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.
Birdie was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Chris Maurice.
12rede – :
Earthy – soil – green aquatic
Color impression: seaweed green
Birdie is a marginal fragrance that, in first glance, is everything but a Xerjoff because it’s out of Xerjoff’s conventional style. So simple and readable, it’s all one could imagine from a golf court: lawn, a bit sweat maybe, damp air, wet soil and dark green smells. It’s Birdie; a weirdo patchouli fragrance with telluric nuances and musty patchouli, vetiver, probably carrot seeds or kind of oud, and hidden aquatic hint. In dry down it reminds you Hermès Un Jardin sur le Nil.
★★★
Ксюха Лашкевич – :
An earthy smell. In other words: Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɪkɔər/) is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek πέτρα petra, meaning “stone”, and ἰχώρ īchōr, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology.
zarzand – :
Somehow this is a greener or blu – ish M7 to my nose. Strange and unique. Extremely different and took a second to appreciate the complexity goin on here. Very nice after it grew on me!!
bona85 – :
Not sure why there isn’t more love for this fragrance! To this girls nose it’s gorgeous!! It opens with a harsh in your face dirty greenness! (I like it !). And I must confess I’m a patchouli lover! So peeps who don’t like patchouli stay away!
This fragrance is beast like projection right off the bat! I used two sprays from a recently acquired decant, and it filled the house ! I took a shower and spritzed it on, my husband was in our back garage and walked in the house, and said “wow you smell great!” All the way from the opposite end of the house! Birdie is quickly becoming a favorite fragrance of mine, and I can already foresee a full bottle in my near future… It’s a really comforting fragrance to me, can’t wait to own it! I’m in love with it! <3. <3. <3. <3
Cronos – :
Birdie opens badly! I’m not a huge fan of patchouli at the best of times but I can appreciate it on occasion, however not in this creation. The opening reminds me of the smell you get from a stale old tent you’ve had in a shed for years. Even the green notes in this are strange and sand? Is that because of the golf theme? Odd! It’s slightly dirty earthy and even a bit of the sea in there as well.
The dry down isn’t too bad the patchouli matures and takes on more of a familiar character but still not something I like or could ever envisage willingly putting on my skin.
Update: hmmmm…second time around and it hasn’t gotten much better. However this is a very interesting and evocative patchouli. There’s a super natural smell to me which reminds me of hanging out in fields as a kid getting upto no good. A faint misty smell of farmers fields, grass, hay, evening air a fishing pond perhaps maybe the canal…it’s quite vivid. All this was within close proximity to a golf course so the theme kinda stands up.
I don’t know what it is but I’ve started to get a real appreciation for earthy fragrance but would still never wear this one.
frog-71.71 – :
Very strong earthy, dirty and slightly green patchouli fragrance. Smells like astroturf, dirt and earthy greens. Good one for patchouli lovers!
chib – :
What a pitty that it doesn’t last longer! I like the delicate green opening with immediate reference to soft grass and warm earth. The second impression is leather on an old chair followed by the sensation of an exclusive bookshop or office. The last element opens the scene with an earthy vetiver. Everything appears so refined and luxury. I might need to try on fabric rather than my skin.
Lauren_fromAF – :
EN
Golf wasn’t chosen accidentally by Xerjoff as a theme of this fragrance and the virtual club named Birdi. Smell itself as the sense, Golf itself as the game they both are something much more than just information received from the senses, and more then just a simple pastime. It is rather a weave feelings, memories, hidden desires and pride of belonging to the Elect Club. Birdi is a Club for the true connoisseurs of a good life, people for whom the money is not a goal itself, but only a step, a tool to achieve the goal. This is a club for connoisseurs of sophisticated fragrance which like Golf itself may seem too sophisticated for the average person. But one day, when you’ll make your first step on the putting green, when your first ball will reach the hole, all fear of being misunderstood by people will be suddenly melted away without leaving a trace, and only felt of freedom to make your own choice will be your main feeling, you will come to the Birdi Golf Club on your red cabriolet with the opened top and your name will be added to the list of this Elite Club forever.
IT
Golf non è stato scelto casualmente da Xerjoff come il tema di questo profumo: un Golf Club virtuale di nome Birdi. L’olfatto come il senso, Golf come un gioco quando entrambi sono qualcosa di molto di più delle informazioni ricevute da organi dei sensi, sono molto più di un semplice passatempo. Sono, piuttosto un misto dei sentimenti, dei ricordi e dei desideri nascosti o meglio: l’orgoglio di appartenere al Club Eletto. Birdi è un Club per i veri intenditori di una bella vita, persone per le quali il denaro non è un obiettivo in sé, ma solo un passo, uno strumento per raggiungere l’obiettivo più importante. Questo è un Club per gli amanti delle fragranze sofisticate che come Golf stesso possono sembrare troppo sofisticate per una persona comune. Ma un giorno, quando farai il tuo primo passo sul campo di Golf, quando la tua prima palla raggiungerà la buca, ogni timore di essere frainteso dalla gente comune sarà improvvisamente dissolto senza lasciare una traccia, e solo senso della libera di fare la propria scelta sarà il tuo sentimento principale, tu raggiungerai Birdi Golf Club in tua cabriolet rossa e il tuo nome verrà aggiunto alla lista di questo Club per sempre.
matysik – :
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.
ajgu-idrisov – :
this is actually closely related to Hermes’s Jardin sur de Nil! Just a little more vanillic