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Jump
Anybody who wants a bright men's scent without the sugar that usually comes attached should look at Joop Jump Eau de Toilette, because this is a dry, slightly odd citrus and it stays dry.
Grapefruit leads, bitter as much as it is juicy, and rosemary comes in immediately behind it with a hard, resinous, almost medicinal herbal snap. Caraway is the unexpected one, dusty and savoury, the smell of seed bread, and it gives the opening a savoury character that very few mainstream launches would attempt.
Heliotrope and coriander run the middle. Heliotrope is soft and powdery with a faintly sweet, bakery like cast to it, which pulls against coriander's green, soapy, slightly citric spice. The two of them are an awkward pair on paper and they work, giving a heart that is neither clean nor sweet but somewhere in between.
Tonka bean, musk and vetiver close it. The tonka is sweet in a hay like, sun dried way rather than a creamy one, the musk keeps everything smooth and skin close, and the vetiver stays dry and rooty underneath to keep the whole thing from softening too far. Sophie Labbé composed it, in 2005. Four to five hours is realistic, projection moderate, and it suits spring and autumn daytime, work and casual wear. It is aimed at men. It is also one of the cheaper ways to own a men's scent that nobody else in the room is likely to be wearing.
The brand was set up by the Hamburg designer Wolfgang Joop as a German fashion and fragrance business, and the perfume line, which launched in 1987, is the part most people recognise. He withdrew from running the company in 2001, clothing passed to Holy Fashion Group, and Coty took the fragrance and cosmetics.
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