Musk for Women
The Jovan Musk for Women Eau de Cologne Gift Set is a straightforward present: a classic, inexpensive cologne boxed for giving, with no decisions left to the person buying it. What is inside is brighter than the name leads you to expect. The opening is a proper citrus accord, with amalfi lemon, bergamot and lime arriving together, sharp and clean, and black pepper laid across them for a dry crackle. It is a cologne opening in the traditional sense, meant to feel like cold water rather than perfume.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Cologne and a 15ml spray to carry. The middle is softer and more floral than the citrus suggests. Jasmine and orange blossom bring creamy white flower warmth, orris adds a cool powdered quality, cardamom keeps a camphorous spice running through it, and amber sits underneath lending a resinous sweetness. It is a generous heart for a fragrance at this price. The base is the part the brand is known for. Musk gives the dry down that soft, warm, slightly animal quality that reads as skin rather than scent, with ambroxan adding a mineral polish beside it. Vanilla flower sweetens it lightly, cinnamon warms it, and galbanum cuts back in with a sappy green bitterness that stops the whole thing turning cosy. Fourteen materials, which is a lot for a cologne of this kind.
At eau de cologne strength it is light and needs reapplying through the day, three hours or so at a time, which is how colognes have always been worn. As a gift it suits someone who wears fragrance casually, and the boxed format makes it an easy present at Christmas or for a birthday.
Jovan is an American mass market name whose business began in 1972 with a musk fragrance sold through drugstores rather than department store counters. In 1981 it signed an image marketing deal with the Rolling Stones around the Tattoo You tour, which its present owner describes as the first fragrance sponsorship of a rock band. The line is owned and made today by Coty.
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