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camri – :
I bought this in Florence out of a box of $1 perfumes and absolutely love it. As others have noted, it has green, floral, and “animalistic” tones. The latter made me think this was a cologne for guys when I first sniffed it, especially in comparison to the other, blatantly floral scents in the box.
While I can understand why people would dislike floral notes, to me they serve as a way to make the overall scent more approachable. Purely green and musky scents tend to be a little harsh.
Does anyone have recommendations on similar perfumes/colognes, other than those already mentioned?
solbu800 – :
Well, I had a bottle of this for awhile, but ended up selling it. All of those notes may well be in the scent, but all I could smell were the fruity ones, which were sooooo popular throughout the 1990s. Those fruity topnotes put me off nearly every new perfume offering of the decade. However, if fruity notes don’t bother you, this might be worth a try, although you’ll have a very hard time finding it.
mimiko – :
Wow. This is insanely strong when you first apply it. It only took two tiny drops – one on each wrist-to be more than enough for the entire evening. And you could smell it from 6 feet away 3 hours after I applied it. It does smell a little dated to me and I love vintage/classic perfumes. But this one does go a little “old lady” for me when you first put it on. I was a little apprehensive about if I was going to like it or not but it’s a very pretty scent once you give it a chance to develop. My husband really liked it after it settled. He gives it an 8.5.
I love the bottle too. Previous reviewer is right – It’s a witchy scent in a lovely little witchy green potion bottle. I will probably only wear it once in a while when I’m in the mood for something really different. I have a tiny bottle of the parfum and I’m sure it will last me the rest of my life.
LadyTina – :
Uh, Jais! What a memory straight from my teenage!
I never really loved it, but my small bottle looked so gorgeous and different!
The jus utself… well, not for evryone maybe. It was a very weird green/animalic scent. I didn’t know anything about notes back then, but the smell was so different from anything else! Quite powerful but not overpowering. Weird, green potion like a witchy thing, both innocent and seductive. I cannot see resemblance to Magie Noire if not vaguely. Jais is not that powerful and complex. Some time later there was a similar scent around by Romeo Gigli in a green straight bottle (not listed)
Jais smelled so complicated and charming to me in that time, but for some reason I didn’t completely loved it.
Smelled many years ago I now find it a little to simple compared to my complicated tastes and that was probably a reason back then not to love it, because unaware tastes were already there. If you buy it, don’t expect an especially refined scent, rather a peculiar mix of weird notes kept tamed and probably cheap smelling on some chemistries (my friend at high school)
vova10 – :
So lovely and unlike Loulou it’s complex and without the overdose of heavy synthetic tonka. This has a balanced mix of notes so not one alone stands out. I dislike Loulou but adore this- no similarity.
Shakitos – :
Most of the notes listed are similar to Magie Noire, which in its vintage formula (1978-1981, before the first of at least three reformulations), is my favourite perfume ever.I found Jais and bought it unsniffed. Hmmm. Sweet! Raspberry! Chewing-gum! Cloying! Not unpleasant, but dated and not in the least similar to Magie Noire! I am trying to like it, but so far, without success. Similar to Loulou in the blue opaque bottle.
saalant – :
Does everyone see that this perfume has REMARKABLE notes in it? Super animalic, super green, super everything!!! Can anybody give a review, some people rated it ‘LOVE’!
kievlyanenoviymagaz – :
Ohhhhh this looks sooo amazing!! What a collection of notes!! This on paper looks like my favorite perfume ever! I wish I could try it!!