Close Gap for women

I went shopping in the Gap with my daughter the other day, and tried Close. I wanted to buy it immediately! My daughter told me to wait until we finished browsing to see if I still liked it. I absolutely did!
Close is subtle and makes me feel like I'm clean, and have a secret... a scent about me that people will notice, but won't cause them to think that I'm wearing anything, just that I'm clean.
I usually go easy on colognes, choosing to spray the scent in the air and then walking into the mist. With Close, I spray directly onto my skin and clothes.
I can't pick out almonds or saltwater like so many others have. I smell a flower with something just a bit different from the floral, making it unique to me.
The one drawback is that it seems to wear off quickly.

Bought this on a whim right before a trip to Aruba. It was perfect as a more sensual beachy scent, as opposed to a more playful fruity one. But on the other hand I also agree with who ever described it as "warm, cuddly and comfortable." Smells beachy but also casual-sexy, like staying in bed all morning on a rainy day. I don't really know how else to describe it. Makes me feel like I'm putting on my favorite comfy sweater.

Sillage is really minimal, but then again, it is called "Close" and not "Arm's length." I find it inspires nuzzling and cuddling which is just fine with me!

Fresh, clean, refreshing, perfect everyday frag for spring and summer. Doesn't last very long or have much sillage though....

I personally love GAP Close. It starts off a little soapy on me, but settles into this really delicate salt, musk & almond scent. It doesn't have much sillage, it just sort of lingers really close to the skin. The drydown of this is the best part, in my opinion. It lasts about 5-6 hours on me.

Plain boring. The drugstores here just have started to feature some Gap scents and so far I couldn't find one pleasant one among them.

I got a small sample of this and it kind of grew on me. First time I tried it I thought it smelled like a cleaning product. But then I tried it again on a different day and I liked it, as I wore it I smelt the almond and salty notes. It does smell clean but I don't think it's fresh. It really stays very close to the skin and has little projection but I could see myself wearing this on days I don't want to wear anything more remarkable. It doesn't seem to offend my nose or give me any allergies which is kind of rare.. On the down side the lasting power is so week on me! Maybe if I spray it on my clothes and hair it might linger for a little longer... All in all, I might be getting this in the future!

I bought this at a mall in the Baltimore Harbor in the Spring, last year. It takes me there, in the hot, seafront air (but I also wore this in the fall/winter).

To me, it's clean, but a tinge heavy, where it's a floral away from giving me a headache. However, my husband loves this perfume. It's powdery and crisp.

The best possible mix of grapefruit (which is very noticable here), almond, musk, salt, and pepper. It smells very spicy/gourmand on me, but in the lightest, airiest way. My favorite out of the three. It lasts forever, and it gets really woodsy and salty by the end. It smells a tad bit soapy though.

I don't know what it is about this perfume, but all I can smell is a heavy powder and a tinge of a bad undercurrent. I really wanted a light, clean scent to wear during the day in the summer, and sadly, this isn't it.

I just smells like teenage girl sweat and better-forgotten teenage...I was going to write "sex" but it doesn't even smell that interesting. Making out, perhaps? If you're 16, this is probably right up your alley.

I absolutely LOVE this fragrance! I only wish it came in an EDP form as well as lotion so I could layer it. This is one of those fragrances I wish I could have shooting out of my shower in lieu of water, that's how much I love this. To me, it's the perfect light, clean, shower fresh, powdery, soft scent. Lots of people talk about heavy vanilla use in ths but i dont get that from as i am not a big fan of heavy vanilla scents. This is blended perfectly, well done Gap!

This is my new favorite and signature scent. I wish I found this earlier but I will be buying this up just in case they decide to discontinue it, beautiful!

I am so obsessed with this perfume that I joined this website just to give it a good review. Weird, right? It's Gap, you can buy it at a mall, and it doesn't have a flashy bottle or an exciting celebrity campaign behind it. Yet since I first discovered Close three years ago, I've never looked for another scent.

I think part of Close's appeal to me is its subtlety. I've always been extremely put off by the strong "chemical" scents in high end designer perfumes, and bold florals are nice on other people, but they give me headaches after extended wear. Close fits me like a glove. I spray some on my wrists, shirt, and hair in the morning and it still lingers when I go to bed. I wear it every day, and it feels to me like the way that I should smell naturally, rather than something overpowering and artificial. It's become something that my friends recognize me by since it always stays really well on jackets and scarves and pillows. It's subtle, which almost makes it more intimate. Guys love it too... In fact, I can name three different guys who commented on how good I smelled after romantic entanglements... in all three cases, I was wearing Close.

