Uomo Salvatore Ferragamo Signature – warm and spicy and leathery

Photo: perfumeniche

We had just finished lunch on the Left Bank and were meandering back to the apartment when my friend said the last thing he wanted to buy before we returned to Canada was a bottle of Uomo Salvatore Ferragamo Signature.

And with that, we were on a mission. I had some ideas about where we could snap up a bottle, but wherever we went, no one had heard about it.

Strolling along, I asked him how he heard about Uomo Salvatore Ferragamo Signature.

He told me his friend had been given a sample at a big fancy-schmancy event back home and raved about it, so he thought he’d bring him a bottle from Paris as a gift for his birthday next month.

So, the search continued. We walked, we hunted, we tracked…. nothing. A fragrance from an Italian luxury goods company shouldn’t be that hard to find in the perfume capital of the world.

Then, while walking down Rue des Saints-Pères, we saw it: a Salvatore Ferragamo shop. Hoping for the best, we went inside. We looked around the shop, hoping to see a bottle on display when a salesman approached us.  After an exchange of obligatory ‘bonjours’, we asked him if they had Uomo Signature. His face lit up as he replied, “Yes, I have it. We just received it in the store this morning.” With the juice bought, and beautifully wrapped, we went back to the apartment and made it just in time for cocktails. Rummaging through the Salvatore Ferragamo bag between sips, we noticed that the salesman had included samples of Uomo Signature with our purchase.

I wondered if the fragrance was worth the effort, so I spritzed myself with one of the small atomizers. Spoiler alert: it was.

It opened with tart grapefruit and juicy mandarin. The citruses were bright, elegant and aromatic. Pink peppercorn softens the fruits with its gentle rosiness so that the fragrance kept drawing me in. As it bloomed, it got dark, warm and spicy from cardamom and cinnamon, and deliciously woody and balsamy from cypress. No doubt about it, this was a masculine scent – rich and bold. Yet, the sweet aspects of the cardamom and cinnamon temper Uomo Signature, and stopped it from becoming a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal by making it confident and dynamic.

If the opening drew me in, the heart notes held me spellbound. Tonka bean bridged the heart and base notes by adding sweetness, depth and spice to the EDP. The smell of rich, dark-roasted coffee matched the sweetness. Earthy, woody patchouli appeared but didn’t dominate, it just added to the allure. The house of Salvatore Ferragamo specializes in shoes and leather goods, and a graceful leather note is a nod to that. It gave Uomo Signature a soft suppleness that made the scent magnetic.

Every time I caught a whiff of that refined, manly, seductive dry down, getting my husband his own bottle the next day was no effort at all.

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