Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue 3.4 oz Eau de Toilette Spray for Women Review

Light Blue Pour Homme is a fresh citrus-musk; its listed ingredients are Sicilian mandarin, ‘frozen' grapefruit peel, bergamot, juniper, rosemary, Szechuan pepper, rosewood, ‘musk wood', incense and oak moss. Before smelling it, three of Light Blue's notes caught my attention: mandarin, rosewood (the King of Woods to me) and incense, but my imagination created a fragrance very different from Light Blue Pour Homme's actual synthetic, and instantly recognizable, scent.

Light Blue Pour Homme begins with zippy citrus (accent on the ‘frozen' grapefruit peel). In this well-blended fragrance, one strains to find individual notes, but I did "sense" for a split second ‘juniper' and maybe a driblet of ‘rosewood'. The long-lasting base of Light Blue Pour Homme's composition is ho-hum ‘musk wood.' Rosemary, incense, pepper and oak moss were nowhere to be smelled. Not being a chemist or perfumer but having no fear of making a fool of myself, I imagine the formulation of Light Blue Pour Homme thus: add to a bottle's worth of alcohol, water, fixatives - one tablespoon of ‘fresh'/ozone notes, ½ tablespoon of "bright" imitation citrus, ½ teaspoon ‘musk wood' and ½ drop of all other (exotic-sounding) listed ingredients.

The week I sampled Light Blue Pour Homme I came upon some 50-60 tuxedoed teenage men standing together on the sidewalk in front of a Cheesecake Factory restaurant ("Welcome Class of 2007!") As I passed this bunch, the smell of Light Blue Pour Homme was powerful in the air. Of course it was probably not Light Blue Pour Homme that I smelled, but the scent of modern mainstream male perfumery into which Light Blue Pour Homme blends effortlessly.