Pure Lavender

Unexpected at all! I went to the store to check the new Selvatore Ferragamo colonial when the salesman suggested this, I usually go on saying yes I know that to avoid their annoying suggestions without being rude, but this was new, when he mentioned the new Ferrari I was like yes I tried the Noble Fig and didn't like it, he showed me this, ligh blue/violet in color, and the smell oh my! First of all, it doesn't smell like any recent edition of a perfume or any lavender based scent in the past few years except that for the initial blast there are some similarities to Karl Lagerfield For him, but just for few minutes. The lavender here is outstanding, softened by the vanilla from one side yet sharpened by lemon from the other, the lavender is clear after 15 minutes, its lovely and classic at instances! The vanilla here isn't sweet, it just softens the lavender to make it calm and soothing, whiffs of green apple or lemon could be smelt every now and then until the first hour. A very interesting scent, and stands out within all the new perfume editions of 2015 so far which had sweet notes in every scent even the summer morning ones. I'm happy I smelt this today.

beautiful bottle presentation, lovely color of the juice, long lasting and very high quality smooth lavender juice...usually i used to hate lavender based fragrances since they gave me headache...but this is benchmark for any designer lavender based fragrance, it will last and you will smell great in spring and autumn, ferrari hats of to you for stepping up to niche world with all the essence and latest releases...i own 3 already and ill be getting lot more bottles, in no time you guys will be the higher end designer brand in the competition... silver essence and bright neroli are in my list too

Peace, Love, & Harmony in the time of COVID 19. It’s 2021; I currently work with customers... and a good number of them get irate so quickly; this beautiful lavender spray keeps emotions in check. Aromatic woo-sah. The cashmere is a beautiful scarf to shield from the chill; patchouli gives it green and the vanilla is also very calming and is DYNAMIC with the lavender. Reassuring helps me embody strength and confidence to rise and be a better person. For me the reoccurring theme of lavender and the embodiment of my true self. Teaches me to be patient and compassionate for all around me.

At first when i got this juice on my hand I could only smell the traditional lavender without anything much else going on. After a few minutes the cashmere started rising and mixing with the lavender and that's where all the beauty of this fragrance really began appearing. The scent is smooth, well balanced and relaxing. Well done! EDIT: I did some thinking about PL and I think it is one of the most soothing fragrances I own.

Very clean lavender,wood,light musk citrus very nice complex. I have sprayed this on about 45 mins ago. Very strong lavender at open with citrus vanilla and wood as back notes. As drying down beautiful light Smokey woody vanilla with lavender always there but very soft and sweet. Very addictive intoxicating fragrance. Bottle is very good quality a gen for 30 bucks for 3.4. Very expensive smelling.

Calm, soothing, fresh, relaxing. Pretty good longevity. Definitely office safe and perfectly unisex. I think it can be worn year round. It reminds me of fresh linen in a nice little hotel in the French countryside. I adore this scent and will most likely buy a another bottle when I run out. I bought it discounted for $18. What a gem!

This is a nice fragrance from Ferrari. It is masculine leaning lavender fragrance with a creamy dry down. The only negative is that it does not project nor does it last long on my skin. In spite of that I feel it is a very pleasant and enjoyable fragrance . I love wearing this right before going to bed.

Oh come on Saad48, for heaven's sake. It's just a fragrance. I owned this and it is lovely and not harsh or metallic. You were obviously coming down with something, nothing to do with the fragrance FFS. If a fragrance makes you that ill you really have a problem.

Absolutely fabulous unisex scent that my husband and I can both rock. Excellent lasting power & the initial blast of freshness eventually dies down to something warm & spicy. I think this can be safe to blind buy and can be used all year 'round as a day scent.

Got it for $10, nobody buys it here. This is what I imagine inside of a new Ferrari smells like. Very cheerful, light, expensive scent. Performance is not great, but acceptable.

