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Notes04/24/2022
manlyscents
29 Reviews
manlyscents
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A like but not a love
Not to be confused with Gianfranco Ferre For Men, this bottle of For Man with the transparent top is by Diana De Silva.
It opens with a pleasant citrus and sage that quickly give way to carnation and geranium. It soon dries down to oakmoss, and patchouli with a subdued musky animalic vibe. It's quite subtle - unusual given the "loud" period during which it was launched.
Performance on my skin is very disappointing. Even if I overspray AF, it projects decently for an hour, then becomes a skin scent for another 3 hours before it's gone. Reapplying is a must if I'm gonna be out for more than a couple of hours. Overall I can enjoy GFFM... elegant, refined, and restrained as it is. A like, but not a love.
Worth mentioning that the inbuilt sprayer on my bottle gets stuck after every... single... spray. This never happened to me, not even with dirt cheap drugstore brands, nor with €1 atomizers from AliExpress. I wouldn't mind if this was a one-shot-one-kill fragrance, but this is a very light scent which requires multiple, multiple sprays if you want any sort of longevity. Spray. Pull it up. Spray. Pull it up. Spray. Pull it up... repeat endless loop. It feels like operating a flintlock musket at the battle of Waterloo. Rant over.
Masculinity Level: Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects, restrained power, hiding in plain sight.
It opens with a pleasant citrus and sage that quickly give way to carnation and geranium. It soon dries down to oakmoss, and patchouli with a subdued musky animalic vibe. It's quite subtle - unusual given the "loud" period during which it was launched.
Performance on my skin is very disappointing. Even if I overspray AF, it projects decently for an hour, then becomes a skin scent for another 3 hours before it's gone. Reapplying is a must if I'm gonna be out for more than a couple of hours. Overall I can enjoy GFFM... elegant, refined, and restrained as it is. A like, but not a love.
Worth mentioning that the inbuilt sprayer on my bottle gets stuck after every... single... spray. This never happened to me, not even with dirt cheap drugstore brands, nor with €1 atomizers from AliExpress. I wouldn't mind if this was a one-shot-one-kill fragrance, but this is a very light scent which requires multiple, multiple sprays if you want any sort of longevity. Spray. Pull it up. Spray. Pull it up. Spray. Pull it up... repeat endless loop. It feels like operating a flintlock musket at the battle of Waterloo. Rant over.
Masculinity Level: Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects, restrained power, hiding in plain sight.
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