Joop! Homme (1989)
by Joop!

It's Halloween and the busty, sexy kindergarten teacher has shown up to class dressed like The Tooth Fairy.

She sniffs something in the air.

Terrified, she recognizes the smell, it's Joop!

Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kreuger enter and make short work of her in front of the horrified children.

Screams and slashes!!!!

OK, cut and print.

The director turns to the screenwriter.

" Sorry dude, but Joop! should have a question mark at the end, not an exclamation point. You're fired! "

The cast breaks for lunch----and even the child actors avoid anything that smells even remotely sweet.

The End.

I first discovered this some years ago at a local department store (early 1990s, I think). I liked the scent back then, but chose to delay my purchase in the interest of economics. At the time I was a committed Drakkar Noir user. I was able to pick up some Joop at a nice discount recently and thought I'd add another scent to my collection (I usually stick to two or three old stand-bys and will experiment only sparingly or if I get someone gets generous with me for Christmas or birthdays).

This was as nice as I remembered. I generally put a light spritz on both sides of my face and another small one on my throat/neck. This comes out of the bottle a trifle too sweet, almost cloyingly so. The real joy of this fragrance is deferred gratification. Joop doesn't reach its full potential for a good hour and a half or two hours when the sweetness mellows into some rather warm lingering bass notes. I perceive some nice vanilla and other reassuring spices

Have the common sense to give this scent a reasonable time to mellow, at least a good half hour or forty five minutes, before any serious social or business interaction. And for God's sake don't slather it on. Used in proper proportion, this scent can serve you well. A nice scent at a sensible price. Generally available for less than $40 for a generous size bottle. Somehow I pulled off a 2.5 oz bottle for about 22 bucks. Not a bad bit of work, if I do say so myself. Apparently my merchant was having trouble moving this old stately gem and used entirely too much shelf space on other fragrances. Should you be so fortunate, have the sense to ante up. Without shame, I'll tell you, I made a new friend at my local Walgreens...she wasn't in it for the commission...

Despite all the bad reviews, I am certain that there are more people who like this scent than these reviews indicate. It is certainly a popular choice in this part of the world (Queensland, Australia), and is one of my all-time favourites. Joop! Homme was also my very first signature scent—and the only one I wore for years.

I guess the motto "try before you buy" would apply if you haven't smelt this one before.

In my opinion, this is a classic—a view shared by Basenotes (see top).

Okay fragrance, overpowering scent if one is not careful with the application. This is one of those you do not want to spray on clothing. I do not hate, but I do not love either. Every now then, I do enjoy wearing it.

Hahaa, Joop! Homme. My true love.

I know there are people out there who are taking love for Joop! as a good demonstration of the lack of fine taste. I wonder how it would be possible for me to care less about that…

I love Joop!Homme; I have loved it from the first sniff.

Although this has never been a hit in my home country, it is well known that it has sold millions around the world. A real massive success.

This has always puzzled me, because to me Joop! doesn’t smell that obviously something that would please great masses. I think Joop!Homme smells quite bizarre and controversial (indeed) and so the big sells is a bit of a mystery to me.
But of course we have more of these scents that are so successful and still hated by many….Thinking about 80`s, Kouros and Fahrenheit are probably the two that comes in mind first


Joop!Homme is a cold, crude synthetic oriental fragrance. It smells absolutely delicious to me, and believe it or not, mysterious too. It’s really an odd juice.

Joop!Homme has always reminded me of many different thing, but probably the most unexpected resemblance came from few years ago when I was visiting a hardware store: Suddenly I caught a whiff of Joop! Homme (or so I thought) and for curiosity I started to look around to find out who was wearing this tasty scent. I looked and looked, but there was no one there. I didn’t let go, and eventually I was lead by my nose into this thing that had reminded me of Joop!; I hardly could believe it; it was a big black rubber electric cable in a roll. It was kind of soft and it felt very freshly made overall. And the smell of it was so strong and it reminded me SO much of the smell of Joop!Homme!

Like I said, although a flat scent, the aroma of this is capable to remind me of many different kind of things….
In addition to the smell of fresh oily rubber, in Joop! Homme I smell thing like: Floor wax, bitter-sweet English winegum candies, burnt plastic, metal&cinnamon, waxy flowers, bitter-almond oil (or cyanide, if you like), highly concentrated mixed fruit juice, copy machine, mashed raw raspberries, melted PVC and etc.

Bizarre and wonderful. Tasty and intoxicating, and like I said before it is not popular at all in my country.

I just have to ease my hand on application – more than 4 sprays and I probably will drop dead.

This smells like the cakes they put in urinals in public restrooms sprinkled with a dash of cinnamon