Siren 1968

Siren by Verites
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8.1 / 10 241 Ratings
A popular perfume by Verites for men, released in 1968. The scent is spicy-smoky. It was last marketed by Sarbec.
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Main accords

Spicy
Smoky
Woody
Earthy
Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CardamomCardamom GalbanumGalbanum LavenderLavender Yellowed CalculatorYellowed Calculator
Heart Notes Heart Notes
CloveClove CarawayCaraway CinnamonCinnamon GeraniumGeranium RosewoodRosewood Zigzagged PlywoodZigzagged Plywood
Base Notes Base Notes
OakmossOakmoss PatchouliPatchouli Weathered PopsicleWeathered Popsicle

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.1241 Ratings
Longevity
7.9198 Ratings
Sillage
7.6197 Ratings
Bottle
6.9203 Ratings
Value for money
8.775 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 04/18/2025.

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7.5
Bottle
10
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
9
Scent
GothicHeart

85 Reviews
GothicHeart
GothicHeart
Helpful Review 9  
Erstwhile Joy...
1991 was a strange year.
On May, I answered to a desperate, poetic ad in a heavy metal magazine.

"I can no longer cope with my existence, in my glaring pitch-black territory, wailing endlessly over the end of the world. My future, a little water in your eyes."

A couple of days later I found her waiting outside my door.
On the same night, while she stood by the window, naked and moonlit, she was emanating a bluish, otherworldly aura in the dark room.
She was the most comfortable while naked person I ever met, stripping herself not only from her clothes, but from norms, rules and conventions as well.
She was a heavy smoker, and what's more, she was playing with the ashes in the ashtray during our long talks.
She had her nails always painted in black.
She always wore an old oversized leather jacket over her gypsy dresses.
She had grey, troubled eyes, which were like two shards of her shattered soul, trying to escape her battered body.
She was tacking cloves in her short maroon hair.
Her rough skin was beaming a surreal torrid smell of cummin and milk.
She was acting crazy most of the time, to the point of wondering whether she was posing a threat to herself.
She taught me how important it is to share your last cigarette.
She showed me the melting point of patience, cause a three hour train ride in order to meet her was always feeling like millennia.
Every street urchin knew her by her first name.
She was living in an old house, with a small yard full with carnation bushes.
Her febrile mind was geysering dark poems; each of them a new cicatrice to a heart already covered with scars.
All I recall is that I kept on following her.
I followed her to her small hometown.
I followed her through her jewel making years.
I followed her on a mountainy island in early autumn.
I followed her in a southern Greek island for a week in summer.
I followed her through a song that I wrote for her and she never listened.
I followed her through countless silent whimpers in empty hotel rooms.
But I was too scared to follow her through life.
Her name was, most ironically, Joy.
Jacomo de Jacomo is how she smelled like.
Joy de Jacomo is how I call it ever since...
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10
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8
Sillage
8
Longevity
10
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Nwhite

31 Reviews
Nwhite
Nwhite
Very helpful Review 7  
Jacomo de Jacomo Original
Surrounded by a sea of insecure, hostile candyland niche frags, reeking of jelly donuts and vanilla candles, Jacomo de Jacomo stands alone on the hill raising his fist high and proud.

Zero sweetness, just 100% black awesomeness.

Jacomo doesn't need your attention, he demands it.

4.5 stars
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
Helpful Review 6  
Black oddity
Jacomo de Jacomo opens with a hyper-black, hyper-dry fougère blend dusted with an intoxicating, overwhelming dose of dry and bold spices, notably cloves – pungent, harsh, almost rough. Really modern, if you ask me: the structure is of a classic masculine cologne (leather, patchouli, oak moss, woods, etc.), but this ultra-dry, black, spicy fog is pure “future baroque” for me. A really creative variation on the theme. Can’t really describe the smell exactly, but it’s really pungent, sour, dry and as I said, quite harsh. Together with oak moss and leather it creates a threatening and austere feel, like crashing on the dusty arid soil of a black planet (any Sisters of Mercy fan out there?). Think of some dark powerhouses like Krizia Uomo, Krizia Moods, Smalto PH, just with a crazy dose of cloves. Then however, quite soon a bit of the charme fades away; after one hour or so, as the spices tone down, it emerges the bone-structure of Jacomo, which is a more conventional and softer “barbershop” scent: woody, herbal, mossy and soapy, still spicy, dry and dark but a bit more friendly, lighter and more wearable (but also slightly more dull in a way, as without that crazy initial blackness it becomes more close to just another “generic” barbershop scent like many others – still good and still different, just with a bit less of that “special” added value). Anyway: an austere, creative and shady take on the classic masculine scent, fascinating and quite ahead of its time for sure, well crafted and a must for any “gloomy fougères” enthusiast.

