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.
Comandante was launched in 2012.
Joker007 – :
Weirded out! Awesome unusual scent.
First – the marketing for this misleads – representing the most exclusive cigar club in the world is not what I get from this – doesn’t matter it still is great.
Secondly – some reviews here must be bogus or confused or ultimately people by the sounds don’t even own a bottle so maybe they bought a fake? – its nothing like One Million or Diptyique Volutes AT ALL. FULL STOP.
Thirdly – the voted note table is completely skewed. My skin is not that unusual – I find I smell what is usually listed or the same as per experienced noses that write the most succinct reviews. For example – A light unsweetened Cherry some may smell is a complimentary mid note that is from the mix of fruit, cedar, spices and honey and whilst I can envisage that it actually smells to me like the separate notes – its no cherry bomb! The vanilla may be there but its complimentary to assist rather than to be smelled per se. There is also clearly Tobacco in this however it is muted enough to sit just above the cedar and just be picked out without becoming dominant. Whats not listed is the slight menthol vibe with the patchouli grounding the scent.
In fact this scent with its blend could almost be categorised as either an Aquatic, a Fruity, a Woody or a Tobacco scent (maybe, maybe also a floral) such is the balance of the notes.
No – what this scent is to me would be like sitting on a deck chair at the back of a yacht on a sunny but cool day on a fresh water lake as its plowing through the water. With the speed it is making your splashed in your face with fresh water and wind, just in front of you a bowl of over ripe fruit (apples,pears, grapes) sits on a freshly cut cedar table and wafts toward you in the wind whilst someone 30 metres away at the front throws a bowl of spices in the air which sparingly mixes in the wind, meanwhie you notice your wearing your unwashed shirt from this morning that has absorbed the smell of the cigars that fell out of the canister in your suitcase.
In a pleasant way it also reminds me of Windex Window Cleaner with tobacco, cedar and a spice kick.
Refreshingly different. May not be the most challenging original Xerjoff but the reviews here don’t do it justice and frankly – I don’t think I have smelled anything like it (for reference I own Parfum De Marly Herod, TF TV, Miller Harris Feuilles De Tabac, CSP Rhum Et Tabac, Ex Idol Ryder, a number of Killian, Atelier Cologne Tobacco Nuit, Slumberhouse Baque, Creed Tabarome, & SS Farmacia Annunciate Tobacco D’Autore – which this last one is the only thing close to it)
It took me many sample tries to decide wether I liked it (in itself a nod that I wasn’t sure wether it was worth the high price – maybe it isn’t but its worth having).
Now, I’m buying another bottle…
stas198989 – :
Cherry bomb in my take..LOVE LOVE LOVE. Ordered from Xerjoff Universe.Com…100 ml and lasts forever on skin
kocoiv – :
Vintage edition (for the new one I don t have any curiosity at all): Comandante?? Haha are u kidding me. Maybe a comandante on heels, this is a tipically drag queen fragrance, not necesarry bad but with a very nasty feminine side. In corpore, is a weak fruit salad, sweet, nauseating, with lack of personality. There is no comandante in it, don t hope to find one. Also very chemical ery similar with Pure Havane, absolutely unjustified price, moderate sillage and 3-4 hours longevity. A waste of money.
Алекс00200АА – :
I’m……. totally puzzled and confused.
I just don’t get why is this called Comandante. When I read the word Comandante, I imagine something Caribbean-masculine-cigar… you know the drill. I imagine something from the Tropico video game series (especially Tropico 3 that I worked on years ago).
Well, this is neither of those things. Although it has some (just a little) tobacco note, it’s generally too fruity, too light, too usual, and too casual.
Simple verdict: NO.
I wouldn’t buy it even at Aramis price range, and I totally won’t buy it for Xerjoff price. Though I have to admit, I had quite a hope for it.
oav654speagoessenda – :
I think if you go into this one reading the story behind it you maybe a little disappointed. Supposedly its supposed to represent the highest most expensive tobacco cigar club whatever. And the scent is just to bubble gum fruity and sweet to really call to mind tobacco or a cigar instantly imo. It just really lacks any even slight aspect of roughness to it(besides a beginning portion that is kinda out there that ill get into)to make me call something like that to mind. Though saying that, certainly I have never been to the highest most luxurious cigar club in the world so maybe this is what it smells like!.. moving on…
To describe this fragrance in a interesting way, ill take what has been said before as well in other reviews that this has a almost ink marker opening, and it also kinda smells a little bit like polo red(go figure).
So lets imagine we have a scented marker. The scent of this maker is a very fruity, sorta cherryish, bubble gum tobacco, with just a hint of a sticky sparkle from the honey, and some more sweetness from the honey.
