I would feel kind of lucky that it mixes well with me but believe me there are certainly ones that don't, including most citrus and the vaunted Club de Nuit Intense turns to lemon Pledge on me. But the synthetic note in the opening and the lackluster performance of the current batches at least, are off putting and keep me from having it in my regular rotation.

I really want to like this fragrance because there are aspects of it that keep me coming back to it. No BO, no curry, no Le Male similarity (I get mainly aromatic herbs with strong mint and lavender in Le Male with the only similarity being vanilla) and not even very spicy apart for slight cardamom.Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy Men EDT opens with a moderate projection of sweet, citrus, green, spicy, and woody notes. Despite all that said, there is something about 212 Sexy Men that gets attention; I don’t know what it is. The vanilla works as a filter from which all the other notes are drowned out except for traces of exotic woods in the dry-down and the warming amber, light floral touch and fragments of sour citrus that are deeply embedded in the mixture.

The idea was to create a "fresh" oriental fragrance; however, what makes this fragrance paradoxical is that there is a combination of notes that smells distinctly of body odor/armpit at the beginning of the progression. Something about the green notes, cardamom and musk interacting together produces this 'Just Got Laid' accord. Amouage Memoir Men EDP is a great leather, spices, and incense fragrance; Bentley For Men Intense EDP is a leather classic, strong and good performance; Carolina Herrera CH Prive EDT is a fantastic, leather, and whiskey fragrance; Giorgio Armani Code Profumo EDP, is a potent leather, and slightly fruity fragrance; Guerlain L’Homme Ideal EDP features leather, almond, bergamot, and vanilla; Juicy Couture Dirty English Men EDT is a faint, slightly sweet, woody, and leather fragrance; Mancera Gold Prestigium Unisex EDP is a high-quality fragrance that contains leather, rose, and vanilla notes; Montale Aoud Leather EDP is one of the best cost/value leather and oud fragrances; Paco Rabanne 1 Million EDP is a super sweet, leather, and orange fragrance; Tom Ford F Fabulous contains leather, almond, floral notes; Tom Ford Ombre Leather is a modern and natural leather fragrance, a great one; Tom Ford Tuscan Leather Men EDP is a good leather, fruity and spicy fragrance; Carolina Herrera CH Men EDT is a very good and versatile sweet, and dry leather fragrance; Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy Men EDT is a very good sweet vanilla, amber, sandalwood, leathery guaiac wood, and spicy fragrance. The sweetness and likely musky flower mid-dry down works better for me than the opening, which is bright and clubbing inspiring. I get the reference and similarity to some of the listed fragrances, but by no means it would be redundant to own them along with 212 Sexy Men.i smelled it again and i bought it, it doesnt last that long is not a bad fragrance but is not innovating in any possible way. Masculine and sexy, this magnetic fragrance opens with the energy and freshness of mandarin and bergamot.