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.
Ascot Moon was launched in 2012.
Meuhl453bedyWelty – :
Longevity 8/10
Projection 7/10
Sillage 7/10
Originality 19/10 there’s no other perfume smells like it,never ever, not even close, and only one thing in the world smells exactly and unmistakably like it…
Scent 2/10 …I can only imagine how much this scent adored by the hard core lovers of an old school shoe polish!
CHitemavia – :
Surely this is an interesting scent, unique, in my opinion, and also differentiated. For me think it’s a perfume that work well on most occasions, found it very versatile.
In the opening i feel much nutmeg and maybe a little ginger, spices frecas that with the basil brings a very unique aroma.
After a while i smell a herbal aroma, slightly woody and patchouli bring of an earthy touch. After all this, I close my eyes, smell my wrist and I find myself in a country club or perhaps on a farm hotel, watching the rain fall on the freshly cut grass, and the feeling of tranquility is very good, as the aroma this beautiful creation.
apostal777 – :
So far, this is the only one in this line that succeded in caughting my attention. It’s positive for me that, different from the others, this doesn’t have that sharp, dry and strong synthetic base. But yet, it’s one with a clear mainstream inspiration, even that in a kind of less explored or forgotten path (which might be the reason why i think it’s interesting). Ascoot Moon reminds me a lot of a modern take of the galbanum and dry herbs aroma of the classic Balmain Vent Vert. I beliebe that the horse club inspiration is captured here more through the environment smell of fresh grass, recently cut, and smell which is interesting for me due the contrast of a green citrus aroma mixed with that vegetal bitter green side that you get in the air when the grass was just cut. I also think that it’s interesting that Ascot moon has a classic polished leather aroma, which makes me think of the saddlery articles maybe (boots and the saddle itself). This leather aroma transforms, somehow, in mix of incense and mineral musk, that finishes the fragrance in a little too simple way. This part i think it could have been better worked, but i overlook it due the different mixture of leather and green notes.
vfrfh2007 – :
Ascot Moon opens with a clean blast of lush grassy notes, cedarwood and pepper which makes you think mmmm…that’s interesting.
As it settles it becomes decidedly spicier, strong oily, earthy tones which to me resemble diesel…not so pleasant.
I think all that filth is coming from a dirty ‘hippy’ patchouli and spice something like caraway.
The dry down is smokey but does mellow quite a lot after a few hours and it’s nature becomes different again and this makes for an interesting fragrance. Ascot moon is bold but too weird for most peoples taste I would imagine, even mine.
An interesting outing for all you patchouli lovers but I’d rather steer clear of it.
Update: Interestingly enough I’ve since purchased an earthy/soil tincture type fragrance which although isn’t a million miles away from this and weirdly enough also has ‘moon’ in the title…it’s somehow much more appealing. This is still very smoky and oily in comparison but upon wearing it again the quality is undoubtable.
aertalyon – :
Just because only 1 person has yet to review this on Fragrantica, I leave you my 1st impression, late night review:
1st thought blind testing: WOW this is oddly herbal/green/fresh! The sage and grass notes definitely dominate, followed closely by a very freshly-broken basil leaf scent. The grass is covered in cold morning dew, not sharp or harsh at all. This is the 1st 5 mins so will try to report back… so far I like it a lot but would not buy it as it’s not really my style (I don’t tend to like many fresh scents on myself).
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antinhoolk – :
RU
Видимо я не сумел донести свою мысль относительно линии Join The Club от Xerjoff: это первый бренд, который не побоялся отказаться от списка ингредиентов именно потому, что этот список и сбивает с толку покупателя. Я могу признаться, что трижды заказывая по Интернету ароматы известных элитных брендов, основываясь на ингредиентах (выуженных со страниц Fragrantica). Это случалось потому, что в Италии не было возможности найти эти ароматы вживую. Должен сказать что все 3 раза были неудачны: несмотря на то что сами ингредиенты мне нравились вцелом и по отдельности, несмотря на то, что все они входили в состав парфюмов которые я приобретал вживую и раньше и которые мне нравились, общая формула приобретённых по интернету ароматов не стоила того (да ещё и за €350 за каждый флакон в среднем). Именно поэтому я не хочу вдаваться в инсинуации по поводу того чем пахнет этот аромат, да пожалуй и вся линия Join The Club от Xerjoff. Я полагаю, что намного ценнее в комментарии: умение передать ощущение от аромата, помочь понять ситуацию в которой ощущает себя человек примеряющий этот аромат на себе. По статусу ли ему этот запах, по силам ли ему этот уровень? Так же как в Китае существовали цвета в одежде дозволенные лишь Императору, точно так же и ароматы: это не маска под которой может скрыться батрак, выдавая себя за Графа, но скорее это Сам Граф ещё более подчеркивает яркое творение парфюмера примеряя его творение на себя. Надеюсь в этот раз я пояснил свою мысль.
