A Basenotes guide sorts Acqua di Giò EDT into four eras. It recommends bottles made before 2015, reports that the 2019 to 2024 bottles were less well liked than earlier ones, and describes the bottles made after 2024 as frosted glass.
Unless the report says the brand announced it, this comes from owners comparing bottles, not from the brand. Two bottles from different batches can smell different; check the batch code where you can.
If the bottle on the shelf today is not the one you remember, these are the matches we list for it. A score does not say which batch of the original the match was compared with.
About fifty reviewers who know Acqua di Giò compare the two: four in five find it very close, several unable to tell them apart, and the rest find it cruder or not alike. Wear time reports run from one hour to eight.
About a hundred reviewers who know Acqua di Giò compare the two. More than half find it very close, a third say similar but more synthetic with an added cinnamon note, and fewer than ten say it is not alike. Wear time is modest for most, two to six hours.
About thirty reviewers who know Acqua di Giò compare the two: two thirds find it very similar, around ninety percent, a quarter call it similar but simpler and more citrus, and four say it is nothing like it. Wear time is split, from half an hour to eight hours.
Sharing listed notes does not make two perfumes smell alike. Each of these has a match of its own and no reformulation report on file here; they are different perfumes, not matches for Acqua di Gio.
4 notes in commonlemon · bergamot · cedarwood · musk
4 notes in commonlemon · bergamot · cedarwood · musk
4 notes in commonlemon · bergamot · grapefruit · cedarwood
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