Jimmy Choo by Jimmy Choo has a few flankers, some of which are different enough to be their own fragrance. FYI, she has started a second eponymous brand, if shoes are your thing. I’m told that Jimmy Choo cofounder Tamara Mellon had no small part in the bottle design. Note that Olivier Polge was also a perfumer for Flower Bomb, so I guess the similarities in smell shouldn’t be surprising, although that one has no fruit and as the name indicates, more florals. My personal opinion is that companies will emulate what has already been proven successful. So was Jimmy Choo copying with regards to the flacon at least? Or is it just a coincidence? Or maybe beyond the basic bottle shape, they are different enough from each other. The obvious comparison to me Viktor&Rolf’s Flower Bomb, which also embraces the grenade concept, and was released 6 years prior. If you like sweet scents from Mugler and YSL or something like La Vie est Belle from Lancôme, you’ll probably like this, too. However, actually, I still enjoy this one, mostly due to the pear, which you will get to after enduring the first few minutes of synthetic, migraine-strength sweetness at the top, which you’ll also have to suffer through when you reapply a few hours later.
With those three minus points, you’d think I wouldn’t recommend it. Perhaps it’s the type or quality of the patchouli note used, but I think it comes down to Olivier Polge’s blending magic. But it is interesting how the patchouli is front and center here, yet this fragrance is not as polarizing as it could have been. Perfumery would be unsavoury and sanitized without such notes. Rotting organic matter like indolic petals and oud, substances for animal glands, butyric acid, fecal matter, whale vomit – all these things give a fragrance a sexiness or sensuality or that va va voom or je ne sais quoi. Patchouli is a divisive note, but it’s notes like patchouli that balance out the overly pretty and sweet notes in a fragrance. I do want to say a word in defense of patchouli here. Don’t wear this if you want to be unique. Too sweet, too fruity, too much patchouli, too… everywhere. Perhaps I can also add a third minus point: As a fruitchouli, this is very much a designer, mainstream scent that suffers from its genre’s popularity. And no, refined and sophisticated it is not, but it is unpretentious and very yummy! Although the sugar doesn’t obfuscate all the sensuality in the fragrance, it is girly, I’ll give it that. It’s rich and candy-like, but not quite 100% in the juvenile territory. If the lasting power were improved and a few tablespoons of sugar were removed, this scent would be greatly elevated. Jimmy Choo gets two big minus points from me, then. It’s perhaps a good job, then, that this only lasts a few hours for those days when I do pull it out. It’s simply too sweet, and honestly, one or two colleagues that come to mind would get headaches if I approached their space wearing too much of this. However, this is not a scent I can reach for when heading out to the office. They come with that rich, distinctive pear de France aroma and taste. This one has the note of western pear or butter pear, known also as La France pears here in Japan, the ones with higher sugar content, less water, more flesh, and softness rather than crispiness to them. And when I say pear, I don’t mean Asian pears, which are round, crisp, and light. It’s one of my favourite fruits, next to watermelon.
Together, these notes blend into one enticing mix of loveliness. I love all of those notes in themselves, although patchouli is a note I can get fussy about. This is essentially warmed pear flesh drizzled in a granular sugary toffee poured over a leafy patchouli base. My take on this fragrance is as simple as the note list is short. I tend to enjoy gourmands, and this is indeed a sweet treat, although I believe it’s classified as a fruity Chypre. came out over a decade ago, I was all ga ga over it. Indeed, when this juice, housed in an elegant grenade glass bottle. Jimmy Choo by Jimmy Choo is an eau de parfum first released in 2011, created by master perfumer Olivier Polge.
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