance. That’s fine. My favorite times to wear it are when it’s freezing outside, something I’ve been doing ever since middle school when I first laid my nose on a bottle of it. It cuts through cold air like no other fragrance I’ve ever smelled.
Maybe the best part is that you can buy 100 ml. of it on fragrancenet for $15.99. If you like deep, dark, sparkly, sharp, resinous, piney scents, you could do a lot worse than to blind buy this, or get your hands on a sample. To anyone else who is interested in sharing their opinion about Krizia, please comment below or post a review of your own. This deserves more play in the world of reviews, even if they are from people who don’t care for it.
HilaKidedyday – :
classic. I tested the current version. i do not like it. too smell of pine which then becomes sweet and cause me headaches. I do not like, smells like old people at the bar to play cards. moderate performance.
ps … but if I do not like this I will like even one man show?
nanette433 – :
UPDATE: I guess a woman wearing this isn’t liked very much on here but I think I’ve figured out why I ordered it by accident. I’ll leave my original post below this one….
One of my brothers passed away the other day. He had great adventures in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. He served 20 years in the Navy and was a Navy Seal for awhile. He was a troubled soul but he loved the outdoors and this is the perfect scent to honor him.
He is in a better place now.
*********************
I ordered this on accident, thinking it was the women’s version. I sprayed it on paper and wasn’t impressed. It just smelled like pine needles. and I didn’t know if I was going to keep it.
Tonight I sprayed it on the back of my hand and I’m really digging this!
It’s not following the pyramid so much on me. It starts out with pine needles, then it get lemon and the juniper berry’s. After while it gets a lemony soap smell that is very nice and reminds me of a soap I used to have in the 80’s. This is very classy and understated.
I bet a lot of people overlook this because of the price, but this is a real gem!
It is a masculine smelling but some women can pull this off, such as myself.
What an interesting surprise from my purchase mistake! As if my subconscious knew….
so_rockin – :
I blind bought the modern version of this, I’m not familiar with the original and can’t comment of the mossiness or lack thereof. I will say this though it’s satisfied my recent desire to put some masculine powerhouses back in my wardrobe, as I realised this was an area I’m sadly lacking. Sure I’ve own polo/kouros/pacorabanne etc…in the past but I was hoping this might be a bit like VC&A Tsar or something but it isn’t really. Neither is it like Azzuro pour homme or Quorum which was a relief. I find it softer and more manageable than any of the aforementioned fragrances but don’t be fooled this is no slouch and I think can still quite easily be referred to as a powerhouse.
I’d say it’s a sharp and pungent opening of lemon and aldehydes which settles to fern and pine with a heart of spiced powdery geranium and carnation, not too musky but with facets of oakmoss and animal qualities.
I like the way it dries down too, changing all the while and settling (after several hours) to a quiet skin scent.
For me this is a good example of the aromatic fougere and more wearable and toned down than it’s counterparts.
Good longevity too even from this new formula, so all in all a pretty good blind buy.
sadistica – :
Picked up a small 30ml of this today as an inexpensive blind buy and like it very much. It definitely qualifies as an 80’s powerhouse and shall take residence in-between my bottles of OMS and Quorum. For me it’s a perfect mix of the best elements of the two.
Recommended.
AKSAKAL – :
I ordered a mini-bottle of this fragrance not too long ago to test out this fragrance. Even though they said it was new, it wasn’t cellophane sealed and looked like a small sticker price tag was scraped off the box. The color of the fragrance itself was a yellow color. I was afraid I would be trying on something that has gone rancid from age, due to the cellophane being taken off or maybe opened.?
