Eau de Jade

The sun illuminates your soft, pale skin and shimmers in the spirals of your dark curls. You blink as to block the light from your delicate features...your jade dress fails to conceal the golden stars that hide within its fabric as you dazzle in the sunlight. You sparkle like the most vibrant citrus caught in the brilliant embrace of a fiery sun - your unstated elegance quietly supersedes you. Behind your emerald eyes lingers the passion of a dozen burning flames - all to which you pay no heed. Your smile remains a prize that many fruitlessly seek...all wish to be close enough to catch a breath of the angelic musk that you effortlessly exude. You simply are not of this earth yet you remain here to remind countless lost souls of which they can never attain, even for a moment. But in this moment, I caught your eye as the sun danced between us - a smile united our worlds in a flash, and then the moment was gone. Day 96 - A flicker Listening to: London Grammar - Stay Awake Notes: I have only sampled a few decants of the Prive line and I must say they are exquisitely beautiful yet succinct creations. There are a lot of fumes that smell similar to this citrus and musk masterpiece, but I would say few do it as gracefully as this. As a whole, this scent is basically neroli and bergamot meets fiery pepper and an enveloping creamy white musk...that's it! So simple yet so enchanting - I don't if it's the actual mix or if all of these notes play magically on my skin. It feels as if it was made for me as I rarely fall in love with summer scents, but I have fallen for this. It lasts a subtle 8 to 10 hours on me and I always want more! Suitable for any gender as these notes lie somewhere between comfortable and sensual....maybe you will find the magic as well.

This may seem like an overreaction to some but I think Eau de Jade is a masterpiece! It's citrus but it's a very, very rare thing to truly capture the pungent and waxy nature of the zest. This is like a concentration of that juicy sharpness, Pure lime zest!!!Many citrus juices neglect this crucial element, Armani and whoever the nose was on this seem to have nailed it. I made Coconut and Lime Ice cream recently and had to use alot of lime zest, infact a much of the cooking I do whether Chinese or Indian or even for putting in a corona or whatever... I use a hell of a lot of limes. This represents the true smell of zest and juice left on my hands afterwards but to just say it's that wouldn't be fair to the complexity of this composition. Eau de Jade is built to last it really did well on my skin and then the white floral element and pepper comes though more into the dry down without ever defining the nature of this scent. Again the musk base is in perfect harmony with the other elements in here...I love it! Top marks and fairly reasonably priced, I already held Armani's prive range in high regard now I've finally tried them all I'm absolutely in awe of them.

This is such a great bergamot scent. Everyone on YT that has reviewed it got it pretty spot on, great bergamot + crisp Neroli/ light crisp pepper, eventually becomes creamy bergamot from the tiny bit of vanilla which isn’t really detectable as a note itself, just adding texture in the dry down. It’s simple but great. A bit like bvlgari Pour Homme soir, which is another favorite of mine. Only this one doesn’t have the tea or the papyrus, and this lasts a little longer but who cares about that I always just take them w me

Eau de Jade by Giorgio Armani opens with a very rich bergamot neroli blend that when the citrus notes start to mellow you smell this really sexy almost masculine black pepper note that mixes well with the aftershave like musk. I love that it is so bold, but it’s really quite simple – I just think the ingredient quality really shines through here. This is one of those fragrances that makes me really love that I got interested in fragrances as hobby, it was such a great find!

After trying on all of the scents in the Prive collection, Eau de Jade is my absolute favorite. I guess as a citrus lover I am biased! I love how simple this is. The lime is a crisp and zesty "ting" mellowed out sophisticately by the peppery musk. Perfectly clean, refined, and unisex. The lovely salesperson at the counter says it reminds her of the lime balm her Puerto Rican mother used to give her when she was a child; an anecdote I found delightful. Eau de Jade is a great perfume. Too bad its excellent qualities still does not merit the outrageous pricetag :(