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Nina Ricci

The opening is all zesty lime—bright, tart, and slightly effervescent, like citrus peel twisted over chilled water.

Tom Ford

Oud Wood announces itself through a smoky, resinous haze—Brazilian rosewood and cardamom tempering the dense, medicinal quality often found in oud-forward compositions.

Dolce & Gabbana

The One for Men opens with a sharp citrus clarity—grapefruit bright and slightly bitter, tempered by an aromatic thread of basil that keeps the introduction from feeling too clean.

Dolce & Gabbana

The One for Men Eau de Parfum is the EDP reformulation of a 2008 eau de toilette, and it trades some of the original's airy citrus for a heavier, sweeter spice cabinet.

Yves Saint Laurent

YSL L'Homme opens with a confident ginger-lemon accord — both notes in clear, unhedged form — against a bergamot that softens the citrus without diluting it.

Calvin Klein

Obsession opens with an immediate collision of brightness and warmth—citrus and peach dissolve almost instantly into a thick, resinous heart where jasmine and orange blossom hover over dark, mossy wood.

Tom Ford

The raspberry-saffron opening arrives with surprising intensity—a jammy sweetness cut by dusty spice that feels both opulent and slightly dangerous.

Versace

A blast of anise and basil announces itself immediately—herbal, slightly medicinal, with the crisp lift of bergamot cutting through.

Givenchy

Opening with a bright herbaceous jolt—tarragon, rosemary, basil—Pi immediately signals that it's not another safe masculine.

Guerlain

The first impression is a bright jolt of citrus — not just mandarin, but orange blossom's sharper, greener side tempered by the cool vegetal bite of ivy.

Calvin Klein

A sharp lavender opening immediately softens into something warmer and more diffuse.

Guy Laroche

Drakkar Noir opens with a bracing herbal rush—mint and lavender cut with aromatic rosemary and basil, edged by citrus.

Azzaro

Azzaro Pour Homme opens with a clean, aromatic blast—lavender and bergamot lifted by the licorice snap of star anise and the green punch of basil.

Ralph Lauren

The opening arrives with basil's green, slightly medicinal sharpness tempered by bergamot's brightness—a bracing start that announces masculinity without bluster.

Dior

Eau Sauvage opens with a bracing citrus clarity—lemon and bergamot lifted by aromatic herbs that feel more medicinal than culinary.

Calvin Klein

Eternity for Men opens with a crisp aromatic wash—lavender softened by citrus, immediately clean but not clinical.

Ralph Lauren

**Polo Blue** opens with a flash of cucumber-cool melon, watery and bright, like biting into something crisp just pulled from the refrigerator.

Chanel

Antaeus opens with a sharp citrus edge—lime and bergamot cut through by the herbal bite of clary sage—that quickly gives way to something darker and more unsettling.

Salvador Dalí

The opening arrives with liturgical gravity—incense and myrrh wrapped in bergamot's brightness, while basil and clove add unexpected herbal-spice sharpness.

Escada

The opening is a ripe, sun-warmed blend of pineapple and melon sweetened by blackcurrant, landing somewhere between tropical smoothie and candied fruit.

Dolce & Gabbana

The original Dolce & Gabbana opens with a green sharpness—basil and ivy cutting through bergamot—before the florals arrive.

Hugo Boss

The first spray delivers a jolt of frost—sharp peppermint and grapefruit cutting through the air with an almost medicinal clarity.

Guerlain

Habit Rouge opens with a brilliant citrus volley—bergamot and lime sharpened by green basil—that quickly gives way to its true character: a warm, spiced oriental built on sandalwood and cinnamon.

Gucci

The opening rushes in with bergamot and ginger against a dry papyrus haze—aromatic but restrained, more boardroom than bazaar.

The Body Shop

The Body Shop's white musk opens with a bright, green flutter—basil and galbanum lending an herbal clarity before ylang-ylang and lily soften the entrance.

Amouage

The first spray floods the senses with a medicinal rush of mint and tarragon, green and nearly antiseptic, like stepping into a herbalist's garden at dawn.

Jo Malone London

The opening is all citrus clarity—lime and bergamot so sharp and clean they feel almost medicinal, like the rind snapped between fingers.

Givenchy

Eaudemoiselle de Givenchy opens with an unexpected herbal clarity—basil leaves crushed between fingertips, green and slightly peppery, more kitchen garden than floral boutique.

Tom Ford

Beau de Jour opens with a sharp, medicinal lavender that feels more apothecary than aromatic fougère.

Dolce & Gabbana

Intenso opens with a rush of brisk lavender laced through aromatic basil—clean but not sharp, Mediterranean rather than fougère.

Lancôme

The lemon arrives sharply, almost medicinal in its clarity, softened only slightly by bergamot's rounder citrus edge.