7,5/10

(vintage version)
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JavSantana

59 Reviews
JavSantana
JavSantana
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I don't see any smoke - smelling ingredient listed...
Wrong note listing. No note from the olfactive pyramid showed here presents a smoke nuance. In the opening it has other herbal notes, i cannot personally pick one out so it's an aromatics bouquet. In the base it surely has other woods like vetiver, cedar, sandalwood, animalic musk, oakmoss, patchouli, amber, and the king of all the base notes: A smoky leather note based upon birch tar or cade, which is pretty much similar to smelling a bonfire or firewood burning, even a BBQ or grilling with coal.

Now, that being out of the way, Jacomo is an interesting fragrance. Opens with citrus and herbals as nice chypres from back in the day and from the 1980's, and the spices it has in the heart kind of give me Santos de Cartier vibes, which i also have in my collection. (Santos Concentree)
In the base i note the smoke - forward leather accord and a ton of oakmoss and patchouli. So it's pretty much a herbal, warm spicy, slightly floral and citrus, smoky, leathery, mossy and earthy kind of scent. I do also note an ever so slight sweetness to smoothen out the rough leather and moss notes. In my skin the drydown pretty much smells of a freshly smoked cigarette butt with earth, spices, herbs, amber and moss.

The worst thing about it, is i like it. (Kidding)
The perfect scent for a heavy tobacco smoker if you want something that DOES ACTUALLY smell like tobacco.

Bottom line: Great 80's scent, rather unique. Even though works in any climate, i would advice to wear it only during winter and at night. It's that dark. I would assume TF's Oud Wood Intense and Beauforts are a toy compared to this. And it costs 20 bucks above anything. I advice it more than most designers. Greetings and take care.
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8
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Minigolf

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Minigolf
Minigolf
Very helpful Review 13  
Full Lotte cool chypre... and warm isser also
That's where Christian Mathieu, the perfumer, really put his foot down. No wonder, in the late 1970s/early 1980s there were no restrictions on fragrances and their use.
Jacomo de Jacomo" contains everything that makes a "full" fragrance, from the "green raw fresh" spices to real clove oil to a "gallon" oakmoss and well "hung" patchouli.
A "spice chypre" as a didactic play for the (they are allowed to...) sweet-powdery posterity of the scent friends.
And a statement of what "cool scents" are.
Although (and precisely because of this) the fragrance heart rises very warmly, sometimes even hotly, in nose and sense by the aforementioned cloves and cinnamon. Good on wet and cold days, "heats up" real good.
But that was by no means all. A thick, green moss carpet spreads very slowly under the warmth and stands in contrast to the inner warmth as a cool-tingy-woody accent in a skilful and interesting anier. But anyone who thinks he suddenly finds himself in a damp and cold forest from a warm fireplace is mistaken.
Because: Patchouli is already ready to hold pleasant warmth, to deepen and enrich the overall fragrance. Warmth with a cool mossy breeze every now and then and a "built-in" scent - kaleidoscope provides even with me, which already sniffed many perfumes, for joyful surprise of the "So-noch- Nicht-Gerochenen"...
No more fragrance!!!
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ChicoRoch1ChicoRoch1 2 years ago
A true masculine beast from 1980
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BrianBuchananBrianBuchanan 3 years ago
A fougère smoking a bidi outside a hospital clinic.
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