Top Notes 
Bergamot
Coconut
Green leaves
Blackcurrant
Grapefruit
Cassia
Neroli
Star anise
Heart Notes 
Lily of the valley
Carnation
Iris
Peony
Pepper
Rose
Nutmeg
Rosewood
Spices
Base Notes 
Almond
Musk
Vetiver
Cedar
Raspberry
Sandalwood
03/23/2025
Noturfave
91 Reviews
Noturfave
2
Salvatore Ferragamo pour Femme
This is a lightly sweet floral-aromatic musk, situated in the 90s abstract clean scents world. It reminds me of CK One Eau de Toilette and Cabotine Eau de Toilette. Not in all of the notes but in the abstraction. Complex and yet light white musk like in CK One, abstract florals like in Cabotine.
This is what I get.
It opens powdery-fresh, with a tiny hint of citrus, and a twist of anise (milder than the anise in Lolita Lempicka (2012) Eau de Parfum. There is an aromatic greenness that follows after. A barely sweet, watery floral heart. A scratchy sensation in the nose, something like black pepper or carnation. A soapiness. And a lightly sweetening clean white musk that makes me think ambrette. At the base, light scratchiness. Maybe it's the woods. It reminds me of the anchoring woods in Dune Eau de Toilette but not strong at all.
Not a bad scent. It's interesting to think of this scent profile as dated, since it smells so ageless, but people are wearing stronger scents these days. Also, in the thirty-plus years since clean scents became popular in the 90s, we've had some different trends in their development. Carnation is not present in clean scents that are being made today. Now it's more iris and pink pepper as in You Eau de Parfum, or just straight up Cetalox/Ambrox and some additives, like in Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum.
I also notice that accords lists tend to be shorter these days, even compared to the 90s clean scents. Maybe a marketing decision, to simplify what companies are telling consumers to smell for? Or maybe they're not trying to evoke so many accords. I don't know.
At the same time, though, some things have stayed the same. Musk and citrus of all kinds have stayed a staple of clean scents.
This is what I get.
It opens powdery-fresh, with a tiny hint of citrus, and a twist of anise (milder than the anise in Lolita Lempicka (2012) Eau de Parfum. There is an aromatic greenness that follows after. A barely sweet, watery floral heart. A scratchy sensation in the nose, something like black pepper or carnation. A soapiness. And a lightly sweetening clean white musk that makes me think ambrette. At the base, light scratchiness. Maybe it's the woods. It reminds me of the anchoring woods in Dune Eau de Toilette but not strong at all.
Not a bad scent. It's interesting to think of this scent profile as dated, since it smells so ageless, but people are wearing stronger scents these days. Also, in the thirty-plus years since clean scents became popular in the 90s, we've had some different trends in their development. Carnation is not present in clean scents that are being made today. Now it's more iris and pink pepper as in You Eau de Parfum, or just straight up Cetalox/Ambrox and some additives, like in Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum.
I also notice that accords lists tend to be shorter these days, even compared to the 90s clean scents. Maybe a marketing decision, to simplify what companies are telling consumers to smell for? Or maybe they're not trying to evoke so many accords. I don't know.
At the same time, though, some things have stayed the same. Musk and citrus of all kinds have stayed a staple of clean scents.