We start to draw… polo red. Dunno why but we are drawing polo red, like we as the artist have been given the task of having notes that dont relate to polo red at all, yet trying to recreate it using what we are given.
Of course no matter what we do, we cant really make polo red with this, but somehow the viewer can still sorta see a bit of polo red in the painting. Or at least we can see it as a bubble gum tobacco flanker of polo red, certainly not a clone in anyway, yet somehow strangely similar. But ultimately the notes we are given with are what shines through….
The opening, to first few hours of this is potentially a little almost.. Funky. Even years later trying it again it still kinda tingles the nose in a way. Its quite chemical smelling, and again almost as others have said a marker ink. A marker ink with a some powder to tingle the nose. Obviously its synthetic but theres just something a little strange about it. Its not entirely unpleasant, but it tingles the nose for sure. Of course polo red is synthetic and tingles the nose as well, but more so with that sorta cool, citrus, and woodys vibe that tends to tingle the nose.
Once the strangeness goes away, your basically left with that sorta bubble gummy, fruity, cherry, sparkle of sticky honey and vanilla, some warm leather to make it snuggly and richer, and just a touch of tobacco so it can still be called a tobacco scent.
Its grown on me over the years, and I wouldnt mind having a decant of it, but its probably pretty hard to justify the price, especially with the slightly strange beginning. But after that its nice enough, although slightly misleading.
Юля1000 – :
Starts off strong with a beautiful deep tobacco note with dried or candied fruits. Think a fine humidor stocked with Connecticut leafe wrapper cigars next to a once-warmed-now-cooling fruitcake with a bouquet of powdery flowers nearby.
I though “signature scent worthy…!?” And while I was contemplating where I would store all my boxes (because tha packaging is ridiculous) it lost the fresh tobacco and some of the fruit. The florals became more prominent too.
With dread and disappointment it hit me: this is a slightly different version of Dyptique’s Volutes EDP once it hits the mid. Except Dyptique bottles are 75ml and cost $150 us and the Xerjoff is $220? For a 50ml.
Dammit -.- I wanted to love this. The opening is divine and if the ahole fragrance life cycle smelled like that first 5-10 minutes: Id be knee deep in bottles.
Just cut out the middle man and buy Volutes. It actually might last longer too. :0/
Scent: 9/10 for the first 10 minutes. Then a solid 6.5-7.5/10
Projection: 5/10 I don’t know why everyone says this is a beast. I fid not have that experience.
Sillage: 4-7/10 it was really hard to pin down but this is my best guess.
Longevity: 7/10 it does last but becomes a skin scent after the 5 hour mark no question.
Would I buy another bottle? No. I love the opening but Dyptiques Volutes EDP does this for cheaper, for more, and with less pretense. Damn Xerjoff. I want to like you I really do but nearly everything Ive tried from this house (about 10 so far) smells similar enough to another niche or indie fragrance that did it better, cheaper, or both…I don’t know what to do wih you.
JVN2012 – :
Reading all the comments I was getting very curious and wanted to test this fragrance. Some comments made me think that I am gonna smell something outstanding, something that is really worth the money you pay for it. But what I got is a resemble of Paco Rabanne One Million. Maybe it has more perfume oil and natural ingredients, but I think, it’s like everything around. Rich people can choose between a Ferrari/Lamborghini and a Bugatti. All of them are sports cars, but Bugatti is 20 times more expensive…
GEROY204 – :
I guess that what i said about 40 Knots can be also applied here: another mainstream formulation tweaked and bottle into an extravagant bottle cased in an a box as extravagant as the bottle. Certainly this Xerjoff collection seems created to that public where money is not a problem and where it doesn’t matter what is inside the bottle as long as it cost a lot and draws enough attention.Comandante is inspired on a tobacco club, but besides it having a tobaco aroma it doesn’t effectively creates this aura (which can be seem well created in another brands’ creation, Oroville). Do you know for me which is the difference between this fragrance and Ck Shocki Him? The intensity that both use the same synthetic accord of tobacco and cedar. While Shock goes full on it, Comandante goes into a softer approach. It opens with a strong musk smell, which is in parts creamy and in parts animalic; this transform quickly into a sweet almond aroma.Them after that you get the synthetic dry tobacco accompanied of the dry and synthetic woody aroma that seems to be on smaller or heavier doses on several creations on this line. At last, some kind of musk with oud nuances finishes Comandante on skin after some hours of evolution with a great an excellent lasting on skin, another pattern on this line that seems to compesante the lack of originality in their compositions.
