Top Notes 
Apple
Green pineapple
Mandarin orange
Jundoflerm
Heart Notes 
Cardamom
Green anise
Lavender
Seawater
Base Notes 
Ambergris
Driftwood
Patchouli
Phalaris
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Phalaris
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jam - improvising musically together or has the Puma caught its tail?
At some point, I had requested samples of the Jam series (Man and Woman), and yesterday they surprisingly arrived in my mailbox. There were no high expectations attached, but what dripped from the tear-open bag onto my wrist made my olfactory receptors curdle: synthetic, synthetic, and synthetic. Individual main esters, aldehydes, and higher alcohols were probably stirred briefly in a rusty barrel with harbor water using a exhausted driftwood plank from a sunken petroleum smuggling ship. The harbor water must come from an inland port where it can become nicely brackish. The only advantage: the water seems so low in oxygen or poisoned that no fish can live in it. As for the driftwood, I wonder what could be hidden behind it; my suspicion: the company working for Puma simply bought up the cleaning alcohol from all sorts of steam distillations for wood oils, evaporated it down to a resinous state, and then poured the still liquid into the barrel. During the two hours that Jam Man spent on my wrist, I could not detect any wood notes. And no patchouli either - but that may be because I am quite "hardened" towards patchouli.
I won't claim that a company named Puma should better not release fragrances due to the existing association risks. But while the animal Puma intensely smells/stinks/fragrances (however one wants to describe it) - Jam by Puma simply strikes me as disgustingly "uncomposed"; carelessly thrown together from ingredients of questionable provenance. Jam: in this case, an improvised interplay of people right after their first(!) lesson on an instrument.
I won't claim that a company named Puma should better not release fragrances due to the existing association risks. But while the animal Puma intensely smells/stinks/fragrances (however one wants to describe it) - Jam by Puma simply strikes me as disgustingly "uncomposed"; carelessly thrown together from ingredients of questionable provenance. Jam: in this case, an improvised interplay of people right after their first(!) lesson on an instrument.
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