Joop! Homme

Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 241 ------------------------------------------------------- Purchased May 2017 I come to write right about my best friend in a bottle once more. Allow me to compose a prose. "Joop! Homme: The cheapest, most 2deep4u fragrance of all" Since wearing something else I always instantly feel I miss it, a rare feeling for yours truly. I've never loved it as much, unearthed its depth, figured out its textured composition, smelt it in its true contextual nature as if it were released yesterday and it was a blind buy without ever seeing the marketing and advertising, nor ever "figured it out!" as much as I have now. Joop has to have been one of the longest known fragrances to my sense of smell in my whole life, and I know too many. We were surrounded by fragrance, and I even remember the synthetic Impulse sprays my sisters loved. I know sweet scents, lots. A little too much. But Joop is not so sweet to me anymore, sure is sweet but it's a leather scent once you get to its roots. Leather tannins are made up of God knows how many essential oils, tree oils, bark resins and saps, waxes, earth/soil sourced properties and material - all natural. Leather products, the best, don't smell like skin. That would be revolting. Leather smells like what I mentioned above, and all tannins are a secret recipe, formula, and process. You will never know why my Ashland-Horween full shell cordovan #8 wallet still smells the way it did when brand-new in 2018. It's because it's a quality product treated to be the best and last longer than any other product in its category regardless of tannery or company. This is where "you get what you pay for" rings true. Do not ever buy a luxury product made carelessly and with disdain to all but profit. My batch from maybe 2014 still vividly echoes the original, as I've said I've known it my whole life like I know Ralph Lauren Polo. When one smells these things they are unmistakable; without objection Joop and Polo. Only in the past year I've been able to uncover and unearth what's inside of the magic formula which sadly has slid downmarket over the years. You all love sweet scents because of Joop, without it you would still be covered in the worst modern Drakkar Noir reformulations and your dad's Arko stick. They're not terrible scents but allow me to go one further: without Brut (it's always been somewhat sweet for no amber or resin) Joop probably never would have been conjured. My point is the variety in the world of what's possible to coat or cover your skin would be very slim. Not everybody can wear nor appreciate Antaeus and that's fine - half the time I <- love it <- and the other half it's disgusting - we ought to be grateful somebody shook up the "industry"/art in 1989. Not just love, a reason to be born. Batch: 1474644132, guessing it's from 2014 due to this not selling fast at the time I bought it. It was popular in the 2000s and early 2010s in my part of the world. - Pronounced: Yaw-p / yope. It's a German name. - - Shout-out: JM300838 for giving me the courage to further examine Joop this year. I never had done so before.

In the world of fragrance, ultimately, certain scents are inherently polarizing, because the sad reality is that many people have been hypnotized by the delusional idea that some scents are "too strong." Imagine, if you even can, a cinephile arguing a film is "too good," or a baker describing their cookies as "too delicious." The idea is inherently absurd, and that's exactly what the people who consistently tarnish the reputation of this lovely fragrance are, absurd. Joop! is sweet, Joop! is loud, Joop! is the wail of a Stuka, dropping it's sensual bombs on an unprepared public, and for someone like me, it is an almost perfect creation, an elixir from the heavens too powerful for lesser men to dare to wear. Forget the naysayers, who tell you this spicy, sweet, and sexy scents is too powerful for more then a spray or two! Disregard the ramblings of lesser men, who buy into the nonsense about causing migraines or offending those who don't understand us. Embrace the power of this fragrance, in each and every stage of it's beautiful evolution. I'm a young man, in the prime of my life, and believe me, I've never gotten complaints, even when I wear several generous sprays, because this scent radiates confidence. If you're awkward, stick to the office scents, let ue extroverts revel in the power we exude as we fill the room with power! When you first spray it on, it's the best kind of artificial, a statement, chemical ecstasy, but as the scent dances with your skin, it becomes ever sweeter, gentler, and more sensual. The Stuka becomes a flower, just as bones ultimately dissolve into dust, and eventually, you're left with a comforting sensation. It's life in best form, the birth, adulthood, and death are a spiritual experience, and if you haven't experienced the orgasmic power of this fragrance at full effect, you haven't lived. Joop! is cheap, powerful, and bold. It's a stripper so beautiful you forget your wife exists, it arrests you and rolls you into it's warmth, and if you're a hot-blooded man with desire, it leads you forward, ever forward, toward endless victory. When you wear Joop!, you tell the world that you aren't afraid, aren't ashamed, and most importantly, aren't ever going to back down. I highly recommend this, it's one of my perennial go-tos for a reason! Break the mental shackles the cowards in the fragrance community have placed on you, embrace the freedom of Joop!

