I honestly find it kind of shocking that people would find Toy Boy feminine based on the rose note alone when we’ve got so many men wearing fragrances that smell like cotton candy and bubble gum.

This is legitimately the best review of Toy Boy I think I've seen, including my own. Fantastic job breaking down a very provoking, fascinating fragrance. Kudos, George.

Almighty Fragrance Apprentice... thank you, from the bottom of my heart for not having a long loud “youtuber” branded intro. Your channel is a gem!

Too me, a man wearing a rose fragrance with confidence arguably reinforces his masculinity.

Toy Boy is arguably the farthest out designer fragrance sold at department stores. I sprayed it on a card and it was still blasting florals two days later.

This is the most in depth review of Toy Boy I’ve ever seen. Awesome review!!

Speaking of so called “feminine notes”, as a female who loves to wear some male fragrances and a HUGE fan of yours, I would really appreciate it if you made a video on fragrances that are labeled as targeted to men or women but you consider to be more unisex irl. For example I know you feel this way for Eau des Merveilles (on which I completely agree with you).

Got to be one of the best reviewers on youtube take it to a whole new level!

I liked your initial reaction to this. Thanks for the detailed review and taking your time with it and trying to understand it. Great video George!

George thank you for starting off the video setting some expectations for who might like or might hate this scent, this is a release I have been sleeping on but might have to add to my list to get a sample of. This was well explained and if this is the style of review you are trending towards I think it's awesome.

Solid review George, especially when you started factoring in your initial impressions, the niche element with Guerlain and then came back to who it's marketed for and where it sits in the blue/tonka sea. On point review 👍

It's a remarkable fragrance that needs more love, Moschino has to produce these more intense styles which is different than most of their transparent summer styles, it's also much more than a Rose scent. I wear whatever I want- gender classifications are irrelevant.

This style of reviewing is the best one. It is so in-depth and it covers aspects others don't even know could form part of a fragrance review. The extremely fine points, intricate details, angles and considerations that you've incorporated in this review is just incredible. This is extraordinary work. King George! ❤️

I absolutely adore this scent from opening to dry down and performance is nuclear

Yea got this and loved it from spray one, pulled compliments from the ladies every time I wear it, for me it's up there with sauvage compliments wise.I love the rose smell and this inspired me to try onyx and some other rose fragrances. Thanks for another great video 👍

Same, sometimes I wear it, get compliments and enjoy it. Other times I wonder why I bought it. Hype? Unique? In a year with little to no fragrance releases making waves or garnering interest, this one undoubtedly stood out. Like u said u have to like rose to enjoy this one, and The jury’s still out for me. Enjoyed your perspective, 🍻

I loved this review, wow! I’m buying this fragrance blindly right now and this review sold me.

If you asked me before I got ToyBoy I would have said I hate rose fragrances. I think its probably more likely I dislike Iris, which so often goes with rose. Toy Boy is one of my most worn frags over the past 6 months. I think it's genius. Its so different from anything I've ever smelled, its so weird and interesting. I absolutely adore it. I've never said anything is my 'signature' but this is damn close. (I still adore and wear Guerlain Homme EDP too much to call anything my signature scent) Great review - I've just found your channel and I love it. You and Ash from Gents Scents are the only fragrance reviewers I can stand.

love this video as all of your videos georgie... im definitely buying this someday (also because i looove the bottle) ps: its MOS-KEE-NO... love u!

I love the opening and mid of this scent. The opening really jumps out at you. It's tart, juicy, and a bit floral. It's kind of like a sour candy and the spice of the pink pepper really makes the opening sparkle. The opening into the dry down kind of starts to resemble the way a slightly floral red wine smells. The dry down is good, but not as intriguing as the opening and mid. It's warm and a little fuzzy, and for a dry down that's fine. I would probably wear this every season except for summer. I'm kind of obsessed with it. The only downside is that the bottle isn't transparent in the slightest, so you have to shake the juice and estimate how much is left from there. I would say I'm about halfway through my bottle.

