Joseph Abboud (1993)
by Joseph Abboud

The initial burst of citrus is well rounded-out by warm and mellow spices – quite a catching opening accord. There is a slight sharpness but the very real and comfortable warmth of the scent holds true with the combination of tepid spice, sharp flowers, and pepper. The pepper accord is very strong and takes a dominant place in the opening and into the middle levels, and adds that elegance that pepper accords usually provide. The middle also exhibits the appearance of a strong, rich wood accord… extremely nice, but, unfortunately, this center doesn’t hold long enough. The drydown of sandalwood, musk and amber is rich but extremely subtle and appears to be more of a skin scent than a sillage maker.

Joseph Abboud moves very quickly from opening to drydown. The scent is somewhat exotic and there is very little sweetness or floral so it presents a formidable masculinity that I find very attractive. Joseph Abboud comes across as a dignified and serious scent, even though it is subtle and muted after the opening. In spite of its short lifespan I enjoy this fragrance enough to vote a thumb’s up. (Edit of 22 February 2006 review. Changed from a neutral to a thumb’s up.)

subtle spice done nice.longevity is good and this is very distingushed. very unmodern which could be a good or bad thing depending on your taste.

This is very spicy. But not extremely spicy. It's gentle but there's a lot of it. But it is also not strong. Spices, woods and a bit of a sticky ambery drydown. I find it unique but lacking a good punch.

This was a favorite of mine back in the early 90's and at one point I thought it was out of production, so it was pleasing to know EuroItalia is still producing this gem.
The warm citrus topnotes are quickly enveloped by warm spices, settling in with the woods, vetiver and musk to give a very pleasant alluring base scent. The longevity is decent, about 4-6 hours, excellent for evening and winter wear.

Spice it up!
It's a kind of Tabarome Millesime meets Eucris.
Is this still really in production? Difficult to find, but well worth the effort. Very bold yet very elegant.
No, it does not have monsteer sillage, but neither does it need it. You will turn heads.
The play on violet and jasmine with wooods is--Oh, for heaven's sake, just buy it, would you?
Truly a one of a kind frag. Thumbs up!

The notes for this are lemon, orange, basil, bergamot, jasmine, violet, ginger, thyme, chamomile, black pepper, cardamom, ceylon, cedarwood, sandalwood, vetiver, musk and amber.