Cypress

Goutal

Eau d'Hadrien opens as a glass of lemon water drawn from a stone well—cool, pure, startlingly bright.

Dior

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

Joop!

Joop!

Dsquared2

The opening announces itself with a bright jolt of lemon sharpened by pink pepper's metallic bite, a brief flare before the fragrance settles into its true nature.

Comme Des Garçons

Kyoto was designed as a meditation on Buddhist and Shinto spiritual practice, and Bertrand Duchaufour's dedication to incense as both structure and subject is complete.

Lacoste Fragrances

The Yellow entry in Lacoste's L.12.12 wardrobe takes the capsule-collection metaphor literally — a precisely defined fresh masculine with a clear character.

Les Liquides Imaginaires

Louise Turner constructs Beauté du Diable around the eugenol molecule — the compound that links clove and carnation in their shared spicy warmth.

Marc Jacobs

Laurent Le Guernec's Rain Splash 2016 captures the moments after summer rain with considered accuracy: wet grass and clementine in the opening with the green-resinous character of cypress — a citrus-fresh accord with structural depth.

Dolce & Gabbana

La Force 11 opens with a dry, almost austere warmth—cinnamon and cardamom that feel more medicinal than gourmand, like old spice tins in a wooden apothecary cabinet.

Acqua Di Parma

Cipresso di Toscana opens with a burst of herbal clarity — rosemary, basil, petitgrain, and star anise providing an aromatic green freshness, citrus notes of orange and grapefruit lifting everything with bright Mediterranean warmth.

David Beckham

Signature for Him opens with a clean aquatic-citrus combination: watermelon's light, watery sweetness alongside sea notes' saline freshness and a bright mandarin lift.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

From the Les Paysages collection, Un Air de Bretagne delivers a specific coastal reference — not tropical blue but the cold, green Atlantic shore of Brittany.

Yves Saint Laurent

La Collection Jazz opens with coriander — a single bright, citrus-spiced note that has the dry warmth of seed rather than herb.

Calvin Klein

Euphoria Amber Gold Men opens with cypress and thyme alongside bergamot — an aromatic green opening that reads as Mediterranean rather than conventionally fresh.

Estée Lauder

Honeysuckle and tangerine open with sunlit, slightly herbal freshness — basil sharpening the green edge, apricot adding soft fruit.

Goutal

Lime opens cold and astringent, then almost immediately gets folded into spruce and pine — the citrus reads less as fruit than as the squeezed peel that found its way into a bowl of conifer needles.

Marc Jacobs

Part of Marc Jacobs' limited Splash series, Rain attempts to capture the sensory memory of a rainstorm rather than resort to the synthetic marine accords that dominated aquatic perfumery in the early 2000s.

Armaf

El Cielo Pour Homme opens on a burst of apple and melon that reads as bright and uncomplicated — the kind of citrus-fruity blast that announces itself before you've finished the handshake.

Issey Miyake

Nuit D'Issey Polaris is the richest entry in the Nuit line, moving away from the original's soapy musk and into heavier territory.

Bond No. 9

Lexington Avenue opens with a licorice-herb accord — star anise and fennel dominate, cypress adding a cold, resinous dimension.

Goutal

A bitter-orange cologne that takes the citrus down to its bark.

Issey Miyake

Eau & Cèdre plants itself firmly in the L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme lineage — aquatic, structured, dry — then shifts the woods from abstraction to specificity.

Dolce & Gabbana

Light Blue Discover Vulcano pour Homme takes the Light Blue masculine DNA and reworks it around volcanic terrain.

Acqua Di Parma

Part of the Blu Mediterraneo series, Ginepro di Sardegna evokes the scrub-covered coastline of Sardinia.

Comme Des Garçons

Antoine Maisondieu built this 2008 Monocle collaboration around the hinoki cypress and a specific memory: the open-air wooden bath at Tawaraya inn in Kyoto, drawn at dawn in cold weather.

Dolce & Gabbana

The One for Men EDP Intense is, against expectation, a neroli-leather chiaroscuro.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Côte d'Amour is Céline Ellena's coastal sketch from L'Artisan's Les Paysages line, named for a stretch of Atlantic shore in Brittany.

Fragonard

Santal begins with a green-citrus opening — mandarin, lemon, and cypress — that lands somewhere between Mediterranean herb garden and fresh-cut wood.

O Boticário

Zaad Arctic opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside water notes and ice — a citrus-aquatic signature that reads as clean and cool without being generic.

Dior

Escale à Portofino opens with bergamot, lemon, and petitgrain — a crisp Italian-riviera citrus that is transparent rather than tart.

Giorgio Armani

Code Ultimate positions itself as the warmer, drier counterpart to the original Code's clean oriental.

Marc Jacobs

Rain is the most atmospheric entry in Marc Jacobs' Splash series, built on the sensory impression of a rainstorm rather than any conventional aquatic formula.

Lattafa Perfumes

Ameer leads with a brisk, slightly rustic combination — apple, rosemary, and pink pepper — that keeps the opening grounded rather than sweet.

Avon

The opening draws on cool, resinous aromatics — cypress and juniper cut with a bite of black pepper — landing somewhere between a forest walk and a freshly opened bottle of gin.

Yves Saint Laurent

Jazz Prestige opens with a dense aromatic accord — lavender, bergamot, and anise over green and pepper notes, a classic fougère opener with enough going on that the first spray reads almost herbal-medicinal before it settles.

Issey Miyake

Grapefruit, kiwi, and coriander open with an oddly fuzzy fizz — the kiwi giving a green-fruity tang that's rarer in mainstream men's flankers, the coriander adding a herbal sharpness behind it.

Avon

300 Km/h opens with a rush of green and herbal air — clipped and energetic, the scent of a freshly mown field at speed.

Issey Miyake

Watery notes splash open alongside lemon and bergamot — the citrus is rounder and more Mediterranean than the original's yuzu, less cold, more sun-warmed.

Jo Malone London

One of Jo Malone's earliest releases and long discontinued, Verbenas of Provence is summer-in-a-bottle straightforwardly.

Bath & Body Works

Ocean for Men opens with a confident hand — yuzu and bergamot deliver familiar citrus brightness, but watermelon, artemisia, and elemi resin push the opening into more angular territory, adding a slightly bitter, resinous edge that elevates it above a standard aquatic.

Avon

Lavender and tobacco collide at the opening in a way that feels deliberately staged — neither note yields early, and the bergamot sharpening the edges keeps the accord from settling too quickly.

Armaf

Italiano Nero is a six-note Mediterranean masculine with a fougère backbone pared down to its essentials.

Issey Miyake

Grapefruit and lime open clean and sharp, edged with ginger's warm-rooty zing and cardamom's smoky-green pod-spice — the spice keeping the citrus from going soda-sweet.

Oriflame

Sir Avebury opens with grapefruit, cypress, and bay leaf — a bracing herbal-citrus accord that is outdoorsy and slightly resinous.

Zara

Winter Collection opens with a triad of pepper, bergamot, and tangerine — dry spice meets citrus brightness, giving the top an aromatic, slightly medicinal edge.