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Amuncunmabs1985 – :
This review is for the Jacomo Parfum Rare EDT……
(same bottle,but clear glass/golden juice..with the same cap as shown.
They don’t make-em like this anymore !! Beautiful classic/vintage scent…green/earthy/rich/woody/floral chypre.
In the same vein as Jean Louis Scherrer, Jacomo Silences, Givenchy III, Jil Sander II, and YSL Y, and yes…Chanel 19.
This is smoooooth and luxurious…..
shilz – :
This review for Parfum Rare EXTRAIT
A Masterpiece…It is beguiling, bewitching me with it’s soft flowers & citrus surrounded by smooth spice and sandalwood. It’s earthy and elegant. If it wasn’t so precious and hard to obtain, I would wear it everyday.
It just made my top 10 including Enchanted Forest The Vagabond Prince, Silences, Gucci No.3, Chamade, Moribito OR Noir and Givenchy III.
If I could wear Chanel No. 5 (but I cannot wear civet) then I might compare it to that, it has that level of nuance. They simply don’t make them like this any more.
serb – :
I’m enjoying a lazy Sunday and here are my quick impressions on various iterations in order of my personal preference:
Extrait Parfum Rare: Hello gorgeous! Smooth operator, least powdery.
EDP Coeur de Parfum, black trapezoid bottle: Most like extrait, less powdery than the Parum Rare EDT, it seems like a cross between the Parfum Rare EDT and Parfum Rare Extrait.
EDT Parfum Rare, tester clear round glass: I get more rosewood.
EDT Parfum Rare, clear glass trapezoid with black lid: Most green opening, most powder.
But all are beautiful and the quality is amazing.
To my mind, this fragrance is totally unisex. I love this on me and I would LOVE this on a man.
List of Notes From My Vintage EDT Tester Parfum Rare
Bases Et Absolus:
Bois de Rose
Cardomome de Ceylan
Jasmin d’Egypte
Iris de Florence
Rose de Mai
Vetiver
Oeillet d’Inde
Coriandre
Immortelle
Mousses de Chene
Santal
Patchouli
*edited for clarity
Clencehendicy – :
I have 2 mini’s, one says PARFUM RARE Coeur de Parfum, the other says COEUR DE PARFUM.
PARFUM RARE ~ I love the opening, such a nice blending of wood, spice & dark smokiness (incense & forest, not tobacco). The gorgeous iris develops & blooms in the middle phase, a bit sweet and smells like lilac in there too. A bit much for me but man, I love that base! It’s a bit aromatic, and definitely unique. Thankfully the floral part blends nicely after the middle phase. The mix of feminine and earthy is really good in this one. It could be a daytime option for Vol de Nuit fans, tea-time option =]. The base is more spicy than VdN but the floral is more sunny.
The mini is cute & the spice is nice, so I’ll try layering it with other things, to cut the sweetness. Maybe rose or an earthy scent.
COEUR DE PARFUM ~ To be updated. It seems less floral but I’ll review this one at another time!
wgf192elipseskism – :
100% positive reviews and mine will reinforce this 100% again repeated. Try. This. All perfumistas and that is an order LOL…Really, what a classic Beauty, this one. I loved Silences always and now I try a vintage mini of RARE. I may well look to Ebay to stock up as they can still be found. I wonder if RARE and RARE Coeur de Parfum are two different variations?
Classy juice – all the way. I´m a very novice nose so I wont try to name the notes, but the feeling is really uplifting – not a cloying thing is sight. And it stays close to the skin, behaving as a proper perfume should… Kissing close to smell, yet a hint of a waft, as one walks by…
And agree also on the sublte and fine note of masculinity, which to me balances things so well and so missing today too often in women´s scents…
Scents to me should all be of unisex choice as if a man likes vanilla rose, he should be able to smell like that and a woman like cedarwood.
Joydaytop – :
EDIT- on skin: green beginning, sharing the top notes above. lovely! vintage. lady like. special occasion.
it is more bitter than sweet. orris is prominent. and vetiver. dark woody. then it develops into a dry, smokey, antique furniture perfume…(almost ashen when i smell my wrist).
someone said “crispy” like taffeta. yes! it is a 1980’s taffeta dress.
it is as if those moments in the theatre box, were sealed for decades in a beautiful wooden box and someone just opened the lid.
yes it smells old school, but it DOES also have an 80’s vibe, as it shares a smoke note with LouLou, that burning plastic LouLou smoke…
this combined with the smell that wafts from the inside of an old mahogany box when you open the lid.
dry, smokey, dark wood.
i don’t want to put my Cabochard and Arpege head on, but this shares that old fashioned perfume “masculinity” that modern women’s perfumes seem to lack.
i love it, but i am not sure when i will have the occasion to wear it.
review for vintage EDP (they call it soft perfume concentration).
Spaceman – :
love the vintage bottle and the 80’s atomiser!
?? it was even packaged in moulded polystyrene! ever seen that inside a perfume box? (safely snuggled in there like a futuristic artefact or a new electrical gadget).
on paper:
a green beginning and my initial reaction is yes, this is not unlike a cyphre floral from half a century before 1987!
immediately, the bergamot is prominent in this.
the geranimum and spicy carnation are just lovely.
i am sure i am getting aldehydes (not listed).
there is a sweetness i remember from testing Arpege…..my feeling is that i am going to love this, like i hoped i would the current formulation of Arpege, (which was a massive disappointment).
and if i wasn’t going out to dinner in a couple of hours, then i would have had an eager squirt on my wrists!
as we are talking labdanum, oakmoss, vetiver, sandalwood, orris and rose….
all favourite notes, drifting for the paper….i can’t wait to wear this when i get home!
i just walked back into the room where the test strip was and this smells like the opera…i mean elegant ladies who filled the theatre bar with perfume, posh chatter and crispy frocks when i was just a teenager. they would wait poised and upright as the men in black tie queued for their drinks….i would skulk to the bar in my charity shop vintage outfit, too young to drink the white wine they held by the stem and sipped, leaving thick pink lip marks. they would rustle past me to return to their seats and use their heirloom opera glasses…while i squinted from the gods, as the yet another heroine met her death at the end.
atevdor – :
Before this year I’d never heard of Jacomo but this is now my second perfume from them. I am impressed with the quality of the perfumes as well as the creativity of the fragrances they produce. I’m looking forward to trying the Art Collection series next.
