The Dreamer
The Dreamer by Versace is a masculine-leaning eau de toilette from 1996 in the designer price tier. It opens with lavender, tobacco and juniper berry, moves into iris, clary sage and rose and dries down to tobacco leaf, amber and cedarwood. Expect around 8 hours of wear, and it projects strongly.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Lavender Herbal, clean, slightly medicinal. Barbershop in one note.
- Tobacco Sweet, dried and honeyed. Nothing like a cigarette.
- Juniper Berry Gin, basically. Piney, dry and bracing.
Heart
- Iris Cool, powdery, slightly carroty and expensive. The luxury note.
- Clary Sage Softer, sweeter sage with an ambery undertone. Warm and herbal.
- Rose Can be jammy, green, peppery or soapy depending on the type. Not one smell.
Dry-down
- Tobacco Leaf Greener and drier than cured tobacco. Hay-like.
- Amber Warm, golden and resinous. Not a real material — a blend that glows.
- Cedarwood Dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. Clean and structural.
Smells like this
- Xerjoff Mefisto Gentiluomo
- Goldfield & Banks Wood Infusion
- Aramis Havana
- Dossier Ambery Vanilla
- Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
- Ormonde Jayne Montabaco Intensivo
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