Description
As the fifth fragrance of the collection inspired by cruising, Pierre Guillaume presents Mojito Chypre, whose aromatic-chypre composition highlights fragrant strawberry mojito. This perfume reinterprets fun on the beach … from Ibiza to Miami. The collection Cruise (Croisiere) offered four fragrances this year (Entre Ciel et Mer, Paris-Seychelles, Jangala and Long-Courrier) presented exclusively at perfume fair in Milan, Esxence 2015, and Pierre is announcing more unusual editions to accompany it.
Pierre Guillaume boldly recreated one of the classic fragrance groups (chypre) into an unusual aromatic-chypre version by providing a hybrid composition and modern chords. Even though the fragrance was built around classic chypre ingredients (patchouli, vetiver, labdanum, vanilla and oak moss), its fruity essence provides an unconventional, playful twist.
Flavors of lime, fresh mint, strawberry, aldehydes and rum absolute make the mojito chord exciting and explosive. This blend depicts the atmosphere of beach parties and summer holidays. When passions calm down and the sweet aromatic-floral notes from the top notes disappear, the chypre structure lingers warmed with shades of forest, wood and sensual moss.
MOJITO CHYPRE is available in a blue flacon, just like previous editions of the Cruise collection, as 50 and 100 ml.
cigar1992 – :
Strawberry crush – only this time it’s the rampant fruit that’s trampling all over me! This was never going to be an easy sell to me as fake-strawberry gives me a banging headache and simmering nausea, I hate 98% of aldehydes, can’t deal with many classic chypres, and find mint a very tricky proposition indeed in perfume. So I was honestly expecting Mojito Chypre to be an absolute scrubber and, to give it its due, it was not.
Once you’ve survived the overwhelming strawb assault of the beginning – (and it’s huge: carefully done, so it does smell of juicy, fresh, floral real berries rather than plastic or erasers, but still miles and miles too sweet and sickly for my taste) there is a bit more going on. The mint and vetiver play nicely together, so beyond the giant pink monster strawberry screens there is a more grown-up, sharper, more astringent herbal scent waiting to follow it up. It could work really well as a cooling refresher for the right person on a hot day. But there’s still just … gah … splashy, splattered remains of the strawberry puree absolutely *everywhere*. I just can’t with it. But if berries are your bag and you want a summer scent, this may well be the fruit fantasy you’re after.
Jenchak_dima – :
Brilliant, genius fragrance. Well done Guillaume for creating something very special here- without following current rose/oud, gourmand and sticky sweet trends (granted such trends are nonetheless fabulous).
This boldly, zesty, icy cold, mint cloud of a unisex fragrance is pretty left of any male or female fragrance you would buy in high street stores.
Very bespoke smelling. But the mint and citrus make it a very palatable summer fragrance. Mint specifically is used a great deal in popular, lighter, ‘sportier’ men’s fragrances so I would confidentally wear this as a man but its softness does lend itself to a more feminine personality too.
Once the top notes have settled, this fragrance is less offensive and is actually a luminous breath of fresh air fragrance-wise.
Like interesting, light, longlasting citrus scents? Give this one a try. (Available currently to try at the ‘Bloom/ No Ordinary Perfume’ fragrance store, London).
darkonok – :
This is the olfactory equivalent of eating a packet of Strawberry Chewits followed by some Polo mints. It’s unfair to say that there are no woody elements in the base – they are present, but I suspect that most who try this are so overwhelmed by the strawberry and mint that their noses have given up long before the dry down! Mojito Chypre is not unpleasant, and I enjoyed trying the sample, but I have no desire to smell like this.
impumCagSpoug – :
A sugary junks of strawberry candies on a lemon coolaid or lemon slush and sometimes a strawberry mint cheap air freshener with a hint of lime. too cloying for my taste.
zz999zz – :
This is an interesting one, it opens with a citric lime note and a minty strawberry, which interestingly comes across as just starting to turn/ferment strawberry. The heart pushes the strawberry harder, and it just keeps going. L’Oreal Kids Shampoo with Very Berry Strawberry flavour has a really similar scent profile, so one may consider the endless aromachemical mix is related.
Overall the impression is of some kind of cheap fruity slaggy overstrong perfume, but this I think is all part of the genius of PG who must have authored this fragrance as some kind of ironic art parody as a statement against the lowest common denominator of cheap commercial perfumery. I mean, even the text of the release is brilliant, using sarcasm and wit to poke fun at the industry, “This perfume reinterprets fun on the beach … from Ibiza to Miami”.
I actually kind of love it, when I’m feeling cheap and sleazy this is my reach to bottle, so a big thumbs up. Only issue is the price, which is also a joke. But hey, this is niche man…
maksimka_ZZZ – :
I’ll go out on a limb and say that this is the most adventurous of the five releases from PG’s new “teal” line, but I’ll also add that it’s the one that turned my stomach the fastest. It smells like a strawberry-tinged air freshener — harsh and enormously unpleasant. Camphorous pine provides a “just bleached bathroom” effect, and the strawberry is more tart and leafy than sweet and jammy. The result is medicinal and chilling, and it made me feel sick within minutes of application. There’s nothing chypre about this; it’s an astringent fruity aromatic, and if you’ve smelled 2013’s Cape Heartache, you’ll recognize it immediately. Horrifying.
gbvuzwoypnd – :
That can’t be a serious frag. Anyway..
After a beginning of true mojito and fresh mint, which smells a little of toothpaste & paint and takes approximately 5 minutes before disappearing, take fastly the field a sort of strawberry/raspberry/lime/lemon (with a touch of banana) mix that make me think so much to a chewingum & children bomb.
Pleasent for preteens in soul or preteens straight away.
A candy summer.
Yes this choice can be a good idea for a different summer or for smell like a classic assorted fruit flavor candy by MENTOS which almost by sure will deemed a cause for copyright to mr. Guillaume.
In one word: CHEWABLE!
This creation totally reminds me Strawberry by The Body Shop that I have actually wore in summer 1992. I was virgin.
P.S.: no oakmoss at all, this is chypre as Casmir de Chopard is.