really pure lavender with a pleasant background of vanilla. the best lavender in circulation. clean, elegant, softened by vanilla background. great performance. 8/10

i want this.is for all season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To continue its expansion in the perfumery market, the Ferrari brand decided to start a new chapter in the history of the Essence Collection, which was released in the year 2012. To this end, decided to invest in unisex fragrances, extolling a single special ingredient in each creation, through more cheerful and fresh interpretations. So, in 2015, was born the Essence Les Eaux collection, with three scents in Eau de Toilette concentration: Noble Fig, Bright Neroli and Pure Lavender. They hit the market with the same visual pattern, but in transparent bottles, revealing the unique color of each piece. The boxes and the lids also have the same finishing and color, revealing a bright and sophisticated beige leather. Pure Lavender, as the name suggests, brings the lavender as key ingredient and contains essential oil of lemon Sfuma, cardamom and bergamot, in the top of the composition. In the heart of the fragrance lives the secret, with its notes of absolute of sage, absolute of lavandin, essence of lavandin and Norlimbanol (molecule created by Firmenich with woody and animal facets of amber). Finally, the base carries notes of patchouli, vanilla, moss and cashmere wood. Now, imagine mixing the sweet softness of lavender with the spicy nuance of cardamom. That's how Pure Lavender begins! And although the lemon Sfuma also presents sweeter nuances, there's nothing citric in the output of this fragrance. The absolute of sage, in turn, brings a warmer shade, which merges to a profusion of lavender of all types: sweet, smooth, powdery, floral, etc. The lavandin (hybrid of two species of lavender) was used without parsimony, showing that everything here revolves around it. And the notes of vanilla and patchouli in the background give a facet of chocolate, very mild, but noticeable. We have, then, a scenario that brings three unisex and refined fragrances, which I see as follows: Noble Fig is one that covers the male side of the soul. It's fruity, green and sophisticated; Bright Neroli is more youthful, happy and delicate. It has citrus and floral nuances, exploring the feminine side that we all have; Pure Lavender is cozy and has a fundamental ingredient in perfumery: lavender. It soothes and comforts without errors, genre or labels. Pure Lavender is like the Lavender: universal in every way. It exudes well and has good durability. Maybe it's the simplest of the three (remembering that the company recently announced a fourth fragrance called Radiant Bergamot), but achieves what many other sophisticated fragrances can’t. In a simplistic way, I would say that it is the Ferrari’s interpretation for the classic Pour Un Homme de Caron, within the current market. And I still say more: is the most French fragrance of all creations of Ferrari.

The Essence Collection has been a pleasant surprise from almost every aspect. I love most of them, and I like the rest. The "likes" being Cedar Essence (hardly any cedar to speak of, but a nice scent, nonetheless), Essence Musk, and this one, Pure Lavender. My "loves" from this line are Silver Essence, Essence Oud, and Bright Neroli. Anyhow, concerning Pure Lavender, as others have alluded to already, the opening is, somewhat, rough. There is some lemon, lavender, and bergamot, but man, is it sharp; not a pleasant citrus at all, and it overpowers the lavender. This phase doesn't last long, though, and then the lavender DNA finally shines through, which is a pleasant departure from that opening. The potpourri-like lavender is not quite "pure," as the title would insinuate, but it is detectable to a large degree and, again, very nice; very calming. After 30 mins. to an hour, a well-designed blend of herbs and woody spices come into play, and this is where this scent really bumps up its game. For me, it is almost a "love," but the Essence line brings so much better action to the table that it leaves this one well behind. Projection and sillage are on the light side of the scale. Projection - 4/10 Sillage - 5/10 Longevity - 6/10 Fragrance - 7/10 Compliments - No Seasons - Spring, Summer, Early Autumn Time - Day All in all, it is a reasonably likable scent, mostly a freshie, and I will definitely find time in future springs and summers to put it to good use.

First impressions. Not bad, but... Pure Lavender? More like Pure Cashmeran. My first association was the clean laundry smell of YSL La Nuit... Eau Electrique. Similarly to the latter, "Pure Lavender" combines the pleasantly synthetic Cashmeran note with some coumarin (hay-like) notes, but whether they come from tonka or lavender (both contain coumarin), doesn't seem to matter, since they are in the background anyway. If this so-called lavender is indeed a lavender, it is markedly more synthetic/clean/cold than the one in L'Occitane Eau de L'Occitan or Penhaligon's Sartorial. At the same time, it is still much softer than the burning tinge of Azzaro Pour Homme, although it lies in a similarly "hygienic" territory. But really, all I can really smell is Cashmeran with coumarin notes around it. The sage and vanilla? Yes, maybe a bit. In a nutshell, if you're after a simple fabric softener smell or something like a cleaned up version of retro aftershave products, I think there's no need to look further. At the moment, I haven't got any YSL Eau Electrique to do a side-by-side comparison, but I'm guessing you could save a few bucks with Ferrari here. But if you want a natural herbal lavender fragrance or something that screams sophistication, then you might want to pass this one.