Boucheron

The first spray of Boucheron delivers a surge of citrus and basil that feels both bright and oddly opulent, the herbal sharpness quickly softened by a honeyed apricot warmth.

Lolita Lempicka

The opening of violet, anise, and basil creates an oddly aromatic sweetness—almost medicinal, with ivy lending a dark green coolness that feels more gothic than fresh.

Guerlain

The opening is brisk and herbal—lavender and rosemary cut through with citrus—but within minutes, something stranger emerges.

Tom Ford

A sharp citrus blast—grapefruit and lemon so bright it almost stings—tempered by green herbs that keep the opening from veering sweet.

Atelier Cologne

The opening is pure sunlight—bright mandarin peel with a sharp green edge that feels more alive than sweet.

Giorgio Armani

The opening grapefruit cuts sharp and vivid against a bed of bergamot, delivering that citrus jolt familiar to the Acqua di Gio lineage but with more pronounced bitterness.

Ted Lapidus

The opening bursts with bright pineapple and lavender, an unexpected alliance that captures 1980s optimism without veering into pure athleticism.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Fleur du Mâle strips the original Le Mâle down to hesperidic essentials, replacing vanilla and lavender with a focused study in bitter orange.

Caron

Yatagan opens with a bracingly herbal collision—mint and galbanum strike first, followed by lavender and basil that feel more medicinal than soothing.

Acqua Di Parma

The first spray is a bright citrus surge tempered by cool, slightly peppery basil—like standing on sun-warmed stone steps near the sea, crushing lemon leaves underfoot.

John Varvatos

The opening arrives with a peculiar coolness—basil and fennel collide in a bracing, almost medicinal swirl that feels more apothecary than cologne counter.

Chanel

Pour Monsieur opens with a crisp citrus clarity—petitgrain and neroli vibrating at a high frequency, almost transparent.

Jacques Bogart

One Man Show opens with a bracing slap of galbanum and basil over citrus, green and almost medicinal before the real architecture emerges.

Xerjoff

Torino21 opens with a bracing aromatic jolt—mint and thyme laced with lemon, almost medicinal in its clarity, like stepping into an old apothecary garden at dawn.

Tom Ford

Tom Ford's 2007 debut for men opens with a bright clash of violet leaf and ginger that feels almost vegetal, a crisp greenness edged with spice.

Yves Saint Laurent

L'Homme Libre opens with a brisk aromatic clarity—basil and violet leaf meet bergamot in a way that feels green and slightly metallic, like crushed stems rather than flower petals.

Versace

The opening is a sharp citrus blast—lemon and bergamot cut with herbal basil and green petitgrain—that feels more bracing than polite.

Dior

Dune pour Homme opens with a green, almost medicinal brightness—fig leaf and sage meet basil in a fresh, herbaceous wave that feels more apothecary than sun-drenched beach.

Hugo Boss

Boss in Motion opens with a brisk, verdant shimmer—violet leaf and basil collide with citrus in a way that feels athletic rather than aromatic, like cold water on skin after exertion.

Laura Biagiotti

Roma Uomo opens with a vivid clash of aromatic basil against bright citrus, the green herb cutting through bergamot and grapefruit with almost medicinal clarity.

Dior

Aqua Fahrenheit opens with a crisp grapefruit bite that feels more bracing than sweet, quickly joined by a mint-basil accord that leans green and almost medicinal.

Creed

The opening feels bright but slightly dusty—citrus rubbed through lavender stems, more herbaceous than fresh.

Oscar De La Renta

The opening arrives as a bright clash of herbal basil and soft peach against a haze of orange blossom, establishing Oscar's signature contradiction: it reads as both fresh and baroque.

Kenzo

**Le Monde est Beau** opens with an unusual alliance: creamy magnolia petals brushed with green basil and tart black currant.

Hugo Boss

Hugo Just Different opens with a jolt of icy mint that feels almost medicinal in its clarity, a sharp, clean blast that clears the air before softening into something more approachable.

Hermès

The opening rushes in with bright, slightly medicinal sage and cardamom—herbal and clean, but with a roughness that prevents it from feeling polite.

Creed

Érolfa opens with a generosity characteristic of early 1990s luxury fragrance: melon, lime, bergamot, lemon, and orange all present simultaneously, the result neither fruit salad nor cologne but something that smells specifically of a Mediterranean deck at sunrise — bright, salt-adjacent, slightly herbal from the rosemary and basil.

Boucheron

The opening lavender-basil accord pins this firmly in the tradition of the grand French fougère — aromatic and brisk, with citrus burnishing the edges.

Rochas

Byzance opens with the culinary precision of a professional kitchen — lemon and basil together, brightened by cardamom's warm spice.

