Aqva Pour Homme Bvlgari cologne – a fragrance for men 2005

My first impression of this is that it’s boring. However I do somewhat agree with the reviewer below me that this is more of a “night sea” smell. I think it will likely grow on me after a few wears, but initial thoughts are that it’s linear and boring and doesn’t have a great deal of depth. I like the aqua marine flanker more than this. Have not smelled atlantique yet. this is just a basic aquatic, but I may like it more as I give it some more wears.

second wear impression: initial thoughts are that it’s kind of boring to the point of being vague. and also a very weak scent. I pick up a little bit of maybe…..seaweed notes, or grassy notes. like grass that is growing in a lake or certain sea inlet. just a bit. I guess I see what they were going for with this, but imo the formula is just super weak. it could be great if there was some performance to it. it has potential to be a really really nice scent, but it has no power. there’s nothing projecting this. it is a very weak and vague skin scent. kinda tragic because it could be something great. it has potential to be a dark, mirky kind of sea weed aqua scent. it is not light green, but dark green mixed with sea notes. they did a good job on that uniqueness there, but it’s so weak that it doesn’t matter. just leaves you wanting it to develop more but it never really does. the poor performance here kills the potential. could be great, but it falls flat unfortunately

all in all I will say that it’s a cool unique dark sea note smell. but given how weak it is I can’t recommend blind buying this.

final impression after more wears: it did grow on me, and then somewhat got boring again haha. what I don’t like about this line so far is that it’s synthetic. I’ve tried this one and aqua marine and I liked them both at first but the synthetic ingredients really turned me off to aqua marine. now I don’t like it at all.

overall this one is a better smell than marine, so I bought a full bottle. but I’m somewhat regretting it now because it’s starting to get more synthetic on me.

scent-8/10
performance-4/10
value-4.5/10
overall–6/10