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xDevilx – :
Dear Fragrantica, you spelled Fougère wrong. Aromatic green? Seriously, one has a hard time to find pyramids fitting better to fougère than this one.
In most fragrances classified as ‘f’, one, two or all three notes of the holy triangle are missing, while here you have the oakmoss, the lavender and the coumarin (tonka). Common. Those classification hurt! Just like ‘a Oriental fragrance’ hurts, and I’m not even a native speaker (obviously)!
No real review, current formulation is shit. Miss the time when even cheapies like this one were great!
Cydendorzhi – :
What an interesting fragrance. This is a review of the EDT: It starts off very dry and leathery with dessicated citrus, a very intense synthetic oakmoss, and leather, and at this stage it smells strongly of the original Aramis, with the vaguest hint of pine needles and stale man soap (a bit of lavender).
Then at the ten minute mark it begins to get powdery, the lavender and herbal tones assert themselves over the chypre elements, and it begins to loosely resemble a cross between Royal Copenhagen and Tabac, but this only lasts a few minutes. An hour into wear, the floral mid appears, and now Irisch Moos is a bouquet of lilac, jasmine, rose, violet, and carnation, and this floral mid has two distinct stages of its own: the early drydown is jasmine, borderline suntan lotion, but held back by a bitter green leaf alcohol, and the late drydown becomes a massive spicy carnation.
The far drydown is about six or seven hours in. By this point the spices and the carnation have become the main theme, and at this point the scent is Old Spice, although filtered through a psychedelic lens with carnation, clove, and cinnamon distorted by chemical dependency.
So to sum up: dry Aramis chypre top, powdery floral mid, oriental Old Spice base. Generally the composition feels like a complex floral oriental, like a German interpretation of Old Spice. There is a dryness, a definite lavender presence, a heavy shake of talcum powder, and an austere spiced floral base that really feels antiquated and archetypically “manly” in a familiar drugstore fashion.
I’m struck by how the “Irish” name and green packaging is meant to evoke associations with a “green” scent, but the fragrance itself is very much a cinnamon-clove oriental with no obvious “green” accords beyond the dry bitter florals in the mid, and even those aren’t really very green. Still, this is a great barbershop scent, a sort of passing of Aramis through an oriental filter, with a wonderfully complex and long-lasting result. Recommended.Update:
After carefully considering all the elements of this fragrance together, I’ve realized that it smells like a mossy chypre, with very strong bergamot and woody notes that are unfortunately too vague to pinpoint beyond a hint of cedar. It’s much like Mitsouko done on the cheap, with all the spicy drydown elements (here so cheap they smell a bit like Old Spice, but that’s ok because it’s still a nice effect), and the labdanum very lightly imparting a musky essence of pine in the earlier drydown. The strongest note is bergamot, which as another fraghead mentioned to me resembles the citrus in Krizia Uomo. I don’t think SIM smells anything like KU, but let me put it this way: if you isolated the bergamot note in KU, it would basically be a much quieter version of the bergamot here. Still, its chypre elements remind me of Mitsouko more than anything else – Mitsouko has a massive bergamot note also.
markis2005 – :
I tried a vintage bottle of this expecting a freshly sharp green cologne but what I got was like a thick, sweet leathery Aramis with a little pine needle on top. Didn’t resemble oakmoss much. Not sure why my experience seems to be so different from everyone else’s.
zaporozhcemuk – :
Absolutely brilliant green scent. For me, a huge green, grass and strong pure vetiver fan, it’s the unmistakeable king of fresh, strong green, masculine fragrances. The definition of a strong but happy fougere.
busvokavaBs – :
This review is for the vintage (pre-barcode) 75ml aftershave spray, round green bottle w/ tall rippled silver cap.
This is a very nice, clean, fresh, masculine and well-blended fragrance of the 70s.
Seriously gorgeous oakmoss w/ fresh almost piney green notes and aromatic lavender is what I get the most.
The atomizer is outstanding, producing a constant vapour that stops when you release the button. Very nice.
A top-quality German fragrance, that makes you feel good and smell even better!
Longevity and projection is well above average. Allthough being an aftershave, it packs
a good punch.
10/10
zover – :
Great all time classic reasonably priced lovely subtle pine and oakmoss. Brilliant product wish we had more available in the U.K!
suslik1996 – :
A brilliant green fresh scent, already very nicely described by anessa! I own multiple bottles of the aftershave and the edt and both are exactly the same in smell the edt being fairly stronger while the aftershave is already pretty strong! I am sure the green notes contain a fair dose of pine cause that is imo a pretty dominant note. To me it is like a refined Krizia Uomo (an excellent ‘brother’ of Irisch Moos so to speak). The cloves, coriander and moss are well blended with the green notes to make the total sum a very fresh sharp green masculine scent. One of the better cheapies one can get. A must have for lovers of Krizia Uomo, One Man Show and Quorum imo! Rating: 8.5/10
FelixSerg – :
I would call it fresh and manly. I really like it.