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.
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