Get Ready by Adidas, officially named Adidas Get Ready! For Him, is a fresh aquatic fruity fragrance that combines cool sea notes with juicy pineapple, mandarin orange, tropical fruit, aromatic lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood. Released in 2014, it was created as an energetic and easy-to-wear men’s fragrance for active days, warm weather, workouts, travel, and casual social occasions.
The fragrance opens with a bright mixture of oceanic freshness, pineapple, and mandarin orange. Its heart becomes fruitier and more aromatic through exotic fruits, lavender, and clary sage before cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood create a clean, softly warm masculine finish.
What makes Get Ready especially approachable is its balance between aquatic freshness and tropical fruit. It is fruitier than many traditional sports colognes but remains clean and masculine because of its aromatic herbs and woody base.
What Does Get Ready by Adidas Smell Like?
Get Ready smells fresh, aquatic, fruity, tropical, aromatic, woody, clean, and youthful.
The fragrance opens with sea notes, pineapple, and mandarin orange. Sea notes create a cool, breezy aquatic effect, while pineapple contributes juicy tropical sweetness. Mandarin orange adds citrus brightness and prevents the opening from feeling overly sugary.
As the fragrance develops, exotic fruits extend the tropical personality. Lavender introduces a clean aromatic quality, while clary sage adds a green, herbal character that gives the fragrance more masculine structure.
The dry down combines cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood. Cedarwood adds dryness, patchouli gives the base subtle depth, and sandalwood creates a smooth, comfortable finish.
Overall, Get Ready smells like pineapple and mandarin carried on a cool ocean breeze, followed by clean lavender, aromatic sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood.
What Are the Notes in Get Ready?
Get Ready by Adidas was released in 2014.
Top Notes:
Sea Notes, Pineapple, Mandarin Orange
Heart Notes:
Exotic Fruits, Lavender, Clary Sage
Base Notes:
Cedarwood, Patchouli, Sandalwood
The sea notes provide the immediate aquatic freshness for which the fragrance is known. Pineapple and mandarin orange create a juicy, energetic opening.
Exotic fruits keep the middle bright and playful, while lavender and clary sage add clean aromatic depth. Cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood create a smooth woody foundation.
Is Get Ready for Men, Women, or Unisex?
Get Ready is officially marketed as a fragrance for men.
Its lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood create a traditionally masculine aromatic and woody structure. However, its pineapple, mandarin orange, exotic fruits, and sea notes may also appeal to anyone who enjoys fresh tropical fragrances.
It is not aggressively masculine, dark, leathery, or heavily spicy. Its light fruity-aquatic personality makes it relatively easy to share.
How Long Does Get Ready Last?
Get Ready typically lasts approximately four to six hours on most wearers.
The sea notes, mandarin orange, and pineapple are most noticeable during the opening. Exotic fruits, lavender, and clary sage remain present through the middle, while cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood form the softer dry down.
Longevity can vary depending on:
- Skin chemistry
- Number of sprays
- Temperature and humidity
- Skin moisture
- Application location
- Whether it is applied to clothing
Applying the fragrance to moisturized skin and adding one or two light sprays to clothing may help extend its performance.
Because it is a light Eau de Toilette designed for casual freshness, some wearers may choose to reapply it later in the day.
How Strong Is the Projection?
Get Ready has soft to moderate projection.
During approximately the first hour, the sea notes, pineapple, mandarin orange, and tropical fruits create a noticeable fresh scent bubble. The fragrance then becomes more restrained as lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood move closer to the skin.
It generally does not fill a large room or create an overpowering trail. Its controlled projection makes it especially practical for casual wear, gym routines, school, travel, errands, and warm-weather activities.
What Fragrance Family Is Get Ready?
Get Ready belongs primarily to the woody aromatic fragrance family with strong aquatic and fruity characteristics.
Its main scent qualities include:
- Aquatic
- Fruity
- Tropical
- Citrus
- Aromatic
- Woody
- Fresh
- Clean
- Lightly sweet
- Sporty
- Youthful
- Masculine
The sea notes, pineapple, and mandarin dominate the opening. Lavender and clary sage create aromatic freshness, while cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood provide the masculine base.
What Seasons Is Get Ready Best For?
Get Ready is best suited for:
Spring: Excellent
Summer: Excellent
Early Fall: Very good
Winter: Best for daytime or indoor wear
Spring highlights the fragrance’s citrus, tropical fruit, lavender, sage, and woody freshness.
