Description
Join the Club Collection includes ten perfumes representing ten different kind of virtual clubs. Fatal Charme is about elegance, glamour and fashion; Ivory Route is an adventure and travelling club; Marquee represents a theater club; Kind of Blue is all about jazz; 40 knots is a yachts club; Ascot Moon is a horse club; Birdie is for golf lovers; Comandante is for fine cigar lovers; Shunkoin is for meditation and More than Words captures the world of writers and poets.
The ingredients of these fragrances are to be kept a secret. However, each fragrance will have its identification card with a number which one could use to join the real club of the owners of these perfumes. That’s how the concept goes from virtual clubs to forming a real one.
The bottles of the fragrances are made out of authentic blue glass; not the tinted kind but the glass of which the production is limited and are very rare.
40 Knots was launched in 2012.
19647759 – :
Wet wood – check, fresh accord – check, a bit of spices – check… Okay, this doesn’t bring a modern yacht into mind. It rather makes me think of a XVII century wooden merchant ship. Mind this: a ship, not the surrounding sea.
Of course, I’d prefer it to evoke more aggressive images of naval or pirate ships, but to do so the perfume creators would have to add some other notes like gunpowder (is that a note?), leather, metal, and rum, quite possibly ruining a great unique fresh fragrance.
Yes, that’s what it is for me: a great unique fresh frag that can be worn any season, summer to winter, easily.
The only downside here is… the packaging. It’s huge. It’s enormous. Of course, it won’t be a problem if you don’t keep your frags in their original boxes, but I do. And I’m having hard time trying to fit this Leviathan into my collection… It’s probably gonna end up on a separate shelf.
Anyway, huge or not, that box contains a bottle with an amazing perfume. Heave up the anchor!
ZSaqmD – :
So i just got myself a bottle and i love it!
I spent some time disecting the fragrance last night and this is what i get as far as notes goes.
Top: green olives and sea water
Middle: pink pepper, cedar, myrtle
Base: salt, ambergris, labdanum.
It opens green and fresh, like a breaching wave and quickly settles down to a woody, spicy and slightly minty/herbal scent. In this stage, in the background you have a sweet and somewhat mineralic and salty accord. It stays this way most of the time. But after a good 6-7 hours it looses character fast and you are left with only the sweet and salty base.
gymnAmittee – :
Rather disappointed with this one. Something about it is gross, maybe an overly pungent ‘salty’ note at the top. To my nose it’s an unpleasant scent, and for 1/10th the price Bvlgari Aqva is more evocative of the sea
mentat – :
Fragrance -40 Knots Xerjoff
Bottle from – 2015
40 Knots makes me feel free and alive.This is very unique,unusual,intriguing,complex,deep and well blended scent.He’s got that yachting vibe going on.Reminds me of an epic sailing into freedom adventure,wind in my hair,sun in the air,salt in my skin,yacht sliding through the water,kissing the waves…
Longevity – 8/10(8+ hours)
Silage/Projection – 7,5/10(moderate to high projection and silage for the first 2-3 hours)
Weather – best in spring,summer and autumn
Age – 22+
Compliments – 7/10
Scent – 8,5/10
Main notes according to me –
cedar,salt,sea water,cloves,vegetable notes,green notes.
The drydown is nice and deep and i get some -woodiness,spices,salt and cedar.
Emotions – epic sailing into freedom adventure,elegant, complex,deep,luxurious,ocean waves.
Occasion – for more or less any ocasion.
Try before you buy.
vesabserb – :
is it salt dominant ? like sel de vetiver.
Erikalove – :
Xerjoff 40 Knots is definitely an aquatic with woody characteristics and great performance unlike most aquatics. I’m not quite sure where some of these comparisons are coming from though… Dior Homme Intense??? Really? This smells nothing like DHI.
I tried for a long time to figure out what exactly this reminded me of and for the longest time, couldn’t place it. I finally figured out what this smells like… A sauna. A wooden sauna. An old wooden sauna that’s seen it’s share of temperature cycles and moisture. Now put that sauna on a cruise ship and plant it somewhere in the middle of the Bering Strait in Alaska. That’s exactly the image I get for this one. I’d say this isn’t exactly a summery type scent at all. Much too heavy for summer IMO. An aquatic for cooler weather if that exists. It’s kind of in a class of its own.