My new love - its strangeness is something I have been longing for - I can only get the rose initially and then pepper pepper pepper and later oud and something like diesel - it’s amazing. Yes it’s slightly synthetic but hypnotic none the less - I like the confusion. (By the way it’s pronounced Moskino !) Great review!

Fantastic. It's different and manages to do rose in a very appealing way. I really appreciate how it manages to be pretty mass appealing without being the same as everything else. I'm not a rose fan or floral fan, but I found this very good. I'm pretty fickle with all my frags, so you shouldn't feel bad for waffling.

Literally my scent of the day. Love this provocative scent🌹 I imagine this fragrance called “IDGAF” - it would be awesome

Really great review!

Thanks George. Good breakdown of a complex scent. Funny thing, I bought a bottle after watching your reaction to it. No regrets because it is unique to my collection. But that being said, I haven’t found the right occasion to wear it. A strong like but not love. Cheers mate 🥃

I just bought toy boy blindly from a discount store for the 1oz. and checked the reviews and love it. Teams it’s a unique scent and the rise is incredible smelling and not the cheap smelling rose and very sophisticated. I love how unique smelling it is and like the idea that many macho types will hate it. With that meaning only few men will wear it, until it get acceptable by the masses like wearing pink. Also, I discovered Moschino around the time he launched as a designer in 86-87. And was told around that time it was pronounced Mos Keno. And you would think almost 40 years later everyone would have known that. Like when k first discovered Versace around 81-82 and first thought it was pronounce Versass, instead of VersaCEE. Real men wear Toy Boy! 🤠

I smelt this in John Lewis in October, I bought a 100ml bottle in November and it has become a new staple in my range. The Rose is such a tank and it compliments me completely.

Great review and I enjoyed it and I like this this fragrances and I get good longevity and good projection and have a blessed day

I honestly just ordered this online a couple of days ago mostly because of the unique bottle design, and the way it's been described as somewhat unisex, floral, and sweet with an interesting mid/base. I'm hoping I could pull it off as a darker fragrance, as I wear a lot of black clothing, but I guess we'll see how that works out. Regardless I'm looking forward to trying this one out.

I like this fragrance a lot. The combo of floral and spice is really neat

I normally distance myself from floral fragrances but i actually liked this one. Definitely a strong woody rose note on my skin. Try layering it with your favorite oud fragrance if it's too feminine for you

I love this fragrance, but i have to say Tom Ford ombré leather is one of my all time favorites and I also love this.

Coincidentally while putting up my Christmas tree I thought I’d wear this again; with the tree up I took a wee break and found this video. It’s strange how people’s noses differ, everyone mentions the rose and I don’t get rose at all, I get pepper and a musty wet concrete stuffy sort of smell that I associate with cashmeran. I like the uniqueness of this in the designer world but it’s more of a like than a love for me. George I always love hearing your take on things. If I could only find a sample of “Kisses Rain” or Citiver in Canada.

This video just raised the game. 💪

I love this!

Thank you... before 2021 end i found my Boy, its my officially ToyBoy perfume forever... ❤️❤️❤️

It's Unisex for me, I love it. Got multiple compliments from it in the office.

Just ordered this. I already have Versace Dylan Blue as my regular blue fragrance, John Varvatos Dark Rebel as my special occasion masculine fragrance, YSL L'homme for date nights and Diesel Bad for the bar/club. Gonna need to find the right situation to wear Toy Boy but I'm up for the challenge

Sounds like this fragrance becomes more toy-like and more boy-like after it progresses? Tool-Man becomes Toy-Boy. Wonderfully nuanced review.

Is it? Yes!!

Thats a unique scent and definitely my favourite not just for this year but overall. However, I wear exclusively rose fragrances - Silver Obmre by Alexandre J, Loud by Tommy Hilfiger, Moonlight patchuli by VCA are my best in the collection, so it is understandable why I adore Toy Boy

Wish I saw this first. I can’t stand it but luckily only spent 25 quid on 30ml. Not worth a blind buy. Will see how I get on if I can grow to like it. Thanks for the review.

