Kenzo Jungle
Jungle L'Éléphant
Kenzo 1996

Kenzo Jungle / Jungle L'Éléphant by Kenzo

Bottle Design Joël Desgrippes

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Kenzo Jungle / Jungle L'Éléphant (Kenzo)

7.9 / 10 686 Ratings

Kenzo Jungle is a popular perfume by Kenzo for women and was released in 1996. The scent is spicy-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Sweet

Woody

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Cardamom

Clove

Patchouli

Vanilla

Ylang-ylang

Heliotrope

Liquorice

Gardenia

Mandarin orange

Mango

Perfumers

Dominique Ropion, Jean-Louis Sieuzac

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Ratings

Scent

7.9686 Ratings

Longevity

9.3593 Ratings

Sillage

9.0574 Ratings

Bottle

8.6570 Ratings

Value for money

8.5184 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 23.09.2023.

Reviews

25 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/19/2020

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Benlives

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Benlives

Top Review 46

"Lick my bag!"

Sound bites from my girlfriend at the spray-on premiere. And that although we still live a good 80 kilometres away from Cologne. But there is no better way to put it in a nutshell. Immediately after spraying on, you can expect the explosive ordnance disposal squad to arrive at the home of the perpetrators at any moment.

This fragrance is the opposite of discreet. And average. And mainstream. Actually of everything that is currently so "hip", "hip" or whatever the youth language is able to express. An olfactory fist of God (no blasphemy), which nicely anaesthetizes every halfway functioning nose within a radius of at least 5 meters into Nirvana. Wonderful. Why kick down the door when you can just tear down the wall right away?
You don't have to like that smell. You have to give it respect. An unbelievable thicket of exotic plants and wet-soaked turgidity. A real jungle. So thick that I can't even recognize the individual trees in the forest. Mango, ylang ylang, cardamom, carnation, heliotrope, kill me.... for all I care. Everything may be right. But this thing seems to me to be a total work of art. Very difficult to filter out single notes independently. But you do not need that. The jungle is alive. And it trembles. With vitality. And it's already looking for its exotic sounds. Guaranteed not for every woman. And that's a good thing. What's the use of gray mice with those majestic big cats?

PS: The hypothetical clearing squad would probably only get lost in the jungle anyway. And it can take a long time for the thicket to clear...

09/10/2020

MissViolett

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MissViolett

Top Review 41

La grande dame

A few years ago:

Late afternoon in the big city.

Time to try something new!
Time to throw yourself into life!
Time not to think about tomorrow!
Time to overdo it!

I am standing with my best friend directly in front of the most noble hotel we youngsters have ever seen at close range.
Just now we marvel at the pompous, shiny, glass entrance.
In front of it a big roundabout for the arriving and departing guests. A taxi stands there with its newspaper-reading driver.
Suddenly a dark green Jaguar comes rushing along, brakes boldly right next to us and hooks back briskly, again a little bit forward and again impetuously back again with the aim of getting as close as possible to the curb and the hotel entrance. At the wheel I see an elegant, beige hat with the most protruding brim I have ever seen.

DRAWUMM
suddenly it happens and the taxi driver jumps out of his car after the first few seconds of shock and marvels at the slight but visible damage caused by the Jaguar.
Meanwhile, the lady in the Jaguar, unimpressed, applies her lipstick while looking in the rear-view mirror.
The taxi driver can no longer stand it and slightly nervously opens the driver's door of the Jaguar.
A cloud of scent comes out of the car and catches us at a distance of about 1.5m. I had never smelled a more striking scent. So intense, so sweet, so spicy, so mysterious, so daring! Whoa! Br /> The lady calmly steps out and smoothes her pencil skirt and her perfectly fitting blouse. A light smile plays around the corners of her mouth. In no way arrogant, just friendly and calm
A short dialogue follows:
Taxi driver: "You hit my cab!"
Queen: (slightly amused): "Soo, did I?"
Both take a look at the damage (they fleetingly, he intensively)
Taxi driver: "Did you see me in your rearview mirror?"
Lady: "Sir, you can see that I have a hat on. Of course, I can't see what's behind me in it!"
The taxi driver's jaw drops speechlessly.

