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black777 – :
This truly is a hidden gem, not much hype in the fragrance community about this one, but it’s ok, sometimes you want a fragrance that you can put on and feel confident with the fact that not too many people know about this fragrance. I’ve worn it during the summer nights here in NY and I’ve gotten compliments on how nice I smell. Blind buy worthy, for sure.
west1000 – :
Very lavender, coumarin, and vanilla centric scent with a nice bite from the citrus and freshness from the mountain air accord. It smells very nice, especially in the opening. For the price it is very good and will please a lot of people. It reminds me a bit of Versace Eros not so much that it smells very similar to Eros but that it is definitely in the same vein as Eros with the vanilla sweetness. Overall it is more polished and subdued though. For how cheap it is this is a very good fragrance with average performance. The only bad thing is that it kind of takes a sour turn on my skin in the drydown. Overall I would still recommend it though. It’s fairly versatile as well.
мнс – :
Lockon is correct in his review.. I smelled a recent bottle I don’t know if it’s been reformulated but it really does resemble Valentino uomo intense in the background. Does not smell anything like the original to me. I recommend this bottle for now as a good scent but cannot comment on performance
Huhter – :
This is a very sexy scent…
Must have in your collection, plus if you find it under $35… it’s an easy blind buy.
Worth it.
I can’t break the notes apart, i love it as a whole.
And so do my coworkers, friends and family.
It’s a very good scent, for the price you get more than you paid for.
Again a must have.
Man this thing rocks, found a hidden gem…
A must have people, a must have.
Can’t speak bad about this scent, not at all!
I used six sprays…both wrist, back & front of my neck, chest and front of my shirt.
Will I buy this again?…Yes.
Does this fragrance enter BEAST MODE, good, just okay or weak sauce at best? It enters BEAST MODE.
What’s the strength of this? EDT.
Am i willing to trade this fragrance? No.
Should You Skipped It, Sample It First or Blind Buy It? Blind buy worthy.
Can you use it as a unisex scent? No.
Is it the old, new formulation? Old.
What’s its availability; in production, limited edition or discontinued? In production.
SKU Number: 608940566909 (Tester)
Batch Number: 15351R32 (Production Date: December 17, 2015)
Age: 21+
From: Hookup
Size: 100 ML
Scent: 5/5 (Sexy).
Value: 5/5 (Cost Free).
Sillage: 3/5 (Three feet).
Longevity: 4/5 (Eight hours).
Creativity: 5/5 (Clean but manly, breezy…btw how the hell is this breezy, earthy & sweet).
Projection: 4/5 (Two & a half hours).
Versatility: 5/5 (Anytime & anywhere).
Compliments: 5/5 (Awesome complements).
Until next time, I’ll catch you on the flipside.
slaventij772 – :
Very solid scent from Kenneth Cole and I’d say this is my favorite scent from this house with my 2nd favorite being Reaction.
This scent opens up with a nice lemon note mixed with a touch of lavender and vanilla and it stays pretty linear but in the drydown the vanilla and lavender take over making this a very pleasant,warm and inviting while at the same time being fresh and clean. I really enjoy this and right now I’m in between like and love but as much as I do like this I can’t say it’s a favorite right now. I think if this was more rich or had more vanilla this scent would be perfect !
Performance on this is quite good as well. It lasts 5-8 hours and has decent projection for 2 hours but it never becomes cloying or loud which would make this perfect for work in the colder months.
Overall rating— 7.5 out of 10! Very good scent but unfortunately it’s only really good but nothing amazing. I’m still impressed with this though
Also to my nose this smells like L”homme if it had vanilla in it 🙂
283429 – :
Just bought this blind.
I gotta tip my hat off to Hero. Honestly guys, this shit right here is some fire. And i mean that in the best way.
I will start off by saying that this smells similar to Boss Bottled. They are 90% similar when they are first applied. However, Hero ends up being more fresh and airy, and has a slight metallic tinge. Boss Bottled is more spicey and gourmandish. Both are great in their own right.
Overall, Hero is an extremely pleasant smell. The “mountain air” accord that’s listed is nothing more than the opening fresh notes of lemon mixed with lavender. It does evoke a sense of fresh mountain air though. Almost like a walk through a mountain meadow in spring.
I’m not disappointed that I bought it. Woman will drool over this, and it will draw compliments!! Enjoy ladies & gents.
