Just Me

When i blind ordered this I thought, this ws going to be an excellent perfume or a disaster looking at the notes. Then i saw the name Caron...ok im in! Extremely clever scent composed by Francoise Caron. From the name, oh.. its "just me" from the unique composition. Leather, jasmine, pineapple swirl about with enormous sillage out of the bottle sometimes you smell the leather, or the pineapple,a peppery ginger note adds spice the ylang and jasmine heart steers this citric oriental with vanilla musk..with honeyed chocolate notes for fun..wait waaat?! This is a definate love it or leave it scent but blended and composed so skillfully, this intrugues the calloused perfumistas. Im not vibing on the angel references, but i am reviewing a 1997 perfume, and perhaps the melange of odd notes bring its comparison to Angel, but fear not, it is definately not related to Angel. I will add this can be a polarizing scent because it is so different. But thats why i like it... I really love this. It is .. Just Me. So clever ...and im off to obtain a full bottle somewhere...

I keep being amazed by this perfume. By mistake I ended up with two miniatures of this and was about to resell them. I once tested Parfum de Peau, the first Montana fragrance and I found it deeply unpleasant because of its overpowering leather note. It put me straight off trying the rest of the house. What a mistake that would have been when I've been looking for my signature fragrance for so long! On me it smells oriental with fruits first then it's just orchid to my nose (must be the white flower / chocolate / honey combo) with a touch of skin note which must be the leather. It's so soft and powdery that I didn't imagine this perfume had leather note in it at all before looking it up in here. The tropical - chocolate bit reminds me of Extraordinary from Avon and something else from my childhood I can't put my finger on. Probably Just Me evokes the smell of sun-dried linen? Or the way my freshly cleaned clothes smelled? That may explain the reason why I love this scent so much. I'll need to stock up on Ebay soon.

This fragrance is so much fun. The opening of Just Me is bold and bodacious. The pineapple and leather link together perfectly, forming an accord that is juicy yet smoky and dry. The mid-phase is very flattering on skin, with the honey, chocolate, and jasmine becoming more prominent and taking the composition into a gourmand-floral category. The drydown has the powdery musk that is present in fragrances like LouLou and Poison. The composition of Just Me is completely unisex, but it still has definite swagger and presence. It has the sweetness of honey, pineapple, and jasmine playing against the delicious naughtiness of leather, spices, and musk. I absolutely adore the bottle -- it is cheeky and also calls to mind art deco architecture. The sillage is big for about 30 minutes and then softens down, and it is very long-lasting on skin. I like it very much and hope to buy a full-size bottle of it soon!

A blast from the past... the good old times of unique smelling fragrances. And this one doesn't even smell "old lady" like. I had to try this again , from my friends bottle, for fear it may have turned bad after all those years. yes maybe the topnotes are a bit wonky, but hell, after 20 mins everything is back to normal. I get the virtual pineapple, the leather, the honey, and then some thing reminding of Hermes fragrances, suspect must be the pepper and ginger here. This is a monster, feminine and fruity and at the same time dangerous. To me it exhibits a similar attitude to that of "Elixir des Merveilles". This is not masculine, but it is a strong feminine and possibly unixex scent. I suspect some "old style" musk is still in use here. Some musk and animalic notes hang around for the longest time blending deep into the skin. Longevity 12h +++

I feel like I'm on the verge of a headache the whole time, but it never gets there. All the notes all feel like it's going to push me over the edge and hate it, but it never does. It's like if you took two of the mid-level popular Zoologist perfumes and they somehow magically worked together. The smell was super confusing, and when I look at the notes, it's even more confusing. But you know what, it's weird in a good way. I smell like a wild bee that sleeps in dirt. So like a member of the mining bee family? The smell is complex and full of character. I think it's amazing they've incorporated so many random notes together. You can pinpoint each item in the notes pyramid too, it's insane. I love daring perfume like this! Sometimes you just want the artist to take you somewhere you've never been before.