A fair four Sir 👍🏻

I love that mezquino toyboy got plenty of compliments smells real good think it's a gentleman's cologne

I absolutely love it

I'm not really into kitschy bottles so I often pass on Moschino fragrances, but I absolutely adore the scent. I'd have never given it a chance if it wasn't for a sample I was given. I like it more than it's woman counterpart tbh. I'd definitely consider this a unisex fragrance, I've toggled between this, Pharrell William's Girl, and Glossier You lately.

I really like it. Different to what else came out this year.

He’s literally one of the best fragrance youtuber.

Very good when layered with D&G Light Blue eau intense. Try it mid/late spring onward.

i loved it from the first sniff, and was a blind buy! so different and that price...woow

First time I wore this to work one of my female colleagues fell in love with it so much she went and bought herself a bottle and it remains her favourite perfume !

First time I smelled this on a guy it reminded me of Rose 31 by Le Labo, that I really love for myself. If you're used to niche fragrances I think this is truly unisex.

Hi George, have you ever tried Tauerville Vanilla Flash? I feel like you may appreciate it.

I love this perfume !

I love this fragrance

I love toy boy, just bought my second bottle of it last week.

As a casual fan of fragrances, Toy Boy was a roller coaster for me. I've seen it on the shelves for some time but been dismissing it. Then I kept hearing it on people's list. The name is weird, bottle weird. Recalled the cringy window cleaner bottle. Tested it on paper and skin. Love the fragrance. Projection is much stronger then what I'm used to but love the longevity. Then I found out it had rose and its unisex. But I love that the fragrance evolved the longer you wear it. Woody mescaline. Conclusion: Bought it. Wife loved it. So I guess it's gonna be one of my date night fragrances.

I can’t decide if I like this. When I smell directly on my skin I’m not a huge fan. But when I wear it throughout the day I smell it and am like , what is that?! That smells good. Then I remember it’s toy boy. I’m so confused on this one . Don’t know if I should buy a bottle .

I've got compliments on Toy Boy and I personally enjoy the smell particularly the open and mid

This is a good fragrance. The very first thing I did after opening the box. I took the top off and threw it in the trashcan. Then I sprayed it on. This is somewhat unisex. But any man can wear it. It's more manly than feminine.

Love this stuff. To me this is to rose what ombré leather is to leather.

Your video quality is up in the skies & far exceeds Jermey’s videos especially he focus recently on mass production rather than value

I fuckin love moschinos Toyboy. I love it on me, i love it on my gf and she loves it on me. Personally i think its one of the most innovative designer fragrances in the last 2-3 years of blue frag after blue frag after blue frag (or invictus style frags).

This is the best review of this fragrance that I’ve seen. In fact, you have just about convinced me to get a bottle. As for rose, I love it as a fragrance note. I really love when the rose is blended with dark woods like oud or with incense as you mentioned here. One of my favorite rose based fragrances is Cartier Declaration D’un Soir. That one, for the money, is a crazy good fragrance. One of my fave shave soap companies, Noble Otter, has a scent called Two Kings that is oud and rose based, but has other lovely notes like carnation, lily of the valley, sandalwood, incense, citrus, and oakmoss. I have the shave soap, AS splash, and their EDP and it’s freakin awesome. Anyway, sorry for the novella. Great video as usual, and I’m thinking of getting a bottle. Thanks and be well, m8! 👍

about to pull the trigger on this, tried it at boots.. gives me the vibe of marc jacobs bang which i enjoyed much 8 yrs ago

i love it and i reach for it alot in my 100bittle plus collection i also wear ATH homme alot which shares alot with it !

Another great rose from FK - Elie Saab's No.1 Rose. I prefer it over Toy Boy, but it's a different take no doubt. Far more traditional and perhaps even too fem for many guys out there.

I bought this and got compliments....it surprised me really my wife loves it on me....but I'm up in the air about it .

Sir, it's Moskeeno. Great review btw.

I immediately fell in love with this, but then I started noticing that the dry down smelled really bitter on me. So much that I had to ditch it. Really mixed emotions based on that!

I have only smelled it a few times and neither of the times I liked it. But I've come to love other fragrances I didn't like at first. But I'm not going to buy it before I have tried a full wear.

