Etra Etro Etro for women and men

Etra-Etro is a very nice scent. I will agree that it does remind me of Feu d'Issey and it also kind of reminds of La Dolce Vita by Dior, but I would say the Dior fragrance is a little better. This can be worn to work, or for dinner. You can dress it up or make it sexy. I really like it.

To me smells like sparkling vine! Smells like youth, when you are happy and constantly in love :)) Everybody says it is my perfume even though I can't smell anything after an hour on me. Recommended!

The opening notes were almost exactly those of Butter Menthol sweets, heavy on honey and menthol to my nose, but after a few minutes I get STRONG pepper (which made my tongue tingle!) and rosewood. I don't quite "get" what this perfume is trying to say. It seems to be a unisex perfume, but maybe slightly better on a man because of the pepperiness. Thanks you Yamba 1 for the sample - I know it's up there in your top ones. I DO think this is quite unique and certainly worth trying if you are into the spice cupboard smells.

Overall i would say that Etro is a lovely perfume although it doesn't work so well with my chemistry. Though to be fair i just recently bought it and since it s summer, its woody notes might not shine through in the heat. The highlight of the scent is the sensual rosewood one immediately detects which is really attractive and powdery and reminds me of older refined perfumes. The drydown, however, proves to be a bit of a dissapointment for me as the mix of the different woody smells distorts the character of the beautiful rosewood. In addition, the vanilla is a nuisance to me as it hinders the other woody smells. However, i'm not going to just ditch this perfume yet, i will wait and see if those woody notes will come to the surface once it' s winter. I hope they will!

Etra Etro starts with an old-book clean, nice and peculiar smell, with cinnamon spiceness; I love the unusual opening a lot. However, from then on, Etra Etro just gets flatter and flatter, like slightly warmed up/stale cinnamon water with a pinch of creamy spiciness. It is mild, and somehow reminds me of the Beautiful Mind Series’ Intelligence&Fantasy, however, Etra Etro is quite soulless, somewhat smell like as if it was a typical cinnamon perfume being washed off on me.

It gets creamier and milder (in a mild, vanilla-y way), maybe it’s the milk smell most people are talking about here? It doesn’t smell that much similar to milk to me since I’m a vegan, and normally milk has a certain buttery creamy ‘alive’ warmth in it, but the creaminess here in Etra Etro is slightly ‘animal’-derived-smelling to me. It gets seemingly nicer, but still too quite and so a stale skin scent; worse, it is just 2.5 hours after application.


Not sure is it just the nature of Etra Etro, or has the perfume had some premature ending. I simply cannot smell much of Etra Etro after 3 hours, unless I sniff really really hard, then I would have a washed-off skin-scent-strength of a nice vanilla-y white chocolate scent.

On a guy, Etra Etro actually smells better with more spiciness, and somewhat has a mild personality.

I bought Etra Etro to replace Hugo Boss Sunset (because I don’t like the mid stage of it, but loves the opening and dry down, and my bf loves it), however, Etra Etro is a seemingly nice and polite replacement (for both Sunset, and Orange for Men by Hugo Boss), but the more I wear it, the more I craving for something big, edgy and with some strong personality, despite wether I like it or not.

Etra Etro is cheaper than most niches, I don’t have anything against it, but I wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy it, since it is just a hmmm scent, with minimalist strength, and non of the stages of this perfume is intriguing enough. Etra Etro doesn’t shine, but would be a suitable and equally boring scent for a boring office.

For a long time I really wanted to get this one unsniffed. Comparisons to the mythical now Le Feu were making my apetite for this perfume grow. BEcause Etro perfumes are not available where I live, I had to wait a while to get a sample. Am I disappointed? No. Would I like to have a full bottle? Unfortunately, no again.

Etra actually reminds me very much of a newer Jacomo Art Collection #8. It features the same, spicy notes, here a bit stronger, minus the tea note very strong in #8. And it seems like a fragrance difficult to 'touch'. It lackcs a bit of the intensity. I agree with mymlan that says that is is somehow empty. You are waiting for it, and it never arrives at its destination. Etra also remains quite dry throughout the time it spent on my skin, and I wished for more vanilla and jasmine and musk instead of the huge dose of coriander, cardamon and woody notes.

Nice as is is, I'd still pick #8 over it, just because it's a tad more compelx and lasts longer.

This is lovely woody fragrance indeed. I really like it. Somehow it gives me an impression of a forest after the rain or a forest in early mornings when the ground is wet and the air is moist.

It might not be the most complex fragrance but I enjoy it very much..it brings me memories..

I think this one is worth a try.

And I will possibly purchase a bottle of this in the future.

Etra is what I would consider to be a very 'intellectual' fragrance. By that I mean it is mentally puzzling but emotionally simple.

