Musk for Women
Anyone who wears fragrance lightly and often will get on with the Jovan Musk for Women Eau de Cologne Gift Set, because the concentration is built for exactly that habit.
Eau de cologne carries the least oil of the standard strengths, which is not a fault but a design: it is meant to be splashed on, enjoyed for a couple of hours and reapplied without thought. Here that strength is applied to a composition with a long note list. Amalfi lemon, bergamot and lime make a bright, bitter opening with black pepper cutting through it, and the whole first stretch reads as cold and clean.
The middle is unexpectedly soft. Jasmine and orange blossom give creamy white flower warmth, orris lends a dry powdered quality, cardamom keeps a cool spice moving, and amber adds resin underneath. It is a fuller heart than most colognes bother with. Underneath, musk does the work the brand built its name on: warm, soft and close to the skin, with a faintly animal character that makes it read as a person rather than a product. Ambroxan gives it a mineral sheen, cinnamon a little heat, vanilla flower a touch of sweetness, and galbanum a green bitterness that keeps the dry down from going flat. Fourteen materials in a cologne is unusual.
As a boxed set it works best as a present for someone who likes to keep a bottle on the dressing table and use it daily rather than save it. Spring and summer suit it best, mornings especially, and it is aimed at women.
Jovan is an American mass market brand, and its first product, in 1972, was an inexpensive musk pushed through drugstore distribution rather than prestige counters. Coty owns and manufactures the line today. In 1981 it attached its name to the Rolling Stones on the Tattoo You tour, a tie-up the brand's present owner calls the first of its kind for a rock band.
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