Jam Woman Puma 2011

In 2011, when the fragrance was released, I started to delve deeper into perfumes. Among other things, I wanted to have a pleasant, sporty scent.

Jam caught my eye, quickly sprayed a strip and took it with me because it was fresh, juicy, sporty, and inexpensive. Exactly what I was looking for.

Well, the beginner's mistake was that I didn't test it on my skin. At home, when I wanted to wear it... SHOCK!!! There was no freshness to be felt at all. All I perceived was a synthetic, penetrating sweetness. Asphalt flower associated it with jam, which fits quite well. But my first thought was cheap shower gel. That stuff from Fa that smells totally artificial. A mix of pineapple and peach with heavily over-sweetened blackcurrant. A few flowers also mix in, making it even worse. With a lot of imagination, you can still sense the vanilla, but you don't perceive anything from the base notes. To me, it seems like a fragrance that should be both fresh and sweet. I think the lime is what’s acting somewhere in the background, but it absolutely fails to rein in the muggy and sweet cloud. Clearly a bad purchase, as it just smells cheap and artificial.

If you like something like this, you can actually wear it best during sports. If you are under 30. But in all other situations that have nothing to do with fitness, it would seem strange. Even on young girls.

Edit August 2016:
Somehow I keep coming back to this fragrance. Don’t ask why. I really have to revise my review because Jam is much more pleasant in the summer. Sweet and artificial, yes. But not as piercing anymore, so definitely wearable if you like the scent of overripe peaches.

What I also have to mention is that the longevity for a fragrance in this price range is really great. 9 hours without reapplying is no problem with consistently mediocre sillage.

Just as there is hardly a historical novel to be found these days that does not bear a (often quirky) female job title, there are hardly any fragrances on the drugstore shelf that are not fruity-sweet.

Jam Woman is one of them.

Upon first spray, clouds of alcohol and grapefruit rise, but right after drying, it becomes clear that this jam is a well-sweetened mix of various fruits. The Jam Woman has thrown in sweet blackberries and peaches along with pineapple and black currants into the pot. There are no flowers in the pot, but they must be on the windowsill of this newly furnished kitchen - you can still smell the wood-and-cardboard scent from the DIY furniture store.

The sillage of this fruit blend is rather subtle over time, albeit distinctly girlishly sweet, with longevity being so-so. The scent lasts for half a day, then there's room for something new.
I can't discern a great scent development, even though towards the end the wood comes through stronger and the fruits take a bit of a backseat. I hardly perceive any flowers, even though my skin chemistry usually tends to highlight existing blooms.

Paradoxically, I find that Jam Woman is quite a friendly little fragrance, uncomplicated, unpretentious but pretty. Clearly suitable for the mass market, just like so many of the historical novels whose titles are a female job title.

Since I acquired this fragrance at around twenty-five, I can't dismiss it as a youthful sin. And yes, this scent is certainly not suitable for every woman over 20 in every situation, but more on that later.

In general, I have had the fragrance for quite some time now. I don't feel like it has dissipated, so I do admit it has good longevity in terms of shelf life. The situation is different with the sillage - it is not particularly strong. At least on my skin, it is almost completely gone within 4 hours, so you can hardly smell it even if you sniff along your skin.

Now to what I smell when I spray it:

*pffft pffft*

Phew, my wrist smells like alcohol! But it fades quite quickly. What remains is a citrus-sweet scent. The sweetness could be partly attributed to the pineapple, while the lime and blackcurrant are a bit more noticeable... Oh, wait a minute - where have they all gone??? Only a bit of bergamot-like scent remains. And peach.

The component of the heart note, peach blossom, comes across to me as a simple synthetic peach. And I can smell it almost until the end. In contrast, the components of the base note are hardly noticeable to me. Sandalwood and cedarwood can only be sensed somewhere between the spraying and the fading.

Now to the intended use: This fragrance is recommended for all girls and young women in their teenage years. It is synthetic-fresh and somehow warm - I believe this impression is conveyed to me by the strong peach note.

For women over 20, this fragrance is less suitable. Except, of course, for those who are into pink and synthetic scents ;)

I only use this fragrance on occasions when I neither have to nor want to appear grown-up. You can spray it on and feel like you're 15 (and possibly act that way too). But for me, it's simply not suitable for everyday wear. When I spray it on, I think of long warm summer nights by a campfire somewhere along the bank of a river or lake, with friends, conversations about everything, kissing, midnight skinny-dipping,... - and such things can be done at 15 and 25 alike. A cheap synthetic fragrance is often a companion on those first evenings of this kind rather than a more expensive high-quality perfume. And it fits much better - after a few hours, the scent of the night remains on the skin instead of the perfume. And sometimes that is much nicer.

After I recently had to criticize the men's version of Jam because the reality on my skin was worse than the expectation, now a few words of praise:
I find the girls' version of Jam not so bad for the price asked. First, a fruit salad (as the previous reviewer aptly titled it) for fitness, then a sweet bouquet of flowers, which is placed on a light wooden table upon returning home, while the scent of vanilla(!) pudding wafts in from the kitchen. Pineapple with black currants I really have to try - olfactorily it seems to work quite well.
However, I would not recommend the scent to a woman over 20, it strikes me as very, very youthful...
...but you can't name a fragrance Jam Girl. Or can you?
Conclusion:
If my daughter (almost 12) should ever face financial drought and emptiness in the bottles again...
...at least Dad has a tip ready, about which he won't have to be annoyed with its implementation.

At first glance, or rather when I first smelled it, I didn't particularly like the scent. Too sweet, too artificial, a bit cheap.
But once you wear it for a while and the first impression fades away, a warm, soft fragrance emerges.
Especially on textiles, I think the scent works well.