Incredibly hetrogenous, Etra seems to encompass most genres of perfumery - spicy coriander, sour rosewood, sweet rose & jasmine, peppery paprika & cedar and an overall watery, aquatic feel to it (perhaps the milkiness others have mentioned?).

The base is mostly musky - a disturbing sweet female body odour underlined with a barely there stale, damp nuance. Considering the otherwise overwhelmingly masculine spiciness this must be the effect of my own skin chemistry blending with Etra in an unwholeomse way.

Etra keeps me guessing and pondering but it does not warm the cockles of my heart.

Etro ETRA apparently doesn't agree with my skin chemistry. After opening with a slightly sour rosewoodiness which does become less sour over time, ETRA just smells like overly strong, synthetic sandalwood to me and reminds me a lot of a couple of other sandalwood-heavy fragrances I've recently tried. I wish that the listed array of beautiful notes--some of which I usually love, including geranium, cardamom, rose--would present themselves to my nose, but sadly they do not. Désolée.

A milky woody oriental. It's natural, unique, dynamic, and technically sound. I think of this one as for aficionados who enjoy such a fragrance. Because it's a little dry and not very sweet, it doesn't fit into the usual social occasions. That is, it doesn't really fit the office or school, club, or romantic scenes especially well.

This is really a beautiful scent and definitely a head turner as it opens, but the staying power sucks and after you wear it for awhile and get to the base or heart of the scent it just gets kind of boring. That sort of mystery that comes with the spicy oriental scent is lost in its base.

A clean spicy opening, cardamon and rosewood and so on. Clean, little spicyness, little sweetness and... empty? Nothing really happens? Where is the rest of this fragrance? And the personality? I can't find any edge here at all...

A lot of surface and very overpriced IMHO. Or maybe I just don't want to smell like this? Unisex frags may just not be my cup of tea.

These Etro frags seem to have a strong following, but based on my first, and to date, only exposure to the line--Etra Etro, I'm not "gittin" it.
Maybe it's the unisex thing. That often doesn't work for me. All I can say is that one time out with this one was one time too many.

I love LE FEU and aswell Poivre Piquant (which are quite similar) - so there is no other way but to love this, too.
It is refined,classy but at the same time uncomplicated parfum to wear without offending anyone.
My only reason not to buy it so far is: it is quite costly and at the same time no staying power at all. up to 2 hrs(max.) - I would expect more for that price.

This is indeed similar to Le Feau d'Issey, but lighter and more woody, even lightly smoky. I like it better actually. It didn't sour on me. The florals are light, pleasantly sharp and clean smelling. The spices are not overwhelming, but blend nicely with the whole composition. I didn't notice any vanilla, but rather cedar and musk toward the end of this fairly long-lasting fragrance. This is an exceptional light fragrance that would be ideal for office wear on either a man or a woman.

I have never tried Le Feu, so I can't compare.
The scent itself seems quite light, but it's not that airy at all. Beginning is subtle sweet/sour florals with rosewood and lots of cardamom. I think if I could compare to Burberry's The Beat (only the cardamom theme...)
Later it develops into geranium and pepper duet and it's quite enjoyable, however I think I need more originality.
For office use I think it's very nice.

I retested it today - was going through some samples and found Etra.
If Le Feu was way too strong for me, then Etra is just the thing. It is fresh in the opening, cardamom is very much there...somehow there is a resemblance to a fresh scent of a mixed forest. Then the mystery begins. I am not sure, but it seems like patchouli in there - wet, moist earth under the cover of fallen leaves.
It`s a perfume for Galadriel.

M-m! I love it. It's a Scent from the capital letter. Nice spices and wood and a bit sweetness on the background. Light, balanced, and quite enough lasting. I'm sure I'll by another bottle after mine ends.

I havent tried Le Feu d'Issey but I would love to :)
I find similarities between ETRO Etra & L'Artisan Parfumeur Poivre Piquant. To me they have in common the milkiness and spices and especially black pepper. The distinct difference opens up on base notes as there I feel quite a lot of vetiver which is non existing in Etra. I love both fragrance but L'Artisan probably a little bit more :)

This is the best of all the ETRO- fragrances (according to my opinion).
Indeed, there is a resemblance to the sadly discontinued Le Feu D'Issey, but the fragrance is not that intense. A friend of mine wears it - and gets a lot of compliments for it. It is very pleasant, equal to any occasion and at the same time exclusive, because it is not available everywhere and no common high-street fragrance.

This is a little "sister", the lighter version of Issey Myiake "Le Feu d'Issey" for my nose. I can smell bitter sweet milky fruits and tobacco smoke in the bottle, but not so intensivelly as in Le Feu d'Issey.
Very nice fragrance for casual, office wear. Worth trying!