Armani Cologne

Armani is one of the most popular designers of men's fragrances in the world. Armani offers a significant variety of fragrances--unlike many designers and houses who offer only one signature fragrance. Their focus is on subtle complexity and individual expression, and they specialize in colognes that evolve over the course of a day or night as you wear them.

Armani Black Code is known for its interaction with the heat and oil of your skin, which causes the scent to develop and change as you wear it. Black Code is Armani's first foray into Orientals, and is crafted from a blend of lemon, bergamot, and olive flower over bottom notes of tobacco, leather, wood, tonka bean, and wild guaiacum wood. Many people describe this scent as slightly smoky and spicy, and simultaneously subtle and intense.

Acqua di Gio is another of Armani's most popular scents. This fragrance is designed to capture the smells of the sea, but it also brings in notes of citrus and jasmine. This is a fresh scent, energizing and vital. On the other end of the olfactory spectrum is Emporio Armani, a woody and musky fragrance with hints of spice and Japanese yuzu.

Armani Mania is another of Armani's most complex scents, and was designed to be a study in harmony, similar to a musical composition. The top note is a fresh citrus (mandarin orange and saffron). The middle note is a woody cedar. The base note is a musky amber. You'll experience these scents in different combinations and proportions throughout the course of the day as you smell the cologne on your skin. If you are purchasing Armani cologne as a gift, you should probably encourage the man for whom you want to buy one to sample it before you make the purchase, since these scents do react differently to everyone's body chemistry.