Fendi Uomo Fendi 1988 Eau de Toilette

Bottle Design Geschwister Fendi, Marc Rosen, Susan Wacker

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Fendi Uomo (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Fendi for men and was released in 1988. The scent is spicy-leathery. It was last marketed by Elizabeth Arden.

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Main accords

Spicy

Leathery

Woody

Earthy

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Angelica

Coriander

Bergamot

Lavender

Lemon

Marjoram

Heart Notes

Carnation

Cinnamon

Iris

Cypress

Jasmine

Cyclamen

Rose

Base Notes

Leather

Musk

Cedar

Coconut

Vanilla

Patchouli

Vetiver

Amber

Ratings

Scent

8.3129 Ratings

Longevity

7.8102 Ratings

Sillage

7.1102 Ratings

Bottle

7.4108 Ratings

Value for money

7.625 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 23.02.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/27/2024

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Lauser93
312 Reviews

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Lauser93

Helpful Review 4

A beautiful vintage fragrance that doesn't last on my skin

Many thanks to Theresa for the original manufacturer sample of Fendi Uomo Eau de Toilette :-) I really like the fragrance. Unfortunately, it only lasts about 4 to 5 hours on my skin. The sillage is at least a little more intense.

The top note offers an exciting combination of green, citrus, herbal and floral aromas. I recognize bergamot, lemons, coriander, angelica as well as lavender. The heart note continues to smell floral but also spicy like cinnamon with woody aromas of cypress. The floral notes are carried by garden carnations, iris, violets, rose water and jasmine blossoms. The base smells greenish, earthy, woody, animalic, balsamic and vanilla-like. Excitingly, coconut milk, leather, cedarwood, musk, patchouli, amber, vetiver and sandalwood can be detected here. A certain soapiness also plays a role here.

It's a shame that the fragrance doesn't last that long on my skin. But I really like the DNA.

05/22/2022

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

manlyscents
75 Reviews

manlyscents

4

Classy macho scent

Sometimes you can't tell whether you're going to like a scent or not just by sniffing the nozzle of a sexy faux marble splash bottle. Not this time. It opens big and boozy and settles with spices, herbs, citrus, and lavender - typical notes for the late 80s, but here they are stunningly well-blended. In the mid I get a slightly lipsticky, elegant leather. My nose is sensitive to iris, so you might not get any lipstick at all. In the dry-down the leather really shines amongst patchouli, vetiver, and restrained deer musk.

Both projection and longevity are good on this EA-Bethco bottle... seems earlier versions were powerhouses. It's not the kind of fragrance I'd want to overapply, but maybe that's just me.

Fendi Uomo is a classy macho scent that makes me feel like the bee's knees. It's what I wear when even leathers such as Weil Kipling aren't refined enough for the occasion.

Masculinity Level: Christopher Walken as the impeccably-dressed mafioso in True Romance.

02/24/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

2

Understated class

Fendi Uomo opens as a fresh-herbal aromatic fougère with an tamed down leathery-woody base, quite soft but “virile”, and an overall sharp barbershop feel (lavender, carnation, citrus notes, leather...). Fairly pleasant, clean and well made, but frankly also quite conventional, at least initially and for a while – in a “boring” meaning, much similar to many other fougères from the ‘80s in the same kind of leathery-herbal style (no powerhouses, no civet/leather bombs, rather just “dad’s classy aftershave”). Nonetheless, during the evolution it becomes more interesting, more unique and quite more fascinating: it gets darker, drier, losing a bit of its formal understatement and becoming more smoky, more austere, more sophisticated and shady. Fans of recent Amouage leather-based scents like Journey Man may like this (just compare the drydowns). It’s still somehow conventional, therefore still a tad boring honestly, but good. Overall I’d consider it a solid, compelling, understated, not-that-exciting “all-year-rounder”, unworthy any high price or chase, but worth a try for any herbal-leathery fougère fan.

6,5-7/10

08/24/2014

MasterLi
375 Reviews

MasterLi

4

Complex, mature and quite elegant

I have nothing but admiration for the old Italian style of perfume making, and Fendi Uomo is typical of this.

The fragrance opens up with a host of notes that can be almost overwhelming but which work together really well to give the impression of a well dressed, slightly conservative image of a man. Pure masculinity in the old tradition.

With lavender, cinnamon, carnation and herbs, followed by rose, iris and vetiver, with leather, patchouli and amber constantly in the background. It can be dense and a little heavy, but it dries down beautifully with leather and earthy, herbal florals to give this impression of masculinity. Think expensive cut suits with wide lapels, the finest Italian leather shoes, immaculate grooming. I don't see this primarily as an "old man" type of fragrance, but more of a "classic" style type of scent. Like a young man in an old Italian film or magazine dressed in the best male fashion of his day.

In this world where this kind of smell is slowly disappearing (Fendi Uomo has been discontinued for some time now), it really is nice to smell the old classic style of masculinity once again. Nostalgia, yes... but certainly worth it.