Basically, I'm crazy about this perfume. If they ever discontinue it, I will probably cry. It is sweet and warm without being syrupy, light and fresh with good staying power, and the musk is gentle and soft. It smells like curling up by a fire in a comfy sweater with a gentle ocean breeze coming from the window. And all things equally poetic and artistic. Try it out!

A lot of fragrance, for little money! I was totally suprised, Close is a very interesting fragrance, I get a kind of "day at the beach" kind of vibe: you've been all day in the saltwater, kuddled with your significant other in the sun and sand, took a shower with a fancy soap and are now relaxing in clean comfy clothes on the front porch of your beach house. It's relaxed and easygoing but nonetheless refined, I get the salt, creamy almond, delicate freesia and golden amber. It lasts pretty much all day and has great sillage. I like the bottle design, clear shape and focus on the fragrance.

Lovely fragrance : musky, milky and fresh. To me vanilla is not enough intensive, it's like a fresh Noa without coffee notes. It reminds me of a baby soap. Good lasting power.

I find this very complex for the price. A hint of citrus at the opening, and then light florals, musk and vanilla. These are all well-blended so one doesn't overpower the other, it isn't a vanilla bomb or a musk overload or a flower bomb. The notes work very well together. Lasts well.

This is a lovely citrus floral, and would probably be ok for all but the strictest fragrance-free workplaces. Aquatic freesia takes center stage, while citrus and non-indolic jasmine play supporting roles. Amber and vanilla are not noticeable at all- which suits me just fine!
It reminds me of the Body Shop's Dreams Unlimited, but I think Close may have slightly better staying power/potency.

i like this for a casual day scent. its a nice vanilla almond fragrance with a musky floral and sandalwood drydown. it's not loud or have a lot of sillage, but that might be just what i like about it. just a soft nice easily wearable scent. lasts about 3 hrs before i had to reapply.

So warm, cuddly, and comfortable, but not lasting.

I really wanted to love this one. The bottle is beautiful in my opinion and the pearly white finish gives it the most innocent cleanest look. What a disaapointment was to realize the scent doesn't last on my skin for more than 1-2 hours. And even then, the sillage is very poor-it stays extremely close, like its name. Too close i'd say.
I liked the smell, but it reminds me of a thousand similar perfumes I've already smelled. Nothing to write home about. Just plain and safe powdery freshness. A "meh" kind of scent for me.
If you like it though, it is very reasonablly priced I must say.

I don't get anything salty or aquatic accord. To me, the scent is warm and inviting. I get sweet an creamy almondy vanilla with something slightly powdery and musky. I would call the scent a little zesty too with the hint of citrus as well as a mild and gentle white floral essence. The ads describes it best. It's perfect for nice sunday morning in bed or brunch with your loved ones.

this is somehow an attempt to make another D&G light blue, at least to my nose it is and both aren't really the ones i'd go crazy for

One of my signature fragrances. SO pleasantly surprised, just delightful and unique. Lasts all day. The salty-citrus is really odd and wonderful and fades into a lovely musky floral. For some reason, I especially love wearing this on a cloudy or rainy day. Really has personality.

CLOSE is my signature fragrance now! I saw it in its cute little $5 bottle and bought it on the spot. It smells so warm and feminine...after wearing Eternity, Pleasures, Obsession, and Romance, I was looking for something less "heavy" but yet long-lasting...THIS IS IT! It smells warm, almost like when you take a favorite sweater from the dryer and wrap it around you...my husband loves it, and others do draw near "close" to smell its rich yet subtle fragrance! It lasts all day without overpowering others in a room, and it doesn't smell like an insecticide, like many current fragrances do! And I like that it's not a "designer" or "celebrity" fragrance...it just reminds me of warm coffee with caramel or vanilla stirred in, or that warm sweater from fresh laundry. (By the way, I wouldn't even know it has musk in it!) Thanks to GAP for making such a wonderfully wearable fragrance! Now if only I could layer it with a body creme or lotion in "Close"...:-)

This one ought to be called "So Close" (but no cigar). Why must all modern florals (yeah, I'm looking at you, Kate Moss) have to crash into this soupy fake white musk oblivion?

It's been over ten years since Gap commissioned Gap Dream, a wonderfully tarty aquatic floral that seemed to get fresher as it dried down. But now they come back and give us this? Complete retrogression.

I must say that the opening notes are wonderful, the musk cleverly hidden by a kind of galaxolidey sweet air-conditioned new-car-smell citrus flower blasted through with a bit of salt. Even the heart is well-done, a nondescript bunch of white flowers hit with icy water that's quite pleasing...

