With the Gentlemen's Collection, Aramis has re-issued Havana and many of its other classic fragrances at very affordable prices. Moreover, whatever reformulation they might have done has left this collection intact--still showing off its former glory.
Havana is my favorite of these. Imagine a dark and smoky club in pre-Castro Havana. A mambo band is playing loudly and you're sipping a spicy rum drink. The owner, one Meyer Lansky, drops by and offers you a Cohiba. Naturally you accept. Before lighting up, you run the cigar under your nose--fragrant, perfect tobacco. You light up and put your drink aside. You step outside for some air. A rainstorm has just passed leaving the rich loamy smell of the soil from the nearby park wafting by, together with the lush perfumes of other, sharply dressed gentlemen passing by. This is Havana.
Havana is my favorite of these. Imagine a dark and smoky club in pre-Castro Havana. A mambo band is playing loudly and you're sipping a spicy rum drink. The owner, one Meyer Lansky, drops by and offers you a Cohiba. Naturally you accept. Before lighting up, you run the cigar under your nose--fragrant, perfect tobacco. You light up and put your drink aside. You step outside for some air. A rainstorm has just passed leaving the rich loamy smell of the soil from the nearby park wafting by, together with the lush perfumes of other, sharply dressed gentlemen passing by. This is Havana.