Paradox Blue (1988)
by Jacomo

Jacomo’s Paradox is a liquid fruit salad with notes of blackcurrant, melons, tangerine, melons, an ozonic note, melons, rose, melons, cardamom . . . and melons. Do you see a pattern here? Bingo. Paradox is what happens when you accidentally tumble into an oversized melon salad and can’t escape. Oh, I love melons, at least for eatin’. Not sure I want to smell this melon-ish, though, throughout the day. Like most frags that don’t agree with me, Paradox only gets stronger and stronger with my chemistry and almost refuses to budge when soap and towel hit it. There are some fragrances I don’t care for on myself but enjoy on others (such as Bal a Versailles); however, I’m not sure I would want to work next to someone who was wearing this one. The times I’ve worn Paradox it tends to grow sweeter and becomes cloying. This isn’t a terrible fragrance (like Halloween or the dreaded Chic by Herrera), but it’s not something I can wear, either. I’ll give it a “meh.”