This has a loud, almost rancid opening(due to age)but then it mellows down and it smells very much like “One man show” by Jacque Bogart. This one though, doesn’t have that faint “root beer” component in it’s scent like “One man show” does IMO. Otherwise, it’s about the same in scent being that it’s clean, woodsy,and green. This type of fragrance is just not for me like a few other ones that are vintage.
deewlyagreeby – :
One Man Show’s better-behaved sibling. Not as loud and much more wearable.
ife888Bessinepome – :
The current mossless version of Krizia Uomo poses a dilemma for any classic masculine fragrance enthusiast. It contains clear structural notes of pine, juniper berry, lavender, lemon, cedar, geranium, cilantro, basil, coumarin, cedar, vetiver, and musk. Its top notes are basically lemon, pine, and juniper dressed in aldehydes. As a whole, the scent is bright, crisp, green, woody, herbal, a touch sweet (in a coumarin way, not in a sugary way), and extremely likable. It smells clean, but also somewhat sophisticated, conservative, and natural. In other words, it smells great. The problem is that other fragrances capitalize on these notes in more memorable ways. Pino Silvestre and Agua Brava are more charismatic herbal/lemon/pine scents, YSL’s Jazz takes woody lavender and makes more of it, and Polo Crest has a more full-throated treatment of cedar, vetiver, and musk. For an excellent crisp-green to “woody” scent, Chanel’s Anteaus is hard to beat.
One could blame Krizia Uomo for not making the most of its pyramid, but I don’t feel anything negative toward it. Even though there are other fragrances that come to mind when I smell its drydown, the one thing about KU that stands apart is its subtlety. This is not a loud, clawing, hard-edged synthetic scent like One Man Show (which smells much different imo). This is a carefully crafted gentleman’s fougere, and something about its spiced cedar base is very alluring. The drydown definitely lends distinction to this old eighties saw from Italy, and I’m sure people find it sexy on the right person.
Haarmann & Reimer classify this fragrance as a woody chypre. This is a rare case of where I disagree. I smell no bergamot or labdanun, and as I said earlier, my reformulated bottle contains no moss of any kind. What I do smell is a clear lavender, coumarin, and musk accord, and the “clean mountain air” aspect of the citrus top note, coupled with the slightly barbershoppy woods, reminds me of Paco Rabanne PH. This is an overlooked fougere, and ultimately its “fougereness” is the reason I will always have a bottle – I just love these types of old-school aromatic ferns.
ever1 – :
Gorgeous green lemony piney juice which keeps itself green, happy and cheerful for a very long time. The drydown is mossy musk with the happy factor also present.
A happy fougere to lift your spirits at any time of the day!
Thumbs up!
urmatik – :
Think of a snow covered pine forest on a mountain range,fresh flowing river,crisp air and a cold breeze.This is what I get from Krizia Uomo.It is very green,cool and refreshing with satisfying longevity and sillage.In hot summer days this will cool you down.
leonora123 – :
An old school pine/woody fragrance. Krizia is really lovely. Distinctive pine and aldehydes with a fresh uplifting sillage. In my opinion, this is nicer than OMS but, I agree, it is similar – Krizia is closer to GBH Red. Longevity and projection are very good. The drydown stays aldehydic and fresh. Very masculine and great value.
Icewolf – :
Classic 80’s citrus greens, lavender and woody masterpiece. Something different compared to today’s mainstream offerings – not that there aren’t many wonderful fragrances on offer today across the current spectrums that are in vogue – it’s just that this harks back to a different era. No doubt back in the early 80’s this was considered good alongside a plethora of similarly constructed offerings. In 2013 however, this is definitely not a mainstream scent – in a very good way. I picked up an old, slightly battered gift box complete with a bar (yes, a bar rather than a shower gel) of soap to accompany the juice itself. The bottle by the way – as others have commented is a lovely dark green type of glass designed in an angular, Art-Deco style. Great.
PRusjsellA – :
light version of Jacques Bogart One Man Show. it is more suitable for day wear than One Man Show due to the moderate lasting and sillage. classic manly fragrance!
katorgin.cerg – :
Pine indeed and it smells fresh and clean. I like to wear this fragrance on hot summer days. Today is one of those days. I get many compliments when I wear it and it lasts a long time on me.
noface46 – :
feeling a man of the Eighties, a classic piney scent, excellent also in scorching heat..got to be a powerhouse freak, beware!
aaallleeexxx – :
The top notes on this cologne can easily make a one sick. It’s a great manly colognes but for those who don’t want anything strong on themselves shouldn’t try it.
narek22552 – :
Now this is man’s man fragrance. I remember getting into a fight in a bar in Iceland once and right before we were going to get into it i noticed a bottle of this on a nearby table. I walked over to it and sprayed it on and the guy who picked a fight with me began to tremble. He got that look of someone who just realized he shouldn’t have done something he was definitely going to regret.
