Gomma Etro 1989 Eau de Toilette

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A perfume by Etro for women and men, released in 1989. The scent is leathery-spicy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Leathery

Spicy

Woody

Floral

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Artemisia

Tarragon

Bergamot

Lavender

Lemon

Caraway

Heart Notes

Clove

Jasmine

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Birch

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Vetiver

Perfumer

Edouard Fléchier

Ratings

Scent

7.1100 Ratings

Longevity

7.676 Ratings

Sillage

6.967 Ratings

Bottle

7.874 Ratings

Value for money

7.412 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 03/20/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Gomma Eau de Cologne

Knize Ten Toilet Water

Homme

Cuir mauresque

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/15/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 4

A Different Kind of Powdery Floral

Leather perfumes are often defined by the 'leather +' principle. Leather + citrus (Azurée), leather + green (Bandit), leather + tar (Lonestar Memories), Leather + cumin (Rien.) These scents are all so different to me, but I enjoy them all.

Gomma’s leather is defined by florals and amber. But its plus-one is really rubber. I find that the sweet, powdery, slightly burnt rubber that is prominent from the start lasts all the way through. I would categorize Gomma as a leather, but my nose remembers it as a rubber. The amber sweetness is powdery, but it doesn’t have vanilla, and therefore keeps off Bvlgari Black’s turf. Gomma is direct but not aggressive in the least, and so stays off Knize Ten's turf.

I appreciate that this fragrance is in EDC concentration. It allows the fragrance to remain light despite its peculiar timber. Gomma is not so much linear as a bit of a striptease. Initially the notes are threefold---leather, floral, amber. But the leather is leathery rubber with a bit of tar; the floral is violet with an abstract white floral; the amber is powdery, sweet and full. The accord remains even as components fall away and in the end, you have a sweet, violet rubber.

12/19/2012

5
Bottle 2.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 5
Scent

Drseid
821 Reviews

Drseid

2

Too Much Tar and Powder...

Gomma opens to a rather pleasant leather that has just a hint of rubber and florals to compliment it. This opening hangs around for a few minutes, and during this stage I really was thinking it was comparable to leathery scents like vintage Givenchy Gentleman. Things change in a big way in the heart notes, however. Gomma holds onto its leather note throughout, but it intensifies in the heart, and then an animalic tar and rubber accord joins it and dominates the scent from here on out. The tar and rubber combo is quite potent and I can't say I like it at all. The base is a mixture of a now diminished leather mixed with powder. Gomma is not much of a projector, but it does have great tenacity.

I started out liking Gomma, but the tar and rubber accord ruined it for me. It is just too overpowering and makes wearing the scent more than a bit of a challenge. I do see some of the similarities others have mentioned to Knize Ten, but I feel Knize Ten is the better scent and would stick with that if choosing between the two. As for the great leathery top notes, check out some vintage Givenchy Gentleman or even Giorgio VIP for Men to get your fix there. Since I do like the opening despite the difficult heart and finish, I will give Gomma a weak neutral and a rating of 2.5 stars out of 5.

04/17/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

3

A gentler Knize Ten

Undoubtedly, the opening makes quite clear the close similarity to Knize Ten several other reviewers picked up. That is what I thought too almost instantly. But for me, call me heretic, and speaking as a fan of both Etro and Knize, Gomma (vintage eau de cologne in paisley box) is better. Actually much better. It carries that irresistible charme of several early Etro’s, a nondescript yet totally recognizable feel of smoky, rich, mystic exoticism, here played with a somber, powdery and sumptuously soapy mood perfectly rendered by a fantastic jasmine note, powerful and gloomy, a soapy feel which seems exuding from a baroque macabre still life. All perfectly blended with sour-green notes and this gigantic central leather accord which is much “rubbery” in fact, but not artificial: it’s dry, sour, pungent but also soft, smoky, warm, rounded by a mellow amber accord, and carrying quite a natural feel of organic rubber. One of the nicest leather accords I’ve ever experienced, which reveals its quality on the drydown – a heavenly, sinful, subtle harmony of amber and leather. Gomma is overall austere and quite classic, yet deceptively simple or “conventional”: to me it’s like if it had a sort of fractal structure, with the two main characters – leather and green-floral soapy notes – which can be “dissected” into further nuances and notes – amber, smoke, rubber, earthy notes. Knize is to me quite more “monolithic”, more powerful and in a way, more simple and reassuringly solid: still great, just different. Gomma instead has just something exotic and creepy, that I can’t describe better but it’s something other vintage Etro’s have (take Palais Jamais, for instance) and that is what makes them so special to me. Elegant and shady, a bit light if you want, I’d call it “discreet”.