The Ferrari Essence line is indeed pretty good, the hype is justified. But the Pure Lavender is a stinker. The lavender note is great, but it soon gets countered by a sticky, bitter sweet note, which could be the vanilla, but to my nose it smells like ambroxan, similar to Dior's Sauvage. I don't mind a discrete ambroxan note, it adds something 'savorish' (for lack of a better description) to the projection, if properly blended with the other notes that is. Nice smelling from a certain distance, but in most cases it just smells horrible from closer by. Sauvage's ambroxan note only smells gross when I put my nose close to the skin, Pure Lavender smells horrible from almost every distance and angle. I think this is what people mean when they find a fragrance synthetic smelling, a muddy soup of notes that turns bittersweet in an undefined plasticky way and no longer smells like a summ of natural ingredients, but rather like a poorly mixed color. But I don't think that the 'syntheticness' of the notes is the cause, but rather the poor blend of the notes. This happens a lot with fragrances that have vanilla, tonka or amber(gris)/ambroxan in their base and only very few fragrance that I know manage to smell nice from close(r) by.

Jeez... I really like these Ferrari ones! This house is really proving that it is possible to bring high quality scents to the masses for an extremely reasonable price! What I especially appreciate with this line is that we all get a chance to try/own frags with certain notes/feels that more often are common in nieche world. Don’t get me wrong, these are most likely to be crowd pleasers. They are just a bit different than your avarege Dylan Blue, YsL Y, Blue de Chanel, Azzaro Chrom etc. These are blended more the way a nieche frag is, just in a more mass pleasing way and the offer a distinct note in every release. With that said, this one starts a beautiful Lavender note that’ll stick with you all the way (more or less). There will also be a sweet (not clawing sweet) Vanilla/Tonka mix after an hour that will carry this warm yet fresh scent forward. Some times I get a feel of ambroxan although this note is not listed. All in all, in my opinion Bright Neroli and Radiant Bergamot (I do not own noble fig... yet)are both more zesty and uplifting than this one. But this is just as gorgeous and in my world as certain! Spring, summer, fall... work, home or at the mall.. you can easily rock ‘em all

Ferrari Pure Lavender is one of the house’s many bargain scents and one of a series of great releases in their Essence collection from 2012 to 2016. It’s a fairly well-constructed blend of citruses and herbs/spices (cardamom, sage, patchouli) mixed with the signature lavender itself and woods. It leans far more fresh than bassy in even its dry down and is a really good entry-level unisex lavender fragrance that I expect most would find agreeable. It’s predictably a little brighter and sharper in the opening but after an hour or two it’s a pleasant, well-blended near-skin scent. It’s a modest performer, moderate at best in terms of projection and longevity, but the value is still high due to the price. Available for the fairly low price of $24 and $26 on FragranceX and FragranceNet in the US, respectively, it’s hard for me to argue that Pure Lavender is anything but a bargain. Overall, it’s yet another nice offering from Ferrari that is unusually affordable on grey market sites. I didn’t warm up to it as quickly as Bright Neroli, Noble Fig, or (especially) Radiant Bergamot, but it’s an easy-to-wear winner as well. 7 out of 10

I was excited to try this one as it's really hard to find herbal lavender in unisex or even harder in female perfumes. The opening is amazing: very citrussy combo of lemon and bergamot, a real refreshment. In a few minutes lavender joins the party and that's it - great authentic and herbal lavender accompanied by some sage. Does it sound too sharp or masculine fougere style? It's not, these notes are sitting on a velvety vanilla/cashmeran pillow. Perfectly balanced. There is a bit of fougere touch thanks to prominent herbs, sure, but in no way that it would give an impression of wearing a strongly masculine fragrance. It's truly unisex and very complex. Thumbs up from me, what a great, pleasant perfume. Makes want to explore other Ferrari Essences. 8/10

It's lavender af, and there's little else to say! Great value, sillage and performance is about what you would expect for the price but you also can't really overapply. Mildly synthetic smelling opening, but the drydown is creamy, powdery lavender that lacks the slight green-spiciness of the actual flower. I'm not big into layering but think this would be a must-have if you're into layering scents. Smells great, safe in any weather, but probably won't turn heads. 100% unisex in my opinion. Worth every penny and a nice buy.