Joop! Homme Eau de Parfum, 125 ml (Pack of 1)

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I first got my first taste of Joop Homme at the tender age of 16. And I thought he was really good at first. He was cute, okay, but in a reasonable dose he could be really pleasant with his vanilla-woody tones. An equally young guy wore this fragrance, very discreetly dosed and of course only for going out in the evening. I liked it (the scent, the intimidated boy sometime no longer). Sweet, cuddly, cuddly. A good fragrance from the house of Joop, just like Nuit d'Eté and Berlin, which I had on my wish list at the time. As a signature fragrance not only suitable for the U-20 or Twens, but for people who want to or can revive this long-lasting Homme with beautiful memories. One thing up front, I would love to rate this fragrance if the difference between vintage (1st Lancaster version) and today's (mid-2020 batch) wasn't so severe.... I can understand that today's version is hated by some.... but how on earth could not love this vintage version!? Although so on the face, but also so awesome! Alone for nostalgia reasons, the fragrance burned itself into my brain, until I finally bought a bottle of it. Already there it was the Coty variant, but the comparison to the vintage version I did not know until then. I was satisfied... until the bottle flew to the floor after infrequent wear and the contents spread all over it.... The bathroom smelled for days afterwards....

The presence lingers for several hours, which is extreme for my skin. Even after a good 24h you can still smell him skin. It was good manners not to put on perfume before dinner, my family as I remember had no perfume on at all on a normal working day and suddenly I appeared and dominated the kitchen, the food and the mood of the other attendees. Top motivated he slaps off his buddy, sits down on his fire chair and shoots off. His hair is smashing on his solarium-tanned skin.For me one of the most crude (in the positive sense) fragrances of the late 80s and 90s. Here something was created, which did not exist in the form yet and does not really exist until today. You have to dare him - not for everyone - but unfortunately, I find him just skilful. The tonka bean with the sandalwood make this well in time transformed Homme to an almost niche fragrance with an incredible drugstore price. Objectively for me, a perfect fragrance that I would definitely wear more often if this was unknown. He has that certain something. A very multi-faceted and well-coordinated fragrance with a pleasant sweetness. It goes down well and performs really well. Too good in many situations, which worsens with overdosing. However, the blame is not the fragrance, but the carriers which often seem very proletarian.

Sillage: potent, but also not the beast like his pink father (once was and also still is with smears). In no time at all he is at the lake, where his fire stool settles in the coarse-grained sand. No topic for Kalle, he extends the stand, parks the hot oven, takes a running start, shouts: "BOOmmBeeeee", and claps like a Germanic foundling on the water surface. Broad grinning he appears, his posse is already crouching on the shore laughing: "Ham is waiting for you, RAALLLEEE!" Who thinks, the towel comes now... no Kalle dieselt himself first and rubs himself dry with the hands and Homme - why a towel. The heliotrope cinnamon vanilla bomb is spreading all over the gravel ball. "Kalle!", shrine them all: "You're the greatest!", Kalle grins and lets herself be celebrated..... Funnily enough, I personally think that today's version smells much more vintage than this one I just described....What’s really weird is all 4 of them start with a identical overpowering sweet accord that seems to completely overwhelm the very different top notes they all have. Whatever aromachemical is used in the base as the sweetener starts out so strong it is a foghorn. And at that concentration as with a lot of frag elements, it has a slight metallic edge. You need to think of it as more of a flanker, a gourmand take on the OG (yes, you heard right, take maybe the sweetest, strongest thing ever and make a gourmand version). The notes are different with a few common ones so there’s a thread of Joop Homme DNA running through it. There is “heliotrope” for instance, but it’s toned way down from the Dr Pepper of the EDT (and yeah, I like that benzaldehyde hit in the EDT).