If you aren’t a fan of cedar wood, steer clear of this one. If you are, this one ranks just below Kilian’s Straight to Heaven in terms of high quality cedar scents.
kirill1992 – :
I’m not keen on aquatics but this really works for me. It’s obvious good materials have been used.
This is all about big glamorous yachts and the best of everything.
The sea is around but it’s not briney. This is a spicey, woody aquatic.
The sun is shining and there is plenty of wind. You can smell 40 knots on the wind.
Fresh, clean and a touch spicey
Moderate silage and longevity.
shestigor – :
Aquatic fragrances always smell cheap to my nose (Erolfa, Sel Marin etc.) so I was hesitant when a friend sent me a sample of this perfume. It being Xerjoff however, you can always expect the ingredients to be top notch, even in their ‘cheaper’ series.
40 Knots is so much more than an aquatic fragrance. It’s creamy, slightly spicy, rich, yet always manages to stay bright and fresh, making it the perfect summer scent for those who prefer winter fragrances. A very delicate balance between natural and synthetic ingredients.
This fragrance screams quality. When you wear this you feel rich, confident and fresh. An absolute winner. My summer signature.
ragelm – :
This perfume makes me think about a high maintenance gorgeous woman wearing a long white dress, a huge hat and big fashionable sunnies, sitting on a yacht with the wind blowing into her hair, sipping on a martini. It’s a perfume I would wear only on holidays cuz I think it’s too sassy for an office 😉
neki3os – :
للتميّز و التفرّد عنوان هو ” 40 عقدة ” من سيرجوف .. عطر فاخر و نقي جداً .. صيفي بإمتياز وفي نظري يستحق ثمنه المرتفع لتفرده
10/10
lazer13 – :
عالم العطور واسع و كبير
ومحبي العطور كثر لكن الأنوف العطرية قليلة
ما الفرق بين العطور الحصرية و الديزاينر ؟
بكل ثقة هو التميز في العمل و الجودة
هذا العطر بمعنى الكلمة مميز لاتجد شبيه له
لا أحب الوصف لك التجربة و الاختيار لكل منا ذوقه
هو عطري لهذا العيد في هذا الصيف الملتهب
great scent for summer
SkyFire – :
I don’t know if it was only me but I get a linear nail polish note
Note : in trying this on winter I will give a try on
Summer by god’s will
Savannah_fromAF – :
Hmm, a couple hundred dollars, add ambroxan, creamy woody notes, amber notes. Its very similar in my opinion ADP Ambra or mugler pure malt. Its expensive but utterly forgettable.
magazinhellokitty – :
تصورت وانا ممسك بعينه هذا العطر ويسمى بالعربيه (٤٠ عقده ) وهى مقياس للمسافه البحريه كانوا يستخدمونها البحاره قديما لتحديد السرعه عن طريق حبل معقود يلقى خلف السفينه ،،ان العطر هذا سيكون امتدادا للعطور الاكواتيك المرتكزه على النوته الصناعيه للبحر وهى نوته اكرهها لزفارتها مثل اكوا دى جيوا ايسنزا وما شابهه من عطور ،،، لكنى اكتشفت اننى امام عطر ساحر رائع للغايه له افتتاحيه رائعه من السيترس والزهور مع خلفيه من رائحه خشبيه ،،العطر له افتتاحيه قنبله تملأ المكان ،،انتظرت حتى اشم روائح البحر لكنها لم تأتى وخرجت روائح تابليه من القرنفل مع خلفيه من العنبر الكهرمانى ولمحات من الفانيلا ،،،احب ان المح التوليفه الرائعه من المكونات النقيه مع الروائح المصنعه التى تمنح العطر ثباتا حقيقيا واظن ان الالديهايدات او الايزوسوبر اى فى المقدمه مع بدائل العنبر مثل الامبروكسان
لشخص ملول مثلى ،اعتقد ان هذا العطر من العطور التى اسقطتنى بالقاضيه ،،،عطر قوى وفواح ويستاهل ثمنه ،،،،
micUphomimi – :
“40 Knots ” The Medeterian beauty ”
Its begin with nice refreshing complex opening of Marine ,grassy, salty, sand nice aroma , through woodsy smooth shy spicy (cinnamon & clove ) touch , then transfer into an ambergris vibe ,mixed with “amberoxan” as dirty vanilla musk , warm & sensitivity.
