Azzaro released The Most Wanted Eau de Parfum Intense in 2021 into a market already full of sweet designer fragrances, and it beat most of them on the only metric that is easy to verify: it lasts. What it smells like is cardamom over toffee over amber woods. What it costs you is versatility, because a fragrance this sweet and this strong has a narrower range than the marketing suggests.
How it smells
Green cardamom opens it — dry, aromatic and slightly bitter, which is the part that keeps the whole thing from being a dessert. Within the first hour a toffee accord takes over, joined by vanilla, and the base is an amber-woods accord with cedarwood and tobacco underneath. The result is a warm, sweet, faintly smoky fragrance that smells expensive in cold air and syrupy in hot air.
The cardamom-to-toffee transition is what people are actually buying. The opening reads as spice, the dry-down as caramel, and the amber woods stop it collapsing into candy. It is the same architecture as a good budget gourmand — the difference is blending and how long it stays coherent.
Performance
Exceptional, and the least controversial thing about it. Owner reports routinely describe ten to twelve hours on skin, with a weak but detectable skin scent still there at the end of a long day and much longer on clothing. Projection is strong for the first two to three hours. This is one of the few designer bottles that genuinely out-performs the budget Arabian eaux de parfum it competes with, which is why it earns a place in the argument alongside our long-lasting ranking.
Because of that, spray count matters more here than almost anywhere else on this site. Two sprays is a full wear. Four is a mistake you cannot undo, and you will not notice you made it, because you will go nose-blind to it inside twenty minutes.
Where it works
Cold weather, evenings, dates, bars and any occasion where a big warm fragrance is a feature. It is one of the strongest options in our sweet cologne ranking and a reasonable alternative to the sweet designer standards if you want something less common than Eros or 1 Million.
It is a poor summer fragrance, a poor office fragrance and a poor choice in any small room. Heat turns the toffee cloying, and the performance that makes it good value makes it inescapable indoors.
Who should skip it
Skip it if you do not like sweet fragrances — this is unambiguously one, and the cardamom does not disguise that for long. Skip it if you need one bottle for everything. And skip it if you work anywhere fragrance-sensitive; there are better tools for that job in our office ranking.
The honest verdict
The Most Wanted EDP Intense is the best-performing mainstream sweet designer we have looked at, and it is worth its price if the profile suits you. The honest comparison is not with other designers but with the budget gourmands: Lattafa Khamrah does a related trick — cinnamon and dates rather than cardamom and toffee — for a fraction of the money, and it is genuinely close enough that we would sample both before committing. Our Khamrah review makes that case in full.
