Paradox for Men Blue (1999)
by Jacomo

If I had sampled this blindly, without knowing its name or that it's marketed for men, I would have said this was a fruity-floral fragrance for women. Maybe the melon-like smell I get in the top notes is actually the "mangosteen" and is what gives it the "oceanic" smell that scentimus refers to in his review. And what is "combava"?? According to Wikipedia, it's a lime. Overall, it's very candy-like! Good longevity as it lasted over 12 hours on my skin. I didn't think it had much sillage, but my husband walked into the room, and immediately smelled it from 15 feet away. So, I could be wrong.

It's a fruity fragrance. Good for fruity fragrance lovers, but not for me.

Green and fruity notes – sweet, counterpointed with pepper - not a bad opening - I’m not sure if I should admire its bit of edginess or recoil at its synthetic vibration. The top gets fairly close to being disgusting, but it never quite crosses the line - that comes later. As the fragrance moves to the heart notes, I succumb to a more unpleasant interpretation because the emphasis on the fruity notes increase, and the peppery counterpoint is lost. Of course, I’m not a big fan of fruit notes – especially tropical fruit notes – in fragrances. I really don’t like the middle accord of Paradox – the middle does manage to achieve "disgusting." The drydown is a rather common one with the vanilla note taking prominence. I get very little moss and, unfortunately, no vetiver, so the base ends up being entirely sweet for me. Paradox is pretty much a thumbs down fragrance.

Smells like a wet magazine. It really does---as if it was manufactured at a paper mill rather than a fragrance factory. Very suitable for writers.

VERY interesting scent. Jacomo out did themselves with this one. UNEXPLAINABLE BUT AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!

If you like this kind of smell (almost a fruity, baby-powder type overtone with some masculine bits thrown in), but want something with a little harder "edge", test Zizanie (1932).

Paradox is a very interesting fragrance. The only other scent that comes close to it is Nemo by Cacharel.
Paradox has a very oceanic note to it but the base or platform of the scent is a woody oriental.
The scent is clean fresh and clean but not by citrus notes or the over done marine notes found in scents, its more with florals while it is also deep oriental semisweet woody. It is a scent that stays medium to the skin meaning no one would have to be on top of you to smell it.
I personally love the scent and give kudos to Jacomo to producing such a new millennium scent for men.