Honeyed Tobacco & Oud Habibi
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Honeyed YSL Jazz?
Look at this as a modernized classic (80s) masculine fragrance. Don't pigeon hole it to cold weather given the name. A perfect amount of geranium brings minty freshness that allows you to wear it in warm weather if you adjust the sprays to tame the honey sweetness. It should work in warm weather in the same way that a spicier fougère works.
Tobacco here is very light - think the tobacco in JV Vintage - and I detect no oud whatsoever. The honey though... there's a lot of it. Not enough to be cloying but almost there.
An interesting note of comparison: I used to wear YSL Jazz a lot back in the day. Bought Dua The Blues hoping for it to be a throwback - however the Dua was just too heavy on the geranium or used the wrong type of geranium raw material. My nose keys in to the geranium note and I completely lose all the nuances that Jazz had for me. They seem to be there, but they're lost on me. This one actually reminds me way more closely to what I remember of Jazz - with a good dollop of honey on top.
Tobacco here is very light - think the tobacco in JV Vintage - and I detect no oud whatsoever. The honey though... there's a lot of it. Not enough to be cloying but almost there.
An interesting note of comparison: I used to wear YSL Jazz a lot back in the day. Bought Dua The Blues hoping for it to be a throwback - however the Dua was just too heavy on the geranium or used the wrong type of geranium raw material. My nose keys in to the geranium note and I completely lose all the nuances that Jazz had for me. They seem to be there, but they're lost on me. This one actually reminds me way more closely to what I remember of Jazz - with a good dollop of honey on top.