Summer is its strongest season. Sea notes create a cooling effect, while pineapple and mandarin orange complement warm weather, beach outings, vacations, and outdoor activities.
During early fall, the cedarwood, patchouli, sandalwood, lavender, and clary sage provide enough depth for mild temperatures.
It can be worn during winter, but men who prefer vanilla, amber, tobacco, leather, spice, or heavy woods may find it too light for cold weather.
Is Get Ready Better for Daytime or Nighttime?
Get Ready is best suited for daytime and early evening wear.
Its aquatic fruitiness and casual personality work especially well for:
- Morning routines
- Gym sessions
- Workdays
- School or campus wear
- Errands
- Shopping
- Travel
- Outdoor activities
- Weekend plans
- Casual lunches
- Beach outings
- Warm-weather gatherings
It can also be worn during casual summer evenings.
For formal dinners, nightlife, or colder-weather dates, a richer and longer-lasting fragrance may create a more memorable impression.
What Occasions Should Get Ready Be Worn For?
Get Ready works particularly well for:
- Everyday casual wear
- Gym sessions
- Post-workout use
- Running errands
- Casual workplaces
- School or college
- Travel
- Vacations
- Beach outings
- Outdoor activities
- Weekend plans
- Sporting events
- Spring outings
- Summer gatherings
- Casual dates
- After-shower use
Its sporty and tropical personality makes it easy to wear without requiring a formal occasion or particular style of clothing.
What Age Range Is Get Ready Best Suited For?
Get Ready is best suited for men approximately 16 to 35, although fragrance has no strict age requirement.
Teenagers and younger adults may appreciate its affordable, fresh, tropical, and energetic character. Men in their twenties and thirties may enjoy it as a gym fragrance, casual daytime scent, vacation cologne, or inexpensive addition to a larger fragrance rotation.
Older men who enjoy light fruity-aquatic fragrances can also wear it comfortably.
Its easygoing structure makes it particularly suitable as a first cologne or a casual alternative to more formal fragrances.
Is Get Ready Office Appropriate?
Yes. Get Ready is office appropriate, especially in casual or business-casual workplaces.
Its sea notes, pineapple, mandarin orange, lavender, sage, and clean woods create a fresh and approachable impression without strong projection.
For office wear, use approximately three to five sprays:
- One spray on each side of the neck
- One spray on the chest
- One spray on the back of the neck
- One optional spray on clothing
Use fewer sprays in:
- Small meeting rooms
- Medical environments
- Airplanes
- Fragrance-sensitive workplaces
- Close customer interactions
Its fruity and sporty personality is less formal than a traditional business cologne, but it remains clean and suitable for most everyday professional environments.
Is Get Ready Good for Dates?
Get Ready can be a good fragrance for casual daytime dates, beach dates, outdoor activities, lunch dates, movies, and relaxed warm-weather plans.
Its pineapple, mandarin orange, aquatic notes, lavender, and sandalwood create an impression that feels:
- Fresh
- Clean
- Youthful
- Energetic
- Approachable
- Tropical
- Casual
- Easygoing
It is not designed as a powerful or deeply seductive date-night fragrance. Its lighter projection works best for relaxed interaction rather than formal romantic occasions.
For dinner dates, nightlife, or cold-weather occasions, a fragrance with greater warmth, depth, and longevity may be preferable.
Is Get Ready a Safe Blind Buy?
Get Ready is a relatively safe blind buy for men who enjoy fresh, fruity, aquatic sports fragrances.
It may be a good blind buy if you enjoy:
- Pineapple
- Mandarin orange
- Sea notes
- Tropical fruits
- Lavender
- Clary sage
- Cedarwood
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Affordable men’s fragrances
- Gym colognes
- Casual warm-weather scents
It may be less suitable as a blind buy if you expect:
- Strong projection
- All-day longevity
- Dark woods
- Heavy vanilla
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Oud
- A formal evening fragrance
- A highly complex fragrance
- Minimal fruitiness
Get Ready is designed to smell refreshing, accessible, sporty, and casual rather than luxurious, intricate, or powerful.
What Fragrances Smell Similar to Get Ready?
No fragrance smells exactly like Get Ready, but these three fragrances from the South Beach Perfumes catalog share aspects of its pineapple, citrus, aquatic, lavender, woody, fruity, or casual masculine profile.
