Jimmy Choo is the London shoe house’s first fragrance, launched in 2011 and composed by Olivier Polge for Inter Parfums. The house makes it a modern fruity chypre that opens on green notes, pear and citrus, rounds out on a tiger orchid and settles on a sweet toffee caramel and Indonesian patchouli, in a faceted bottle inspired by Murano glass.
Robin, at Now Smell This, finds Jimmy Choo well made and easy to wear but with nothing distinctive, one fruity patchouli chypre among others; its bottle, however, wins her over.
What critics say
A well-made fruity chypre, for Now Smell This
In March 2011, Robin placed Jimmy Choo among modern fruity patchouli chypres, a genre she finds unsurprising. The opening stays crisp for an instant before sugar takes over, with a hefty dose of pear; the floral heart, very sweet as well, dries out after half an hour.
The base suggests to her a rather dark woody musk, a clean patchouli and a little creamy caramel. She finds the fragrance reasonably well done and perfectly wearable, with nothing distinctive about the juice, but praises a pretty bottle.
She also reports the view of March, of Perfume Posse, for whom the fragrance already smells like 2006, so dated does the genre seem to her.
More perfumes from Jimmy Choo
Also composed by Olivier Polge
- La Vie est Belle Eau de Parfum LégèreLancôme
- FlowerbombViktor & Rolf
- Bougie FlowerbombViktor & Rolf
- Flowerbomb Swarovski édition Noël 2016Viktor & Rolf
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