We’re in a short heatwave. Four days and then back to cooler and some rain. Here are my dahlias. This is the first year I have managed to raise happy dahlias. I started them inside. Maybe that’s the trick here.
Today, I’m looking at the last my Replica samples (of course bought for name). I expect I will return to this brand later in the autumn.
I have a very dear friend who you can really label as a jazz afficianado. Over the years he’s written books and hosted a radio show on jazz, and now he teaches a jazz appreciation course at an East Coast university.
When I expressed interest in learning more about jazz many years ago he gifted me Miles Davis Kind of Blue as a ‘proper’ introduction.
Anyway, I thought of Bob when I saw Jazz Club and had to pop it in the cart.
Fragrantica makes a big point of labelling this as a fragrance ‘for men’. Sigh. Don’t be so rigid – or silly. And it is a ‘leather’.
It’s from 2013. The nose is Alienor Massenet and the notes include pink pepper, neroli, lemon, rum, Java vetiver oil, clary sage, tobacco leaf, vanilla bean and styrax.
This opens on me as coffee and rum, maybe a bit of pepper, a bit of sharp lemon, and I’m sure I’m getting iris.
It is very laid back and soft.
As it opens and warms up, I’m really still with coffee-rum-iris. Maybe this is a conceptual leather… Or what the musicians and audience smell like.
The drydown is … a gentle sweet vanilla latte.
I am at a loss. Maybe on a completely different chemistry this is a leather perfume.
Replica does a coffee scent, Coffee Break, which I looked at here. I tried Jazz Club and Coffee Break side by side and JC does smell more like coffee than CB. All I can do is shrug.
Of the Replicas I’ve tried my faves continue to be Lazy Sunday Morning and From the Garden.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t bad, it’s just not a whole lot on me. What it did (once I’d finished writing this) was send me off to the farm shop for an iced latte.
So, go figure.
Pics: Wiki, Pexels and mine
Is that ‘Labyrinth’? Both are gorgeous – congratulations!!!
I used to grow dahlias but … sigh… it’s such a pain, digging them up in Autumn for overwintering (which was never really successful, alas)
I’m with Tom on coffee scents!
xoxo
Yes, it is Labyrinth. The other is Rip City. As I only have three plants currently digging up etc isn’t really an issue. I just need to find a place to overwinter them. I’m thinking about getting Dahlegria White for next year.
In a box with peat moss. A cool closet (or basement, if you have one) will do nicely. I’ve overwintered… but I’m too lazy to do it now.
Your flowers are lovely- sorry my mis-timed post came in and shoved them aside. I fixed it to show when it should have and promise to learn how to count in future.
Not too sure about this one. I like the smell of coffee- in a shop. Or in coffee. I don’t like my breath smelling of it, and don’t think I care for my person smelling of it. I mean I could just dab some Sanka behind each ear and get the same effect, right?
You made me laugh. No worries. As noted. It’s definitely not my fave from the brand of what I’ve sampled so far.
Love the dahlias! I have a neighbor here who grows them and I stop by and admire … I don’t remember Jazz Club at all, although I know I sniffed it. Mostly I appreciated them in Sephora as more interesting / less spendy alternatives to the usual mass-market stuff.
That’s it exactly: good reasonably priced alternatives to the usual suspects.
I liked Jazz Club enough to get a travel spray, I prefer it in the fall.
Your dahlias are beautiful. My mother’s neighbors grow dahlias to enter into shows. They let us pick what we want at the end of the season and it’s amazing to see flowers as big as dinner plates and as small as a dandelion puff ball. Thanks for your Replica reviews.
I actually ended up putting on Lazy Sunday Morning today, as it’s hot and muggy here. I think Replica is a great, less pricey line and will investigate more. There’s a house nearby that has some of the small, single petalled white dahlias with yellow centres and I am definitely going to buy those for next year. The dinner plate ones are astonishing. And that’s really nice of your mother’s neighbours.
Gorgeous Dahlias! Love those blossoms. Do they keep blooming into the fall? Thanks for the Replica reviews.
This is the first year the dahlias have actually performed well, so I’m not sure how long they will last. I’ve been deadheading and both plants are on their second flush of flowers. So, fingers crossed.
HA! How was your farm shop iced latte Cinnamon?
Portia xx
Ha indeed! The farm shop ironically makes the best coffee of all the local outlets — better than any of the fancy bakeries/cafes. It’s never sharp or sour. In fact, now you’ve got me craving one for today.
I really like this house. And I envy you your dahlias and your upcoming cooler weather! (It will be in triple digits here this coming week…)
Me too, Maggiecat! I think I’ve got around five more to sample, which will happen at some point. Triple digits … stay safe!
Congrats on the success with the dahlias. Very beautiful.
Jazz Club gets lots of Influencer love on IG.
I really should spend more time with the discovery set
Thank you. They are a very nice and welcome surprise. I will try more next year and start them indoors (and lift the ones I have and store them some place dry — well, as dry as you can get in this area). Yeah, the reviews on Fragrantica were generally pretty positive, including one pornographic one.
Went for a read of the porn. Poor lad, that has InCel all over it