Jacomo de Jacomo (1980)
by Jacomo

woody,aromatic and spicy scent.Strong,long lasting and dark fragrance.Powerful,complex opening -the drydown pleasant but still vibrant and energetic.Typical masculine scnet of the 80ties.It´s a unique scent with a high recall value.I personally dislike the persistent smoky and incense smell.
Beside all criticism this is a very particular and interesting scent, maybe a bit dated and linear (it opens the same as it ends and you smell all the time this smoky incense note) but in comparison to all the simple, silly and sober light marine -aquatic unisex stuff launched today ( so often I am imaging myself some nerds and muppets standing in a pea-soup designing all this trash making the fool of themselves and ourselves !)
Jacomo is still a singular statement ! ( 31 years on the market!).Good work!

4th September, 2011.

green, dark, cloves, lavender, large-scale
I do not think aggressive, amber, moss and vanilla soothe the black knight
obscure, interesting, confusing?
want to feel that everyone feels this aggression
but he only Demonstrate the top notes
then ride to calm his horse, wearing his dark
a quiet dark knight.

31st May, 2011.

They still make this? Why yes, yes they do! Dark and rough around the edges, kind of like that black leather motorcycle jacket you've had buried in your closet for the past 15 years. Plenty of cloves, oak moss and musk to prove that you're still a man, this is not for the faint of heart. Cinnamon & patchouli give JdJ some depth between the heavy cloves and the animalic musk. Not for every man but surely a guilty pleasure to wear and enjoy for the informed few.

1st April, 2011.

Smokey woodsy dark leather. One of my all time favourites.

21st January, 2011.

After reading the reviews I was convinced Jacomo de Jacomo would be the product of Paris at the dark end of the 70s. Yet even though it is a dark scent it also is never gloomy or oppressing. One reason for this (and ultimately its weakness) is that Jacomo de Jacomo lacks strength. Which is a shame because Jacomo de Jacomo could have been the stuff of legend if it had some longevity and proper volume beyond the opening/heart.

As it is, the beautiful proto-Comme des Garçons opening gives way to a discreet base that is quite acceptable and somehow a dead ringer for the same phase in Prada Amber Pour Homme (a good thing of course.) While it lasts (say 5 hours on a really good day) it is a fairly unique scent that does indeed smell of smoke. Not real smoke but memories of cigarette smoke moving through thin air in a club with your lover in proximity. Call me crazy but this feels like a clubbing fragrance and I have a feeling Jacomo know this too; notice how the white letters on the box give off a metallic/rainbow sheen. Very disco.

Lovers/collectors of bottles will want to investigate because Jacomo de Jacomo comes in a very cool bottle which resembles a big lighter.

4th September, 2010. (Last Edited: 14th October, 2010.)

This smoke bomb is da bomb!
SMOKE, SMOKE, AND MORE SMOKE. It's like the campfire at a camp for French couture designers. Have to be in the mood for this...only in the cool to cold months. It's not an everyday kind of thing and a little goes a long way. A bottle will last you forever. It's a sexy, furry, cozy kind of thing...like making out with Paul Bunyan or the guy from the Brawny paper towel label. If Tom of Finland came out with a fragrance, this is what it would (should) smell like. But it's kinda classy at the same time. That was the 70's though, wasn't it? Kinda dirty and classy at the same time.
By the way...who is "Jacomo"? Is he a person? Wasn't he DEVO's side-kick?

7th May, 2010.