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pelmen104 – :
Cannot say that I enjoy this scent 🙁 This was a blind buy based on the notes listed here on Fragrantica and elsewhere. Some reviewers compare it to J’adore, which I do like. I thought I might be able to get away with possibly layering it with something to soften it? I’m a long-time Opium gal so I’m not afraid of a bold spicy Oriental, but this just did not work for me 🙁 It’s been over two hours and I’m still getting very strong aquatic, greens, and almost no spicy notes. I’m hoping that it might surprise me further into the drydown. Seriously, why is it that fragrances that hit the “no” pile have such great projection and sillage? 😉
Anton_E_G – :
Kind of wanted to try one of this houses line. Chose Jungle Zebra based on it’s notes. It begins, and stays with a pretty heavy Aquatic Water Lily bloom. The dry down continues and brings forth some spices and faint nutmeg/cardamom. The remains lasts for a few hours, and though the lily calms down, it remains the dominant scent, though it does balance a bit with a spicy overtone. This is a pretty inexpensive fragrance and nothing revolutionary. However it is pleasant enough if you are fond of Lily and Spices and certainly worth the price-point. There was no bad chemical smell or problem as one might expect from a bargain scent so that was a big relief. Not sure if I found any of the other in the line tapping my curiosity, but this one isn’t bad at all. I may look through their catalog again and see if anything else seems worth a try, now that I know this house, though a bargain house, isn’t cheap or chemical smelling.
lebron23 – :
Much like J’adore! It has pear, melon, nectarine notes that appear in the heart- nice for the price!
CTAHgAPT – :
Very watered down scent that just makes me sneeze a lot. Seems a touch green to me but mostly just get the watery faint flowery, I dont pick up any spice at all.. Sorry not for me
Dena37 – :
Thought I would like this but I didn’t. To watery no staying power no stillage.
would not recommend it to my friends
culema21 – :
I agree Malegria. Cuba Jungle ‘Zebra’ absolutely reminds me of Kenzo’s Perfume D’Ete. Wow – that’s a blast from my past.
Zebra is a brisk/spicy green floral. Think lighter of the tobacco essences and then mix that with lily-of-the valley (muget), some leafy greens, cyclamen, and amber – which gives the powdery dry down and it almost works. I hate scents that have powder dry down of any kind, but this works for the amazing price point.
Would be a great stocking stuffer.
yurasik1963 – :
I was dying to try this, then read malegria’s review and decided it was not, what I was searching for.
Then I saw this in a package with 3 other jungle-fragrances (fragrantica missed several other “cubas”) for a bargain and just couldn’t resist.
Instead of armaotic-spicy it should be placed in a category like “spicy-flowery”. It reminds me of the on-take of Mandarina Duck’s Rouge Intense’ – fresh but intense peppered and spiced up watery flowers, overdone until the end of the middle. It’s not bad, but I wanted fresh and aromatic and not disconcerting flowers.
The drydown is likable though: the spices are sweetened and deepened by maybe amber, and the spicy lily has quieted down.
The problem here is, that the sillage is comparable with the staying power of cheap shower-gel-scents, and as such is the projection. longvity from top to down: 30min. Maybe I use it for the gym – no endangerment of suffocating other members…
adt250Negeltzex – :
I was expecting something like chai tea notes mixed with the clarity of the nymphea lily, but this one is actually a pretty agressive spicy floral. I think I feel green tea in here…It strongly reminds me of another scent that is more famous and expensive but I can`t put a finger on it yet…Not my cup of tea, but not bad at all!
PS Okay, I think I can link Zebra to Kenzo Perfume D`Ete. It calms down after a while!