I used to think this one smelled like a clown's fart. First a short story: Back in the 90's, Joop! was absolutely everywhere. And I hated it. Every club or bar that you went into, someone was BATHING in the stuff. Every time I went to the department store to pick up a frag, the SA would push this one on me. No thanks. I wore and loved cologne back then too, but I just couldn't figure out why anyone would wear this one. It was sticky sweet and had this strange bung smell to it. Until about a month ago, it was the only scent I could think of that I actually hated. Then something changed. Recently, I was talking with a colleague and I noticed he was wearing Joop!, yet very lightly. I immediately thought, "Good grief," but then I decided to silently explore the scent as we were talking. I'm not sure what it was, what notes I was picking out, but this was not the fragrance that I hated. It smelled much more complex and sensual, and very, very good. "I have to get a bottle of this stuff," I thought to myself, disbelievingly. A few weeks later, I picked up a bottle at a local perfume shop, rushed to the car, and sprayed under my shirt. What happened next was magic. The scent opens up with an incredible, almost three-dimensional kaleidoscopic black cherry note. A few moments later, a very lusty jasmine opens up (this was the "funk" smell that I used to hate and was not able to identify) and then everything comes together in a very smooth, pink/purple/red-light glow of a scent: cardamom, vanilla, patchouli, honey, sandalwood. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it is complex, masculine, and very sensual. Very well blended and it lasts all night long. This one is certainly a love/hate scent, and like others in the category (e.g., Kouros, A*Men) the less you apply, the better. Like another reviewer noted, one shot of this is almost too much. Its power, projection, and longevity are legendary. Yet, at the same time there is something about the scent that begs to be sprayed and sprayed, hence the problem. Needless to say, one shot is plenty. Two if you are wearing a sweater. Three only if you have an Andy Kaufmanesque sense of humor. This is without a doubt my biggest 180 ever, but I am more than happy to have made that turn.

This is my first fragrance review ever so try to be bare with me here. First of all wat can i say about Joop!, i've had it for a month now and let me tell you, its THE sexiest fragrance i have ever wore. This stuff is magic, the effect it has on people and the aura it surroundes you in, its a heavenly experience. When you First spray Joop! on, you get a very strong and "in your nose" citrus blast, full of bergamont and lemons, and sweetened up by cinnamon. Its a refreshing start, just like jumping in a pool for the first time. Then after a few minutes (5-15 minutes), it becomes really sweet, and by sweet i mean the cinnamon start getting stronger and the florals start blossoming on your skin. Heliotrope gives it that "cherry pie" smell while jasmine gives it a sultry feel to it, with orange blossom keeping it warm and spicy. The drydrown starts in about an hour or two after application, here is my FAVORITE PART. Behind the middle floral, warm, balmy notes, vanilla starts to make its angelic entrance by putting the notes where they belong before it shows itself. This phase is EXTREMELY SEXY AND INTOXICATING. The vanilla here is the icing on the "cake" this scent is. Honey and tobacco come to linger, giving it a mature masculine edge, which is what keeps you sniffing around yourself trying to inhale it all in. After 4-6 hours, it softens up, gets cuddly and soft after being dominant and powerful, just like how i interpret myself sometimes (personal refernce to add fondness). Its leaves a smooth vanilla honey tobacco combo on your skin that lasts and lasts till you shower. As for projection and longivity, well there is no trouble there, AT ALL. 3-4 sprays is all i do around my neck, one on my chest sometimes, and im letting everyone know im a confident young man who knows his cologne. This IS the ultimate female attractor, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, this will get the ladies and girls closer to you gentlemen, it should come as a guarantee with the bottle! Never lets me down. So give it a try, its a warm, sensual, alluring, creamy, and mature heavenly experince, every man, or woman sniffing this on a man, should have ;)

Just bought this Classic again, after my last bottle finished in like 2019. Saw some Tik tokers call this out for being an unwearable mess of a fragrance, and I was like what in the fragrance god's name is going on? Joop to me is still a honey drenched cinnamon sandalwood combo filtered through a haze of white florals with a veil of vanilla. It's been a scent I got of my uncle's in the late 90s and early 2000s, and I always found it a banger in terms of projection and longevity, and I wanted it to be my scent after I finished school, (and I made it my scent two years before I could matriculate, because I could not hold back on not having the scent any longer). When I used to spray it I would go Two sprays max for school and my classmates and teachers would always tell me I smell amazing (especially the girls and ladies), and to be honest I never found the scent too strong on me ( I was already using Amen back then). Anyway long story short and I've always had a bottle in my collection since. In 2019 when my last bottle finished I just moved on to other fragrances and forgot about this masterpiece in sweet oriental colognes, up until I saw those Tik tok videos and I was like I loved this cologne back then and after COVID I just seemed to have moved on, so I got a bottle and lo and behold and back in love with JOOP!, now I will make sure to always have a bottle in my collection, the scent itself is still the same, just a little less potent and longevity is down from 14 hours before to now lasting 7-9 hours, with a not so huge projection as before. As for Compliments, well I can vouch that girls and ladies still love it, so I am perplexed as to what these bad reviews on Tik tok are about. Simply put if you love sweet orientals you would love or like this, if you love anything other than sweet orientals, then stay away and let it be. It's a classic in this day and age and it is still head and shoulders above many fragrances that cost way more than this Cheapie. I am sorry that I left you for a while JOOP!, well I have got you back and I will never let you get away again. 9.5/10