It does have citrus and neroli opening DNA but the connection from the original and Assoluta is limited. Empowered with myrrh, patchouli, and cardamom, but seemingly not with much greater concentration, Intensa is more blatantly masculine and serious. While Assoluta is a floral, sweet/spicy combo and a modern take on the original, Intensa is a much more bold, acerbic departure from the traditional cologne smell. Anyway once the initial citrus and herbal notes start to vanish off, you realize that was the nicest part, and you basically remain with a simple, bland, immobile, surprisingly cheap soapy musky-cedar accord still tinged with a bold detergent-like debris of citrus and a remarkably irritating long persistence, as charming and pleasant as remaining stuck in a lift with that bald stinky colleague of yours.Ĭolonia Intensa definitely goes in a different direction from Colonia Assoluta with respect to the original Colonia. ![]() Still a less than mediocre scent, whether the balance is fine or not. But well, I know balance is a rather subjective matter, so I guess someone may like that. Too lemony at first, too harshly woody, too cheaply musky on the drydown. And even if they're just a few and are all quite classic, for some reasons at some points their balance smells almost wrong. It's uninspired, too cheap to be at least elegant and enjoyable, as it smells on the contrary almost tacky for how lousy and mediocre the notes smell. It's basically a darker, here meaning woodier and muskier take on the Colonia, but hasn't really the quality and the class to succeed for me. It starts off as a sort of cheap dupe of a herbal-citrus fougère played on lemon-musky chords, tinged with a depressingly flat synthetic leather note and a surprisingly bold, and kind of harshly dissonant generic woody note (it takes a talent to make cedar smell this bad). Actually much disappointing, even if my expectations with Acqua di Parma are never that high. Contrary to other flankers of this Colonia line, such as the beautiful Assoluta version and the at-least-wearable Leather one, this Intensa variation is quite disappointing for me. The panoplea of accords are all in balance with each other, and the result is a strong - not loud - woody-spice fragrance that is truly wearable nearly all year round. The product is similar to Chanel pour Monsieur, Eau d'Hermes, and somewhat like Armani's Acqua di Gio Profumo: Thick, masculine, intense. Such a mixture of accords: Wood, citrus, spice, leather, green, floral, resin, and musk. It's not too sharp here, which tends to be a bit challenging for me to bear. I thought it was in there too, though it's not listed in the fragrance triangle above nor on fragrantica's. ![]() Some would say there is fennel in here as well. Benzoin's resinous powdery presence also appear in a bit, with a really light leather and musk touch in the drydown. Wood and patchouli creep in soon thereafter, filled out with the unusual other notes (mugwort, myrtle, artemisia, e.g.) and the delicate neroli tucked tightly inside. Acqua di Parma Colonia Intensa starts off just as expected, with a bright citrus peel and ginger rush.
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