Reviews of Joop! Homme (1989)
by Joop!

Too strong and overpowering, very popular with late teens to twenties. Not a fragrance that I would purchase.

Sweet and musty.
It's feminine.
I don't like it.
Burnt tires with candy thrown in.

I have a friend who overdoes this vile liquid, and one time, I literally stopped at a drugstore for some Advil because I couldn't bear it any longer. Nasty, loud and vulgar. Suitable, perhaps, for a pimp on a budget.

If there's any chance that you'd like to smell like a Dr. Pepper scented air freshener then look no further. The only smell I can clearly discern is cinnamon and that's only after the mighty Joop!!!!!! has had a chance to cool down. Wearing this will offend others, and more importantly, yourself.

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh.....I bought Joop and I dont know what to do with this bottle. I have used a lot, but ughhhhhhhhhhhh, I disliked very much. I cant give that bottle to a friend! I cant send it to the trash! What can I do with this fraud?
Horrible fragance with very long lasting. Dont buy this!

Is this a default option for men? Come on, you can't use Christmas presents as an excuse for ever. Truly vile. Nuff said.


Kaern

BAD REPUTATION!

This is the story of Joop Homme.....

Once there was a very beautiful girl in the neighborhood, that you wanted to date. But when you saw her walking around with jerks (week after week, year after year) you decided not to ask her. WHY? Because walking around with those jerks ruined her reputation although she was so beautiful and had such potential.

Do u understand ???

There is something about this stinch I just cant grasp. Like many other reviewers have stated, It has alot of odd, wierd notes going on & it is really not pleasing to my nose. It smells of something Like a granddad would wear, but it also has alot os suprises. I cant wear it & I would suggest anyone who wants it to try it first & go home. Then the next day if your pleased then buy it.

Love it or hate it, here's Joop! Homme. I hate it. Then I love it. Then I hate it. Makes me feel like the fragrance is inducing schizophrenia upon me. Medicinal. Then sweet. Potent. Bubble-gum. All kinds of weird and all kinds of boring but even interesting. Just a very odd scent. However I must rate on the downside due to the overwhelming overall syntheticness of it all.

Err, this is rubbish! I wore Joop Jump for an evening out a while back and loved it, so decided to get myself some Joop, blind buy. Why I didn't just go for the one I already knew I liked, I do not know, but I've learned my lesson. This stuff is sickly sweet, almost nice but nauseatingly headstrong, and once you've put it on, you won't be able to get away - this stuff fills up rooms instantly and I've even been told off for wearing it! Do yourself and everybody else a favour, go for jump.

Never, I mean never buy this one without trying it first. This was one of my first blind buys, and man was i disappointed. It smells like that thing u spray in the air in the toilet after you've been there. On top of that its ultra strong!

I hate this fragrance. It opens up like an overly cheerful waitress in a lousy diner who decides that after she's said "hi" that she wants to marry you and never leave you.

I know that quite a few women like men wearing this, but I have never figured out why.

It has perhaps one redeeming quality - that it is not compulsory to buy it. I just don't like this at all.

There are just soooo many better fragrances out there...

Absolutely dreadful!!! It's like smelling a entire candy store condensed in a bottle. Also very, very artificial. I really can't see a man wearing this fragrance.

When it was first released , it was different and yes I did wear it ... until the bottle finished.
But that was over 10 years ago.
Joop screams of the 90's try hard sensitive new age men.

The only guys that wear it in Melbourne these days tend to be Turks that think it will endear them with the ladies.

Leave this stuff well alone.

Of all the frags I have smelled, this is my least favorite by far. It's only positive aspect (in my mind) is it has excellent longevity. Of course that isn't a plus if you can't stand the smell, and I cannot stand the smell. It reminds me of an old bottle of cough syrup that's had Mrs. Dash poured into it and then sprayed on me. I do not like it.

I had a boyfriend at university who wore this, and I hated it even before he embarked on a mild, and thankfully shortlived, stalking campaign when we broke up.

Joop is cloying, viciously strong, and with that room-clearing plug-in air freshener quality that stays in the back of your throat long after the perpetrator has departed. Emetic.

Yep, it is long lasting, great sillage, it is also a warm fragrance.



Reminds me of being in a sauna with a ton of cotton candy and vanilla beans.. Incredibly cloying (Vanilla) and IMO smells like something an old woman trying to retain her feeling of youuth would wear. Smells like Vera Wang's Princess on crack.. Not my cup of tea.


-Jay

freakin terribel. stay away

Joop is a really strong fragrance! Loudy, very sweet and intrusive, reminded me of a floral grape smell found in some bubble gum I used to buy in my childhood...
As a fragrance, It's vulgar.

Joop! can smell really nice.

A colleague of mine wore this one day and I really liked the smell, fresh, with notes of incense, like a nice razor cream.
I asked him what it was, expecting an old classic quality fragrance and then he mentioned Joop!.
What?, the fragrance many detest of being aggressively sweet and cloying?