Givenchy

The Gentleman line's modern era is defined by iris — not the buttery, powdery orris root of older French perfumery but something colder and more structural.

Halston

Z-14 opens with an unusual bright-green thrust: basil and citrus cutting through a creamy gardenia haze.

Halloween

Halloween Man opens with violet leaf and basil — a green, slightly bitter combination that gives the opening more character than the brand name might suggest.

Hermès

Sharp citrus and crushed leaves strike immediately—not the sunny sweetness of orange blossom, but the astringent bite of green peel twisted over ice.

Ralph Lauren

The original Polo Blue launched in 2002 as a cool aquatic suited to the beach.

Guerlain

Habit Rouge arrived in 1965 as something without precedent: a warm, citrus-led oriental designed for men at a time when masculine fragrance meant either fougère or fern.

Ralph Lauren

Melon and grapefruit open with a fresh-aquatic brightness, gardenia adding a creamy tropical counterpoint and jasmine and lily of the valley keeping the floral register present from the very first moment.

Hugo Boss

Basil, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a bracing, slightly herbal freshness that immediately signals intent.

Davidoff

Basil and wormwood open sharp and herbal — the basil green and slightly anisic, the wormwood bitter and medicinal.

Dior

Diorella is Edmond Roudnitska's final great Dior fragrance and one of the definitive green chypres.

Creed

Royal Water is one of Creed's most distinctive and challenging masculines.

Yves Saint Laurent

Jazz is old-school masculinity done with conviction — a fougère-oriental that opens in a spiced rush of cinnamon, lavender, cardamom, and basil, all edged with anise and bergamot.

Giorgio Armani

Armani Eau Pour Homme is an 80s Italian masculine done with the same precision that defined the house's tailoring — basil and bergamot leading a clean, citrus-herbal opening before lavender and cinnamon carry the composition into fougère territory, joined by jasmine and a soft rose that keep it from going purely barbershop.

Oscar De La Renta

Pour Lui opens with the assertive green-herbal swagger of 1980 masculinity — sage, basil, galbanum, and lavender in a cool aromatic rush cut by anise and bergamot.

Maison Francis Kurkdjian

A blast of mint and lime jolts the senses awake, cool and sharp as a wet stone.

Maison Martin Margiela

At The Barber's opens with a sharp crack of black pepper alongside basil — herbal and slightly assertive, the barbershop's back room translated into fragrance rather than its pomade-and-cologne front.

Kenneth Cole

A sharp ginger-and-basil opening cuts through the air before Kenneth Cole Black settles into a resinous, smoke-tinged core.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Mûre et Musc is among the founding works of the L'Artisan Parfumeur house — a fragrance from 1978 that invented a template others would follow for decades.

Frédéric Malle

Synthetic Jungle opens with a sharp green provocation — galbanum's cold, sappy bitterness alongside basil's aromatic herb, with black currant adding a dark, jammy contrasting note.

Boucheron

Jaipur Bracelet opens with a sharp, green brightness—petitgrain and violet leaf deliver a leafy astringency that feels almost medicinal before basil adds a hint of herbal warmth.

Rochas

The first spray delivers an unapologetic citrus barrage—lime and bergamot shot through with green basil, sharp enough to feel like cold water on skin.

Amouage

The opening arrives with a liturgical gravity—frankincense and cardamom rising through basil's green sharpness, bergamot lending just enough lift to keep the resinous weight from settling too quickly.

Escentric Molecules

The opening strikes immediately green and resinous—fig leaf and rosemary crushed between fingers, sharp with herbal oils and faintly soapy bergamot.

Dior

Higher opens with an airy brightness—pear and citrus lifted by basil's herbal coolness, like standing in an orchard at dawn.

Aramis

The opening is sharp and herbal, basil cutting through with an almost medicinal clarity before the warmth begins to gather.

Louis Vuitton

Pacific Chill opens with a shock of peppermint clarity—bracing, almost medicinal in its intensity—before orange and blackcurrant soften the edges into something between a beach-town juice bar and a herb garden at dawn.

Vilhelm Parfumerie

A green Mediterranean dream centered on basil so vivid it's almost bruising—peppery, anise-edged, the smell of torn leaves rather than dried spice.

Atelier Cologne

Cédrat Enivrant opens on lime and bergamot — a sharp, slightly bitter citrus combination that's immediately more present than a typical cologne owing to the parfum concentration.

Rochas

Eau de Rochas Homme opens with basil sharpening the citrus — lime, lemon, bergamot, mandarin — into something more aromatic than merely fresh.

Burberry

Brit Rhythm opens with a bright jolt of basil and cardamom that feels more culinary than cologne, an unexpected green spice that clears the air before quickly giving way to darker intentions.

