The Essence Porsche Design for men

Never judge a book by its cover.
And never buy a perfume by the outlooks of the container.

Newest version of the essence is the essence sport. Very nice! Recommended for anyone who collects SPORT version of multi brands.
The bottle itself described its famous name,like all accessories made by porsche design is manufactured to its best,contemporary,minimalist and super kool.

To me, the smells exactly like Whiskey Silver, a chemist brand I was given for secret sant a present. Even though I liked Whiskey Silver at first, I still knew it was a simple chemist brand, though it smelt like a knock off of either Acqua D' Gio or some other overpriced, unjustifiably popular, generic, corporate smell.
That's exactly what Porsche smells like to me, I could swear it's a known off of blah bla-blah.

So the smell is nice, but what it reminds me of is not.

DONT LET MY OPINION SPOIL YOURS! because it is a very nice smell and that's all that's should count.

I conform to the notion that it doesn't matter if it cost less, as long as it doesn't smell cheap, and that means the smell itself.

Notes / scent: 4
Longevity / sillage: 4.5
Overall / subjective feelings: 4.5
Description: simplifying - "incense aromatic", dark and really masculine
Short opinion: It's hard to believe, how many negative reviews the smell has. However, IMHO, this is one of the more interesting fragrances, I know.

My bottle too. 1oz! I bet the big one is even better!

The Essence is a collectible item. The bottle is super minimalistically cool. Unfortunately, my 1oz bottle has a drippy nozzle and flimsy plastic top. I wonder if the bigger bottle would have better build quality. So anyway what's about the scent, it's comparable to my Quiksilver or Bvlgari Aqva. It's somewhat sweet and smoky aquatic from blueberry, juniper, and incense. I think it fits right between woody aromatic and aromatic aquatic. Nice but ordinary. I don't see it as a signature scent but great for gift and addition to whoever collects fragrances.

The bottle and the color of it matches with a minimalist bathroom. "Looks like a radioactive refrigerator", as reviewer SirSlarty said at basenotes.net. Cool. The pine makes it fresh and the incense could have made it dark and interesting, but doesn't work as I was expecting. After a few minutes, it sounds like petals of flowers left on water for a while, under the shadow. Blacklens, below, said it all.

A mixed impression: The initial scniff is great: masculine, different, mysterious, not too sweet. But then it quickly dries down to something very "orddinaiare": Where's the blueberry gone? Just like a sports car: stunning first look, dashing take off but then it get's quickly out of sight ...

My fav and I Love it. Has a very long lasting scent that smells Great. I Had a lot of female compliments too. Just one pray is sufficient enough for the whole day. Too good for it's pice....

The ultra-cool design of the bottle has got to be mentioned before judging on the perfume as such. It certainly does the trick, because it makes you curious. After that, it's a question of principle: It's all so sterile here, which makes you wonder if this is what a perfume is meant to be in the first place.

Conclusion: This one is for people who like the idea of wearing fragrances, but in fact don't know what to make of it.

you guys got no clue about fragrances if you say that this stuff is disappointing..
all in all this one rocks... its for real masculine fresh feel...every day use

on my skin middle and base notes are very simillar to lacoste essential (patchouli and pepper) - but INHO this one is deeper and darker - it must be incense note. it's ok scent but i prefere lighter, sports version in lacoste way.

Can't stand the smell of this, I work at a Macys and its probably our worst selling fragrance.

This fragrance is resemblant of Drakkar Noir, but with a lighter fresher feel. It has a good scent but adds nothing really special to my wardrobe.

i know a lot of people dont like this but it really has a nice masculine tone to it, its a little bit diffrent and the insence patchouli base really makes it stand out and gives it a more masculine and sophisticated sensual feel

This cologne is great! Got a sample and tried it out smells awesome! Not to mention when I go out its for days at a time and on the second day it was light but I still smelled great!

I got this cologne abouth 2 mnths ago,loved it ,will buy again.It smelled great on me.Nice, fresh ,clean ,masculine, light, Hard to find theese days(everything smells like something I had before)

For me this one is a disappointing,nothing special!

I smelled this at the mall and at first wiff it smelled great. Once it cooled down though, I was very unimpressed. I just didn't like it. Thumbs down.

I got a free sample when I was in Germany. I think it smells great and I am looking for somewhere to purchase it.

i agree. this wasnt worth the wait! very dissapointed!

ive smelt this and it isnt nice compared the the other mens frgarnce out there