It’s not that expensive for a brand like Bvlgari, also considering the quality for the beach-like smell, the ever-lasting cooling effect. In low dilutions, you start to get more watery-fresh like watermelon juice/inside of a watermelon nuances. The most aquatic of all the aquatic fragrances (that I tried), it conjures an image of green water, so the bottle is 100% consistent with the smell.

Spring is here and Summer is approaching, so I'm really looking forward to wearing this often as I believe that to be the best time of the year for this scent. It was designed by perfumer Jacques Cavallier who attempted to evoke the feeling of the natural freshness and power of the ocean. For me though, watery notes, mandarin orange and grapefruit are the most noticeable notes, without having any off putting aquaticness to them that seaweed tends to have.

You can smell the salt air, the seaweed, the sand, and you can almost hear the seagulls overhead (I do miss living on the ocean). Unless you have experience with all of those ingredients, maybe hard to see or accept this fact, but it is a fact. The creator of another Calone-heavy (one of the first Calone dominant perfumes that pioneered a trend) L'eau D'Issey, which influenced other Firmenich perfumers, including one Alberto Morillas to release Acqua di Gio 2 years later. This impacts the ability of the fragrance to last and around eighty percent of the oils in an EDT fragrance will evaporate within three hours of application.

It's just that this feels less like The Best Aquatic and more like the basis for something that could be good. The reformulated bottle I bought a year or so ago contained what could only be described as a cheap knock-off smelling liquid. Bvlgari Aqva is quite airy, starts with sharp citrus notes, such as ones in Issey Miyake L'eau d'Issey. Bvlgari AQVA Marine Pour Homme Eau de Toilette in a crystalline blue bottle offers you these unique feelings along with a refreshing energy boost for your body and mind.I am not the type of person who would spend my summer vacation at some beaches but this is how I imagine myself would smell like while swimming. In the air I smell the most seaweed + combo of citriuses (oranges + mandarin probs), somewhat seaweed vibe.