I'm a little bit of a fragrance junkie and yall need some suggestions.
I see lots of designer names but, that's all it is even it smells interesting or nice it wont last long on your skin it has harsh chemicals, etc. etc.
#1 Creed. The only father-son business that's been around since the mid 1700's. One of my bottles is the same recipe made for Napoleon. The family has hand-made fragrances for all the royal families of Europe. You can get it in their paris boutique, london, and now in nieman marcus (which i just now found out having bought a bottle in paris which was more costly considering dollar to euro). Usually, if your'e really going to buy something, they will spend a lot of time with you sampling various kinds . For the daytime I like "Virgin island water" it smells like tropical paradise, notes of citrus , lime, coconut. For the evening I like Green Irish Tweed, anyway..I could go on and on. lots of great stuff. Of course these are quite expensive. You can find vendors on ebay who sell sample bottles but, you never know if it's legit. On the creed fragrance website you can find a clientele list. This stuff is where it's at if you have taste. Just dont expect anyone to notice. Since, well, most people are accustomed to the cheap stuff.
http://www.creedfragrances.co.uk/
#2 Aqua di Parma. The traditional kind is made from a special rose in Parma that grows on the side of a mountain and they have a very small window of time to pick the rose at a certain point in it's growth.
http://www.acquadiparma.it/
#3 duc de Vervins. Dont know much about it . Great stuff.
http://www.basenotes.net/ID26120474.html
#4 Dirty English by juicy couture. Leathery, Musky (the most "manly" of all these) but not nasty as you might think from adjectives like "leathery" and "musky"
http://www.juicycouture.com/shoponli.../men/prod-1WVA