8/10

12/11/2020

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Chizza
299 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 29

Leather Lockdown

Wolle and his boys also had to close their clubhouse because of the lockdown and so the rockers from Herne tackled the topic of digitalization. Drinking alone was not nice and so they used video conferencing. Of course it was not the same although you did everything for the feeling. Most of them were sitting in front of the computer, only wool was not. He sat in underwear and with torn ribs on his upper body. So everyone as usual.

After getting totally drunk several times and Hotte staggering the laptop outline again, Udo forgot that there was a camera while he was watering the flowers and wool aka Wolle Basinger was crossing his legs in his dressing gown and only in his dressing gown in front of the camera, it was decided to test perfumes ubd less to drink.

The choice fell on Gomma by Etro, as it was advertised on Parfumo as being close to Knize Ten and Tabac Blonde. The gang continued to hang around the site and even recruited new members. At the moment they tried their luck with a mother hen, I mean a female, with eggnog and they were also looking for a shoulder beer match with Switzerland. Here one saw potential.
Everyone took a puff after you sprayed the scent. "Udo, the perfume on your arm! Stop pouring beer on your arm and then sucking it in with your nose!" "oh...., I was going to give 10/10 already."

After everyone had had a sniff, the evaluation began, Olaf began: "smells leathery", and the old expert was nodded at in recognition.
"So I don't know, girls. For me, this is a non-alcoholic beer. You know what I mean?"
Questioning glances penetrated wool.
"Well, as intense and time-honored as the Tabac Blonde, we don't have that here. I also miss the soapy intense note of a Knize Ten. All in all this is nice but nothing whole when it comes to leather."

"for me the birch goes down too, but cloves dominate a bit weakly. I notice lavender, but it doesn't knock me out. Just like Udo at the duel "Go easy," mumbled this thoughtful one The men were silent and pondered, wool fell over together with the motorbike and landed in the now partly burst beer crates, the contents spread on the floor. Now the rockers of Herne could watch how he slurped everything from the floor and turned his not so completely hidden flip side towards them. From "never again videocall" to "I have the socket but also in Sauber" to "why does he drag his motorbike to the third floor?" you could hear everything. The last question was easy to answer. Since Wolle rather parked his motorbike next to the clubhouse than drove it due to its mostly unroadworthy condition, he saw it as logical to have the motorbike at his side while getting drunk at home.

In any case, a lot of time passed and one sniffed again. Now Gomma became creamier, the sandalwood formed the fragrances. At the same time, Gomma seemed to be more toothless. And the fragrance hadn't had many teeth before. It also became very gently tart, only a minimal nuance, the cedar worked here.
"What's that creamy smell?" Totty asked. "That's you! Not the smell!" cried his wife from the living room. The crowd laughed out loud, Totty blushed and said: "I mean that slightly warm vanilla note. It mixes with the sandalwood. But it doesn't get any better than that."

Everybody nodded at him, one came so slowly to the end of the test of Gomma when Wool accidentally split his screen without noticing it.
"Uh, wool?" "Yeah?" "is this the last bachelor season you're watching?"

User WoolSexmachinefromHerne has left.

(With thanks to Cravache)

01/12/2019

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Minigolf
566 Reviews

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Minigolf

Very helpful Review 7

Don't stay on the paths....

....go in the vastness of the birch woods, even if it is difficult for you to get out.
Provided you WANT to get out.
This is due to a scent that accompanies you every step of the way, a tinny, deep "birch tar scent" that is really extracted from the juice of the birch trees (boiled, "rectified" until it becomes thick and ....Scent!)
No other "leather perfume" since "Knize Ten" has inspired me as much as "Gomma".
Which means "rubber" in German, but the actual poodle core of the liquid itself is a completely different one.
What is written on it doesn't always have to be there, even if reading may sometimes make you believe something.
And "birch tar leather" is not the same as "birch tar leather", this one is dark and powerful, but also of a soft structure. Even has "flowery notes" that make it soft.
Also a spicy hint reminiscent of fresh herbs. And a slightly earthy "forest floor", with moss cushions, next to it there are some branches scented with fresh wood, which were dropped by the last storm.
And what could be nicer than walking through such a light birch forest? With pleasantly fresh and humid air...
Even if only in thought. With GOMMA.....

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