Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Male Fragrance Discussion › MFD Archive › GFF Gianfranco Ferre
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

GFF Gianfranco Ferre

post #1 of 7
11/12/05 at 11:54pm
Thread Starter 
I just bought a bottle of Gianfranco Ferre's GFF very cheaply.

I like it, but it is a bit weird, it starts off totally masculine then transmutes to something unisex, or even a tad feminine.
Interesting to see that this characteristic doesn't just occur in niche scents, I'd never come across it in designer scents before.

It's certainly very different from his unambiguously masculine Pontaccio21
Renato
Reply
Reply

Features on Basenotes

Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
post #2 of 7
11/13/05 at 5:39pm
I like this one but not enough to keep in a very crowed wardrobe; it's on my swaplist.

Still, it's a nice frag that doesn't get a lot of press.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 7
11/13/05 at 9:50pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ballardbeau

it's a nice frag that doesn't get a lot of press.

Do I hear crickets chirping in the background?
Renato
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 7
11/15/05 at 4:57pm
Thread Starter 
I'm wearing this one today, and it certainly smells better in the wearing than in the testing on my wrist.
I'm a sucker for aldehydic scents (they stimulate my nose), and this one is mildly aldehydic unlike say the more strongly aldehydic Perry Ellis 360º.
Renato
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 7
11/15/05 at 5:00pm
Thread Starter 
Also, with this reply, I think I've just made the most one sided discussion thread in Basenotes history.
Renato
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 7
11/15/05 at 5:26pm
GFF is a very complex and underrated scent, IMHO.

Cool soapy citruses graduate into the warm and vulnerable heart. Do not expect much sillage from this one, but give it a few hours and you will understand what I mean: it is not a chypre wanna-be, it is an independent Snow Queen with emotions to melt your roughness and aloofness away. Well-composed, for sure, and I am glad that you are giving in to its charm.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 7
11/15/05 at 7:44pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberwolf

GFF is a very complex and underrated scent, IMHO. Â*

Cool soapy citruses ..........

I wish I had your nose, and your ability to describe what you've smelled - your comments are a pretty good description of part of what I'm smelling, and I'd never have been able to describe it as such.
Renato
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: MFD Archive

Features on Basenotes

Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Male Fragrance Discussion › MFD Archive › GFF Gianfranco Ferre