Maison Margiela Reproduction Jazz Membership Eau de Toilette is primarily a tobacco, rum, and vanilla perfume that kicks off with a brighter, zesty lemon and pepper opening with orange blossoms however the tobacco confirmed up throughout the first quarter-hour with vanilla getting amplified throughout the first hour by means of the drydown. It’s presupposed to mirror the “cozy environment of a personal membership” with “honey and woody notes of cigar packing containers.” These are the notes:
- high notes: Primofiore lemon, pink pepper, neroli oil
- coronary heart notes: clary sage oil, rum absolute, java vetiver oil
- base notes: styrax resin, tobacco leaf absolute, vanilla bean
There was a splash of pepper, rapidly adopted by vivid, zesty lemon that gave method to a vanillic cloud of recent orange blossoms for the primary two minutes. There was a coolness to the texture of the scent from the vetiver as rum was poured over ice. The notes felt obscure, much less outlined, which can have been a symptom of the perfume having much less projection than different eau de toilettes within the Reproduction assortment (see extra underneath Longevity).
Candy, smoky tobacco wafted over rum on the rocks after quarter-hour of improvement, after which the vanilla began to amplify over the following hour. It additionally appeared the perfume itself intensified general, too, after an hour in comparison with the primary hour–significantly the tobacco and rum, now solely accented by vanillic sweetness.
Two hours into improvement, the Jazz Membership was stuffed with candy tobacco, delicate, boozy rum, and candy vanilla. It navigated this area for the following a number of hours till the drydown that was largely tobacco and vanilla.
Utility
For testing, I used 1/3 of a 1ml pattern vial dabbed to the underside and topside of my wrist space on my left arm. I used an unscented moisturizer previous to making use of the scent as that is additionally my swatching arm (aka, extremely parched at any given second) as I discovered scent didn’t maintain effectively right here in any other case.
I bought my pattern in January 2022; fragrances are identified to be reformulated over their lifetime, so be aware of when a assessment was made, e.g. a assessment from 2010 might not mirror what the same-named fragrance smells like in 2022.
Longevity
I used to be stunned to search out that this scent had little projection for me; I might hardly detect it the primary time I examined it, so I went again and utilized a bigger quantity. I haven’t had points with projection on previous checks of the model’s fragrances. There was little sillage and projection from the get-go, and it was a pores and skin scent inside 5 hours of wear and tear and was troublesome to detect after eight hours.
Private Ideas
I don’t thoughts a closer-wearing perfume, but when I really feel prefer it’s delicate even with my nostril almost towards my wrist, it’s too delicate for my style, particularly if that’s how it’s early on, since fragrance usually weakens over time!
Out there Sizes
- 100ml for $135
- 30ml for $72
- 10ml for $30