EN
You may ask me why I tell nothing about the ingredients of JTC line. I’m sure that Join The Club of Xerjoff is actually the first brand that is not afraid to keep in secret the list of ingredients, precisely because this list often confuses the customer. I can admit that I’ve ordered three perfumes of famous luxury brands from their websites, basing my choise on the ingredients list (found on Fragrantica.com). This happened because in Italy it wasn’t possible to find these perfumes anywhere. I must say that all 3 times were unsuccessful in spite of the fact that I liked the ingredients themselves separately, in fact that they were also a part of a lot of perfumes I acquired before and I liked them, the perfumes I’ve purchased on the Net was really my taste (and I paid for them like € 350 per bottle on average). That’s why I do not want to make insinuations about the ingredients of Join The Club line. I believe that much more valuable in the review: the ability to convey the feeling from the aroma itself and to help to understand the situation in which a person that tries on the fragrance may find himself. He has to assess if he could afford this level? As well as in China there were colors in clothing permitted only to the Emperor, in the same way it works with perfumes: it’s not a mask which can hide the pleb, posing him as Earl, but rather it’s the Count himself emphasizes the creation of perfumer when he tries on his creation. I hope that this time I did explain my idea about the niche fragrances.
IT
Se mi chiederete perché non dico nulla agli ingredienti della linea JTC, vi risponderò che sono sicuro che la linea delle fragranze Join The Club di Xerjoff è in realtà il primo marchio che non aveva paura di tenere nascosto un elenco degli ingredienti, proprio perché proprio questo elenco confonde spesso il cliente. Posso ammettere che ho ordinato almeno 3 profumi di lusso dei Nomi famosi dai loro siti web, basando la mia scelta sulla lista degli ingredienti (che si trova ad esempio su Fragrantica.com). Questo è accaduto perché in Italia non è stato possibile trovare questi profumi da nessuna parte. Devo dire che tutte le volte non ho avuto successo, nonostante il fatto che mi piacevano (separatamente) gli ingredienti e che addirittura facevano parte di un sacco dei profumi che avevo acquisito nel passato nelle profumerie in città e che, comunque, mi piacevano, i profumi che ho acquistato su Internet sono stati un vero fallimento (e ho pagato per loro circa € 350 per bottiglia). È per questo che non voglio fare insinuazioni riguarda gli ingredienti di Join The Club. Credo che molto più importante nella recensione: la capacità di trasmettere la sensazione che crea la fragranza, ma anche riuscir aiutare a capire la situazione in cui una persona che veste questo profumo potrebbe trovarsi. Si dovrebbe valutare seriosamente se potesse permettersi questo livello. Lo sapete comunque che in Cina erano proibiti certi colori per l’uso della gente comune nell’abbigliamento, perché erano permessi solo all’Imperatore, allo stesso modo questo vale per i profumi: il profumo di nicchia non è una maschera dietro quale si può nascondere la plebe, facendo finta di essere un signore, ma piuttosto è il Conte che si privilegia la creazione di profumiere quando lo veste. Mi auguro che questa volt sono riuscito a spiegare meglio la mia idea riguarda la profumeria di nicchia.
ladilova – :
EN
The breeze filled with vibrant smell and exciting anticipation, racecourse hum and then… suddenly, as a single impulse, like a surge and a thunder of exploding dam, Ascot Moon perfume splash shakes you, pulling into the vortex of a new day in the race of events where participation is not important, but only the Victory. This frantic leap is a preparation for a decisive breakthrough, which is the most important thing of your life. Previously, you didn’t know how to explain this seething energy, how to realize that magic feeling of close Victory, then you’ve understood how are important these feelings in order to achieve the goal. It was in the world you left behind the doors of Club Ascot Moon.
IT
La brezza piena di profumo vibrante e pieno di emozioni, un ronzio dell’ippodromo affollato e poi, all’improvviso, come un unico impulso, come un tuono di esplosione, così il profumo Ascot Moon, che ti scuote, tirando nel vortice di un nuovo giorno, nella gara di eventi in cui la partecipazione non avrebbe una minima importanza, ma solo la Vittoria avrebbe un senso. Questo salto frenetico sarebbe una preparazione per una svolta decisiva, che sarebbe la cosa più importante della tua vita. In precedenza, non sapevi come spiegarti questa energia ribollente, come realizzare quella magica atmosfera di Vittoria vicina. Adesso però hai capito quanto sono importanti questi sentimenti, al fine di raggiungere l’obiettivo. Era stato nel mondo che hai lasciato dietro le spalle, dietro le porte di Ascot Moon Club.