Gentleman, it is given that wet shavers on this forum would rather chinwag about barbershop scented aftershave lotions but I am not averse to try out new scent profiles; especially the ones that are mass produced.
Nivea seems to have launched a new line of products and I came across this aftershave at the local drugstore. For $ 3 am a sucker for adventure and bought a 100ML bottle. This was purported to have been launched in April 2018, so it is a fairly new product. So far only German and Indian websites mention this Deep Impact range.
I have tried a couple of Nivea AS in past and I was not particularly impressed with their generic drugstore scents and never bothered with a second buy. But this one is something else. German website says it is ‘woody and deep’ and our strongest scent yet. I couldn’t agree more, however, it is not as ‘woody’ as the description says.
I don’t have a golden nose and 30+ year of smoking doesn’t help a bit to describe the complex scents but to me this AS is most complex yet from Nivea. Pretty much leaning onto being a Cologne or a mild EDT it opens with a very warm and somewhat sweet scent. Think of JOOP minus the dripping sweetness here and the sweet notes give way to a very solid note of Coumarin with a citral note hanging somewhere in the background. I don’t detect any green or ‘woody’ note but overall combination is slightly sweet, deep and complex scent that has solid legs for an AS and surpasses any other Nivea AS or Balm I have encountered before.
I can see this perfect for someone like me who is alright with a strong scented AS since I don’t use EDTs often. It lasted a good 1 hour not as a barely-there skin scent but with some reasonable projection that is not offending. After 1 hour it became a skin scent and lasted another 2 hours. It has a reasonable bite as an AS but not like Old Spice or Pinauds. Post shave feeling is very nice to my skin however it seems to be a tiny bit sticky on the skin but only in comparison to an alcohol-based AS with just a bit of glycerine. I think it is in between an alcohol AS and a Balm; in a good way.
If you have not enslaved yourself only to barbershop scent AS and find Axe or alike generic scents as tacky, then I recommend this AS. It is complex, not cheap smelling and a very appropriate scent that almost mimics a good EDT of your choice. To me, it smells like a year-round AS but I really see this shining as a slightly heavy and sweet smelling mix of Coumarin and Citral notes that I will gladly use during fall/autumn on way out for a casual dinner and not smell like a guy from 60’s. Rather Long lasting in comparison to many fleeting AS and still not a silage monster. Only Adidas aftershaves beat it (I have many of them) in terms of longevity and scent profiling. But at the price point, it is available, it can’t be beat.
As with any mass produced product it is bound to have some ingredients that might raise eyebrows. Even I would like to know that goes in there. I hope someone with better know of chemicals have a look at the picture and let us all know.
Nivea seems to have launched a new line of products and I came across this aftershave at the local drugstore. For $ 3 am a sucker for adventure and bought a 100ML bottle. This was purported to have been launched in April 2018, so it is a fairly new product. So far only German and Indian websites mention this Deep Impact range.
I have tried a couple of Nivea AS in past and I was not particularly impressed with their generic drugstore scents and never bothered with a second buy. But this one is something else. German website says it is ‘woody and deep’ and our strongest scent yet. I couldn’t agree more, however, it is not as ‘woody’ as the description says.
I don’t have a golden nose and 30+ year of smoking doesn’t help a bit to describe the complex scents but to me this AS is most complex yet from Nivea. Pretty much leaning onto being a Cologne or a mild EDT it opens with a very warm and somewhat sweet scent. Think of JOOP minus the dripping sweetness here and the sweet notes give way to a very solid note of Coumarin with a citral note hanging somewhere in the background. I don’t detect any green or ‘woody’ note but overall combination is slightly sweet, deep and complex scent that has solid legs for an AS and surpasses any other Nivea AS or Balm I have encountered before.
I can see this perfect for someone like me who is alright with a strong scented AS since I don’t use EDTs often. It lasted a good 1 hour not as a barely-there skin scent but with some reasonable projection that is not offending. After 1 hour it became a skin scent and lasted another 2 hours. It has a reasonable bite as an AS but not like Old Spice or Pinauds. Post shave feeling is very nice to my skin however it seems to be a tiny bit sticky on the skin but only in comparison to an alcohol-based AS with just a bit of glycerine. I think it is in between an alcohol AS and a Balm; in a good way.
If you have not enslaved yourself only to barbershop scent AS and find Axe or alike generic scents as tacky, then I recommend this AS. It is complex, not cheap smelling and a very appropriate scent that almost mimics a good EDT of your choice. To me, it smells like a year-round AS but I really see this shining as a slightly heavy and sweet smelling mix of Coumarin and Citral notes that I will gladly use during fall/autumn on way out for a casual dinner and not smell like a guy from 60’s. Rather Long lasting in comparison to many fleeting AS and still not a silage monster. Only Adidas aftershaves beat it (I have many of them) in terms of longevity and scent profiling. But at the price point, it is available, it can’t be beat.
As with any mass produced product it is bound to have some ingredients that might raise eyebrows. Even I would like to know that goes in there. I hope someone with better know of chemicals have a look at the picture and let us all know.
