Summer is a time for enjoyment, excitement, and adventure. It’s also a time to update your clothes and grooming routine. The warmer weather necessitates lighter, fresher fragrances that compliment the mood and energy of the season. This is why any style-conscious man should have a rotation of signature scents. Let’s look at the best scents that should be on every man’s summer shopping list.
1. Acqua Di Gio by Giorgio Armani
Armani designed the Aqua di Gio fragrance for men and women after being inspired by the beauty of Pantellerie, where he spent his holiday. The fragrance for men has a fresh scent of wind and sea. The scent is a great balance of sweet and salty sea water notes with traces of sunny warmth on your skin. Aqua di Gio is bathed in the blazing Mediterranean heat. Bitter citrus with a rosemary fragrant note blends with salty, sea subtleties and pellucid hedione. Strong spice notes are muted by a woody base with a warm, musky trail.
2. Bleu de Chanel by Chanel
Bleu de Chanel is a sophisticated and contemporary fragrance released by Chanel in 2010. In the summer of 2014, Chanel releases its improved version, Bleu de Chanel Eau de Perfume. The fragrance is dedicated to infinite, profound, and boundless freedom.
Jacques Polge’s woody-aromatic composition maintains the original path but deviates into sensual and oriental amber region. Wood retains the original’s freshness in this variation, which is accentuated with depth and silky golden woods.
3. L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme by Issey Miyake
Rare is the designer who defines an era, let alone one who has been at the vanguard of fashion and perfumery for decades like Issey Miyake. L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme, as ageless as the brand’s famed pleats, remains a force to be reckoned with in the world of men’s fragrances and aftershaves, evoking a forceful, waterfall-like energy that makes it so commanding and manly. The eau de toilette was created by master fragrance Jacques Cavalier and is characterised by citrus and yuzu notes inspired by traditional Japanese baths.
4. Invictus Aqua by Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne introduces Invictus, a new scent for men that offers a fresh and sporty innovation in comparison to the house’s other perfumes. The scent will be available in July 2013. Invictus, which means “invincible” in Latin, denotes force, dynamism, and vitality.
Fresh grapefruit and a maritime accord lead to an aromatic bay leaf and Hedione jasmine heart and a woody base of guaiac wood, patchouli, oak moss, and ambergris.
5. Eau Sauvage by Christian Dior
Paco Rabanne introduces Invictus, a new scent for men that offers a fresh and sporty innovation in comparison to the house’s other perfumes. The scent will be available in July 2013. Invictus, which means “invincible” in Latin, denotes force, dynamism, and vitality.
Fresh grapefruit and a maritime accord lead to an aromatic bay leaf and Hedione jasmine heart and a woody base of guaiac wood, patchouli, oak moss, and ambergris.
6. Legend Spirit by Montblanc
Its aromatic – woody blend starts with a lively and refreshing blend of bergamot, pink pepper, and grapefruit. The heart is dominated by a cold aquatic harmony blended with aromatic tones of lavender and cardamom. The base is finished with fashionable blonde woods, cashmere, white musk, and oak moss.
7. Boss Bottled Tonic by Hugo Boss
Boss Bottled Tonic is characterized as a perfect smell for business and everyday events because it is refreshing and not overpowering. It has notes of grapefruit, bitter orange, lemon, and apple at the top, with a spicy heart of ginger and cinnamon in the middle. The scent line’s characteristic woody base includes a vetiver accord that is described as dry, earthy, and elegant.
8. Costa Azzura by Tom Ford
Costa Azzurra conveys the effortless sensuality of an unfettered escape. Sea air, fresh aromatic notes, evergreens, and citrus establish the atmosphere and combine with deeper woody fragrances — a crisp medley of cypress, oaks, and aromatics.
9. Eau Fraiche by Versace
This new Versace Man version is more aquatic and fresh. While the original Versace Man had a Latino vibe due to the tobacco note in its oriental surroundings, Eau Fraiche has a Mediterranean quality with woody notes. Lemon, bergamot, rosewood, and rose are among the top notes. Cedar, tarragon, sage, and pepper are included in the heart notes. The base notes are amber, musk, saffron, and woody. Versace Eau Fraiche was first introduced in 2006.
10. Moonlight in Heaven by Kilian
The omnipresent Moonlight in Heaven fragrance by Kilian sparkles with a citrus-forward opening, driven by a duo of lemon and grapefruit, spiced with pink pepper berry. Coconut milk and rice – white as the moon’s face – round out creamy mango and powdery jasmine sambac, while a tonka bean accord envelops delicate vetiver in the drydown.
11. L’Homme Cologne Bleue by Yves Saint Laurent
The new scent was created by perfumer Juliette Karagueuzoglou and is inspired by the scents of the sea and the freedom it invokes. Bright citrus notes of blood orange, grapefruit, mandarin, and bergamot are offset by chilly marine undertones, which are complemented by spicy smells of black pepper and cardamom. After the fragrant center, the fragrance finishes with a woody undertone that “brings a sense of elegance and sensuality.”
12. Light Blue Pour Homme by Dolce & Gabbana
The sensuality of sun-drenched skin, the refreshing breeze of the Mediterranean Sea, the fruity and flowery scents of the vegetation: Dolce&Gabbana Light Blue expresses the quintessence of a summer day calmed by gentle waves lapping against the magnificent cliffs of Capri.
13. Le Beau by Jean Paul Gaultier
A fragrant woody eau de toilette’s virile freshness Sailor guys, set sail for a seductive contrast: raise high the freshness of bergamot and the vigour of geranium in this eau de toilette that casts the sweet addictiveness of Tonka bean to the four winds! Its aromatic woody wake will overwhelm your senses with a male sensuality that will transport you far from shore.
14. Eleventh Hour by Byredo
The top notes, lead by Ban Timmur’s peppery and citrus overtones, transport us to the Nepali mountains, where this plant grows. Eleventh Hour’s heart note is wild fig, the first forbidden fruit. An intense radiation emits from the warmth of tonka beans coupled with cashmere wood tones, akin to that generated by our solar plexus as it opens wide.
15. Matcha 26 by Le Labo
The Matcha 26 is much more than a perfume to us, just as matcha tea is much more than a drink in Japanese culture. It is an introspective time, a self-reflective moment that offers a quiet inner celebration of elegance and spiritual beauty. A simple smell transports us from the hum of the outer world back “in.”
A creamy fig note is blended into the matcha tea harmony, which is grounded by gentle vetiver and textured cedar woods and enhanced by tempting bitter orange.
16. Essenza di Colonia by Acqua di Parma
Experience a new take on the original Colonia fragrance. Essenza di Colonia cologne is a citrus-scented and woody fragrance with a strong personality. Its original freshness is amplified by flowery smells like grapefruit, mandarin, and petit grain notes, all held together by a bright woody patchouli base. The sophisticated woody overtones give this fragrance an exquisite sombre touch.
17. Sailing Day by Maison Martin Margiela
Sailing Day is a vibrant blue fragrance. The aquatic harmony and aldehyde notes recall the embrace of sky and sea. The smell is smoothed by the combination of iris absolute and rose essence, as well as the quiet seabed. It is then heightened with base notes of red seaweed, minerals, and an ambergris accord to achieve a deep and powerful blue.
These are just a few of the many wonderful summer men’s colognes available. It’s important to choose a smell that complements your personal style and preferences, and will leave you feeling confident and refreshed throughout the day.