As for Parfum Rare, I smell loads of carnation, coriander, cardamom, bergamot and patchouli, with a dry down that includes orris root and incense. It’s not an overly loud scent, but it definitely makes its presence known. It is a complex fragrance that smells decades older than it’s creation in 1987. This is a beautiful chypre floral composition with notes that blend together gracefully. I only have the eau de toilet and can only imagine how much more rich the parfum would be, never the less, I’m very happy with my ebay purchase. Well done Jacomo!
sashass21 – :
Amazing! Smooth musk and patchouli with a huge dollop of carnation, powdery, smooth, classy. The cardamom adds a superb spiciness to the whole composition and works in full harmony with the rest of the notes. This is so well blended, and could be worn by men too thanks to its amazing composition that balances beautifully sweet and dry, spicy and smooth, soft and deep. Towards the dry down the vetiver becomes intense and deep lending a more masculine vibe to the scent. A masterpiece!
Couldn’t recommend it more!
ladyntl – :
A masterpiece.
This perfume reminds me very much of the first Armani womens release, (another masterpiece!).
Vecher2010 – :
My favorite perfume. Never loved another one like this one!
I couldn’t find it anymore here in France and after looking for it a long time, I finally gave up. I just found it on Ebay and of course, I immediately bought it.
After all those years, I never thought I’d find it again. I can’t wait to receive it!
allberg – :
Unmatched patch! A winelike fullness, round, heady, persistent, though linear past the first ten minutes. Moderately spiced with coriander and cardamom later, too, carnation, earthily flowered, exquisitely anchored to a Rubenesque base. A pleasant waxiness suggests aldehydes not listed above. Parfum Rare in vintage parfum calls to mind candelabras, heavy velvet curtains, a bored society woman having an affair with the gardener in the 60s, all of this in the best possible way of course. Elegant but full of longing, warm, open to influence. Gorgeous sillage too, and this could work on many different types, regardless of gender or age. There is something of the Byronic hero here, too, all that dark and heavy patchouli amounting to a quiet refusal to play nice.
kashiri – :
Love, love, love! (Sorry) I picked this up at an estate sale, initially more interested in the presentation case than the perfume. It had that late 60’s cheesy elegant plastic look that was so loved by people like Andy Warhol and Rudy Gernreich. I was surprised when I looked it up to find out it was from 1987 and full of notes that I would not normally list as favorites. Putting it on resolved my doubts. It’s wonderful with oakmoss (obviously the real stuff), vetiver, carnation and geranium. The wood note is fabulous but it doesn’t smell like sandalwood to me–more like mahogany or a darker wood. The word that keeps coming to mind as I keep sniffing this is “crunchy”–not like granola but like a handful of silk taffeta. A delightful surprise.
Sillage: arm length
Persistence: 4 hours and counting
Fabulosity: Audrey Hepburn in a Givenchy gown
Value to price ratio: good
9/10
vdp696Negeltzex – :
I agree with both reviewers, this smells like perfume, and I mean a grand perfume. It is utterly golden and beautiful. Well blended, spices are apparent but don’t take over. It smells classic and I wish it had become that.
Cry_baby – :
I always get nervous when I peruse a scent’s notes and see my favorites, as I do here. My fear is that it will turn into a stinker, and the disappointment would be too great.
But no disappointment with Parfum Rare. What a surprising find this is! I’ve never heard of Jacomo until it came by way of a swap (and if you look who else reviewed this, you’ll have an idea who that was 😉
Parfum rare jumps right into its stride with me, not changing much over the entire wearing. So what does it smell like?
A promiscuous worker bee.
This is a warm, golden fragrance dusted with a buzz of spice. It has a strong powdery vibe that reminds me of bee pollen (that golden yellow dust that is heavy and sweet). This powder note is a smidge stronger than I would like, and is the only aspect that gives me pause to buy.
You may want to try this if you are a fan of Organza Indecence, Parfum Sacre, or general Amber scents. This is a sunset fragrance, warm, red, and breath taking. I’ll play with my sample over a few weeks and see if my opinion changes at all.
Vifontlove – :
My love affair with all things Jacomo continues.
Coeur de Parfum/Parfum Rare is a fusty, classy old dame that surely smelled a bit dated even at the time it was introduced. It’s a grand chypre floral of the old school. If you told me it was introduced in 1957 instead of 1987, I would have believed you.
The closest scent to which I can compare it is Ungaro’s Diva, which I loved but found unwearable on my skin. Coeur de Parfum is a bit softer, toning down the overpowering sweetness of Diva while still packing the one-two punch of oakmoss and vetiver in the base. Coeur de Parfum conjures images of powerful women in expensive evening wear, with satin-gloved hands clasping long black cigarette holders. The scent lasts all day long but seems best suited for nighttime wear.
If you like sweet scents full of fruits and flowers, stay far away from this one.
If you love and lament the long-gone days when women smelled like perfume instead of fruits and flowers, this discontinued classic is worth the hunt and worth the price.