Perplexus

The classic Roma Uomo fragrance has accompanied me faithfully for more than twenty years. Today, it is certainly one of the unforgotten and timeless great classics. What I did not like at the time was the bulky and rough (sandblasted) bottle and the truly screeching advertising campaign during its launch.

Because shortly after its release, it became mainstream due to the aggressive advertising and was truly given away and worn crosswise by every other grandpa to the green-eared teenager.

I remember very well that the fragrance was virtually 'blindly' demanded and bought in the perfumeries, just because of the advertising campaign. Man (and woman) assumed probably that one (s) mutated when spraying on to the naked running around southern Adonis, to which then all women would be hopelessly fallen.

From such fragrances I take first always first clearly distance, since me such a thing disgusts me in principle. It is unfortunately completely 'uncool'.

Years later, however, I have discovered this fragrance because of its interesting composition for me and this refined composition has fascinated me until today again and again.


Romamor, on the other hand, was love at first sight. From the flacon and from its beguiling top note.


After from the house Biagiotti only again and again new editions of Roma Uomo with basically the same bottle but changed fragrance were thrown on the market, which could not impress me very much (because they were so unimaginative), it was quite different here.

Just the game with the naming and the clear bottle have me there spontaneously access and made curious.

The fragrance is described as 'synthetically sweet', which I can absolutely not understand, as some of the natural fragrance components are quite clearly identifiable. I often experience it that people describe something as synthetic, that actually smells natural and on the other hand but then reach for really chemical synthesis bombs, where nothing natural is in it anymore.


It is quite a voluminous fragrance, which is able to create an 'Aahh' and 'Oohh' effect right in the top note. Here shows an incredible freshness and fruitiness, which radiates into the heart note. Later on, spiciness is clearly added. It has above average longevity and evolves with ever-changing facets over time. At the end, the Roma DNA is usually noticeable, only much more modern and a little softer. Bie base note is balsamic and pleasantly soft.

The first batch had this anyway quite clearly, especially in the finish was the inheritance of the classic Roma Uomo unmistakably perceptible. I found this very pleasant and it replaced at times the classic entirely.

Whatever, sometimes scents change with batches due to various things. Often it's recent idiotic EU regulations, so that certain substances can no longer be used in perfumes and the fragrance thus changes slightly in character because it has to be re-formulated. Sometimes a beloved facet goes then totally under or disappears completely.

The last batch of Romamor therefore seems to me to deviate significantly from the first, the classic Roma DNA is less active here. This is a reason to have the classic further in the range and possibly also something to mix with it, provided that this is not also still changed beyond recognition...

In general, I would think that Romamor is a very modern fragrance and embodies the zeitgeist well. Nevertheless, its masterful composition sets it very clearly apart from many trends and even more so from synthetic duds, trends that will become boring very quickly and will also disappear.

Romamor is good to wear summer and winter.

The last batch has more aromatic spiciness in the finish and heart notes, which is also very appealing. In general, this is by no means a classic aftershave fragrance, but rather something for self-confident, youthful-looking men with some sensitivity and attraction.

The fragrance is a true 'Womanizer', he acts attractive and beguiling. He is obviously not for the Zurschautragen ostentatious masculinity. Since Kouros , Joop Homme or Aramis would probably be better suited.

Nevertheless, Romamor is to be used sparingly, because otherwise he can act slaying. Because if the wooed person already faints at the first contact, the goal is missed.

The somewhat different Joop Homme homage.

I now believe I have found my personal fragrance renaissance...
... well, with some youthful support from the same house.

When I tried the new Joop Ice in the perfumery a few weeks ago, I was initially a little taken aback by the unusual freshness, however, a certain pointed blumminess in the course did not want to sympathize with my taste so properly.

Something further looking around I grabbed then again this and that, because actually it was certain that I needed again Joop Wild Homme in the 125 ml bottle urgently.

Dreamy I then again quickly grabbed the classic, His undisputed majesty of men's fragrances, the:

Pink classic Joop Homme

and uuuuhps... , quite by mistake I sprayed it on the same place as the previous Joop Ice. Such a fauxpas but also!


The perfumery again leaving, I went me now home, happily over my supply of Joop Wild Homme and an unusual fascinating breath hovered around me, in a way, as I had not experienced it since my youth, something that I no longer let go, so that I had to sniff constantly unconsciously at the double sprayed arm.

A truly terrific combination!
No! More like a brilliant fusion that had taken place!

I was so fascinated that I promptly reordered both fragrances in the 125 ml filling and now consume for days as if paralyzed this fragrance, so the mixture of classic Joop Homme and the new Joop Ice.

These two fragrances have the same DNA and are probably unintentionally so affinity to each other that it seems almost miraculous.

Joop Ice alone can not really convince me, but the combination 1:1 of both fragrances, sprayed directly on top of each other tears me absolutely from the stool.

Worse still, this combination seems to make me addicted little by little, I just can not let my nose more of it.


Joop Homme

A classic fragrance that even after plenty of 30 years can still come up with surprises. I am absolutely amazed!

Yes, that is a powerful spice core weapon.

