It opens with fresh spicy but there are softness and sweetness from floral and musk to tone the spiciness down. The opening of BLV is pure gingery powder with a touch of cardamom and a very sweet tobacco blossom. My ranking of the five mini bottle collection of Bvlgari fragrances is: 1 – Man in Black EDP, 2 – Man Extreme, 3 – Aqua Amara, 4 – Aqua Pour Homme, and 5 – BVL Pour Homme.

However, when I pay attention to the scent I can smell the ginger and cardamom in it as these are the two notes that stand out the most. Read about this perfume in other languages: Deutsch, Español, Français, Čeština, Italiano, Русский, Polski, Português, Ελληνικά, 汉语, Nederlands, Srpski, Română, العربية, Українська, Монгол, עברית. The projection can be increased if more sprays are applied but it is a moderate scent and also I get maybe 7-8 hours on clothes.anyways, i never liked it and i would never recommend this cologne to anyone, unless you like to smell like tide detergent. It's the fragrance the wife of a suburban middle aged man would like him to wear, because it's inocent and unsexy and safe.

Definitely smells better than I remember and does have something that makes it stand out a little more from the rest of the other standard men's aquatic scents, probably the ginger.These are later replaced by the main star of the show – spicy ginger and galangal, accompanied by aromatic juniper accords.