8.5/10
dinamikiixiomu – :
Ha ha; MAN, do I beg to differ! Love this shit! Its just classic smooth, something I wear for myself, others can hate. Remember curve? This is similar, albeit in a higher class, not an imitation or clone; its made unto itself, if that makes sense. More sophisticated imo. It DOES bring me back a bit to those days, i agree with the others comments in that regard. Ahh…but its got its own feel, deeper and just plain therapeutic to me. When you wear this, it’ll make people just wanna hug you. Goes perfect with the autumn/winter leather jacket. Its affordable as well, without being ‘cheap’, in the vein of Versace Eros. Great, comfortable scent which surpasses the original imo. (Unless you were a fan of Avatar back in the day)
palahx – :
do not like this one. it stinks. ive never received a compliment while wearing this. my wife doesn’t like it either. I tried twice just to see if it would grown on me. nope. out of all my scents, this is the worst yet. explorer from avon smells so much better.
domoxod – :
Mankind Hero is the hottest and to clarify, this is the wife of the wearer. Just wow. It is the fresh, outdoorsy, yet refined, very manly and classy fragrance and better in those ways than I have ever imagined for a man like mine. I close my eyes and it’s just us, hiking in our peaceful evergreen forest, and I’m walking hand in hand with my love when a fresh breeze sways the trees with a heavenly fresh scent. I’d guess the lavender is the fresh spicy component as there really is no pine in it at all!
As a female fragrance addict, surprisingly enough, I haven’t bought many-a-bottle for my husband and love of 24 years and counting. (More fragrance budget for me?) There have been a few through the years, maybe one fragrance per decade, and they were certainly adequate, and he was happy. AND THEN, I discovered this one shortly after he turned 40 years young. Mountain air accord- yes! My hero husband loves a good, remote mountain top so much that he eventually bought us one to live on. Fresh air, working hard and playing hard and time outdoors at home, filled with laughter and joyful moments with our children and me simply mean everything to him. What a capture of that amazing time this Mankind Hero is! Fresh and sweet at the opening, Italian lemon and coriander are delicious and fresh-smelling, clean and brisk but never sharp. Within minutes begins the classy husband scent trail that literally makes me follow through the house to find him. Disappointing when I trace incorrectly back to our room, where he dressed and sprayed himself two or three times and I’ve been fooled. In fact, he has wandered elsewhere in the minutes since then! Silage would not be offensive, but with one spray you may get a skin scent shortly thereafter. Two to three sprays and you’ve got silage for the first half hour to an hour that will get noticed, so be careful out there, boys! By a half hour, what fully develops is a, breathe-the-air-deeply-oh-my-goodness-he-smells-so-good, fresh and yet sultry plum wood/woods, and a balanced herbaceous and refined combination of both lavender and clary sage- I mostly detect brisk and herbaceous lavender. You want to talk about aromatherapy and calming lavender? At this point, I have found my love for sure, and am moving in for a hug and complimenting him on how good he smells! Breathing in deeply, I never really detect vanilla, but I think that must be the smoothness and sweetness of the mid-note blend which smooths out the herb and woods notes. Heavenly, heavenly, heavenly. The midnotes seem to last several hours on him, lucky me! An hour or two later, silage is dramatically decreased,and for the next few hours, I have to lean in close and the skin scent on his neck is warm, cozy, and gorgeous musk, warm woods, and sure, I do believe I can detect fresh forest moss. Such a handsome fragrance from opening to base notes!
Lastly, while bottles don’t seem to mean much to my man usually, when I gifted this to him (perhaps I gifted this to myself, in reality), he remarked upon opening it that the bottle’s sides are leather trimmed and that it was “One of the coolest bottles” he’d ever seen. He was hoping he’d love the fragrance as much as the bottle, and he truly likes it even more. I am a hard sell for fragrance, and men’s fragrances simply don’t impress me much, but this one is a 10 for 10. P.S. Even the youngest our five children recognize this as “Daddy’s Hero smell” now. Perfect for date night and handsome for suit-and-tie situations professionally, this is also fantastic for a day out (or home!)with friends or family, Mankind Hero seems the right choice for our hero husband and daddy. It is office safe (I would not use more than two sprays in that case) and I highly recommend this even as a blind buy, you probably can’t go wrong. Figure you’ll have decent silage for at least 4 hours, more skin scent in the last three hours, with traces of Hero for up to 12 hours very close. If you’re needing to refresh between office and date night, bring the bottle along! If anyone sees you with it, they’ll think it’s the coolest- like a dark and mysterious bottle in a refined biker’s jacket. Did I mention 10 for 10? I may have meant 11 for 10!
escotosoync – :
Tried twice – this is not good! Very sour and almost sickening.
nos498Unlogrere – :
This is one of my all time favorite everyday colognes as far as scent goes. It’s extremely versatile, and smells absolutely amazing. However the performance is pretty weak. It has almost no projection/sillage after the first 30 minutes, and only lasts about 5-6 hours. I really wish KC would make it a bit stronger, or release an Eau de Parfum version.
lentUnfapitte – :
Now the designer companies are using names that sound like the ones used by the “clone” companies! They must really hate those clones.
