Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
773 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot's zesty brightness cuts through immediately, alongside orange blossom's distinctive peppery-green character that catches you slightly off-guard—less sweet breakfast juice, more bitter pith and white flowers. Within minutes, the composition feels almost austere, the citrus notes demonstrating genuine vigour.
The tuberose slowly unfurls, softening those sharp opening edges into creamy florality around the 45-minute mark. Jasminum auriculatum adds complexity, preventing the tuberose from dominating completely. This phase represents the fragrance's peak—balanced, lovely, almost worth wearing.
By the fourth hour, vanilla and white musk emerge as the sole remaining presence, but they're gossamer-thin. What lingers is less a scent and more the faint impression one existed—a skin scent that demands you lift your wrist to confirm anything remains at all.
My Way is a fragrance caught between whispered intention and hesitant delivery. Carlos Benaïm has constructed something genuinely pretty here—a floral composition that leans romantic rather than seductive, built on the marriage of Egyptian orange blossom's bitter-green freshness against Indian tuberose's creamy, almost buttery depth. The Calabrian bergamot provides a crucial citrus skeleton, preventing the heart from collapsing into pure pastry sweetness, whilst the Jasminum auriculatum adds a green, slightly powdery dimension that keeps things from becoming cloying.
The character is decidedly feminine-leaning despite its unisex classification—this is someone's "safe choice" fragrance, the olfactory equivalent of a cream linen shirt. It wears like a gentle suggestion rather than a declaration. The white musk and Bourbon vanilla base attempt grounding, but they arrive whisper-soft, barely anchoring the composition. There's a synthetic quality (64% according to the accords) that occasionally surfaces, lending the florals an almost laundered cleanliness rather than verdant naturalism.
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