Reviews of Salvatore Ferragamo pour Homme (1999)
by Salvatore Ferragamo

Depending on the day, this fragrance ranges from bad to incredibly bad. I bought it blind and want to make myself like it - and I have done that successfully with some other ones. I just can't place it - I do get the cedar, the grapefruit, the fig and clove, but the accord is a kind of projectile-vomit of sour-sweet smell. There IS fresh vetiver & cedar in the drydown but you have to get past this unpleasant assault of synthetic sour that is just unforgivable. My wardrobe is fairly extensive and I have "learned to like" a good many fragrances that just didn't agree with me the first time or two I tried them on... but this one is on a very short list of irreconcilable rejects.

Bought this blind, which I regret about as much as you can regret a $16 snag at a discount store--but since I picked up Dirty English and Story for the same price, I think can endure the letdown. Whether I can endure another wearing of SFpH, though, is doubtful. The first few seconds might lead you to believe you've got yourself a unique fresh fragrance, but once the fig and citrus burns off you're SOL for the next four hours during which you'll be subjected to whiffs of an amzing reproduction of the smell of clove cigarettes, a 100% synthetic-smelling freshness, very dry vetiver and wood, and a sweetness that seems unpleasantly out of place under the sharp and dry notes. I always try to give fragrances a full wearing but this one got washed off with extreme prejudice.

Oh this one is bad, big time, make that VERY bad. It does not even fit to be a toilet refresher spray...it went straight to the bin, i'm embarrassed to even give it to anyone.

I think the guy with the spicy indian food remark is not far off here. Ugh! Smells like a spice rack. I don't know what the longevity is like nor am I going to find out! I want this sample off my wrist now!

Gave me a nasty head ache. I got it as a gift, it smells like cheap indian food.

Cloves, fig, sage, its as if someone took curry and naan and mixed it with musk. Its just "too much" like Michael by Michael kors.



When I wore it to work , everyone said "eww whats that smell..it smells like curry"

Salvatore Ferragamo opens with a strong grapefruit note and a green fig note. The fig note is clean and fresh and disappears rather quickly; the grapefruit note hangs on long enough to join with the clove note from the middle and the cedar note from the base, and the combination turns into a sharp metallic-like aroma which I don’t find very pleasant. Cloves is not a favorite note of mine and I find it is too strong in the middle accord. The other middle notes seem to come out too subtly to my taste, so, in all, the whole middle of the pyramid is thin, sharp, and unpleasant to my nose. There is not very much here that I find attractive, but I must say that the ambiance of the fragrance is nicely masculine and invigoratingly fresh. It is bright and lively and the fig adds a depth if not a richness to the top of the pyramid. By the time the basenotes are reached, the sharpness and thinness of Salvatore Ferragamo has become almost cloying to me: cloying and synthetic. This fragrance just does not deliver much that I like. Then there’s the bottle—now THAT’S nice.

When I first smelt it I fell in love with it but a few months later I couldn't stand it anymore...It would give me such a bad headache...And eventhough I was trying to force myself to like it I ended up giving it to a friend with great relief....Too sweet and very very dense....

YUCK! Medicinal in the extreme. Gives me a headache just to smell it. Not many fragrances illicit this sort of reaction, but...I have to be honest.