JPS John Player Special Eau de Toilette
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A pearl unjustly forgotten
As a "newcomer", as far as perfume comments are concerned, it's my concern to write the first commi to the John Player Special EdT. Strangely enough, nobody (anymore) seems to have this scent on the radar, which is a pity. I first met it on my 19th birthday, when I saw it prominently positioned in a perfumery in the neighbouring town, and so I assume that it must have been released shortly before -- we write April 21st, 1988.
The opening -- the top note -- is citric-spicy, lemon and bergamot rush forward like young concertgoers at a "Backstreet Boys" or "Take That" concert in the early 90s towards the stage. But at the same time, the lagging wood, which hadn't quite come out of the quark at the start, takes its lasso out of the quiver and catches the two of them, only to progress together in increasingly balsamic-powdery fashion.
On their further way they take some mint and sage with them, and then let it sink in. In the middle section, the heart note doesn't (no longer) do much, the fragrance stays on a high and good level of quality and this until the end, stays straight without big surprises, but always on the spicy wood and lemon level.
Only at the end, in the base note, does a little verbena and levelling, perhaps also a hint of rose, appear again and accompany the now somewhat tired ingredients into the sunset. Tomorrow is another day...
As I said, the Straub company from Wertheim still produces fragrances under the JPS brand license, but none of them comes even close to this firecracker from the 80s. If you are lucky enough to get hold of it today, I congratulate you and grant it the JPS from my heart. The bottle, in all its Bauhaus sobriety, gets a full 10 points, because it simply goes with this noble and straightforward fragrance!
The opening -- the top note -- is citric-spicy, lemon and bergamot rush forward like young concertgoers at a "Backstreet Boys" or "Take That" concert in the early 90s towards the stage. But at the same time, the lagging wood, which hadn't quite come out of the quark at the start, takes its lasso out of the quiver and catches the two of them, only to progress together in increasingly balsamic-powdery fashion.
On their further way they take some mint and sage with them, and then let it sink in. In the middle section, the heart note doesn't (no longer) do much, the fragrance stays on a high and good level of quality and this until the end, stays straight without big surprises, but always on the spicy wood and lemon level.
Only at the end, in the base note, does a little verbena and levelling, perhaps also a hint of rose, appear again and accompany the now somewhat tired ingredients into the sunset. Tomorrow is another day...
As I said, the Straub company from Wertheim still produces fragrances under the JPS brand license, but none of them comes even close to this firecracker from the 80s. If you are lucky enough to get hold of it today, I congratulate you and grant it the JPS from my heart. The bottle, in all its Bauhaus sobriety, gets a full 10 points, because it simply goes with this noble and straightforward fragrance!
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