Jacomo de Jacomo Jacomo 1980 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1980

Jacomo de Jacomo (1980) (Eau de Toilette) by Jacomo

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Jacomo de Jacomo (1980) (Eau de Toilette) (Jacomo)

8.2 / 10 211 Ratings

Jacomo de Jacomo (1980) (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Jacomo for men and was released in 1980. The scent is spicy-smoky. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Sarbec.

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Main accords

Spicy

Smoky

Woody

Earthy

Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Galbanum

Lavender

Heart Notes

Clove

Caraway

Cinnamon

Geranium

Rosewood

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Christian Mathieu

Ratings

Scent

8.2211 Ratings

Longevity

8.1171 Ratings

Sillage

7.6173 Ratings

Bottle

7.0177 Ratings

Value for money

9.148 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 21.05.2023.

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01/30/2019

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Minigolf

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Minigolf

Very helpful Review 11

Full Lotte cool chypre... and warm isser also

That's where Christian Mathieu, the perfumer, really put his foot down. No wonder, in the late 1970s/early 1980s there were no restrictions on fragrances and their use.
Jacomo de Jacomo" contains everything that makes a "full" fragrance, from the "green raw fresh" spices to real clove oil to a "gallon" oakmoss and well "hung" patchouli.
A "spice chypre" as a didactic play for the (they are allowed to...) sweet-powdery posterity of the scent friends.
And a statement of what "cool scents" are.
Although (and precisely because of this) the fragrance heart rises very warmly, sometimes even hotly, in nose and sense by the aforementioned cloves and cinnamon. Good on wet and cold days, "heats up" real good.
But that was by no means all. A thick, green moss carpet spreads very slowly under the warmth and stands in contrast to the inner warmth as a cool-tingy-woody accent in a skilful and interesting anier. But anyone who thinks he suddenly finds himself in a damp and cold forest from a warm fireplace is mistaken.
Because: Patchouli is already ready to hold pleasant warmth, to deepen and enrich the overall fragrance. Warmth with a cool mossy breeze every now and then and a "built-in" scent - kaleidoscope provides even with me, which already sniffed many perfumes, for joyful surprise of the "So-noch- Nicht-Gerochenen"...
No more fragrance!!!

01/23/2019

Riechsalzer

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Riechsalzer

Very helpful Review 12

Finally something different again

Today he came in the mail. A blind purchase, like so many of my fragrances, because you can't smell them so easily. In this price segment I find it too costly to send testers back and forth This blind purchase was once again a direct hit. There were already some, but unfortunately not always. ;-)
I definitely have something left for the so-called "old school" scents from the 80s or before. Many of these scents (unfortunately) have an overarching DNA. For example, Giorgio for Men, Bogart, One Man Show or Pour Lui by Oscar de la Renta. Of course, these fragrances don't smell the same, but they have so much in common that I often ask myself: Do I need them all in the collection? But I know for sure that I really don't need another one in this direction.
Therefore my great relief and joy as Jacomo de Jacomo now so not at all in this direction. Smoke, fire, much harsh and very briefly in the first minute a parallel to Encre Noire, which then disappears quite quickly again.
In principle, not much known. After the smoky hammer opening it becomes softer, but never really sweet. Neither at the beginning nor in the course in any way penetrating. Finally something extraordinary again. Great!!
I definitely use it a lot now in winter (yes, in summer I couldn't really imagine it now).
For me a rather timeless fragrance. I would never have guessed the release date to be 1980.
Definitely masculine. But I don't see gold chains and an open pleura shirt.
I don't think Jacome de Jacomo is really fixed in terms of age either.
Who likes it naturally rather fresh and sweet is here wrong at the place.
Otherwise clear recommendation.

12/04/2021

10
Pricing 7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Carlitos01
378 Reviews

Carlitos01

Top Review 14

Still Crazy After All These Years

Clove essential oil is credited with having a stimulating smell that is considered an aphrodisiac, as well as helping to manage anxiety energy and increase the ability to concentrate. If used correctly in a perfume, I believe it can do a whole lot more still.