This stuff makes you feel like a strong healthy tree. Tall and lean like one of those hard barked douglas firs. It makes you smell like you’ve been in the forest working all day and God help the poor sap who tries to get between you and your beer when your wearing this stuff!
Makes you fell like a woodsman ready to chop someone down!!!
True story … or at least that’s the way I remember it. I drank allot that night.
Facktor – :
Great scent. I try to find the notes and make my self more knowledgeable when it comes to this hobby of scent collection. I presently own over 100 or more botttles of cologne. I buy and collect based on recommendations. That being said I am a lover of strong scents. Bought Krizia based on it’s being classified a powerhouse. Great long lasting clean scent a must have in any arsenal.
Evgenariusss – :
I have loved this fragrance since it was launched in 1983. I used it a lot in the 80’d and 90’s. After many years, I recently bought a bottle and I am glad I did. It smells the same as it did years ago. It has very good silleage and it lasts a long time on me.
ClariaMyday – :
I am an italian lover of parfums, i’ve read what That Makes Scent writes and would like to ensure him about the fact that Krizia Uomo is really Made in italy, by a company named Morris located in Parma.
This fragrance has been very popular in Italy for all the 80’s, but afterwards it’s been a little forgotten, and it has always been not much expensive.
I’ve used it when i was 20 – 25 years old, i loved it, but now it seems to me a fragrance not “natural”, even if sometimes i wear it with pleasure.
Last summer i was at a restaurant in a nice sea place in Sardinia, a beautiful island of Italy, and i was wondering why so many waiters moved closer to my table…shortly after a waitress asked me the name of the very good fragrance i was wearing…Krizia Uomo!!
Krizia has been a very popular stylist in the 80’s and 90’s, she still works for italian high fashion, but her succes has decreased.
Her fragrances have always been produced by Morris in Parma.
Dmitr – :
This is back again in Italy, I discovered it yesterday into a perfumery. relaunched into a new flacon, close to the original one, by the fashion house together with the female K de Krizia.
Well, I don’t know if they have been remastered, but I have to admit that Krizia Uomo it’s a real Masterpiece. A concert of contraddictions very well orchestrated. A dance of olfactives meteorites. Balmy notes vs warm ones, dark woods vs aromatics, aldehydes vs naturals.
Fantastic re-surpise. Maybe is “more destinated” to mature men or vintage lovers, but a great composition indeed.
nikaomsk55 – :
Oh haven’t thought of this fragrance in YEARS….was one of the fragrances my husband wore when I first met him…I loved it…sexy!!! Fresh and manly!
docp – :
Purchased at a discount store yesterday for less than $20. My initial “get” is that it’s what Silvestre Pino wants to grow up to be. I get a real blast of pine/juniper initially with the adelhydes amping everything up. Love that first half hour–I don’t do subtle, pretty or aquatic. I find there to be very little “middle,” with some florals; I’m not the best figurer-outer on individual notes during transitions. I catch mostly moss with the base after a several hours, though the patchouli is there for awhile. Similar to Tsar (especially) once the initial phase is over; similar to Quorum but without the lavender or staying power.
This is masculine. Don’t know about 80s-era. I will share this with my 14 year old as he’s nearly done with Tsar. Works for work for me.
Edit: I get a 20 minute drydown on my skin. A couple hits on fabric helps keep the initial and midnotes present, especially the juniper. Much improved.