Well masterful blended high quality Scent ,symphonic harmonic , honestly that aroma beats me !
Delightful ,charming ,modern , simple , its smells as 5 star luxury yacht in the medeterian sea !
A masterpiece from “Xerjoff ” join the club collection .
40knots to the love !
10/10 .
lex123 – :
im changing my mind towards Xerjoff fragrances! now this one has sort of the vibe that i can smell in grossmith Diamond Jubilee. that posh vanilla essence that comes after 3 hours as it appears shyly on the first spray but vanishing through time and hits hard after hours. i can smell that summer essence of a salty clean sea breeze but i prefer this one on a colder weather than worm to hot weather. amazing combination and elegant fragrance.
i’ve been asked May 2015 by a gentleman who works in Ralph Lauren Bond Street London of what i was wearing, and i realized that the fragrance he was asking for was only on my wrest after testing it from Fortnum and Mason Piccadilly street and that’s after around 1 to 2 hours, he said he loves new fragrances and weird ones specially leathery ones as mine was charming as he described 🙂
kolergod – :
Some impressions come into my mind when i spray 40 Knots on skin. The first one, which i’ll develop further, is that it’s aroma is familiar to me, reminding me of a mainstream fragrance not so known and already kind of forgotten, the discontinued Diesel Zero Plus masculine.The second impression is that there is something retro about it which for me seems to be associated with my image of an Yatch Club. And the third is that, altough this has coeherence and it’s well done, i suspect that this one of those perfumes where the bottle and presentations costed much more than the fragrance formula itself. On its essential structure, 40 Knots is Zero Plus in a modified form: the cinnamon, the vanilla and the almond heliotrope touch are all there.The main diference is that 40 knots highlights a carnation flower accord, spicy, hot and a little bit powdery and this is the main retro touch that makes me think of the club. Something also gives me a lemon sensation and for some moments is almost if this was an isolated part of coca-cola aroma. There is also a green note in this composition that makes me smell, in an incomplete form, a roses aroma for quite a few seconds. The interesting parts of 40 Knots – the carnation, the coca-cola sensation, the fragmented rose – unfortunately are brief sensations mixes in the aforementioned notes of cinnamon, vanilla and heliotrope, ending in the tipical xerjoff base: a woody, synthetic, sharp and dry aroma. Well, if luxury is in the details, certainly here you are purchasing something like that, just have in mind that this is a mainstream creation modified and packaged to have prestige, which highs it price considerably.
etalon – :
40 knots smells like being on a yacht on the Mediterranean where the water is pristinely blue. It’s midday, in midsummer, but the weather is pleasantly warm. Remarkable scent.
9/10
Diemiapoige – :
This is quite a unique fragrance in the sense that it starts out very quietly, almost so that I was on the verge of dismissing it. But then the magic started, from pp to ff. Gradually it became a powerful fragrance with good silage and very long duration.
It doesn’t feel like an aquatic to me, more a woody-floral in an Italian Mediterranean style. It is well blended with citrus, woody, floral and spicy notes. It is perhaps not the best ‘Italian style’ blend, Acqua di Parma being my benchmark, but it is well executed with quality ingredients.
Edit: I really like it, but AdP Essenza occupies the same space in my mind, although the smell is not the same, so this fragrance will be redundant for me.
alexzoner – :
I am totally fascionated by it!
First – sparkling, spicy, sweet. Surprising beginning.
Not only aquatic, it is complex.
Enough sweet and salty with pleasant wood.
Woody notes goes afterwards stronger and it stayes on clothes foerever.
Freshness and spicyness dies slowly and remains basicly wood and sweet.
Previous users have mentioned cinnamon. Yes, indeed, there is a bit cinnamon 😉
It doesn`t need a good imagination to imagine a yacht, warm sun, water splashes and champange 🙂
kurtubash – :
Amazing fragrance!!!
Absolutely amazing!!!
This is simply brilliant The JTC has a third knockout!
Ivory route, More than words, now this what a treat.
