I'm sure alot of you have the same guilt... you're out SUPPOSEDLY buying X-mas presents for OTHER people, and you just can't resist combing the fragrance bins at Marshalls and the Maxx etc, looking for frags for yourself.
Well a few weeks ago I snagged a $14.99 bottle of YSL's Live Jazz at Marshalls. Geez, I really like that stuff. Some may find it simple, but its really perfect in alot of ways. Like freshly pressed grapefruit peel- so vivid you can see the little pores in the peel pop as the oil sprays out. And then the musk notes in it are so creamy and smooth; as amazing as the top notes are, I've never encountered a fragrance with a base like Live Jazz.
Tonight I found a bottle of Jazz at TJ MAXX for $14.99 so i bought it blind, strictly because I'm am a YSL freak. I had heard it was alot like Tsar, which I own, but am not a huge fan of. I don't really find Tsar to be wearable on myself. So when I sprayed Jazz, for the first ten seconds it seemed identical to Tsar, but after than the coppery topnotes died down a bit and I got more of a rose/carnation middle. It really gets quiet after about five minutes. The notes blend together quite well, and there aren't as many sharp edges as in Tsar. Also it seems less dated than Tsar.
Its funny I spray on Jazz, and because of the similarity to Tsar, I start daydreaming about Czar Nicholas and the tragedic execution of him and his family. When I was a kid, I saw some TV movie about this story and Anastasia, and I went through this phase where I had some kind of "crush" on Anastasia. Same thing later when they made us read "The Diary of Anne Frank." I wonder what percentage of fifth graders had some weird unresolvable "ghost-crush" on Anne Frank?... Hmm...Probably an unspoken cultural phenomenon.
So its probably the name/association from Tsar to Jazz, but I'm thinking Jazz smells a little sad. It definitely doesn't fit the name "jazz". In fact, I think Jazz is a terrible name for the fragrance. It's nowhere near as sad as Comme des Garcons Zagorsk-possibly the "saddest" fragrance I've ever inhaled. Voleur de Rose also strikes me as sad... Jazz smells like money AND sadness; Seriously both Jazz and Tsar have smell like new currency...and like most YSL fragrances, Jazz is more "yin" than "yang".
So as I try to draw Jazz out more and more, I keep thinking of the phrase, "Its lonely at the top." Jazz is the junior executive who will someday be a broken-hearted miser counting his money in a cold room where a fireplace is roaring to no avail.
Bah HUMBUG!
Well a few weeks ago I snagged a $14.99 bottle of YSL's Live Jazz at Marshalls. Geez, I really like that stuff. Some may find it simple, but its really perfect in alot of ways. Like freshly pressed grapefruit peel- so vivid you can see the little pores in the peel pop as the oil sprays out. And then the musk notes in it are so creamy and smooth; as amazing as the top notes are, I've never encountered a fragrance with a base like Live Jazz.
Tonight I found a bottle of Jazz at TJ MAXX for $14.99 so i bought it blind, strictly because I'm am a YSL freak. I had heard it was alot like Tsar, which I own, but am not a huge fan of. I don't really find Tsar to be wearable on myself. So when I sprayed Jazz, for the first ten seconds it seemed identical to Tsar, but after than the coppery topnotes died down a bit and I got more of a rose/carnation middle. It really gets quiet after about five minutes. The notes blend together quite well, and there aren't as many sharp edges as in Tsar. Also it seems less dated than Tsar.
Its funny I spray on Jazz, and because of the similarity to Tsar, I start daydreaming about Czar Nicholas and the tragedic execution of him and his family. When I was a kid, I saw some TV movie about this story and Anastasia, and I went through this phase where I had some kind of "crush" on Anastasia. Same thing later when they made us read "The Diary of Anne Frank." I wonder what percentage of fifth graders had some weird unresolvable "ghost-crush" on Anne Frank?... Hmm...Probably an unspoken cultural phenomenon.
So its probably the name/association from Tsar to Jazz, but I'm thinking Jazz smells a little sad. It definitely doesn't fit the name "jazz". In fact, I think Jazz is a terrible name for the fragrance. It's nowhere near as sad as Comme des Garcons Zagorsk-possibly the "saddest" fragrance I've ever inhaled. Voleur de Rose also strikes me as sad... Jazz smells like money AND sadness; Seriously both Jazz and Tsar have smell like new currency...and like most YSL fragrances, Jazz is more "yin" than "yang".
So as I try to draw Jazz out more and more, I keep thinking of the phrase, "Its lonely at the top." Jazz is the junior executive who will someday be a broken-hearted miser counting his money in a cold room where a fireplace is roaring to no avail.
Bah HUMBUG!