Scent: 7/10
Sillage: 5/10
Longevity: 6/10
adev – :
Labaloo –
After trying Vintage Halston 1-12 (and current) as well as owning Vintage Z-14, I mainly find a connection with 1-12, and significantly less than before. Krizia Uomo (once I bought the terrific After Shave Splash) has really grown on me with several full wearings. This is a really nice fragrance with old-school charm, but not dated at all. The power of the EdT versus Cologne in Halston gives them an entirely different vibe…Krizia Uomo is much stronger, while Halston wears like a Cologne should. Great vibe, but not loud – just well proportioned and a very nice radiant skin scent after the initial 20-30 minutes or so of good projection.
Krizia Uomo is a very green scent with a lot of natural elements from the forest in here (along with a burst of aldehydes on top!) – I, personally don’t get amber like Z-14 has, along with Benzoin and a large amount of spices and rich leather (although there is a light leather note late in the drydown of Krizia Uomo). The more I wear Krizia Uomo, the more I realize the key base notes are actually a nice warm musk and Oakmoss – supported by the vetiver, wood & patchouli. This really stays with green notes & herbs (artemisia, juniper berries, basil and pine needles) throughout – impressive and very nice “focus” of notes. The florals are integrated well, but what makes it so fresh and definitively unique to 1-12 & Z-14 is that it stays away from any resins (with galbanum in 1-12).
Classified a “Woody” – this is a unique “Aromatic Green Woody Musk” to me – incorporating some nice wood notes, including cedar, vetiver and sandalwood along with a nice, rich, damp oakmoss.
Z-14 is classified a Leather (to me, a “Spicy Leather Chypre”) and 1-12 stays in the Aromatic Green realm very well. I acquired a brilliant old, vintage 4oz 1-12 splash and it is so full of Oakmoss compared to today’s “fresh & clean” but lightly mossy scent, which I still like a lot. But, after coming back to Vintage Halston’s…I realize more & more just how different Krizia Uomo is. It’s Italian flair is very prominent and I find it to be a wonderful scent that is at once both vibrant and refreshing while also soothing and wonderfully relaxing. Rare to find that. Vintage One Man Show is compared a lot – and yes, there are similarities. But, I feel a lot more refinement in this bottle by Krizia.
From the brilliant Pierre Dinand-styled bottle with its contoured shape & lines to the bright and fragrant, aldehydric green opening…this may be an 80’s scent in full-force, but as my friend, ObsessionForMen, said…”give it a chance and the dry-down is heaven”. I concur. It has definitely risen in popularity with me as I find myself reaching for it quite often. Definitely a true year-round scent of taste & great quality. With its unique vibe and Italian-styiling, I no longer find myself comparing it to any Halston Bottlings. It is an excellent fragrance on its own merit – and uniquely so!
Cheers.
bobi – :
I’m really starting to love this the more I wear it- the strong clove-cinnamon-orange-peel opening is marvelous… but I tell you: the far drydown is really dominated by smooth sandalwood- and good quality stuff from the days before it was over-harvested. Beautiful.
anna-lia – :
This is my first review on Fragnatica. This website has been extremely valuable to me and a lot of fun to read. I hope to contribute something back.
I recently went on a drugstore binge on drugstore.com. I bought numerous low cost fragrances that were not available to sample at the local brick and mortar stores. I would have to say that Krizia Uomo for $25 was the winner.
I sampled Krizia Uomo back in the 80’s and remembered liking it but I was too busy with Giorgio Beverly Hills to pay it more attention. When I received my bottle last week I was pleasantly surprised by a rich green sticky juice that has an italian flare to it. Think Polo Green (old version) a la italiano or One Man Show but richer with an Italian/European flare.
The box says made in Italy which sent me jumping for joy. Do they really make this in Italy and ship it to us for $25 a bottle ? I am dying to know. To my knowledge the fashion house of Krizia still exists. Anybody know anything ?
IMO this is a macho scent . Very 80’s but not outdated by any means. This is for guys that like to wear a collared shirt and a nice pair of shoes when they go out. It would work better in a lounge than a club if that makes sense. As far as I go (42yrs) this could very well be a new signature scent for me. Especially since it lasts 7 hrs on my skin which is unheard of these days. Will this disappear by the time I need a new bottle?….lets hope not.