The next day he wore it again and while I was working with him that day the smell began to irritate me, yes there's some nice freshness, but it has an odd sour note to the scent and not exactly a fresh citrus one, but rather a gourmandish sweet frozen-yoghurt note.

The top notes seem capable of covering it up for a good period, so when someone who's wearing Joop! walks by you it can smell nice, but staying in the same room for a longer time with that person the smell definitely can become intolerable.
After 10 minutes even the association with frozen yoghurt is gone, it then starts to smell like vomit, covered up by a strong and sweet perfume.

I'm completely agree both with musky_monkey, Renaissance_Man and Ensoleille. I received my forst bottle as a gift the same year it is distributed. I was very excited when I received it, but unfortunately it is a very strong fragrance. The drydown is nice but till you get to the drydown, you are already dead. When I wear it on I feel myself like a huge walking & talking candyfloss. I have to admit that the girls were crazy about it and they would like to eat me just like they did a canyfloss, but eventhough it is like that Iafter a short while I couldn't stand to this sweet fragrance. Becaue of that strong scent I was loosing my appetite and did not feel like to eat and drink anymore, and it begun to gave a headache. But in the evening or the next day the drydown is very nice. I have a love-hate relation with this fragranc. Just 2 drops would be more than enough. I guess the only places you can use this fragrance are close to the poles, but please don't spray a lot of it; they are already melting.

I can barely remember what the stuff smells like. The only thing i DO remember is how much both I, and my co-worker, HATED this fragrance. Packaging is awful, and the name sounds like a joke!
Thumbs cut off.

chemical warfare has been legalised........

I don't know what it is about this scent that drives 14 year olds to swim in the stuff!
JOOP! is one of the few fragrances that I find totally unbearable... it is sweet, pungent, cloying, and absolutely suffocating. Despite this, it sells hand over fist to pimpled teens and adult men alike. I can't work this one out... perhaps just like Gaultier's 'Le Male', it entered the market at a time when there was great demand for male scents that branched away from the citrus/woody norm.
I've always referred to this fragrance as 'lolly-water' as it seems to remind me of the smell of a half-sucked jube. Steer well clear if you're looking for fine fragrance credability.

Too much musk and too many florals. It comes off very heavy and stale.

Once had the misfortune of visiting someone who's brother had (it seemed) sprayed half a bottle on himself. The house was smothered in the fumes from this guy. It was my first real experience with this scent and I get flashbacks of it when I smell this one. This one just does not agree with me!

Joop! looks like a funky fragrance. However, it smells funky too (and not in a good way).

The top notes are sweet - its probably the cinnamon taking over. The merging of the top and middle notes introduce a very sweet and synthetic accord which transforms to a strong gasoline note within a couple of minutes - I dont know what it is, but maybe its the combination of the cinnamon and honeysuckle notes. You can even smell it during the drydown, and it is quite ghastly! There are no hints of orange blossom, sandalwood or vanilla. The longevity is excellent. However, Joop! as a fragrance is a not.

Joop! smells like sticky sweaty children who've been eating snowcones or cotton candy. It creates the desire to get a baby wipe and clean it off the person wearing it. Sorry... I am sure there are lots of people who like it, but it makes me sick.

Wow! A great name, a glorious pink-purple colour, and an utterly intolerable smell!

Have you ever tasted "Thrills" gum? The gum that you buy from a machine because you want something sweet, and then as you crunch into it your face contorst in disgust at the bizarre medicinal artificiality of what your tongue is being assaulted with? YOu know, the one that tastes like a cross between Jagermeister and cough syrup?

Joop smells alot like liquid Thrills. It smells ok when it's in the bottle, if you like pink chemicals, but on the skin - first of all it's impossible to get rid of. If you ever really, really need a headache badly to get out of work, or school this is the scent for you.

Whatever's nice about it while in the bottle, evaporate on contact with the skin, and the result smells like the natural salt and sweat of the body at war with some toxic chemicals.

On the other hand, my seven year old daughter loves it, and so I gave it to her. I sometimes borrow it to spray inside my shoes.

Oh boy.. Joop!.. what to say.. I smelled this fragrance on a test card primarily, and was quite intrigued by it's cough syrupy... cherry chiclet aroma.. Unfortunately when I actually spritzed in one my own skin I couldnt handle the smell that arose from the ordeal, and trust me..sweetness in fragrance isn't something I shy away from... It's just too much.. much too much

Man oh man! This was, I feel one of the first 'more expensive' frags I ever purchased, a step up from the Blue Stratos and Brut 33 'd been wearing for years. It is extremely strong, easily overdone, at which point it becomes almost sickening. Only the lightest application is required as the cloying, heavy jasmine and honeysuckle will get right up your shcnozz! You have to be in just the right mood for this one, actually, so does everyone else! I still have a bottle of this from at least 5 years ago that is still 2/3 full I use it that infrequently.

