Azzaro Shine
Azzaro (2019)

Huh. This starts with a synthetic floral, fruity, lemony blast that is reminiscent of an Avon product for women (somewhere between skin so soft , Jean Nate and that citrus stuff mom used to splash on), plus a bit of urinal cake. Yeah, not loving the opening. BN lists berg, warm sand, cedar and ambrox but has no reviews. Fca has 15 reviews, but most of them wax poetic about walks on the beach, etc. So here goes.

At around 30 minutes, The urinal cake fades, the citrus/floral note merges a bit more, and there is a generic sunscreen after a day on the beach (gah, I'm starting to do it too). There is something aromatic here (lavender), and I am getting a bit of uncredited violet, but none of it is especially natural. The ingredients say limonene (lemon), ethylhexyl methoxycinnanate (sunscreen), Benzyl salicylate (woody, balsamic, musky), linalool (lavender) butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane (sunscreen), citronellol (citronella), citral (lemon), benzyl benzoate (sweet balsamic woody), alpha-iso-methyl-ionone (violet leaf), geraniol (geranium), eugenol (clove), and ethylhexyl salicylate (sunscreen). So there is a very good reason why this smells like sunscreen - it contains three of them! After two hours, the Jean Nate splash accord with the vague synthetic florals is still the most obvious element, plus sunscreen. Wisps of citrus/citronella, lavender and violet, and while it may be the power of suggestion, a bit of sand and clove. It stays like this until it fades away. Overall, just a very generic scent, leaning feminine because of my childhood associations, The citrus leans a bit too citronella for my taste.I will have to try this again, but it isn't an instant love for me.