Jãbir Kemi 2014

"Jãbir" starts off fresh, a bright floral blend without the usual citrus overture. It offers a true freesia scent, transparent, light, and with a fine peppery note. As I now know, it remains perceptible even in the base. From this, a delicate and slightly green floral mixture develops, with a hint of creaminess. Like with a good fragrance, I can't really pick out the individual flowers except for the freesia. The flowers stand alone for a very brief moment, and then a rather nice animalistic oud crashes in. This initially makes "Jãbir" a rather strange blend.
Now, one must accept this to a certain degree with good oud; otherwise, it's not real oud but synthetic or of low quality. Moreover, a beautiful to inexplicably fascinating scent can develop. And so it does with "Jãbir" at first. The floral blend becomes more lovable and a bit sweeter. "Jãbir" retains its bright floral character. The oud is only clearly and slightly animalistic near the skin, but in the sillage, it forms a beautiful amalgam - at first.
I want to raise the rating for such an expensive fragrance, 6.50 per ml, so I have to spontaneously trill a jubilant hosanna, otherwise, there’s nothing above 70% in the rating.
However, after two hours, I find myself at best encouraged to do a vocal exercise, something like: Ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko, koooo o mix.
- For those who only hear the singers in movies practicing 'mimimi': This exercise goes down the octave in 16th notes, sung leggero, so lightly bound, 4/16 Koooo on the tonic of the scale and up the octave without smearing, with 'miiiiiiisch' back down, all legato without smearing, uh, without portato, just bound without air -
Because suddenly, I can't believe it, I smell slightly stinky lily of the valley.
But I don’t want to diminish this precious unique perfume. "Jãbir" is undoubtedly a quality fragrance, extravagant with its bright flowers and dark oud. "Jãbir" is also not an intrusive perfume. It is subtle, very restrained in the sillage. I have not yet encountered such a floral-oud scent with a consistently maintained green note.
And after another hour, the lily of the valley has also shyly hidden behind the other flowers again.
It remains a bright transparent scent with exactly the dose of oud that makes "Jãbir" more than just a floral scent with oud; I have now gotten used to it. Because when I come back into the room after a while, there still hangs in the air, just like at the beginning, a mediocre animalistic oud note. Nevertheless, "Jãbir" is a nice scent.
When I think about it, "Jãbir" does not have a dramatic progression. This is not a quality flaw; it is intentional.
But enthusiasm does not arise in me. "Jãbir" is a beautiful scent, a novelty for me, an interesting scent, a very modern scent, a feminine scent. Thanks to Aggeliki, I have a ml of Jabir and can test it more often; that suffices for now. Perhaps I will become enthusiastic about it at warmer temperatures.