Hi Posse. Jubilation XXV Man was one of the truly epic Amouage releases. The perfume world went batshit crazy. This was just a couple of years before I found you all online but I’ve heard the stories. There were just less than 1700 perfumes released in 2007 per Parfumo. A new pair of Amouage still managed to be the riotous talk of the scentbloggosphere. Early on in my niche mania a boxed manufacturers sample came of it and it took one spritz to have me on the internet trawling for a decant. I rediscovered that sample today and gave myself a couple of spritzes. WOW! Thought I’d share the experience.
Jubilation XXV Man Amouage
Amouage gives these featured accords:
Top: Labdanum Ciste, Coriander, Orange, Davana, Frankincense, Blackberry
Heart: Honey, Bay, Cinnamon, Orchid, Rose, Clove, Celery Seeds, Gaiac Wood
Base: Patchouli, Opoponax, Myrrh, Atlas Cedarwood, Musk, Moss, Ambergris, Oud Wood, Immortelle
Since buying my decant in 2014 and subsequently a bottle I think my nose has become more knowledgable. I can definitely smell the clove and bay rum. There are resins and a smoky patina over all. The bouquet is rose out front, a honeyed, musky rose. There is an oudh note, metallic and a little medicinal that runs through the whole fragrance. It heads Band-Aid in the heart.
The Jubilation XXV Man base doesn’t really make its full self known on me for an hour or so. It becomes less intense and really starts to mellow and shine. It’s like stepping inside a chapel from a busy street in a bustling city. A chapel they’ve just had benediction in. The smoke has hardly settled and the warmth of humanity has not left the room.
Totally unisex, magnificently over the top to start and has extraordinary longevity.
Surrender To Chance has samples and the discounters have very good prices for bottles.
Did you go crazy for Jubilation XXV Man or Woman?
Portia xx
Portia,
I have never sniffed Jubilation XXV Homme or Femme, but I remember reading Luca Turin’s reviews in The Guide, how he went into raptures about them. The note in this that I’ve just identified as being a common thread in many things I love: CORIANDER! I recently bought a mini of Balenciaga Le Dix, and it smells gorgeous. It’s a note in so many vintage scents I love: Miss Balmain, Jolie Madame, Arpege, My Sin, Gucci No 3. Love your description of a quiet chapel where a benediction just was said. How beautiful.
Oh, honeydoodle! I lost mah MIND! over Jub25 Woman – have the edp as well as a scrab of the extrait. I also have the body creme, a ginormous candle and … soap?
I haz a LOT of Jub25.
Jub25 XXV wears a bit lighter on me – and, like you, I get the medicinal note. It’s not quite ‘me’ (I like the bigger, blousier 25) but it is gorgeous!
xoxoxo
I got a discovery set of Amouage when I found the online fragrant communities. They all astonished me! My picks of the bunch were Lyric Woman, which I have both decants & a bottle of & Gold Woman. I found a bottle of authentic Gold extrait on a resale site but just didn’t wear it. Too dense. I should have got the EdP. Lastly Ubar. I was gifted a bottle but whilst I adored it, Ubar wore me.
I need to get some samples of the others again. I’m guessing that my tastes may have changed & Jub XXV may be “my” oud if it leans bandaid
oh, how I wish I’d known you then…
I wear the living daylights out of 25 extrait AND the original Ubar. In fact, I wear the living daylights out of all the earlier Amouages!
I have a bottle of vintage Ubar (with that absurd top) and it’s perfect for this time of year.
My first Amouages!! I sampled them … somewhere (a friend had samples, I think) — and I lost my mind. XXV Man I settled for a decant which I still have. 25 Woman I bought a bottle. I think it’s magnificent all these years later. They both have extraordinary longevity. Thanks for the reminder to dig them out now that the weather’s cooling down!
Uh, wow. I am going to get a sample of this. So far, no Amouage has been astonishing on me — sort of not fair. But that kitchen sink notes list, the way you describe what the oud does, and immortelle — I ‘need’ to try this.
Woo HOO! Cinnamon, I’ll be very excited to hear if you love it too.
Portia xx
Have a sample coming!
I didn’t. Not quite sure why, but might have been the price. I felt like so much of it went into the super luxe packaging and I’d gladly take a plain bottle at 1/2 the price. But I’m that way.
Fair Tom, though compared to todays prices it was a steal. A half price bottle would be very nice.
Portia x