My first impression was PRADA LUNA ROSSA EXTREME, I love that fragrance and never imagined a classier more upmarket version that was released over a year before…this is it!
40 Knots has a marine accord without the tiresome awful cheapness of designer marine fragrances(excluding LUNA ROSSA), it is even a little salty at first. It’s so much more than I’d anticipated, 40 knots has a deep amber base which shines throughout, it feels opulent and warm. It even has a hot sweetness of cinnamon or clove running through it.
Projection and longevity were very good.
I would wear this… if I could afford it.
I can’t get all three… that would be ridiculous! I’m not sure I want any either? I’m on the fence as much as I’ve enjoyed them.
Fingers crossed Birdie will excite me too because that would top off a predominately good range of fragrances from Xerjoff.
Are they worth the money?
These are for people that if you have to worry about the price you can’t afford it!
RABBIT__8 – :
An aromatic aquatic with a dominant mint or menthol note complimented by carnation, cloves and amber. Vegetal green notes (green bell pepper, fresh green herbs and mint), marine notes reminiscent of salty ocean spray with faint warm spices (cloves) and crisp florals shine in the opening. Perhaps a hint of calone and bergamot too. This gives way to floral notes including cool and crisp geranium, lavendar and carnation with refreshing menthol notes on a base of marine notes, spicy cloves, warm amber and smooth cedar. Amber and cedar become more pronounced in the dry down.
Xerjoff’s elegant and modern take on an aromatic aquatic scent reminiscent of davidoffs cool water. And it does exactly as promised by evoking images of yachting on a clear sunny day on the open ocean, salty ocean breeze gently blowing by and a carnation flower pinned to your white linen shirt. Would I wear it? Sure. Would I buy it? Probably not given the strong carnation note and steep cost to join the 40 knots club.
gatti-1985 – :
40 KNOTS is…well, exactly what it is supposed to be. This perfume should evoke associations with a yacht club and it does it 100%.
40 KNOTS is not simply an aquatic perfume that reminds you of sea, it is a bit more than this. 40 KNOTS is the wind in your hair, open wide world, hot salty air, never ending ocean and luxurious feeling of freedom and wealth.
40 KNOTS is THE PERFECT marine fragrance for males.
MASIAN777 – :
sweeter lighter creamier version of fico di amalfi… also with an added touch of voyage d’hermes…
super elegant classy rich
Serg119 – :
Simply gorgeous. At the same time very elegant and refreshing (crispy). Complex, notes are very well blended, I feel citruses, woods, spice (cloves?), sea breeze, maybe flowers (carnation?). IMO better for men. I love it. When I wear this I feel exceptionally and self confident and I know I smell very good and sophisticated (I got many compliments). At present, this is the best fragrance in my collection
Kondepol – :
EN
The great combination of dark blue glass and gold details of the bottle design are the best reminiscences of the sea and the stories narrated by the long winter evenings in the 40 Knots Club. This perfume like those old stories makes you imagine the Venice lagoon, filled with pungent smell of the sea, the fog on the Thames and a diamond flashing light rippling waves from distant shores. Violent waves of life spared our yacht again and the sweetness of an achieved goal, was mixed with the smell of leather couches in the cabin and the aroma of lacquered mahogany. When you feel exhausted, the cool wave of 40 Knots washes over you with the power that makes you go forward and reminds you that you are a true skipper of your fate – because you are a member of the Club of 40 Knots.
IT
Una combinazione di vetro blu e dei dettagli in oro nel design della bottiglia sono i migliori ricordi del mare e delle storie narrate durante le lunghe serate invernali nel Club 40 Knots. Questo profumo come quelle vecchie storie ci fa immaginare la laguna di Venezia, piena di odore pungente del mare, la nebbia sul Tamigi e le luci vibranti di diamanti delle onde da lidi lontani. Violenti ondate della vita hanno risparmiato il nostro yacht anche questa volta e la dolce soddisfazione di una meta raggiunta, è stata mescolata con l’odore di divani in pelle in cabina e l’aroma di mogano laccato. Quando ti senti esausto, l’onda fresca di 40 Knots ti rinfrescherà e ti farà andare avanti e ti ricorderà che sei un vero capitano del tuo destino – perché sei un membro del 40 Knots Club.