Update Feb 2013 – Bought a new bottle and was extremely disappointed. Very low sillage and longevity.
gribraHable – :
Very good aromatic scent – woody but also very green. I have a strong appeal for fragrances like this (classic, masculine)…and give kudos to Krizia for this bottle of very good quality fragrance. A brilliant review at the bottom (the first) by ObsessionForMen! Indeed – transcendent juice. The lemon, aldehydes, juniper berries, soap suds and moss pour onto your skin…with a nice light floral musk note kicking in soon after with some leather and a concoction of flowers, artemisia and the key midnote that defines this fragrance – pine needles. However, all of this comes together in a big, lathered up soapy delivery in the heart – but the suds seems to wash away as it moves to the base notes. Although the entire wearing is very nice, it is in the drydown where a lot of great notes come together. Oakmoss, musk, patchouli, wood, vetiver, and a nice touch of dusty cedar and fir/pine needles that stay from the heart to keep freshness (woody, but green). This never gets heavy. A chic, suave but comforting Italian scent that could be dressed up or down. I prefer more casual, but fragrance like this is worn by the wearer, not the other way around. So, a fresh clean shave, pressed shirt, tie and suit would go well. And, it would not be offensive – just radiant. Distinguished scent for a mature man.
This is very European – specifically very “Italian”, as I said before. I like it the more I wear it (and have Vintage EdT and After Shave bottles, which are excellent). The blast of lemon and aldehydes on top mix so well with the florals and juniper. Very good! If I want a refined, sleek and fine-lined composition with depth (like the Pierre Dinand-designed bottle it comes in), then Krizia Uomo is a great choice. This is a great scent with a lot of class, but can be worn casually as well. My score – 8/10. Highly recommended!
adamadas – :
Somewhat similar to One Man Show, which has cruder top notes, but has better note separation, and also better dynamism. This one’s a bit green, a bit powdery, a bit piney, a bit spicy, a bit soapy fougere, etc. The castoreum is quite strong, so if you don’t like that ingredient this is one to avoid (it seems like that is what is meant by “leather”). My first bottle was a small, sealed spray while the second was a 100 ml sealed spray. The large one seems “brighter” though less heavy/powdery at drydown. Neither seem to be a recent, oakmoss-deficient formulation, assuming that is what was done. This is definitely not “modern,” and might be good for doing something out in nature that is not “romantic,” at least if you are a young guy who is concerned about such things. However, if you get one of the formulations I have at current price levels, you are getting a “true bargain.”
TwemiTivy – :
This is my kind of fragrance! I waited two months for this to arrive from overseas and have worn it today for the first time. Considering how good this fragrance is – it can be bought remarkably cheaply.
This reminds me of a number of other fragrances: It is like Polo Green, but not as pungent; it is like Francesco Smalto pour Homme, but without the smokiness and it is like Pino Silvestre,but stronger and with a floral heart.
It is in good company.
This is Polo’s little brother and is crisper and soapier. If we imagine that Polo is to be worn by a lumberjack, axe in hand returning from a day’s work in the conifer forest, Krizia is worn by him on his day off as, freshly showered, he walks down the hillside through conifer trees and fields of flowers.
Krizia has a soapiness which works with the coniferous notes to create an effect which is long-lasting and fresh. Yet this freshness is not the freshness of the sea (like so many aquatic fragrances), it is the freshness of a mountain breeze. As the heart notes are revealed I see glimpses of Halston 1-12, especially in the jasmine.
The longevity is good – and its sillage is more than respectable. I have a 19 year old daughter who loves coniferous scents and she is crazy about Krizia – I will be giving her a decant of this.
jon01 – :
my dad used this fragance when i was a little kid, i like it,very nice scent,very clean…..
sdemen – :
Get ready for a trip to Tuscany or somewhere else in the Italian countryside. Opens with a blast of citrus and lavender. Then it moves into jasmine, cypress and other woody notes. It starts out quite strong as other ’80’s fragrances do, but give it a chance and the dry-down is heaven. Packaged in a beautiful Pierre Dinand designed deco-inspired bottle.