Art Collection by Jacomo #02

My favourite from the incredible Art series. You would think that this concoction would be too quirky to be wearable, but after the initial mind-teasing opener #2 settles into a creamy, calm & cozy perfume that snuggles close to your skin like a cashmere jumper. The artist in me loves the trip-down-memory-lane awakening I feel from first spritz...poster paints...dry, pasty, inky....modelling clay...cool, neutral, slate-scented, grounded.....playdoh....warm, putty, vanilla.....suede & wet earth....soft, nuzzly, expensive-beige & very settling. It really is a scent to exercise your mind - even if you find it too queer to grace your skin on a regular basis, you must surely enjoy the olfactory work-out it offers. Quietly unique, #2 is a mid-weight, mid/low sweet, cozy scent which offers one of the best suede-vanilla dry downs I have tried. On my skin it lasts fairly well, but has little sillage tending to play peek-a-boo with the wearer as one moves. I cannot agree more with NLS's & Jillzilla's reviews....if you like any of the frags NLS mentions, you MUST try #2. The box's artwork is beautiful & the bottles are reminiscent of my favourite artist's inks - simple, abstract, balanced, unfussy & unique. All-in-all, a true artist-scent: off-kilter, playful, uncompromising yet kind, warm & earthy.

Upon first sniff, I’m instantly transported to childhood, at Payless the shoe store. I open a shoebox and smell that unique leather/ suede and rubber combination, and a little bit of the powdery cardboard box. The resemblance is uncanny. This dense, putty-like scent sweetens as the suede note fades and that’s when I can detect the tonka and an almondy-heliotrope-vanilla note. I think the waxy lily note also helps create the modeling clay experience. This is the most literal playdoh scent I have ever encountered, and I’m so thrilled! Truly one of a kind, the only similar scent I can compare it to is Shunkoin, yet they really aren’t alike at all. There’s an overlap in that dry, doughy vanilla sensation, but Jacomo is somehow even denser than Shunkoin, which is saying a lot. Jacomo #02 is so specific— nicher-than-niche—and probably only appeals to a few people on this planet. Fortunately, I am someone who loves all playdoh scents and couldn’t care less about smelling weird. Definitely more of an atmospheric, abstract perfume that is fun to try, but perhaps too artistic to wear daily. Full bottles are recommended for childhood nostalgia chasers only.

*AKA Yohji* Jacomo Art #2 is a very opposite creation to the modern motto: “Give us Sexy scents!” Its too intelligent for mind games and body twists. Its tips of the fingers dipped into magical potion with our best innocent childhood memories. Each will find own associations within it, I am sure. On me (for me) its play-doh and scented erasers and I would put “check” for that cement dust with crème-brulee, but that suedy drydown with lilies and tonka bean is something that most of us will only dream about in the nearest future. Its like process of growing - from a girl into an adult, who deep inside kept her childlish attitude. As I really want to believe that in future people would be after not “sexy”, but after kind, androgynous and reflective aromas, which make us better human beings, relax us, rather than evoking vile instincts and provoking. Its like one radiant smiling face turned to the sun, someone who doesn't mind his/her clothes full of sand, - blithe personality. Amazing job with these Jacomo Art series, both artistic and perfumery-wise.

I love Jacomo #2 very much. You get just what it says on the box with this one (leather, anise chewing gum, clay) - & the whole sum of the notes described amount to an overall perfume that just smells "purple” - & like heliotrope. So I totally agree with the review below that mentions heliotrope, because my nose smells it this way too. This is a very comforting soothing perfume....I don’t find it at all strange or weird, it just smells really good to me. I actually think #2 is not a million miles away from Apres L'Ondee, which also has anisic/heliotrope notes. This is like a warm winter version of Apres L'Ondee to my senses. Because of my personal connection between the 2, I don't understand why this one doesn't get more love....Think I must be the only one who perceives such a similarity though.

I'm impressed ! At first when i spayed , i was like "wow !" then " WOW" , then , "HELL WOW" !!! This scent is amazing , the opening smells tonka bean SO much ( also agree with plumblossom about the glue ) , but then it becomes so gentle , so delicate ... I love when the patchouli is like this : not harsh , sweet and gentle . This scent belongs to the " blanket scents group " , like Kenzo Amour or Fleur de Corail ( LLempicka) ; wearing it you really feel like you're on your couch , with a soft blanket plaid , relaxing AND no way you want to leave . It's not a sillage monster , really intimate fragrance you wear for yourself or the one(s) who hug you. BTW why it is so hard to find ? I've seen it nowhere on the traditional websites or shops like Douglas or Sephora :-/