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kalderZloi – :
This is an excellent fragrance. I do not think this smells like GIT or CW, GIT dries down to a creamy sandalwood base and on top you have lots of violet. CW on the other hand becomes aquatic/salty in the dry down. I would say it is closer to the vintage CW bottles of the early 90’s. This stays citrus and light floral but never becomes creamy which i found in GIT.
Perfect classy year round fragrance. With 3-4 sprays i get 6- 8 hours every time, It is an EDT, so lets not expect GIT performance of 12 hours since that one is a true EDP.
But i cannot justify GIT prices and CW smells awful with the current formulation JF is the perfect one for me. This is signature scent worthy very under rated scent.
gugunea13 – :
A good friend for creed and cool water
In the opening the fragrance opens exactly like cool water with a natural citrus and a hint of sweet orange,Then the sent develops to something more mature like green Irish Tweed.
Barbershop check
Mustache check
Green check
Fresh clean check
Gentlemen check
Sent 9.5/10
Longevity just like creed GIT
pit_911 – :
Clearly similar to Cool Water for Men, but a bit simpler and more focused. There’s no note clash here, as I find with CW, and it has a powdery, “clean” musk element that I don’t remember in any formulation of CW that I’ve tried. Still, it’s not my favorite composition, and I wish the dihydromyrcenol usage was dialed back considerably. However, as it develops, it’s a lot more balanced, but it’s also more or less unisex. I can’t see myself wearing this more than once every couple of years, so I’m inclined to swap off my bottle, though that’s the case with a whole bunch, as I try to “consolidate” somewhat.
max66klon – :
I had the good fortune to discover this in Autumn 1994 before I smelled Cool Water. I had no idea JF was a masculine, and just loved it straight away. The cypress, cedar and amber combine with restrained florals to make a slightly sweet, mossy cologne, which will define Autumn for me for life. It’s perfect office wear for men, and if you’re Ali McGraw in New York in a great scarf and leather jacket, this is very stylish. I’ve now smelled Cool Water which of course, feels like a budget version, much more ozonic. Floris was there first and to me it’s the better, more refined recipe. JF makes me feel good, walking in the copper beech woods 🙂
ubineks – :
I was exploring a couple Floris frags. Santal, which I liked, a warm yet fresh woody fragrance.
So just got my JF sample, and its a no for me. It does smell like Cool Water, but Cool Water is nicer, more mature.
JF has a sweet candy aroma, which makes it to imature for me, reminding me of Lalique White in that respect. Maybe a good choice for someone in there 20’s perhaps.
So it’s kind of shallow for me, even for a fresh fragrance.
Rating: 7/10
God bless. John 3:16
vitek120390 – :
Like many others I perceive JF as Floris version of Cool Water, and since I’m not a Cool Water fan in the first place this review could have ended here. But to me, JF is a clear improvement of the “original”.
I usually have problems with the artificial aquatic note so significant in CW, but also in e.g. Aqua di Gio. In JF this note is rounded off and I think that the inclusion of cypress is just an excellent move. JF is summer in Italy, a hot summer day in a park in Rome.
A wonderful kick-start of green bergamot slowly shifting to more and more Cool Water resemblance. But instead of the aquatic note dominance in Cool Water cypress, jasmine and, I think, oak moss steps in and creates wonders in JF.
JF is clearly, to my nose, the best fragrance in the “Cool Water family” I have encountered so far, alongside the first twenty minutes of Green Irish Tweed
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astotlyruitly – :
Refreshing fougère…
At first I found this one old-fashioned. I don’t know why but I did. However I now know that it is a very safe example of a traditional masculine fougère fragrance. It has the fresh top, mossy herbal middle and woody base.
I get dried herbs and fresh citrus to begin with. Then you have the florals, mosses etc. followed by dry cedar and woods at the base. A really great, traditional masculine fragrance. I would suggest it for most occasions, but mostly work and formal events. Not ground-breaking but very nice and traditional. Has a sense of security and dependability to it. Great for a well groomed, relaxed man. Old school traditional but modern at the same time. Not bad!
astramark – :
seems like many agree with the cool water connection. and like many here i think the quality of jf is more refined and natural. wonder if it has much to do with the juniper berries. its a pleasing aquatic green scent that i can easily go to on any day. big thumbs up! well done floris
Xeroxcvbsu – :
A frag which is a replica of Davidoff Cool Water, though it is a tad more refined..
I applied 6 heavy sprays
0 – 30 secs – Alcohol and chemicals
30 secs – 10 mins – 1 foot projection – The scent materialises after 30 seconds and soon a soapy-aqua cool water appears
10 mins – 2 hours – There is 20% more refinement in this frag over Cool Water but it is not a patch on Creed Green Irish Tweed, so it is perhaps somehwere in between those 2 fragrances
2 hour s- 4 hours. 4 inch projection with occasional 1 foot sillage trails.
4 hours – 6 hours 2 inch projection
This has less performance than Cool Water but is more expensive so I would buy Davidoff instead.
