Rococo Homme (2002)
by Joop!

Nice and spicy that gives off an almost anise scent to it. Not as headache-inducing as Joop! Homme and is rather quite wearable for a night out. The smells and feels very much like Celine pour Homme (released a year before) which you can find much cheaper at discount stores. Though no notes correspond to one another, the overall experience is the same.

Joop Rococo for Men is a real sleeper of a fragrance. I've worn it the past seven days straight and it's compelled me to post this postive review.

Initially when I bought it, I thought it was not really my type, but it really grew on me. Here's what sold me on it and made me give it another look--once, I was in an elevator and I had just applied Rococo. When the door closed, this strange girl leaned in and sniffed me. Then she kind of went limp and just collapsed into my arms (I think she had been drinking). She remained there with her head on my shoulder until my floor came and I had to leave. A pretty nice moment we had. No words really, just a brief encounter.

So that got me thinking more about Rococo, and how much I like it. It does ginger notes really nicely--in fact it kind of reminds me of red fruit punch and ginger cookies. It's well balanced, seductive, and offbeat. Kind of makes me think of something a friend from Europe would be wearing. It's just slightly quirky enough to be mysterious. Complete antithesis to the hordes of Aqua di Gio type scents. This scent works anywhere, and would be a really good first-date scent, as it is well rounded and yet still has that air of mystery.

The bottle is cool as hell too!

Rococo is an interesting fragrance. The bottle would receive, only by itself, a thousand of thumbs up!

I just love the notes! And I'm not really into woody fragances! The start is very spicy, I can feel the pepper all around it, and it dries down to very sweet woody notes...

Unfortunately, it doesn't last much. It just vanishes after two or three hours! What a pity! Wish it could last longer on my skin.. Even the scent that always stays in the clothe you're wearing vanishes...

LOVE this fragrance!!!

One of my top 3 right up with Egoiste Platinum and Polo Sport Xtreme

This fragrance starts with a nice spicy smell surrounded by woods that quickly gives place to a green/floral smell...Its drydown is extremely similar to VERSACE JEANS COUTURE's one! It's a nice green fragrance after all!

While the female version is an unusual masterpiece of lightful, ozonic high-quality elegance, the male version is unispiring monotnous. I could barely recognize ny notes and to make matters worse it was highly vapid and short-lived. Forgetable experience, bearing in mind that not all male scents as a reworking of female versions are bad- even spectacular if i think about Opium pour Homme.