But then, sadly enough, it just crashes into dreaded musk territory, smelling like wet dog and skin infections, leaving me wondering why I didn't just steal my mother's dusty bottle of Jovan White Musk and call it a day (that would've been preferable, actually).

I can't exactly blame Marypierre Julien - she probably went through formulation after formulation until Gap's suits decided on the "safest" one. But jeez, is it too much to ask to just add some linalool or vetiver to the drydown instead of backsliding into cheap musk? What a scrubber.

This is a good for Spring and Fall and possibly Winter. Not extremely floral..it is a moderate fragrance and for a GAP I would have to say it can be considered extraordinary. or maybe because I have not owned any GAP fragrance before...:))

Is expensive but it smells cheap. Is something like an airi flowery scent that doesn;t bother and it doesn't impress but not long lasting, and very comon i will not buy it, oh yes it remind me of avon summer white but ten times more expensive, and maybe more, here summer w is 19,99 ron and gap is 270 ron . I'm not always into cheap perfumes but when i gove this money i expect a wonderfull smell not a common one, and sometimes a did find real treasures on the less expensive ones.

I didn't catch the floral scent when I first tried it in GAP today. It was more citrusy, it was refreshing, and a bit different. It was great! I fell in love with it at first spray. But a few hours later the great smell evaporated and left me with a rather nasty scent and a regretted purchase. Thank goodness I just bought the 10 ml one though.

I tried it this in the Gap today.
It is so delicate, airy, floaty with a lingering beautiful trail it leaves.
I tried this on many hours ago and i can still smell the beautiful soft musk and amber trail.
It reminds me of Armani white but way more beautiful and longer lasting.
I really need to get myself one of these, as it's so understated i can't believe just how beautiful this one is.

This is...oh! So many notes and oh so different! And they come in waves, one just cannot tell if it's watery fresh, citrusy, powdery from heliotrope and almond, flowery cute from jasmine...

Gap Close is just all of them, each one at a time, you just have to sniff it again to feel something else.

Yet I find something a little disturbing... perhaps it's the citrus+salt combo, which goes well with tequila and not with almonds and a musky base. Will test it again to figure it out.

This is one of the most interesting scents I've come across, and I really think it's one of the hidden gems of 2009. I'd gone into Gap intending to buy underwear and left with this instead.

It's so unusual-it's described as a floral musk, but I don't feel that accurately describes this perfume. Top notes are salt water, citrus, and fresh almond, which, to me anyway, is a lovely and unusual combination. Through these, medium notes of florals-heliotrope, freesia, and jasmine peek through, and soften the harshness of the salt. The base notes of sandalwood, musk, vanilla, and amber blend with the florals and intensify them just enough. The overall effect is very beachy-think of the Atlantic ocean in the summer, when the flowers hit the sand of the beach, and the fragrance hits the sea air. It's very light, modern, fresh, and feminine.

It's not an overpowering perfume; it's definitely a scent that is to be smelled at close range (hence the name "Close"). Bottom line, it's a very romantic scent, really meant to be smelled by your significant other when he/she gets close to you and smells your neck, your wrists, behind your ears, your hair, and left as a reminder on a pillow.

Even the bottle mirrors the scent: a simple tear-drop shaped bottle with a small silver cap and gorgeous pink-white opalescent sheen. This has taken a place of pride on my vanity.

I was very surprised when I tried this scent for the first time. It is a very feminine and very subtle fragrance. So great after a fresh bath. On the downside I find that the fragrance does not last for very long.

So I sprayed this on a card, smelled it, and got... nothing. Maybe a hint of a boring floral note, but it was so faint that I threw it into my purse and forgot about it until I got home. When I took it out at home, I was surprised. Though it was still subtle, it had bloomed into a rich floral smell with undertones of amber and musk. I'll have to give this another chance, it's caught my attention.

I adore "dream more" by gap and I also am in love with this scent. It is subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeous. I can definitely tell the "saltiness" as my mouth always seems to water a little when I smell it... delicately feminine, especially when worn for a little while.

I could not sense any of the finer, more delicate notes, of sea water and salt..perhaps they are so delicate they disappeared. The citrus is very prominent, it alternates back and forth with the floral heart. The floral heart smells of white flowers, and of (fancy) white bath soap. I like the drydown, but; separate; from the rest of the perfume. And that division exists here- the heart begins to fade away- you can smell the base intensely- but, they are still both there, and they don't match well, itś a bit of an ugly scene at this point. The fragrances is not too long lasting. It reminds me of some other perfume from the 80s or 90s (but softer, of course) but I cannot remember wich, perhaps it reminds me of those scents, in general.