We stand, wrapped in her oppulent scent, amazed Already she rushes through the big glass door and tells him to leave his data at the reception. She then calls back immediately.
The lady notices us as we pass by and winks conspiratorially to "Now I want to freshen up first!"

Fascinated we follow this spice bomb made of cinnamon, clove, cinnamon, exotic fruits and...oh yes: cinnamon.
We are politely received at the reception.
A short time later we hold our room cards in our hands and take the elevator to the 5th floor. How do you think we know that the lady also went with us?!
In the company of this extravagant fragrance, our little adventure feels even more unreal.

Later in the hotel bar this unmistakable scent rises again into my nose during our welcome cocktail. Did that drink go to my head? Or that smell? Or both?
All heads turned bit by bit, some more, some less conspicuous, both male and female, towards the counter.
There she was. La grande dame. In a red sheath dress, matching lipstick and with a perfect updo. Elegant and self-confident, she swings herself onto the bar stool. All eyes are drawn to her, magnetically attracted, always stealthy.
Is it her appearance?
Is it her appearance?
Is it her perfume?
This lady and this fragrance form a unity.
Powerful, mysterious, self-confident and prone to playful exaggeration.

I didn't have to look far to find that beguiling scent. After a short description the saleswoman smiled knowingly and snappily, I held it reverently in my hands. The flacon scared me at the 1st sight, but then I smiled. Also the flacon fit. The jaguar, the hat, the woman, the fragrance, the flacon. One unit I keep coming across this perfume, but it's not mine. It's hers. This perfume belongs to her like no other.
And I hope that I will also find the one perfume for me, which allows all senses to merge into each other and becomes a complete unity with me

04/22/2020

9
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

AlexanderBe

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AlexanderBe

Top Review 33

The elephant in the porcelain shop

If I had to describe what the perfume smells like, I would have two ideas to symbolize the smell.
No. 1: Either it smells really great after Christmas or a spice market.
No. 2: Or in other words: A herd of elephants is running for its life, raising huge clouds of dust in a very hot savannah.

No. 2 impressively describes its durability and silage. The scent is out of this world if the dosage is too high. I sprayed the scent 5 times (with a blocked nose - I didn't smell it ;D) just before Christmas in my naivety and am at work.
The first colleagues came, wondering where the scent came from. The room filled up and there was only one theme: "Who wears this perfume". Eventually I had to admit that I was the culprit.
Many people (we are a college of almost 25 people in this room) found the scent very dominant and spicy. Others asked when entering the room if anyone here sprayed Christmas scent spray and smelled it really great. One colleague commented: "Cardamom, cardamom - I have to sneeze".
So for better or worse I was the elephant that ran through the savannah and left a huge cloud of dust behind. Because even after I entered the room again after 2 hours, a colleague (who came shortly before) asked which perfume I was wearing, she was told that I was the wearer and that the scent could still be smelled in the rooms. So I additionally, like an elephant, smashed half of the porcelain shop and left my marks. Really every one of the 25 colleagues saw the elephant and commented on it.

Otherwise it is a wonderfully made scent, very spicy, very dry, minimal sweetness - strong Christmas market associations. On clothes it lasts and lasts - for days. But one has to admit in all fairness: Actually you don't wear the fragrance > the Jungle L'Elephant carries you and you really have to be in good mental and physical condition to spray it on.

With moderate dosage a great perfume for winter and autumn. Never in summer and never at work. Even though the elephant is pretty, it is also big, very space-consuming and leaves no air for others.
I can never imagine it as a signature fragrance, but also because of its price it belongs in the collection of a perfume lover. It's so unique that you would recognize it among a thousand scents.

Oh, and he's an absolute unisex perfume!

06/09/2021

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Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Unchaned

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Unchaned

Top Review 26

For us. Forever.

She has already endured everything in her long life. The last great drought, all the dry seasons before that, the seemingly endless search for a redeeming waterhole. Many kilometres under the mercilessly scorching sun. Always fearing for the little ones, wondering if they would make it. Few, dried leaves and branches, hardly anything else, just enough to survive. And always on guard against attacking, devious hyenas, eventually even the predators dare to come out, driven by the same need. Steadfast, they have always defended their herd.