I really like Moshcino Toy Boy but my girlfriend says it smells a bit like dill pickles as it dries down...Do you get that smell? Once she said it, I could actually smell some dill pickle-like scent once the opening starts to dry down. Weird, but I still like it. For rose scents, I prefer Lyric Man by Amouage.

“I’ve liked it. Then hated it. Then loved it. Then hated it.” My relationship with Beau de Jour

This is a polarising smell, very balsamic and like vinegar it smells great but can get tiring after a short while. Its one you can appreciate for its uniqueness but unlikely to become a daily wear. A big bottle would last a decade so go small or decant.

blind bought it and was pleasantly surprised, then I realized the only reason I liked it was because it smells like a slightly sweeter Aqua di parma colonia oud

I would prefer an outdoor review

Well , it's weird,, I don't like rose or feminine floral fragrances at all.. yet I really like this fragrance... Sometimes it's a little feminine but most of the time, especially in the air for some reason it just smells good... I actually like the dry down and synthetic quality of it.. It makes it more masculine in my opinion... If it was very natural smelling I think it would smell even more feminine. Some reason on my skin when it dries down I get more of the woods and vetiver and the aroma chemicals ISO or whatever ambroxan coming through it starts smelling much more manly.

I think it’s perfectly unisex. Guess I’m one of the unlucky ones who doesn’t get good longevity on this 😭

reminds me of the peppery vibe in bang marc jacobs, which i enjoyed very much

I would LOVE to see your thoughts on L'Homme Ala Rose by MFK.

Not a big fan of florals but this just works!

I disagree with your take on this fragrance. I hate florals and rose. I love masculine and uber masculine fragrances which is why scents like Dior Homme, Dior Homme Intense, Reflection Man, and Declaration d'Un Soir are not in my collection because they're too feminine for my liking. Toy Boy is absolute go for me. I love this juice and have recommended to lots of friends who have the same taste as me when it comes to fragrances and all of them loved this as well.

Woody and watery??? Wonder if it's interesting enough for a blind buy?

I am confused about a thing.... Are Xerjoff and Sospiro Parfum related? I noticed on fragrantica both have a fragrance named "Erba Pura", but this two fragrances not only share the same name... They have the same notes! AND SAME PERFUMERS! i just do not understand

MOSKINO

Yea Eau Frai fragrances are good fpr the summer and this one ilshould be added to summer collection.

I just can’t get passed the ‘old lady’ vibe from Toy Boy..I’m currently wearing Black Orchid edp and it smells amazing in this cold weather. I’m down with my florals/ unisex leaning feminine fragrances but Toy Boy is a straight pass for me. Like you said there’s something really irksome about it that I just don’t enjoy..

I know its a rose based scent, however all i smell are tomatoes.

Not my cup of tea as they say. Keep up the good work George. 👍🏻

Guys please help me out. Everyone is saying this is an original smelling fragrance but I smelt it today and it reminded me immediately of Gucci Pour Homme II!!! Am i crazy??? Does anyone else notice the similarity?

I absolutely love the smell of rose but I absolute hate the smell of this. All I got was a very heavy pepper note.

Best designer release by far is Pasha de Cartier Parfum - have you smelled it?

I wonder why people immediately equate floral to women when flowers can be enjoyed by both

You gotta switch up the background music if you are going to shoot in the same background. Variety is the spice of life

layer it with azzaro wanted by night. it is incredible

Hi! Sorry, hate to be the one to correct but it's pronounced "Mos-kee-no," not Mo-shee-no. Great review btw!

I only wore this once, I sold it straight away and I instantly started to miss it. I started to feel gutted.

Wore this to a dates house. She said I smelled like her mother😞

Wow this world is becoming crazy, look at these comments. If you like something you like it, there doesn't have to be some deeper mental meaning to why you like a scent. When I was in my young 20's I loved Fierce by A&F and that would never have been mistaken for a perfume but now I really love Y by ysl and someone asked was it unisex. I honestly can see why someone can think that and I don't get offended but it gets a lot of compliments and to me it smells like a masculine green apple.

They missed a trick with the bottle design... they created the silver collar as the neck of the bear, they could have put a little silver bowtie on the collar and it would have been amazing.