The fragrance seems to lack a bit of the typical Boucheron elegance. But if you look at it a little more closely, then there are always some pieces in the Boucheron jewelry collection, which are clearly turned out lush, with a slight tendency to ostentatious exaggeration. In this respect, this is very conclusive.

For my taste, the scent isn't tart enough, especially on the finish. He tends rather to get a little musty, especially in the heart note. This seems for many then too soft and somewhat feminine.

However, I am not of the opinion that the Jaîpur smells feminine.

But I very much appreciate a major merit of this perfume: namely, it has hardly any synthetic components, as has unfortunately become too common, especially lately.

The latest fragrance creations are virtually swimming in ambroxanes and ketones, and one gets the impression that we are actively retreating from nature, on our way to outer space, where there are no more real essential oils...


What I always like very well with Boucheron is that here offenriechlich still the high art of perfumers is used.

Boucheron is also always quite bold, as is often the case with the great traditional fragrance makers like Caron or Guerlain. I call such a thing Heritage. Something that just so belongs and my good faith in good perfumes again uncovered and manifested.

Hurray for traditional perfume making!

New perfume makers should be advised to go back a few steps and see how real perfumes should be made, instead of shoveling around with tons of crystalline chemicals, in which the few real fragrance components are then drowned or recently even left out completely. This is simply degradation, the decline of an industry!

We consumers should then sharpen our noses a bit and develop a feeling for the real thing again. In my feeling, 90 percent of the newly released perfumes are no longer real perfumes, but synthesis bombs, which also smell awful and downright strange, sometimes even abnormal fragrance pyramids.

This was one of my favorites and insider tips in the mid-90s. At that time, he was also still really exclusive and only available in selected perfumeries, so also from the price in any case. I think Douglas even had it exclusively for a while. So, like his female PengDeng, which, by the way, comes along just as 'different'. At times, I have even worn the women's fragrance itself, because it is so tart and refreshingly herbaceous.

He, the men's fragrance, had something extravagant, then typically American, which was immensely refreshing and different on the German market with certain Lancaster dominance (Joop, Sander, Davidoff, Bogner).

It is still an interesting fragrance with dominance and certain charm. Also a certain timeless modernity. And it's certainly at least as directional as, say, Fahrenheit, which I could only ever stand in small doses and larger intervals, quite unlike Him. But an everyday fragrance is certainly not.

However, I must say that the fragrance has now unfortunately been changed somewhat and no longer quite corresponds to the original at the time. He was clearly scratchy and tart and also clearly more durable and more intense in the finish.

Quite striking, by the way, is the Sweet Whisky note in the middle and the chocolate note at the end.

I can therefore simply not understand that this fragrance is today in general so verrissen, mostly by Invicus-Aventus-Sonstwasus types who were then still in diapers or even still floated on Dad's Kraft soup and had not yet been metabolized.^^

It's part of my arsenal again today, even if the obvious modification ultimately makes me a bit dissatisfied. Unfortunately, the aggressive price drop has also actively contributed to its low esteem. This is unfortunately such a typical psychic thing of modern times, especially in German-speaking countries.

So many a young bastard might seem even more attractive with it today than with his ridiculous chewy candy scent, which he thinks is so incredibly 'hip' and 'groovy' (a term that seems to be 'in' again). I'm curious whether the 40 years then still stand on their youth sins - fragrances (with oversized posters on the walls of houses) or whether their sense of smell has then finally grown up.

I ordered this fragrance blind - OK my fault.

It should complete my series of ever-growing 2-component EDCs from 4711. I like to use these as so-called 'Layers' or to refresh Ausklängen and Auftakten various fragrances.

The green label has tempted me to think, here behind was again a delicious green fragrance with some spiciness, as I was so used to from the others.

Far from it!!!

Upon opening, an unexpected sweetness overwhelmed me with such force that I had to take 3 steps back first. Oh jeh, oh jeh.


Basil? Basil? Are you there? Anywhere maybe???
Let's see ....

But even after 4 hours, this beastly blood orange, which must have been picked just before it went rancid, was still downright penetratingly perceptible. No Basil.

Now but quickly something spicy, more green on it, before I get sick...

The basil, by the way, is still seemingly nowhere, well noted.
The Basil was apparently murdered, by the bloodthirsty Red Brigade Orange!


So let's get serious here.

After 'Tangerine & Cardamom' (delicious!) and after Pink Pepper & Grapefruit (gorgeous!) this is now the absolute disappointment. I have to seriously consider who this blood orange would go with and am now almost kind of at a loss here. ^^

So I see yes, that it is always quite difficult with only 2 contrary components to meet a harmonious marital agreement, but what the perfumer*in has probably thought here is beyond my imagination. The or that would have completely failed in an examination acceptance by me, with the well-intentioned advice to take a solid profession.


In the short term, you can get the thing though a little more pleasant, if you simply spray all available 4711 Aquii Coloniae over each other, then something like a voluminous citrus-fruit mix, which initially seems quite acceptable ...

... however, sooner or later the ninja Kamikaze blood orange prevails again, which then mercilessly slaughters everything again and then ugly grinning enthroned over the whole bloodbath.

With most fragrances that are generally branded as 'sweet', I have not experienced one that was really sweet. This one, the bloodthirsty ninja carnage blood orange tops it all!!!

I'm in shock for the next 3 days.