My Way
Giorgio Armani (2020)

I received a tester of this fragrance as a gift. I usually try to avoid strong florals, but I like to keep an open mind. The opening was actually quite nice, and I genuinely enjoyed it at first sniff! However, after wearing it a few times, the perfume started smelling entirely different on me. It morphed into something overwhelmingly sweet and floral, to the point where it started giving me headaches. My sister on the other hand loved it and bought one herself. It's crazy how differently our noses work

I was gifted this because my friends and family know that I love sweet florals. It has easily become my daily office scent. It’s not a crazy, room-filling fragrance, but rather a sunny and sweet scent that just makes me feel good. It’s completely inoffensive for work, and I believe it's pretty versatile for all seasons. A great everyday staple for me

I'm having trouble finding the correct words to express how much I hate this. I picked up an order from Macy's and a sample of this was in the "goody bag." But it had obviously been opened by someone (based on the battered box) and they didn't close the (admittedly cute) tiny bottle all the way, so half leaked out. The sickening stench of 1980s tuberose kicked me in the head. The double-whammy of the worst versions of tuberose and orange blossom combined smells cheap and is utterly persistent. I would not be able to stay in the company of someone wearing this. It's is the kind of perfume that has caused many workplaces to issue "no fragrances" edicts. And this monstrosity has spawned no less than SIX effin' flankers by now. Ladies, if you wear this, you actually will be doing "it" your way, because no man in his right mind will come within 100 yards of you (unless he's a complete asnomic...).

My Way by Giorgio Armani (2020) is hard to appreciate seriously, and if I had to choose My Way or the highway, then I'm packing my bags and hitting the road. Carlos Benaim had the younger Bruno Jovanovic on a bender and was like "hey, we should bring back the big tuberose and orange blossom of the 80's", then remembered the rest of the brief was for a sweet, boring nothing scent that smells like whatever wafts out of Victoria's Secret these days. Literally, this is the worst part of the 1980's with the worst part of today's feminine market fragrances.

The opening is sickly sweet almost vomitous levels of orange blossom and tuberose coated in sugar-dripped vanilla. The big orange blossom and tuberose combo was usually contrasted by sheer aldehydes and drier woody notes in older 80's examples, as there was typically a chypre structure surrounding the big yellow floral notes of the time. Here, we are lacking those guard rails entirely, so the big wham-bam teased hair notes go without the hairspray to lock them down, turning into a tangled bramble of hedione, ambroxan, and creamy white musks that just further cloys, with a shred of some woodiness near the end.

Sure, it's fresh in a tart way, and not completely syrupy as it would have been if there had been more gourmand heft under it, with patchouli or other thickening agents. The more transparent base is really the only thing keeping My Way from being a sick bag in perfume form, even if it does punch the gut. This is a fruity floral fragrance from the 90's given the voluminous 80's treatment, and then a modern-ish base, glazed more than a Krispy Kreme donut. That this became so incredibly successful isn't surprising, but also saddening too, Thumbs down

I don't know what it was, maybe the tuberose, but My Way made me think of a reconstructed Poison.

Top
They say: Bergamot and Orange Blossom (vs Poison's plum and berries)
I get: "Passionfruit" with a bit of over-ripe papaya funk. Ick.
Both OG Poison and My Way have funky, almost pukey, openings that I just can't get past.

Mid
They say: Tuberose!
I get: Poison-style tuberose - sharp, pointy, and almost industrial.

Base
They say: Beautiful vanilla woody musk!
I get: Dull modern aromachemical musk that I can barely smell. For that, I am grateful.
This is a classic example of "base as afterthought." It's there because it's the end result of whatever they used in the top and mid to fix it onto the skin, not because they tried for any sort of sensory experience.

My sense is that this is all packaging and they didn't bother to budget for the actual scent.
The brief - "Poison! But ORANGE!" (oh...and if you can get that tuberose aromachemical on a discount, that would be great...)

People are buying it and the multiple flankers - so the strategy must be working.

initially way too damn strong and suffocating but dries down into a very pleasant floral smell. im not sure what yall mean by pedestrian 😭 makes me feel like im gonna go shopping