![]() ![]() ![]() I'm sure the novelty factor of this is enough for some people to enjoy, and if I came across it cheaply, I might toss a bottle in the back of a dark oubliette somewhere to bring out when I want to play a gag on my friends, but as it is, this stuff is a serious waste of cash and time for both the person who wears it, the person who composed it, and the house who commissioned it's creation. If you were trying to get a chuckle out of me D&G, mission accomplished. With Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest Pour Homme, we have a poor-performing but harmless aquatic transformed into something laughably absurd. And hey, some others in this price point can have weak sillage and poor longevity too, like Eau d'Orange Verte (1979), but at least they're interesting. I wasn't too keen on the original Light Blue Pour Homme either as it too was very boring and with extremely poor performance, yet commanded top designer dollar alongside Diors and Hermès selections. Juniper, rosemary, Sichuan pepper, and rosewood yawn into each other to form a genetic piquant "meh" which sandwiches our lemon soda to the standard Light Blue Pour Homme base of incense, musk, and a sliver of oakmoss. After that, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest Pour Homme (let me catch my breath) moves into "freshie 101" territory by using garden-variety heart notes that lead me to believe this was a college thesis for somebody who graduated from Givaudan School of Perfumery bought up by D&G for a cheap summer quickie. Sure enough, that initial reaction was one of disbelief and laughter as we were both covered in a cloud of evervescent lemon. Even the salesperson at Nordstrom warned me it smells like "lemon Italian soda", to which I couldn't believe and had to spray. Pellegrino sparkling water tastes so let's not sugar-coat it. If this sold for $15 out of an Avon catalog as a quirky cheap summer thrill, I'd be giving it a thumbs up, but since they want prices only a few dollars away from Chanel for this, I'm highly displeased.ĭolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest Pour Homme (gesundheit) starts with grapefruit, manadarin, lemon, no. Instead, we get what is basically lemon Pellegrino on top of Light Blue Pour Homme, with what little sweetness the original had sucked completely out. Hell, even the Italian-by-proxy Aramis Tuscany Per Uomo (1984) was a really good presentation of the aesthetic and could have given D&G a good reference point, but nope. I went in expecting a zesty fragrance in the Italian style, thinking maybe Dolce & Gabbana got their s**t together and blended in the Light Blue Pour Homme (2007) base with the bright amalfi lemon and tangy herbs of glorious past Italian masculines like Versace L'Homme (1984) or Gianfranco Ferré for Man (1987). However, scents like Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest Pour Homme (2018) not only come across like reciting a long-winded name of a race horse only to deliver an astonishingly plain product inside, but can't even be true to their own name by giving an experience that at least matches their description. Hell, I don't even care if you use plastic bottles (hello Pinaud), so long as there's no perceivable dip in my enjoyment. I have a wide palette, and I enjoy both challenging and easy-going scents, expensive or cheap. Sometimes I feel bad for being perhaps less-picky or "discerning" as the hoity-toity segment might say, giving a vastly greater number of positive reviews to neutral or negative ones.
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