Nautica Voyage by Nautica
Nautica Voyage is an excellent alternative for someone who enjoys the cool, casual, aquatic side of Get Ready.
It combines green apple, green leaves, lotus, mimosa, musk, cedarwood, oakmoss, and amber.
Both fragrances are fresh, fruity, aquatic, woody, affordable, and especially appropriate for spring and summer.
Nautica Voyage is greener, airier, and more focused on apple and clean musk. Get Ready is sweeter, more tropical, and more pineapple-forward.
Azzaro Chrome by Azzaro
Azzaro Chrome offers a more polished and refined interpretation of citrus-aquatic freshness.
It combines bergamot, ginger, lemon, pineapple leaf, cypress, cyclamen, juniper, jasmine, oakmoss, musk, sandalwood, cedarwood, vetiver, and fir resin.
Both fragrances share bright citrus, pineapple-related freshness, aquatic character, cedarwood, and sandalwood.
Chrome is sharper, more aromatic, and more sophisticated. Get Ready is fruitier, sweeter, more casual, and more playful.
America by Perry Ellis
America shares several important elements with Get Ready, including pineapple, citrus, lavender, cedarwood, sandalwood, amber, musk, and aromatic greenery.
America is more traditional and structured, with bergamot, herbs, spices, geranium, vetiver, neroli, leather, and additional woods.
Get Ready is lighter, more aquatic, more tropical, and better suited to gym use or casual summer wear. America is more mature, aromatic, and appropriate for polished everyday use.
What Is the Difference Between the Available Concentrations?
Get Ready is primarily available as an Eau de Toilette, commonly abbreviated as EDT.
An Eau de Toilette generally emphasizes freshness, brightness, and easy projection during the opening while providing lighter wear than many Eau de Parfum or Parfum fragrances.
This concentration suits Get Ready because it allows the sea notes, pineapple, mandarin orange, tropical fruits, lavender, and clary sage to feel crisp and energetic.
Get Ready Eau de Toilette Spray
The Eau de Toilette features sea notes, pineapple, mandarin orange, exotic fruits, lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood.
Get Ready After-Shave Products
After-shave formats contain a lighter interpretation of the recognizable Get Ready scent in a product intended for application after shaving.
After shave should not be expected to last as long or project as strongly as the Eau de Toilette.
Get Ready Deodorant and Body Products
Get Ready has also appeared in deodorant sprays, shower products, and gift sets.
These products provide a lighter fragrance effect and are intended primarily for freshness or layering rather than conventional perfume performance.
Different Bottle Sizes
Different Get Ready Eau de Toilette sizes contain the same concentration. A larger bottle provides more fragrance but does not contain a stronger formula.
There is no widely recognized Eau de Parfum or Parfum version of the original Get Ready fragrance.
Learn more about fragrance concentrations.
Is Get Ready Discontinued?
Get Ready appears to be discontinued or no longer part of Adidas’s primary current fragrance collection, although bottles remain commercially available through fragrance retailers and remaining distributor inventory.
The fragrance was last marketed under Adidas’s Coty fragrance licensing arrangement. Adidas and Coty have since introduced newer fragrance collections, while Get Ready is no longer widely promoted as a current flagship release.
Because remaining inventory is still available, shoppers may continue to find:
- Eau de Toilette sprays
- Older gift sets
- Deodorant formats
- Regional packaging
- Remaining distributor stock
A fragrance being discontinued does not mean that an authentic bottle is unusable. Proper storage away from heat, direct sunlight, and major temperature changes is the most important factor in preserving fragrance quality.
When Was Get Ready Released?
Get Ready by Adidas was released in 2014.
It was introduced as part of a men’s and women’s fragrance pairing inspired by the atmosphere, color, energy, fruit, beaches, and active lifestyle associated with Brazil.
The men’s version was built around sea notes, pineapple, mandarin orange, exotic fruits, lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood.
Its tropical-aquatic character reflected the sporty, celebratory mood surrounding Brazil during a major period of international sporting attention.
Who Created Get Ready?
A specific individual perfumer is not consistently credited in reliable public fragrance references for Get Ready for Men.
The fragrance was released under the Adidas fragrance license operated by Coty.
Because an individual creator is not reliably documented, it is more accurate to describe Get Ready as an Adidas and Coty fragrance released in 2014 rather than assigning it to an unverified perfumer.
How Many Sprays of Get Ready Should Be Used?