Extremely sweet, not a discreet and barely perceptible sweetness but a heavy touch of caramel. Not incidentally a pink bottle...pink like box of very synthetic and completely unilateral candy. Overdown sandalwood, extremely powdery and extremely strong in the bad sense of the word, like Amen or Lagerfeld classic, all of these reminding of very stuffy and very repulsively sweet sandalwood incense with a hint of extremely sugary, otherwise almost tasteless soft-drink with excessive artificial sweetener. Besides, in larger quanities, it becomes even more unbearable.

This stuff is pungent and assaults the olfactory senses head-on. I must say this is by far the worst I have smelled. It is strong, overpowering, piercing and not masculine; very overwhelming and not recommended for close encounters or day wear. Its smell closely resembles a car odor on Saturday morning after a night where two of your friends vomited, and you tried to cover up the smell with cheap air freshener. This is the most invasive, disgraceful and persistent scent I have smelled... awfull!.

I like sweet colognes, but this one is way too sweet and way too feminine. Plus its OLD SCHOOL. I'd be embarrased to wear this today. Sort of like how I feel about Drakkar. Embarrasing to wear.

I was once trapped in a car with one of my Greek mates who enjoyed the top notes of Joop!
To satisfy this craving he would respray every 30 minutes.
It's been over 5 years since that fateful night and I have not recovered.
It is my opinion that application of Joop! should require a license.

I don't get whats so good about this?. that every guy in the UK wears this, just plain stinks!

I loved this many years ago, when I was young and apparently stupid. Under some weird influence, I tried it again recently, and had to drive around with the windows open for most of the afternoon, until I could get home and shower it off.

Awful fragrance. I remember when I first joined basenotes, I noticed all the talk about Joop!. I finally had to ask “What is Joop!?” Joop! Is a grossly cloying and sweet. When I smell Joop, I get that feeling in my stomach like I just ate hundreds of pounds of Cotton Candy. It just makes me physically ill.

This smells like 18 kinds of jungle ass. You wont like it unless you like smells that wait until your not looking, tap you on the shoulder and smack you in the face so hard that head almost comes off. I've heard that Joop in the proper proportion can cause brain damage.

Ahhhh....Joop. What to say? If you have never tested it, I think that you should. It is like no other scent (male at any rate) that I have ever tried. When I was about 11 I remember really liking this. Apparently one's taste does get much better with age. I bought a small bottle of this just to at least give it a chance. I came very close to getting a headache, it is very powerful. It is also sickeningly sweet. To me, it smells like some sort of women's boutique where a bunch of cheap scents have mixed. That is just my take though. I will say that if you try putting a tiny...TINY amount on you it is much better than if you give the bottle a full pump- like I did when I first tried it. The smell bothered me all day, but after I went swimming I could barely smell it, but it smelled much better than before I went into the pool. So, I would recommend that you do at least try it in a store. IF you do decide on it...PLEASE for the rest of us be careful with not to overdo it.

Nice ingredients. Still it should be subtitled "the big nasty". Way too over the top but seemingly without a firm statement or direction. Just really loud- oh yeah, and really, really sweet. I think the top note is "exploded watermelon". Crazy stuff.

You cant deny that this is unique and i have the shame of admitting that yes...........i did indeed buy this once myself. However,this fragrance is like a bad joke, entertaining at first but then totally annoying. It seems as though every 14 year old who wants to be a man wears this foul, sickly and totally intrusive fragrance.

How could people be saying this fragrance is sweet?? It was soooooo HEAVY!
It's like feminine fragrance trying to be masculine, Flower with tobacco and other overpowering strong scents. It wasn't so pleasant

This stuff smells like grape Jello. Ugh!

Quite ungainly cold oriental. Everlasting attention getter. Smells very synthetic to me. Too plain, does not seem to develop on my skin. Daytime informal scent for mid temp summer days. I found its aftershave (placed into atomizer) to smell surprisingly better and smoother than EDT. I mean being more gentle it reveals some interesting untertones while EDT is mountain-still.

This could possibly be my greatest fragrance mistake ever. I wore it in the store and liked it, and for the rest of the day and night. When I woke up the next morning I had a headache from hell, and the sweetness was just overpowering. I gave the bottle to a friend who loves the stuff. Just glad I didn't get the gift basket with the soap and other stuff. The color of the juice is intriguing though.
This scent is so sweet/sour, it's as though I'm being dipped in a giant vat of sweet and sour sauce by one of the villians from the old Batman TV show ( an '!' instead of a '?' and the same color outfit as the juice). Will he survive the Joop! Homme? Find out next week. Same bat time, same bat channel!
If I were stocking a fragrance utility belt, I'd opt for D & G pour homme, or The Dreamer instead in this category. Each to his own though.

AGHHH! I can't believe that this stuff is so popular in some regions! Of course, this is my opinion--please don't hate me if you wear it!