Karl Hamburg Alster Karl Lagerfeld for men

we gotta gatekeep this shi, because it’s so fucking good🤤

I love it, it's a bit citrusy and so good smelling. I want to drink it, but i can't :D.

A new favorite for a casual everyday fragrance! Fresh, clean, attractive and little bit flowery for almost nothing. Well done Lagerfeld 👍🏻

The citrus notes in the fragrance were in my opinion overly bitter on the initial spray. This problem seemed to go away with time, even though the bitterness did come through to my nose occasionally. On it's own, without the bitterness, the scent was fairly good.

Very citrusy, fresh, and floral but the feminine type of floral. I think it's the freesia note but to me this leans more feminine and smells nothing like the YSL Y line. I would pass on buying it.

Fresh and clean scent. Easy to wear. To me, it's more unisex than strictly for men. I can still smell it on my shirt the next morning.

This line of Lagerfeld scents dedicated to the boutique locations is made of transparent, evanescent 2-3h warm weather scents. Here with Hamburg we have a mint opening fading fast to a mandarin and clary sage mid which provides a sweet core surrounding a freesia note. The moss note I cannot smell at all but the ISO-E and white musks' overdose yes. I like this one better than NY Mercer St. They're versatile and inoffensive and for 20€ you can't complain, but honestly I'd never waste the opportunity to wear something better.

For me it's more like Acqua di Gio than Y from YSL

Good for the price tho. Fresh and clean

Nothing special! Similar with Quatre from Boucheron.

A sharp, airy ambroxan scent. Cheap and greenish, regrettably not the same quality as New York Mercer Street. Only for the young crowd. Nice chanelesque bottle though.

Minty aromatic, light and airy, unisex i think, not a cologne scent.
Low to moderate longevity at the moment.
Really enjoyable scent, but if you're female you must not mind aromatics or unisex/male scents.

Initial thoughts on this right after blind bought it was it comes across somewhere in between Y edt and edp. Some light hearted Y Edp let's say. Very good price value, full bottle worthy. I also had another flanker, New York which smelled fresh and nice but for the price it's much better choice.

Edit: scents itself undoubtedly great but the longevity only goes about 2~3hrs... overall rating 7.8/10

**UPDATED REVIEW): The truth is that I’ve been looking for a good summer office fragrance for quite some time. This isn’t exactly my ideal, although in its own way, it comes close… this is the right fragrance for entrepreneurs determined to take on the world, just as it was in its day - the already old, decidedly vintage - Platinum Egoiste by Chanel; perhaps it isn’t a coincidence that this fragrance was launched in homage to Karl Kagerfeld, who raised Chanel from bankruptcy and led it to absolute success during his time.

In any case, let it be very clear: I’m not saying that Platinum Egoiste users like this fragrance, probably on the contrary… ok?
KL Hamburg Alster is fresh-minty-clean-sweet-woody-musky and expect average duration (for a freshie) with moderate projection. It’s just a modern fresh smell, nothing more and nothing less… but it has that “bold attitude” I’ve looking for.

It smells great on me, it's addictive and most important: It isn’t boring, because I would bathe every morning in it.

if I have to define this fragrance, I’d label it as “a forward-looking aromatic fougere”: The scent of an immaculate future of white buildings and pristine glass walls.

So this is simple like business: adapt and enjoy it.

Ridiculously similar to YSL Y. Okay performance so far!