For most situations, use approximately four to seven sprays.
Office or close indoor setting: Three to five sprays
Everyday daytime wear: Four to six sprays
Gym or post-workout use: Three to five sprays
Outdoor warm-weather activity: Five to seven sprays
Casual date: Four to six sprays
Reapplication: Two to four sprays as needed
A balanced application may include:
- One spray on each side of the neck
- One or two sprays on the chest
- One spray on the back of the neck
- One spray on each forearm
- One optional spray on clothing
Because Get Ready has soft-to-moderate projection, a slightly more generous application may be appropriate outdoors.
Avoid heavy application in gyms, locker rooms, offices, airplanes, or other enclosed spaces where people may be sensitive to fragrance.
Is Get Ready Authentic?
Yes. The Get Ready offered by South Beach Perfumes is an authentic Adidas fragrance.
South Beach Perfumes sells authentic, original brand-name perfumes and colognes sourced through trusted fragrance distribution channels.
Authentic Get Ready bottles may show differences based on:
- Production year
- Bottle size
- Adidas branding updates
- Coty packaging
- Regional distribution
- Label placement
- Batch-code location
- Country-specific packaging
- Older inventory
- Retail or gift-set presentation
These normal production and packaging differences do not automatically indicate that a fragrance is counterfeit.
Learn more about our product guarantee policy.
Who Should Buy Get Ready?
Get Ready is an excellent choice for someone who:
- Enjoys fresh aquatic fragrances
- Likes pineapple
- Appreciates mandarin orange
- Enjoys tropical fruit accords
- Likes lavender and clary sage
- Prefers cedarwood and sandalwood
- Wants an affordable everyday fragrance
- Needs a gym or post-workout cologne
- Prefers soft-to-moderate projection
- Wants a spring or summer fragrance
- Likes casual masculine scents
- Needs an easy daytime cologne
- Enjoys Adidas fragrances
- Wants a fragrance suitable for vacations
- Prefers light sweetness over heavy gourmand notes
It is particularly well suited for someone seeking a clean, tropical, energetic fragrance that can be worn casually without feeling formal or overly intense.
Who May Not Like Get Ready?
Get Ready may not be the best choice for someone who:
- Dislikes pineapple
- Avoids tropical fruit notes
- Does not enjoy aquatic fragrances
- Wants all-day longevity
- Expects powerful projection
- Prefers rich vanilla fragrances
- Loves heavy gourmand colognes
- Wants oud, leather, or tobacco
- Prefers formal luxury fragrances
- Wants a dark nighttime scent
- Prefers highly complex fragrance development
- Wants a strong winter fragrance
- Dislikes clean woody dry downs
- Wants a fragrance currently promoted by its manufacturer
- Is uncomfortable purchasing remaining discontinued inventory
Its casual and straightforward personality may feel too simple for someone looking for complexity, luxury, or dramatic performance.
Final South Beach Perfumes Expert Review
Get Ready by Adidas is a bright aquatic fruity Eau de Toilette that delivers tropical freshness in an accessible, sporty, and easy-to-wear format.
The opening is the fragrance’s strongest feature. Sea notes create a cool oceanic sensation, while pineapple provides juicy tropical sweetness. Mandarin orange adds citrus brightness and keeps the opening energetic.
Exotic fruits continue the cheerful personality through the heart. Lavender and clary sage then add clean aromatic structure, preventing the fragrance from becoming overly sweet or juvenile.
Cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood create a smooth masculine dry down. The base is lighter and simpler than the opening but gives the fragrance enough warmth and structure to feel like a complete cologne rather than a basic body spray.
Its greatest strength is casual versatility. Get Ready works well for gym sessions, vacations, beach days, errands, school, travel, outdoor activities, casual workdays, and warm-weather social plans.
Its primary limitation is performance. Most wearers should expect approximately four to six hours of longevity and soft-to-moderate projection. Reapplication may be necessary for extended wear.
Get Ready may also become increasingly difficult to replace because it appears to be discontinued or outside Adidas’s present core fragrance collection. That makes it less practical as a permanent signature fragrance but potentially more interesting to collectors of older Adidas releases.
For men who enjoy pineapple, mandarin orange, tropical fruits, aquatic freshness, lavender, sage, cedarwood, patchouli, and sandalwood, Get Ready remains an enjoyable and approachable warm-weather fragrance.
South Beach Perfumes Expert Rating: 8.4 out of 10
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