Decanted Sample of Uomo Intense by Valentino

powdery with a little sweetness and leather

Smells great! Iris done right. Good projection. Lasts 8+ hours on my skin.

This takes Dior Homme Intense DNA and adds a slight sweetness and freshness ambroxan touch. Love it 10/10

To be brief, this is very close to Dior Home Intense, however, is is important to talk about the vanilla in this that is not present in DHI. It's hard to be decisive on the vanilla because on the one hand, it does smooth out the iris note which was notorious for making DHI smell like waxy lipstick. On the other hand, it also kinda feels like its diluting how iconic the iris note is almost in a way like trying to make DHI "safe". On it's own I enjoy the scent but I think that if I wanted a super formal iris fragrance I would still end up reaching for DHI to fully commit to being a makeup bag smelling androgynous little creature. If maybe the vanilla note was decreased I would consider this more. If you hated DHI, you might like this. If you love DHI, you might like this as well.

Powdery sweet elegant. Smells luxurious

uomo intense- (5/10)
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- very powdery(7/10), strong bite right away(6/10) maybe the bite is iris??...slight pepper not bad tho (3/10), cant smell vanilla dont like the powdery scent, too strong. Can smell leather (4/10). Its very strong scent - huts you hard right away, definitely no more than 1 spray. Theres a strong flowery scent as well which i dont care for.
- im not liking it, especially not more than mercedes club black. About ready to throw it in trash, the powder is too much, the bite is ok, but not great