LoRD063 – :
Lemon, vanilla and musk is all i smell from this and it’s heavenly! I can’t wait for my boyfriend to try this cologne!! It’s very manly but smooth and a pinch of sweetness.
kolyas.lord – :
This cologne is magic..
Tigr68 – :
I am a fan of the Boss Bottled line. I currently own Boss Bottled Intense, and I enjoy it. I just picked up Mankind Hero, and it definitely reminds me of BBI. I would essentially call it a fresher and, dare I say, more versatile version of BBI. Lavender is much more prominent than in BBI, which makes this thing very aromatic. However, it still retains a slightly rich sweetness from the vanilla and tonka bean, and the leather is a nice masculine touch. In testing this side-by-side with BBI, I actually prefer this! Its less of a gourmand; its enhanced freshness over BBI makes it a safer scent. I’m currently wearing it now for the first time, and I can already sense that projection is an issue…but I don’t mind. This fragrance is meant to emit a pleasant scent bubble, not reach out and grab people. Obviously its not unique…but I don’t believe that anyone who smells this on you won’t find it really nice!
NusLoulaaladway – :
If you cant wear strong fragrances but still want something to wear that is soft and pleasing to the nose, this is it. At first i wasn’t a fan but i brought a sample home from work and wore it at home and liked it more. It stayed on better when i did about 7 sprays and people at the apt said i smelled good when i was outside. If you need a safe fragrance this is it
JonahBardw19 – :
This stuff is meh, generic, boring and doesn’t last… and even if a tanned blonde in her 40’s approached me and started sniffing at me I wouldn’t buy it.
And the other thing I don’t buy is story about the tanned blonde.
topsecrets – :
I’m not a fan of KC fragrance, but this little review i’m convinced, would try smelling it and if i like it, i will go for it. I’ve been disappointed with two of their fragrances i bought. Keneth Cole Black and Reaction..
nePITKIN – :
Tested this in the store and brought home the strip. It smells extremely similar to Boss Bottled.
This also has a bit of Allure Homme Sport in it, which I think is the Lemon/Vanilla/Musk combo, and quite a bit of a laundry/drier sheet vibe which is from the Lavender.
I purposely sprayed Boss Bottled and this on tester strips again and I’d say that this one out lasts and out projects Boss Bottled which seems to be watered down these days.
Pretty good sweet-generic clean scent.
stram – :
Spritzed this on at the Ulta store during a lunch break, and 5 minutes later a tanned blonde in her 40’s walked by me, then stopped, turned around, held her hand up, and said ‘excuse me’. She sniffed, sighed (for a full 30 seconds) with her eyes closed, and asked me what I was wearing.
This began the littany of compliments from female coworkers, and 2 hours later I was still smelling a web of Lavender that was anchored in the masculinity of Musk…exquisite and actually quite empowering in my mood.
A definite keeper, and I was pleased to see how it stayed sharp and not too cloying in the heat and dampness of summer. Glad I bought the bigger bottle!
4 hours later, it was contracting more to a ‘skin scent’, but people could still smell it within half an arms length, lots of smiles from older women walking by..
yg0 – :
Went to the mall and it blew me away when I smelled it on paper cause I was expecting something else. Sprayed it on my wrist and 5 hours later I was smelling the awesomeness! Purchased it the next day. Its not strong, nor does it last past 7 hours. For the 6 hours it lasts, it is a little more than a skin scent, it radiates just a little more than a skin scent would. Still, the only people who would smell it on you would have to be someone who is 2 feet away. This is pretty close to being the perfect office scent. I went with 4 sprays neck, back of the neck, forearms. Gotta say, this is a winner for what I am using it for. It might even jump out a little more in warmer weather although I would strictly use it for indoor office type setting or a casual mid spring, early fall scent. I give it a solid B
lizetta333 – :
Smells very good and yet very familiar. A very smooth, slightly sweet/slightly citrusy fragrance. Glad that I was able to pinpoint what this reminded me of. At first I was reminded of Curve.. but I knew that Curve wasnt what this reminded me of completely. Moments later I had that eureka moment.. this smells like an updated/refreshed version of Jake by Hollister. Brings back memories of walking past the mall and knowing I couldnt afford to shop at that preppy store… also reminded me of all the attractive young girls that could fit in the clothes that store was marketing. This scent was the ‘Fierce’ of Hollister… the most recognized scent and trademark of Hollister. This addictive scent was like a wonderful song that ended up being overplayed… but now that much time has passed since I last smelled this (do they even make Jake anymore?).. this has been a welcome reintroduction.