Light Blue pour Homme
Eau de Toilette, Dolce & Gabbana (2007)

It's a 7/10 to me, but apparently women love this stuff? It's very, very simple - citrus and pepper. It's almost like Sauvage without the nuclear Ambroxan. More like an EdC than anything. I wouldn't mess with this except as a gift for a dude who hates colognes. I feel like when I was in college this was what Greek row smelled like, whereas the classrooms smelled like AdG Profumo. Oh yes, I nearly forgot to mention this: they took out the egg note!

Summer citrus in a bottle (never mind that the season for ripe citrus is winter, a fact that has escaped nearly all of perfumery for some reason). Top notes of grapefruit, bergamot, and orange play with slightly woody and rosemary heart. Tinges of clean white musks and incense at the base. Cheap summer freshy that acts like a cheap summer freshy. Buy it for your teenage son that doesn't know any better.

I agree with Luca Turin's review of this fragrance. It has a nauseating marine and woody amber scent with a piercing note that can be off-putting in the drydown. Despite the note breakdown not indicating any red flags, it just doesn't come together as a pleasant citrus fragrance.

I would recommend trying it out for yourself and seeing how it performs on your skin. However, in my opinion, there are better options for aquatic and citrus fragrances available.

New bottle

Newest formulation, from a tester at Ulta sprayed 3 sprays on a blank arm.

Bad. Amonia egg smell. It legit smells bad, as in worse than nothing. There is a hint of some fragrance that doesnt stink in there, but whatever chemical they dosed this reform with these daus stinks and overpowers everything else.

Bad bad. Thumbs down to the floor at any price. I wouldnt buy this for 5 dollars.

Yuck - lemony ammonia, or maybe the chlorinated smell of a swimming pool mixed with fake lemon and fake lavender. Devoid of artistic merit.

I'd say this was precision engineered to smell like a thousand other men's mall scents, but I highly doubt this was precision engineered, because it smells like what you'd get if you mixed a bucket of premade "masculine cologne smell" with a bucket of premade "fresh smell".

Dolce & Gabanna had a huge hit in the masculine sector with their original Pour Homme (1994), but after that, their masculine follow-up offerings like By man (1997) or Masculine (1999) were bizarrely gaudy, loud and obtuse upon arrival, being discontinued fairly quickly after release, and outside the cult followings or steep prices they command for collectors, did nothing to further market penetration. From a business standpoint, I can see a need for a release like Dolce & Gabanna Light Blue Pour Homme (2007). The second wave of aquatics really got it's kickstart with Polo Blue (2002), Bvlgari Aqva (2005), Versace Man Eau Fraîche (2006), Nautica Blue (2006) and the like, so what better way to get back in the thick of things than to jump on a steamrolling new trend? Not every designer house can be leaders like Chanel or Dior, so when in doubt, innovate on a popular conventional theme. Do I like Light Blue Pour Homme? Well, not so much, but I don't hate it. Dolce & Gabanna hired Alberto Morillas for the task of crafting the scent, as he us known for his many by-the-book mainstream creations that sort of peg him as the David Foster of perfumers, and he delivered yet another dialed-in mainstream generalist as a result. I'd say the success of this is due more to it's steamy ocean side ads full of almost-nudes and expected bait-and-switchout for a rather safe and unsexy office aquatic which doesn't do those ads any justice but can make guys who buy into the ads think they're turning folks on as they walk past smelling like dish soap.

Dolce & Gabanna Light Blue Pour Homme doesn't steep itself in as much of the heavy mint and sweet dryer dry sheets aura like a lot of it's competition from the day, staying away from heavy laundry musks and sweet citruses. Instead, this scent opens rather like the original Nautica (1992), with bergamot, a salty sea note, some juniper, and mandarin, pretty simple and not entirely a "saturated blue". Comparisons to Nautica's structure end here however, as Nautica is more of a fougère with aquatic elements stapled on, while Light Blue Pour Homme is just a um.. lighter aquatic aromachem scent that goes through some pepper, and herbs in the middle before heading into a dry base. Rosewood, Iso E Super, musk, oakmoss, and cypress note keep things tart and very oceany even at the end, although I don't get much oakmoss or rosewood from this, or very much past the top and middle notes really, which is the reason I don't totally align with the stuff. The drydown of Light Blue Pour Homme is brief, overly simple, and gives the stuff poor lifespan on my skin. I got maybe an hour of detectable sillage, then 3 hours of smelling myself, and then nothing. Granted, I didn't roll in it, but that still tells me this is barely above eau de cologne strength, but without any of the old-world charm an EdC would bring. I'd say drenching oneself in this might get it above 6 hours, but despite being cheap compared to some options out there, the price this sells for versus the scent personality and performance given just make it a ripoff for me, thus why I can't give it a thumbs up.

A lot of folks swear by Light Blue Pour Homme, and I don't blame them: it is a tenacious dumb-reach scent for the guy who doesn't want to stink but also not be a standout, making it perfect for entry-level cubicle office spaces, folks working lower-end retail (e.g. Wal-Mart) who are even allowed by company policy to have fragrance in the first place, or teens that might over-spray and gas out a classroom. You won't get yourself in trouble over-applying Light Blue Pour Homme like you would Versace Eros (2013) or even Liz Claiborne Curve for Men (1996), so for the apologists in the room, this is your signature barely-there scent. Dolce & Gabanna scored their perfectly-safe aquatic hit for mass consumption with Light Blue Pour Homme, and it's a necessary evil because without it we might have never gotten The One For Men (2008) or it's flankers, but I feel most of the latter D & G output for men was ruled by the shadow of the colossus which became the legacy of Light Blue Pour Homme anyway, as so many limited flankers all smelling alike came zooming out of the house after this, that I don't think anyone takes the house seriously anymore, even when they tried to do the "Velvet" series of prestige limited niche-like creations. It's a decent enough daily for summer use if it can be had for cheap, especially when a guy wants to be soft-spoken and to disappear into the woodwork, but the boring, dry oceanic vibe of Light Blue Pour Homme would put me to sleep just like an ocean wave sound machine, so I have to pass on this one. Neutral