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I remember when this first came out, the people who stumbled across it, because that’s basically how Joops sells EVERYTHING in their Homme line, people just randomly find it one day, when they smelled it they were like, “WHERE THE HELL DID THIS COME FROM?!” And yeah, where the Hell DID this come from? It smells nothing like the original Joop Homme, which isn’t really a surprise, outside of a handful flankers very few things in the Joop line smell like the original, Joop is one of those brands that will just shove anything into an Homme-shaped bottle and hope for the best, but the KIND of different it is makes it like nothing else in the line. It is a GENUINELY CLASSY waxy Iris-based bit of perfume that you can pick up for a pittance. I get the Stronger With You comparisons, it does have that kind of sweet nutty backbone to it that I fine every SWY has. If you were to stick this into one those painted up Arabian Special Edition bottles and slap “STRONGER WITH YOU IRIS” on the front I wouldn’t argue with it. I find it MUCH brighter than most is the Stronger With Yous I’ve smelled though, and unlike with them where they all dry down kind of the same with the faintest nuance of the star notes in the Special Editions being detectable only to, frankly, nerds like us, the Iris in this never stops being the star. If you don’t like sweet fragrances, or Iris ones, waxy or otherwise, or honestly any of the SWYs this is definitely not for you, but for the price I paid (£28 brand new from an actual shop only a couple of months after it came out), this is like, GOD-TIER Cheapie. I can and have worn it with a suit. There is a Joop I think you can wear with a suit now. Wonders never cease.
This is sweet and a step up from the EDT, however it is not great. Its a little medicinal and off-putting to my nose. I get how some people like it, but its just not for me.
It is a sweet vanilla, but a little medicinal, not my favorite and not my style!