Aramis

Tuscany Per Uomo opens with a sharp blast of citrus and lavender cut through with green herbal bitterness—tarragon and basil lend an almost culinary astringency that feels deliberate and unfashionable by today's standards.

Calvin Klein

Truth for Men opens with a bright aromatic slap of basil and cardamom—green, slightly medicinal, oddly cleansing.

Tom Ford

Italian Cypress opens with a sharp green jolt—galbanum and mint collide in a way that feels more medicinal than refreshing, as if stepping into a cool stone chapel.

Van Cleef & Arpels

The opening arrives with a bracing herbal clarity—sage and lavender tempered by bright bergamot and a peppery touch of basil.

Dior

Eau Sauvage Extrême intensifies the original's citrus-aromatic framework into something darker and more resinous.

Salvador Dalí

The first spray delivers a bright, aromatic jolt—lavender and tarragon tangled with anise and citrus, creating an herbal sharpness that feels both barbershop-clean and vaguely culinary.

Loewe

Esencia Pour Homme opens with a rush of citrus and green herbs—lavender and tarragon cutting through bergamot and petitgrain with almost medicinal sharpness.

Xerjoff

Fiore d'Ulivo is Xerjoff's pale, Mediterranean white-floral — a soft opening of peach and freesia giving way to a neroli-tuberose-jasmine heart that stays light by design.

Nishane

EGE opens with a bright, green coolness—violet leaf and yuzu pulse together, sharp and herbaceous, cut with anise's licorice edge.

Nishane

A bright citrus zap of yuzu lifts into an anise-spiced breeze, crisp and Mediterranean in character.

Dolce & Gabbana

The One Royal Night opens with a sharp jolt of green basil tempered by warm cardamom, an unexpected pairing that registers as both fresh and resinous from the first spray.

Dolce & Gabbana

The One Grey opens with a brisk aromatic pulse—grapefruit sharpened by basil and warmed immediately by cardamom, setting a tone both fresh and slightly spiced.

Chanel

Paris-Deauville opens with a burst of citrus so clean it feels almost antiseptic—lime and bergamot cut through the air like a freshly ironed linen shirt, brisk and cool.

Cartier

Santos de Cartier opens with a bracing clash of medicinal lavender and sharp galbanum, tempered by neroli's bitter-green citrus.

John Varvatos

The opening is immediate and Mediterranean—lavender and basil cut through with bergamot's brightness, like walking into a sunlit herb garden rather than a conventional cologne counter.

Lalique

L'Insoumis opens with a jarring collision of herbal basil and dark rum, sweetened faintly by bergamot.

Axe

Dark Temptation opens with a bright flash of ginger and pear—less fruit salad than spiced sweetness, the pear lending a soft, syrupy quality that quickly warms.

Jo Malone London

Basil & Neroli opens with a green jolt—fresh basil leaves bruised and bracing, nothing like the dried herb in your pantry.

Jaguar

The opening arrives brisk and aromatic, led by crisp lavender and bergamot cut through with herbal thyme and basil.

Sisley

The opening is unusually herbal and green—basil and cardamom laced with bergamot create a cool, almost medicinal clarity that feels more like a fresh linen shirt than typical citrus brightness.

Giorgio Armani

The 2013 reformulation of Armani's Eau Pour Homme opens with a bright shock of bergamot and basil—green, almost culinary, but pulled back from the kitchen by a cool mineral quality.

Natura

Essencial Masculino opens with a brisk, herbal clarity—lavender and basil collide with citrus sharpness, the galbanum adding a green, almost medicinal edge.

Tiffany

The opening is bright and brisk—grapefruit sharpened by basil's herbal bite.

Natura

Natura's Essencial Exclusivo opens with a bright, spiced citrus rush—ginger and cardamom warming the orange and bergamot into something more aromatic than sweet.

Brut Parfums Prestige

The opening hits like a barbershop breeze—lavender and citrus cut with anise, clean and bracing.

Ted Lapidus

Rumba is a 1989 creature of its moment: dense, layered, unapologetic in the way that powerhouse florals of that decade were built to demand attention.

Lacoste Fragrances

The opening cuts through with dark lavender and a medicinal edge of basil—cool, almost austere, like stepping into a shadowed French pharmacy.

Tom Ford

The opening is cool citrus threaded with green herbal sharpness—grapefruit and bergamot cut with basil's peppery bite.

Hugo Boss

Hugo XY opens with a crisp bergamot brightness softened by an unexpected pear note, creating a fresh but slightly sweet introduction.

Yves Saint Laurent

A sharper, more resinous take on the L'Homme lineage, this opens with bright lemon and aromatic cardamom that quickly fold into a green, almost metallic violet leaf accord.