Ever larger parts of their territory are processed by humans agriculturally, made fertile and the food reservoir of the elephants dwindles away. Therefore they come more and more often into conflicts with humans. They have had to save themselves from many villagers who drove them away from their barren, painstakingly fertile fields with spears and firearms. But they also just want to survive.

But worst of all are the poachers. Who cowardly hunt them under cover of darkness, even rushing them with helicopters to the point of absolute panic and then cruelly assassinating them, just for their tusks. Thus they have also lost their guiding cow, who for many years guided them safely through the steppe and forest with her ancient knowledge. How many massacres has she narrowly survived. She can never forget the horrible images. They have wandered in the night, their anguished, agonized screams panicking even the great predators. A wake-up call echoing through the darkness, desperate for help. All of it burned into her soul, forever shrouding her wise eyes with a dark veil.

Yet they live for their community, are loving and full of empathy for the other animals in their herd. One for all, all for one. They grow into this pledge of allegiance as they build their social skills and become a full member of their community.

The dust kicked up by their powerful legs. The smells of the vegetation. The peeled barks of trees, the juicy exotic fruits, the sultry aroma of the forests. And their tanned skin that needs and loves sun, dust, water and mud baths. Lastly, the wind that combines all these flavors, carrying them with it, across the steppe, across the vast land, and a little further. Before, at last, the long-awaited rain sets in.

All this is in this bottle, with the elephant closure.
Yes, and more... a conglomerate of strong spicy aromas and fruits, sweetly heavy florals... and a deep balsamic base. Truly, a fragrance for an elephant, one might think. But of course, it's also a fragrance for all lovers of this scent. And it is a great fragrance. Whether you like him or rather not.

Our elephant cow hesitates for a moment before taking the lead and leading her family to the next promising feeding spot. She's memorized that one before.

We look once again into those beautiful eyes, so deep and warm, full of strength and courage. And full of sensitivity and vulnerability.
They say, "Here I am. Where I step is my country. For us. Forever.
Kenzo Takada, I bow to you and your masterpiece. R.I.P. !.

06/02/2018

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Schwälbchen

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Schwälbchen

Top Review 20

"You smell stunning."

...my puberty stated when I was standing in the kitchen doing things and meant it literally, coughing, holding his nose discreetly and quickly disappeared again. But the grey giant had been in my crook of my arm for hours and had elicited from my husband a "what sniffs so good here?", the highest praise for a perfume so far.

To the fragrance:
He's polarizing. You can either go with him or he'll run. I like elephants because I like to smell spicy scents with cinnamon and cardamom. And that's exactly what I see from the beginning. The cumin and the mandarin hold back skillfully. There is cardamom - warm, spicy and soft - almost in pure form. That's what the Orient smells like to me. Shimmering heat over a steel-blue sky. Happy faces at a spice bazaar. No stress. No rush. And because I associate this scent with heat and desert, it is just as well wearable for me in summer. Cardamom is also considered to be an aphrodisiac and especially in combination with ylang-ylang in the heart note it would explain the rather .... um... human reactions from the pre-comments. Even my very reserved best-husband-of-all has fallen for just this scent and tigers after me to sniff out his highly personal odour sample.
But oppla, before it gets too private back to the scent: the liquorice (or liquorice) fits perfectly to the spicy prelude. The gardenia and the ylang-ylang soften the admittedly strong beginning successfully and give a round sweetness that slowly becomes vanilliger. I only notice patchouli when I press my nose against my skin, but perhaps my olfactory organ has become too accustomed to this scent.

The Sillage:
Space has already been mentioned. Definitely. I like it, I just like it a little stronger. As already mentioned, the environment reacts with clear rejection or with attempts at rapprochement. Just try it ;) But I warn you: with more than two sprayers you have to expect collateral damage. The shelf life is very good and compared to today's scented waters an olfactory ocean.
Leimbacher spoke of a courageous scent.
I say for brave women and men. He's provoking reactions, know it.

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