Jungle is the eau de parfum that Kenzo launched in 1996 under the emblem of the elephant, composed by Dominique Ropion. A spicy oriental, it brings cardamom, cumin and clove together with mandarin, over a base of vanilla and patchouli. Victoria Frolova sees in it a fragrance that undulates like water, Neil Chapman a strange work without equal.
Victoria Frolova praises Jungle L’Éléphant as a woody, spicy blend, at once exotic and familiar, gourmand and seductive. Chairman Meow smells above all a plum missing from the listed notes, and Neil Chapman considers it a strange work without equal, of which he nevertheless grew tired.
What critics say
Victoria Frolova, Bois de Jasmin
In October 2012, Victoria Frolova described Jungle L’Éléphant as a fragrance that does not stretch out in a single line but undulates like ripples on water. She finds in it a woody, spicy blend that marries the exotic and the familiar, incense and orange, the gourmand and the seductive.
She recalls that in 1996 Kenzo was not yet the tame house of its recent launches, and sees it as an example of the exotic daring that defined the house at the time.
Chairman Meow, Australian Perfume Junkies
In July 2013, Chairman Meow perceived above all a plum, though it is missing from the listed notes, and a cardamom checked against crushed seeds. The review admits to a difficult love, while acknowledging the fragrance’s legions of admirers.
Neil Chapman, The Black Narcissus
Neil Chapman, who made it his signature scent before abandoning it, judges it utterly original, genuinely strange, with a vanilla he finds incomparable the next morning. Wearing it again thirty years later nevertheless reminded him of an intensity he had grown tired of.
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