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Aqua Source

Aqua Source

Inspired by Aqua di Gio Profumo, Giorgio Armani

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

625,00 Kč
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Inspired by: Aqua di Gio Profumo, Giorgio Armani
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Aqua Source is an eau de parfum, 50 ml, with around 20% fragrance oil. It costs €25, the same price on every scent we make, whatever the original behind it. From €49 the shipping is on us, and delivery runs 2 to 5 working days.

Acqua di Giò Profumo sits at that same strength, and Aqua Source matches it: noticeably stronger than an EDT and far past a light eau de cologne, though not as heavy as an extrait de parfum.

Longevity runs 6 to 9 hours, and it lasts through a full day at the desk, with strong projection early on that settles closer to the skin later. French fragrance oils, handmade in small batches, vegan and cruelty free. You get 15 days to exchange it if it isn't right for you.

Free shipping and one fixed price apply across every fragrance we sell, so pairing Aqua Source with other perfumes in the range costs nothing extra. Read a review comparing it with Acqua di Giò Profumo and the price is usually mentioned first; the accord is what you're paying for, and that price stays flat across all of our fragrances so the accord never gets marked up.

Colleagues comparing scents at the office this summer, or in winter, often add an alternative to their own signature fragrance once the price turns out identical. Two or three scents at that same fixed price, checked note for note against other fragrances in the range, usually settles which one to keep.

NOTES

Top notes

Sea notes, bergamot

Heart notes

Rosemary, sage, geranium

Base notes

Incense, patchouli

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Aqua Source is our perfume dupe of Acqua di Giò Profumo by Giorgio Armani, made for men who want a marine, herbal, designer-calibre fragrance that still feels warm underneath. It opens on a bright citrus-marine top, moves through rosemary and geranium, and settles on incense and patchouli.

Rosemary gives the heart a sharp, aromatic edge, while bergamot keeps the opening bright rather than sweet. Once the marine freshness fades after the first hour, incense and patchouli take over and the scent turns warmer and more intense, with a longer trail than the opening suggests.

The top notes of bergamot and sea spray fade fast, the middle notes of rosemary and geranium carry the body of the scent, and the base is where Aqua Source finally settles into something denser. Compared with other marine fragrances, this one leans warmer than most, closer to the original Acqua di Giò Profumo than to a generic aquatic clone.

Among the perfumes we get asked to match, this is one of the most requested designer dupes, and people who try a lot of niche and designer scents tend to say it smells like the real thing from the first spray. It's similar to the original in the way it opens, and the price stays the same whichever fragrance you pick from the range.

Our shop is built around fragrances like this: affordable takes on well-known perfumes where the accord and the notes matter more than the label. Every fragrance costs the same price, so a new scent never means a gamble, and it's the accord, not the name, that brings people back for more of our fragrances.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Aqua Source

Inspired by: Aqua di Gio Profumo, Giorgio Armani

Aqua Source works best from spring through summer, when the bergamot-forward opening feels most natural, though the incense and patchouli base keeps it wearable into cooler months too. One spray in the morning is usually enough.

It's built as a masculine, aquatic scent for men, though the herbal sage and rosemary heart means plenty of women pick it up too if they like a sharper marine fragrance, closer to unisex than most niche aquatics on the market.

Wear it at the office through summer without it turning cloying, and it holds up just as well in winter under a coat, which is rare for a scent built this close to the sea. It works for him as an everyday signature, though it never reads as strictly feminine or strictly masculine once the base settles in. It's the kind of scent that shows up in more than one review roundup of Acqua di Giò Profumo dupes each year, proof this clone holds its own against the original.

Choose our Inspiration

Giorgio Armani is an Italian design house, and Acqua di Giò Profumo arrived as a deeper, more intense, more masculine take on the original Acqua di Giò, built around that same marine idea but pushed into aromatic, incense territory. It's stayed one of Armani's most recognised fragrances since, sitting alongside the biggest names in designer, niche and luxury perfumery.

Most people just call it Profumo. It's one of the originals that perfume dupes, sometimes called clones, are chasing hardest, thanks to that unmistakable bergamot-and-incense contrast.

Read a review of Profumo online and most people mention the same bergamot-and-incense contrast that makes it stand out from other designer perfumes. It's become the reference point independent perfumers use when they build their own take on the idea.

Why choose us?

Aqua Source is our alternative to Acqua di Giò Profumo, a dupe built to smell like the original and filled by hand in small batches using French fragrance oils, with the same rosemary-and-sage warmth running through it, at a price that keeps this everyday luxury affordable.

We only make it at that same strength, since that's what this kind of marine, aromatic composition needs to hold up. Delivery takes 2 to 5 working days here too. If it isn't similar to what you remember, send it back within 15 days and we'll sort an exchange.

Most people who leave a review say it smells like Profumo from the first spray, which is the whole point of building a designer-inspired dupe rather than a generic aquatic clone. The original stays the reference point, and every batch is checked against it before it ships. It sits alongside the rest of our marine fragrances, and like all of our scents, it costs the same €25 every time.