I think this will appeal to lovers of Cool Water and those which smell the same, as it will offer some differences but overall for my personal taste, they are so similar that if you have one then you don’t really need the other
Not bad
dapaccophYhah – :
Great signature scent. This falls into the year round workhorse fragrance category. It really is virtually identical to Chez Bond but this one came out years before the Bond. It is not an inexpensive fragrance but is much cheaper than Chez Bond. It is sweeter than GIT.
Durnotrurbemo – :
What a fool I was to think that I’d be done with this bunch after Cool Water, Green Irish Tweed, Truefitt Freshman, and Caswell-Massey Greenbriar! This one opens with smoother, gentler (more Gendarme-like) sweet watery florals, compared to the sometimes surprising sharpness of Cool Water. It very quickly develops the same golden Burberry Original-type herbs that are in Freshman, and in fact I almost get to the point of not distinguishing JF from Freshman. I think, however, that this one has more clear, sweet florals in it, presenting an almost unisex rendition of this popular scent family; any woman who likes Cool Water on men might like this on men or on herself. I think that this aspect makes for a fascinating twist, and at the same time makes for a phase of the scent that I’d rather skip. Whatever is in that set of herbs that they’re using, makes me think of wintergreen a little bit, and not fondly…an all-too-common occurrence. Fortunately that note backs off a bit by the end, reverting back to something very close to Cool Water, and Freshman doesn’t do this as much. I still think that Greenbriar is the most balanced of these, but JF comes out pretty well in the end also, though very Cool Water-like.
iralex1983 – :
I agree, Floris JF does smell a lot like Davidoff Cool Water. Not that I mind, as I enjoy both of them.
Even though I had to apply Floris JF to my skin to review it, I must admit that this is an extremely masculine fragrance. It’s quite sharp and fiercely aromatic. I would prefer to smell this on a man’s skin rather than my own.
Floris JF opens with lots of citrus and a sharp green accord. When I breathe in I can almost taste the bitter grass note on my soft palate. I really like that this fragrance packs a punch.
I would not classify this fragrance as a chypre, instead I would call it a green aromatic. It also has a slight oceanic feel, brought about by the cypress and lime notes. Despite its boldness, Floris JF is still relatively easy to wear. It would really suit the warmer months.
Because Floris JF has a somewhat classic feel, it would suit more mature men. I really can’t picture a teenager wearing this, but then again I may be proven wrong one day. The longevity is great, with the sillage equally as pleasing. I recommend.
JinNick – :
Like woodz71 I ordered from Floris London as a sale is on and bought it along with Elite. Received it today so here are my first impressions. Bear in mind I bought this blind – brave! At first I thought “Do I like this….or not?” So I had another sniff,… then another and another and now I cant stop sniffing! Huge burst of citrus smacks you in the face but in a good way. Then a lovely petitgrain/cypress comes through. Only had it on a short while so cannot comment yet on the base notes. You can tell some proper ‘learned over many years know how’ goes into this. I think I’ll end up loving this. I don’t think this is for your average ‘CK’ person who buys the oh so generic scents (although admittedly I have a couple), more for a connoisseur. Classy, elegant stuff.
Rka39 – :
Just ordered JF today as florislondon have a sale on : )
ndv46 – :
Very high end & classy! I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend and I just adore the cypress-oak moss scent. I was looking for a product with moss because that note smells like a million bucks. I tried a ton of them ( a lot smelled old timey, if you know what I mean)but nothing measured up to Floris’ JF version and I fell in love on the spot. This is the winner. A bonus is that it also smells young and fresh due to the perfect touch of citrus. It’s a sexy, young, get up and go scent that is perfect. Smells like a confident, young looking intellectual.
CRN_FLWR – :
The opening of Floris JF is pretty sharp citrus. Citrus note passes through quickly and it becomes a little warmer and somehow reminds me of clean laundry. Some may say it’s soapy but the bitterness and oak moss note behind the main accord keeps me wondering if I should consider it’s soapy. The wood note and floral note are quite interestingly blended. I couldn’t distinguish individual note mentioned above. After 5-7 hours for me, it becomes very understated musky note.
One of my friends considered JF a masculine scent, also very gentle, warm and firm. Another friend said he cannot stand the “bitterness” in the smell and the smell made him feel it’s “old”.
Anyway, I personally love this scent and think it’s a classy also unique one. Worth trying but I would not recommend blind-buying since I got complete different opinions.
malykbest777 – :
I love this scent. I agree that it smells like Creed Green Irish Tweed, but I think it smells even more like Bond No. 9 Chez Bond, since it has a slightly sweeter candy-like scent, where GIT seems to have a deeper greener scent. GIT, Chez Bond, or this – love them all.
smuriSnammash – :
I like this scent alot. It’s a very classy smell It reminds me alot of green irish tweed from creed. But here it’s a little more muskier, and the amber is alot less, and a little more floral and less green.
overall you can’t go wrong with this scent, it is quite expensive and you do pay a little extra for Floris, after all they are quite high end fragrance house. A nice floral green fresh gentlemens scent.
sillage is average people around you will smell it on you. and the scent lasts between 6-8 hours.
scent 8/10