Jaïpur Homme is Boucheron's spicy oriental, composed by Annick Ménardo and launched in 1997. The Place Vendôme jeweller borrows its setting from the India of the maharajas: bergamot and clove at the opening, cinnamon, nutmeg and violet in the heart, vanilla and amber in the base. The bottle takes up the house codes, a gilded gadroon and a sapphire-blue cabochon.
Jeanne Doré (Auparfum) hears a powdery fougère that has not aged; Varanis Ridari (The Scented Devil) ranks it among the best-held barbershop orientals.
Olfastory’s review
Auparfum, 30 April 2008
Jeanne Doré professes a particular affection for the masculine version of Jaïpur, which she finds of a simple and rare beauty and which, to her eyes, has gone through its first decade without ageing.
She hears a powdery fougère drawing on the classics Brut or Paco Rabanne pour Homme, but inventing an identity for itself through spicy and balsamic notes, from which its orientalist accent comes.
The opening, for her, comes from bergamot, lemon and geranium, quickly shaken by a warming gust of clove, cardamom and cinnamon.
The Scented Devil, 17 November 2019
Varanis Ridari starts from an observation: after Boucheron pour Homme in 1991, the house no longer tries to be more elegant, it aims for clean comfort. Annick Ménardo delivers a hybrid of barbershop fougère and rich oriental.
He places it between Aramis JHL and Obsession for Men on one side, Canoe and Wild Country on the other, and notes the absence of lavender. In eau de parfum form, he holds it to be one of the best-dressed oriental hybrids he has smelled.
He warns that the descent from the citrus to the flowers is quick and that the essential happens in the base: that is where the scent has to be judged.