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The Grace of Early Birth
Well, sometimes it happens that one confuses cause and effect. You hear a track and think, great, how creative, it sounds exactly like track XYZ, they could have been a bit more inventive. Then you realize that the track is 15 years older, and the creator of XYZ simply "generously drew inspiration from the original," as some artists like to euphemize their sampling orgies.
I bought Jour d'ete cheaply and blindly out of curiosity and was initially very surprised to find 2000 listed as the year of release. A bottle made of turquoise ceramic material that could have honored a container for Bulgarian rose oil or a Hungarian farmer's schnapps. A strangely attached spray unit with a peculiar plastic frame, where one believes that an intense gaze would corrode the plastic and everything would fall apart into individual pieces.
Sprayed on, and as if transported to another time, archaic and modern at the same time, with fragments of various scents that I know and that reminded me of JDE.
Like a greener, more metallic version of Biagiotti Uomo or a spicier, herbier version of Cerruti Image Uomo without its tropical-fruity touch. Creative?
Something is not right here. Research then revealed that the scent is supposed to be from 1967, and suddenly everything makes sense. Thus, it is the predecessor against which the others are measured.
An atypical, somewhat acquired green fresh-spicy scent that carries something archaic within it, which one might have also found in a green women's fragrance from the 60s...
It starts fresh-citrusy, without pointing in a specific direction, soon a cool green note appears that reminds me of Krizia Uomo, without being so harshly integrated. Something hollow, seemingly aloof, also slightly soapy, like a green shaving soap. Angular in a certain way, metallic. But I also notice powdery elements that are also present in Biagiotti Uomo alongside its idiosyncratic freshness. Biagiotti seems a bit brighter and more radiant, JDE a bit darker, cooler. In terms of overall effect, very similar, I think. The middle feels somewhat bulky and unfamiliar, but interesting. In the drydown, JDE becomes a bit spicier and woodier and thus more coherent and solid and pleasing. Cerruti's Image has a similar basic concept, caused there by leaves and ferns, but then retreats into a somewhat arbitrary, pleasing shower gel/soap note, which is not meant negatively. Green leaves could also play a role in JDE, but still, many spices and herbs are packed in, which I find hard to identify individually.
Several layers, unfamiliar, somewhat woody (not woody). It's hard to say whether the somewhat archaic aspect irritates me or if I can simply accept it.
For me, this is one of those scents where I say, interesting, one should "re-smell" it, and after several times it doesn't seem so foreign anymore.
A lost classic, whose concepts have also been picked up in other fragrances: green, spicy, aromatic, while being somewhat cool with a lack of strong balsamic, needly, woody, or leathery notes.
A cultivated, no longer so young lady with a more rugged type could probably wear it well too.
Anyone who likes Biagiotti Uomo should take a look at one of its ancestors; from time to time it seems to be available cheaply in small bottles.
I look forward to the warmer months when I can finally adorn a summer day with Jour d'ete.
I bought Jour d'ete cheaply and blindly out of curiosity and was initially very surprised to find 2000 listed as the year of release. A bottle made of turquoise ceramic material that could have honored a container for Bulgarian rose oil or a Hungarian farmer's schnapps. A strangely attached spray unit with a peculiar plastic frame, where one believes that an intense gaze would corrode the plastic and everything would fall apart into individual pieces.
Sprayed on, and as if transported to another time, archaic and modern at the same time, with fragments of various scents that I know and that reminded me of JDE.
Like a greener, more metallic version of Biagiotti Uomo or a spicier, herbier version of Cerruti Image Uomo without its tropical-fruity touch. Creative?
Something is not right here. Research then revealed that the scent is supposed to be from 1967, and suddenly everything makes sense. Thus, it is the predecessor against which the others are measured.
An atypical, somewhat acquired green fresh-spicy scent that carries something archaic within it, which one might have also found in a green women's fragrance from the 60s...
It starts fresh-citrusy, without pointing in a specific direction, soon a cool green note appears that reminds me of Krizia Uomo, without being so harshly integrated. Something hollow, seemingly aloof, also slightly soapy, like a green shaving soap. Angular in a certain way, metallic. But I also notice powdery elements that are also present in Biagiotti Uomo alongside its idiosyncratic freshness. Biagiotti seems a bit brighter and more radiant, JDE a bit darker, cooler. In terms of overall effect, very similar, I think. The middle feels somewhat bulky and unfamiliar, but interesting. In the drydown, JDE becomes a bit spicier and woodier and thus more coherent and solid and pleasing. Cerruti's Image has a similar basic concept, caused there by leaves and ferns, but then retreats into a somewhat arbitrary, pleasing shower gel/soap note, which is not meant negatively. Green leaves could also play a role in JDE, but still, many spices and herbs are packed in, which I find hard to identify individually.
Several layers, unfamiliar, somewhat woody (not woody). It's hard to say whether the somewhat archaic aspect irritates me or if I can simply accept it.
For me, this is one of those scents where I say, interesting, one should "re-smell" it, and after several times it doesn't seem so foreign anymore.
A lost classic, whose concepts have also been picked up in other fragrances: green, spicy, aromatic, while being somewhat cool with a lack of strong balsamic, needly, woody, or leathery notes.
A cultivated, no longer so young lady with a more rugged type could probably wear it well too.
Anyone who likes Biagiotti Uomo should take a look at one of its ancestors; from time to time it seems to be available cheaply in small bottles.
I look forward to the warmer months when I can finally adorn a summer day with Jour d'ete.
Updated on 03/24/2017
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