Giorgio Armani
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Egyptian orange blossom crackles across the skin with a crisp, almost metallic brightness, its zesty bite catching the light before the tuberose begins its inevitable emergence. Within three minutes, the floral sweetness surges forward with an intensity that suggests this fragrance has absolutely no interest in subtlety or restraint.
The tuberose absolute dominates completely now, creamy and almost soap-like in its density, backed by that waxy synthetic accord that gives the composition its peculiar sheen. The orange blossom fades to a ghost of brightness beneath layers of sweet floral density, creating a heady, occasionally suffocating cloud of white florals and vanilla cream.
Sandalwood emerges with a pale, buttery warmth while vanilla assumes primary control, the composition settling into a predominantly sweet, woody-creamy base that borders on gourmand. The florals retreat to memory, leaving you with essentially a sophisticated vanilla-sandalwood cream that holds admirably close to the skin, though projection has long since diminished.
My Way Intense announces itself as a fragrance caught between two opposing impulses: the angular brightness of white florals and the insistent pull of gourmand warmth. Carlos Benaïm has engineered a curious tension here—Egyptian orange blossom arrives with citric snap, its green-tinged petals providing structure, yet within moments the Indian tuberose absolute seizes control with an almost aggressive creamy sweetness. This is where the composition's synthetic backbone becomes apparent; there's an unmistakable plasticity to how the tuberose projects, a waxy amplification that some will read as opulent and others as artificial.
The sandalwood-vanilla base doesn't soften what precedes it so much as deepen the sweetness into something almost confectionery. New Caledonian sandalwood contributes a pale, buttery quality rather than the typical woody dryness, allowing bourbon vanilla to assert itself without restraint. The result is a fragrance that smells distinctly expensive in its ambition yet somehow calculated in its execution—you're aware of the formula working, the notes stacked deliberately atop one another rather than woven seamlessly.
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3.5/5 (119)