XerJoff
XerJoff
175 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The first spray delivers an almost shocking clarity—bergamot and pink pepper create a snappy, slightly edible quality, whilst the apple note cuts through like a clarion call. Grapefruit adds citric brightness that feels genuinely alive rather than bottled.
The fruity opening gradually yields to warmer spices as cinnamon emerges, but the Florentine iris intercepts it with powdery sophistication, creating a floral-spiced middle ground. The cypress weaves through it all, contributing a subtle woodiness that prevents the composition from becoming a simple spice-forward affair.
The base settles into a muskier, amber-led finish where cedarwood becomes increasingly prominent, creating a creamy-woody close that bears little resemblance to the bright opening. What remains is surprisingly skin-scent territory—soft, warm, and decidedly less fruity than where the journey began.
XerJoff's P.33 is a fragrance that refuses easy categorisation—it sits somewhere between a bright morning constitutional and a candlelit evening in a spice merchant's warehouse. The opening marriage of bergamot and pink pepper creates an almost peppery effervescence, but it's the apple note that provides the real character here: not the crisp, watery apple of so many fresh fragrances, but something with genuine flesh and slight tartness. This isn't sanitised freshness; it has personality.
As the composition settles, the heart reveals a rather sophisticated interplay between cinnamon and Florentine iris. This is where P.33 demonstrates genuine restraint—many fragrances would let cinnamon roar, but here it's tempered by the powdery, almost violet-adjacent qualities of the iris, creating a spiced floral that feels more Renaissance portrait than market stall. The cypress adds a resinous thread that prevents the composition from becoming overly sweet despite its 100% sweet accord rating.
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