Joop!
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The green apple strikes immediately—almost tart, almost crisp—paired with freesia's clean white-floral snap. The tagetes adds an unexpected peppery-green counterpoint, preventing this from reading as simply fruity; for perhaps ten minutes, there's genuine freshness here, a botanical restraint that surprises.
As the volatile top notes dissipate, cinnamon warms the composition into something overtly gourmand, whilst jasmine provides a vaguely heady sweetness. The synthetic base begins its ascent, adding an almost creamy, powdery character to the rose, which reads less as a note and more as a sweetening agent—the fragrance becomes noticeably sweeter, rounder, less crisp.
Vanilla and musk take over with predictable heaviness; cedarwood and vetiver lumber in like furniture, lending structure to what's essentially a sweet, musky skin scent. The fragrance clings close, intimate but fading—longevity remains the composition's weakest point, disappearing well before the evening concludes.
All About Eve announces itself with the brash confidence of '90s maximalism—a fragrance that refuses to whisper. The opening salvo of green apple and freesia creates an almost aggressive freshness, tempered only slightly by the peppery bite of tagetes, which adds a herbal edge that prevents the composition from toppling into pure candy territory. Yet this is undeniably a sweet fragrance, one where the fruit-forward accords (100% fruity, the data insists) clash productively with the spiced florals lurking beneath.
The heart reveals Joop!'s true character: cinnamon and jasmine entwine in a decidedly synthetic embrace—that 52% synthetic accord is unmissable, lending an almost plastic sheen to what might otherwise read as classically romantic. The rose doesn't arrive with the powdery elegance of fine perfumery; instead, it's smoothed over with vanilla and musk, creating something more gourmand than garden-fresh. This is the scent of someone who wants to smell like dessert, who sees fragrance as decoration rather than olfactory truth.
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