Oleg.lev32 – :
woah the opening starts out harsh, like a fresh marker pen stinging my nose with a combo of fruit and labdanum. When it settles a little however it’s a super sweet cotton candy hint of coffee and vanilla…sound familiar? Well instantly to me this smells like a stronger, deeper version of ROCHAS MAN.
Seriously the likeness is uncanny. I think what makes it deeper is a smooth honey/tobacco edge to it and that labdanum for me pushes it to a more niche level…If there’s such a thing?
It kind of dries down like a Le Male musky vanilla but still with that lasting power and an edge of class.
It’s quite different to Rochas Man by the same rule as it drys down it becomes less and less like it. In terms of sweetness and refreshing qualities I personally prefer the cheaper option.
As it goes on…I get that note I don’t like all that much (Calone I think?)
It’s the same unpleasant synthetic sea like aquatic note from the dreaded 212 Surf I tried recently…but when low in the mix it’s tolerable and actually adds something to the composition.
In longevity and projection terms this beats hands down and so it should at this price.
Xerjoff have something which seems common here to 1 million (I see the likeness but not overly) or Rochas or Le male or even Zegna intenso in the drydown but the Italian house have done it slightly better. Doesn’t offend me…but I wouldn’t wear it all the same!
hlg730JeomiWogkig – :
First impression – while this is supposed to be unisex, I feel like it VERY MUCH leans towards male. It reminds me of a cologne that I can’t quite put my finger on.
ur5mbc – :
This shares much more in common with pure havane such as honey, vanilla, cherry and tobacco than one million, there’s no cinnamon or leather or oppressive sweetness here. However, the fruity opening is slightly reminiscent of the fruity bubble gum opening in one million and that’s where the similarities end, each goes its separate way after the first five minutes. More to come as I sample this fume more over the next few days. This is clearly a standout in the join the club series.
Update : After revisiting one million, this is not a rip off as some claim.This lacks the spicy cinnamon note, most of the ‘oily’ leather note, and sweet yet sharp and bright citrus notes and nauseating candy sweetness of 1 million. Comandante’s opening has dark red cherry fruit, rose like floral notes and sweet loose honeyed tobacco with rich vanilla opposed to the previously mentioned opening notes in 1 million. The dark and sweet honeyed, tobacco and vanilla in the heart, with hints of pathouli earth and amber, further differentiate this fragrance. Comandante is a fruity floral tinged scent with a heart of sweet honeyed tobacco and vanilla. All things one million is not. The drydown to this is closer to richer, sweeter and deeper versace the dreamer’s drydown (sans the synthetic green mess in the opening and tonka bean notes ) Sugary sweet vanilla, pathouli, amber and a bit of leather come through at the very end.
Projection and sillage a huge with the fragrance lasting about 8-10 hours.
Is it full bottle worthy? Perhaps not at full retail price.
This is one of the best fragrances in join the club series. And clearly JTC is Xerjoffs attempt to create a line of ‘people pleasing’ scents targetting the niche curious designer fragrance customer.
вова888 – :
EN
Last year, walking along one of the busiest streets of Geneva, I came right in front of the Zino Davidoff boutique. It was a strange sensation: inside reigned a smell of good cigars and sandalwood and it has refracted my sense of reality, replacing it with a more measured and calm feeling of “while you smoke your cigar the whole world will wait” Comandante Club is not only the Club of cigar lovers, but the true brotherhood of connoisseurs of life in all its manifestations. Their hair is soaked by sweet aroma of tobacco, their words and their speech are laconic. They know the value of time because for them smoking cigars is not a long-awaited five-minute break in the monotony life of clerks, but full immersion into the world of self-contemplation and self-concentration, so indispensable for achieving their goals.
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L’anno scorso, passeggiando a piedi lungo una delle strade più trafficate di Ginevra, mi trovai proprio di fronte alla boutique di Zino Davidoff. Fu stata un’esperienza strana: dentro regnò un odore di buoni sigari e di legno di sandalo che ritrattarono il mio senso della realtà, sostituendola con un sentimento più misurato e calmo di “mentre si fuma il tuo sigaro tutto il mondo si aspetta” Comandante Club non è un solito Club di amanti del sigaro, ma una vera fratellanza degli intenditori della vita in tutte le sue manifestazioni. I loro capelli sanno di dolce aroma del tabacco pregiato, le loro parole hanno un peso e il loro linguaggio è molto laconico. Conoscono il valore del tempo, perché per loro fumare un sigaro non vuol dire fare cinque minuti di pausa nella monotonia della vita dell’impiegato, ma è una tuffata nel mondo di auto-contemplazione e di auto-concentrazione indispensabili per raggiungere un obiettivo di vitale importanza.