What you want from this kind of fragrance is simply to obscure subtle bad smells. You want people to smell that you made an effort. Come to think of it, that might be the purpose of all colognes.
Claiborne Sport cologne has a strong body wash kind of fragrance with something a chemical, perhaps boozy on the back end. That something is not pleasant. It doesn’t sit well with what’s a the front; however, that something seems to disappear when the cologne is on skin.
If you are doing something that makes you sweat, like playing sports or manual labor, and you shower regularly, you need something like this to keep sweat from being the first thing everyone else smells.