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Visconti Di Modrone Acqua Di Selva Aftershave for Men 100ml

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Well the first thing that stood out to me was that this does not have a dated or "old School" scent to me. I don't have any memory of this scent being worn by anyone I knew when growing up. The Citrus note is the topmost thing you get when smelling it in the container. It is not an industrial citrus like some describe Pledge furniture polish as being. It also doesn't have that overwhelming synthetic smell you get from Bath&Body works scents, Or Avon scents. I love Acqua di Selva. It is now 64 years old, and does not smell dated to my nose. It opens with a tart lemon, fresh lavender, herbaceous pine. Smells clean and fresh in a non-laundry-musk or aquatic way.

The opening is pretty much a basket of dry herbs too populous to list, but including players like basil, thyme, and rosemary. There is a very strictly clean helping of lemon oil, camphor, and some taut English lavender, reminding me much of a component in Avon's Structured for Man (1969) vanity set (see the Steel component). Acqua di Selva is much more balanced and less cold medicinal camphor than the Avon, but I can see the inspiration. The heart is carnation and clary sage with some geranium to add more metallic brightness in an age before aldehydes were used in that way for masculines, but the base is where the main character lives. Pine, oakmoss, vetiver, cedar, and a bit of coumarin give this the main barbershop feel of Acqua di Selva, and will be most of what you smell after about an hour. This could be a good if somewhat antique-smelling office scent, great on hot days too, perfect for the "postmodernist" friend who is too hipster for the word "hipster". I wouldn't use this in social settings or romantic evenings unless your company has a particular taste for stuff from this era.No this scent is somewhere between the synthetic modern scent and sniffing an actual lemon or lime or orange peel. There is also a hint of spicy middle that makes the citrus easier on the nose, in my opinion. It reminds me a bit of one other favorite of mine, Old Spice Fresh Scent. It's similar in the mid scents and base. Of course the citrus is what is vastly different. Acqua di Selva by Visconti di Modrone is a Aromatic Fougere fragrance for men. Acqua di Selva was launched in 1949. Top notes are lavender, bergamot, lemon, rosemary and basil; middle notes are thyme, pine tree, cloves, clary sage and geranium; base notes are peat, cedar, musk and vetiver Again, I am by no means an expert is scents, but I do know some of the scent profiles and the ones that I like. And this one is a new one that I really like. I am wearing it for the third time this week and at 2:00 in the afternoon it still has a discernible light scent. Very few scents last that long on me. Longevity from start to finish on my skin is about 4-5 hours, excellent for something that is an EDC. Sillage is light to moderate, so this fragrance is delightful and inoffensive to most people. You would have to douse yourself to overdo this one. A couple or three sprays in an office setting would give you a crisp, clean, and confident scent, that would last through most of the day. After the fragrance settles a bit, touches of carnation, geranium make themselves known along with a wonderful musky cedar base. A bit of smoky vetiver makes it even more attractive. The final stages are a warm and gentle musk and the cedar. It is just an incredibly well-done fragrance.

The thing that I really like about is the way the scent adjusts after you apply it. It really does change as it drys and settles. It becomes a very nice almost classic smelling woody scent. No Leather scent, no overpowering muskiness, no odd powdery smell just a multi level nice woodsy scent with hints of cedar, vetiver, sage, and Bergamont. Acqua di Selva starts out a aromatic, herby mix. I get an initial blast of soft petitgrain, basil, and rosemary. I don't get much citruses. There's a slight clary ssge to this, with just a tinge of sweetness coming from the lavender. But the middle notes are, overall, similar to the rest of the fragrance itself: dry, herbaceous, slightly green. During the dry down I get some pine, vetiver and musk. But it's fairly light and mostly gone after a few hours. The fact that I want to discuss Aqua di Selva here in my very first review is perhaps a little cheeky... you could just as well ask a lawyer for a qualified opinion on Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. However, I have my reasons: This classic here really surprised me. Visconti di Modrone is the current manufacturer of Acqua di Selva, a men’s fragrance launched in 1949 and originally offered by Parfums Victor. Acqua di Selva, whose name means “Forest Water,” has been a favorite for decades. Its signature green bottle and fresh, herbal-woodsy scent offer a touch of Italian style to men on both side of the Atlantic. This fragrance is a show with several acts. This distinguishes it wonderfully from many later products, where after 10 seconds you already know what the water will smell like 2 hours later (still). The head, heart and base each have their own program, and it is amazing how far apart they are - and yet how harmoniously they merge into one another.The price of the scent is great value in my opinion. I enjoy mixing scents and am going to experiment with this one as well, but I will also wear this scent alone pretty regularly.

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