Jaguar Performance

This is one scent that you need to give a full wear before making any conclusions about it. The top is quite fresh and green with the mint and cypress mixing with the herbal citrus and is quite a nice fresh smelling mix too! You could make the mistake of thinking it’s a summer scent. But give it some time, say an hour and that top softens a lot while the heart comes up, introducing a very satisfying and quite strong projecting warm spiciness introduced by the nutmeg and sage. It still retains some of the freshness from the top notes and added violet though, but overall the composition changes quite dramatically to a much more warm spicy freshness that’s far more suited to autumn wearing. At that point it starts to project very strongly too, and in a good way! I find the nutmeg is perhaps a little under voted too - it adds quite a lot of warm spiciness to the heart. The cypress remains from start to finish but at no point does it dominate, its very well blended to aid the fresh aspects of the scent without shouting over everything else. Perfect! The carnation adds a slight old school vibe I guess, but despite that in no way does this scent smell dated or old school in its overall tone, but quite modern in fact. This warm spicy freshness carry’s on for the most part of the wear and becomes a closer to skin scent at about the 5 hr mark but despite that stays closely noticeable and present for a few hours after that. For a cheapy this is excellent value. It’s also a superb layering scent. I’ve matched it to other warm spicy scents like Just Cavalli I Love Him with all its fruity warm spicy complimentary notes and both together went to another level! I have all kinds of layering in mind for it. Very excited about it because it’s going to be my autumn play about scent where I get to experiment with some fun ways to mix it up! Very versatile. Recommend! EDIT: I’m also noticing since reviewing that the drydown in this scent reminds me somewhat of the drydown of Acqua di Parma Colonia Intensa. There’s a musky incense aroma that prevails in the drydown reminiscent of Intensa. Subtle wafts of nuances of the mint and cypress don’t make it exact, but despite that it captures something of the feel of that scent. With that said it also seems quite heavily influenced by weather & temperature in how it smells and can be a bit changeable from one wear to the next!

For $12 it's hard to find a better fragrance than Jagaur Performance. It's a green and fresh spicey that gives a clean Spring morning vibe. For some reason, I get green apple in this, although it's not listed in the notes. Despite it's name, I'm not impressed with the performance of this one. Of course, for $12 I can't expect much. It lasts a couple of hours on me and becomes a skin scent quickly before completely disappearing. It doesn't project much, which is fine with me because I wear colognes mostly for my own enjoyment and close encounters with the wife. This is nowhere near the beast of its father Jaguar For Men... which still is a powerhouse. In contrast, this is like the youngest son of JFM, quiet, innocent, and not yet ready to explore the world. I initially bought this for my summer rotation, but after smelling it I realized it's much better for the spring because it's more green than it is blue, if you know what I mean. Of course, you can wear this anytime if you want. I just like to wear my own fragrances by the season. I can't see anybody hating Jaguar Performance. It's inoffensive, versatile, unique, and affordable enough to add to any serious collection.Overall rating 7.5/10

It's not a known rock star. It's not a multi oscar awarded artist. It's just a very underrated summer fragrance for men that do remember some very expensive niche fragrances... but it's not trying to clone any other market offer. It's a unique scent. On top of it it has a well above average performance in longevity and projection. I would not swap it for any 4 times more expensive well known summer scent. A couple of them arise to my mind. Another vibe I get from this frag is some similarities with Loewe's Esencia witch is a very different (and also excellent) fragrance. It's difficult to buy a better summer day time EDT at the price you may purchase Jaguar Performance. Its spicy sharp scent and cypress makes this fragrance quite sexy and manly. This is easily the best Jaguar frag together with Jaguar Gold.

A fresh sea breeze over wet grass mainly for me. Got it on today which is a freezing snowy day. First real full wearing. Hope to use it in the summer when I'm out and about and after the gym on my shifts off work. It's perfect for that but inoffensive enough for any kind of day use in my opinion. I've had it on two hours now and a minor criticism is that performance appears so fair to be middling. That said, it should sparkle in the coming hot weather and I was in hospital for an operation yesterday which due to it's nature means I'm a bit dehydrated today. Price is very reasonable for the quality and it's so-far mediocre performance on me is something I suspect won't apply later on in the year.

This is amazing. Like the guy below said, it smells like nothing I have in my collection. A lot of fragrances tend to run together and overlap identities of others, almost like clones. But this one is very unique. Fresh, clean, with a nice punchy, modern, oakmoss. Very soapy. I like that. The best I can compare it to is Mugler Cologne if there were an extreme of an extreme version. Mugler Cologne Extreme squared. With a nice, classy, mossy twist. That's the best I can compare it to, but it really does stand in a league of its own. This took me by surprise.