Croatian Iris Jinx 2025

Its very basic smelling iris thats missing the earthy nuance to it. its compained with fruits mainly bit too much blackcurrant in the opening but it gets tamer in dry down. there is the animalic and oud smell to it on the back round but dont really save it for me.

From note composition i had certain expectation but then i tested it and i walked the middle road. Its not bad by any means but its also not great. its just the middle road for me. pleasent and non offensive i would not at all mind smelling this on someone else but not for me and even more so when considering price and there is imo much better iris scents at this price range.

Before writing this review, I had to test it several times, at different temperatures, in different moods, and at different stages.
It starts with a fruity and sparkling note where blackcurrant dominates, giving it a fruity connotation that lasts for the entire (relatively short) duration of the fragrance on me.
The mix of origins/extractions of Orris is immediately present but does not emerge very much. In the trail, it is almost completely absent and remains very skin-like. If you bring your nose close to the skin, then it is quite present. Something normal? Perhaps, but I would have expected it to be much more present and lush on the nose.
The slightly dirty, animalic and woody base provides the foundation.
I find it very easy, nothing exciting, the trail is almost non-existent apart from the fruity part, the duration is very poor, on my skin it does not exceed 4 hours even indoors in the office.
Good? For me, sufficient, nothing to give high marks for. However, for the price, I have to give it a low rating.
To my personal taste, we are EONS away from the irises of other brands.

This one opens up with violet, stem like violet, ozonic and mineralic alongside beautiful fruity skin like peach, there’s also some growl underneath right away…

After that opening, around the 15mins mark you start understanding why the name was given, yes. Powdery, piercing and at the same time creamy “Iris”. Smells purple, clean
And it is stunning, reminiscent of Jems 6, this stage you can enjoy it for a few hours.

It’s very difficult to not make comparisons with EO Iris Ghalia, since it is a very loved perfume by everyone in the community and very praised. But this one is more Iris/violet forward than any iteration of IG I have tried so far. Iris ghalia is mainly an animalic perfume at the end of the day to me, and I love this kind of stuff.

As it drysdown and the orris beggins to fade a little , that growl grows stronger and the animalistic cocktail emerges, is very musky and sweaty accompanied by spices to elevate further the animalistic nature, and it’s fantastic and never too much, has the french balanced aesthetic.

Overall this is an amazing pristine “Iris” perfume with a musky base, and one lf the best I have smelled in this style. Amazing job.