Jacomo was a very innovative fragrance when it was first released in 1980. Four decades have now passed and it can be considered (still) as a modern perfume. It has a powerful aroma, showing an avalanche of sweet and warm spices, hints of powdered cinnamon, woody floral nuances, and develops swirls of smoke... a sheer delight!
We could be looking at a typical vintage men's fragrance, with oakmoss, leather accords, patchouli, and musk. However, in Jacomo, a very dry ambience stands out through the intense use of oakmoss and "Evernia plum lichen" (an unusual note only listed by Jacomo), almost as if we have moss and lichen in a double dose. The theme of a "typical 80s perfume" also presents another important deviation. The development is essentially dark and gloomy, with a penetrating and rather harsh smoky mist.
However, the main audacity comes from a heart with a dominant clove note that overshadows a timid lavender opening. Then the clove also overlaps - but without eliminating - other warm spices like cinnamon, cardamom and cumin, well in addition to greens like rosemary and basil. Finally, it perpetuates itself in the base while amplifying the effect of moss, lichen, cypress, patchouli and musk.

In my opinion, we are way far from a trivial fragrance. It is so modern that it survives to this day, with its legion of enthusiasts, and even gaining new followers. It is an extremely masculine perfume, performing above average, and well crafted enough to challenge any young 'dark spicy fragrance' enthusiast. I just pass the no longer fashionable Zippo type cap, always stealing a bit of juice when spraying.
The final good news may be the observation that several reformulations have not been cruel to this perfume, and its retail price is also a very agreeable surprise.

Music: by Paul Simon - "Still Crazy After All These Years"

10/11/2020

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Landmann

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Landmann

Everything used to be better-even the future...

There are some scents that you can recognize... metaphorically speaking... with your eyes closed. Be it Man Pure, Tuscan Leather, Aventus, Yatagan(etc.) and this very colleague here.
And there's even a "light" version of that by John Varvatos. How does anyone know him? That's the chrome bottle. I can't think of the name. At least the top note is JdJ in sweet. More precisely in cute as a box. But for a country that invented bacon jam, that's normal. Anyway, back to the subject! In fact, smoked ham is very dominant here in the initial phase. But in pure. In honest. Smoky and warm and fat. Point.
Later, cinnamon and clove appear, are rounded off after hours with patchouli and have an almost opposite effect to the opening in the base. Mild, warm and mossy.
In my opinion JdJ is not a fragrance for boys. After all, smell alone does not make a man out of a boy. And vice versa one does not get younger with the above mentioned John Varvatos or similar. At best and at best, fragrances underline the personality. At worst, they caricature them. Everything has its time. Also that of JdJ. Actually it is over. You can see the appreciation for this in the price.
Nevertheless, he has his... whatever... justification! Also as an antidote to all that uniform stuff. For vintage lovers. To "go back" the smell cells to the 70s, 80s. Away from Paulo Coehlo and towards the bulldozer under all the sand shovels. Get off the electric scooter and get on the bona fide bike. Get away from Ed Sheeran, who is Bon Scott. Loud (at least in the ovals), dirty, a bit sneaky, but... and that counts... still something warm

06/13/2015

7.5
Bottle 10
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 9
Scent

GothicHeart
86 Reviews

GothicHeart

Helpful Review 7

Erstwhile Joy...

1991 was a strange year.
On May, I answered to a desperate, poetic ad in a heavy metal magazine.

"I can no longer cope with my existence, in my glaring pitch-black territory, wailing endlessly over the end of the world. My future, a little water in your eyes."

A couple of days later I found her waiting outside my door.
On the same night, while she stood by the window, naked and moonlit, she was emanating a bluish, otherworldly aura in the dark room.
She was the most comfortable while naked person I ever met, stripping herself not only from her clothes, but from norms, rules and conventions as well.
She was a heavy smoker, and what's more, she was playing with the ashes in the ashtray during our long talks.
She had her nails always painted in black.
She always wore an old oversized leather jacket over her gypsy dresses.
She had grey, troubled eyes, which were like two shards of her shattered soul, trying to escape her battered body.
She was tacking cloves in her short maroon hair.
Her rough skin was beaming a surreal torrid smell of cummin and milk.
She was acting crazy most of the time, to the point of wondering whether she was posing a threat to herself.
She taught me how important it is to share your last cigarette.
She showed me the melting point of patience, cause a three hour train ride in order to meet her was always feeling like millennia.
Every street urchin knew her by her first name.
She was living in an old house, with a small yard full with carnation bushes.
Her febrile mind was geysering dark poems; each of them a new cicatrice to a heart already covered with scars.
All I recall is that I kept on following her.
I followed her to her small hometown.
I followed her through her jewel making years.
I followed her on a mountainy island in early autumn.
I followed her in a southern Greek island for a week in summer.
I followed her through a song that I wrote for her and she never listened.
I followed her through countless silent whimpers in empty hotel rooms.
But I was too scared to follow her through life.
Her name was, most ironically, Joy.
Jacomo de Jacomo is how she smelled like.
Joy de Jacomo is how I call it ever since...

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