Clive Christian
Clive Christian
150 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The mandarin and bitter orange cut across your skin with immediate juiciness, but tuberose dominates the composition from the outset—creamy, almost indecent in its prominence, with pink pepper adding a whisper of heat. Within moments, you're enveloped in a forceful floral cloud that announces its presence to everyone within a two-metre radius.
As the citrus fades, the absinthe wormwood emerges with surprising clarity, creating a herbal counterpoint to the jasmine and ylang ylang. The cocoa leaf weaves through quietly, adding a dark, almost tobacco-like undertone that makes the composition feel grounded and genuinely complex; the orange blossom contributes a creamy, slightly honeyed quality that deepens the floral accord without resorting to outright sweetness.
Sandalwood and amber provide a soft, woody bed beneath creeping tonka and vanilla, which finally show their hand. The fragrance becomes a soft, creamy skin-scent at this stage—still distinctly present but infinitely more intimate, the florals now whispered rather than proclaimed, though that herbal wormwood note remains detectable on close contact.
Jump Up and Kiss Me Ecstatic announces itself as a fragrance fundamentally uninterested in restraint. This is tuberose unleashed—the creamy white florals arrive with almost brazen confidence, immediately joined by mandarin and bitter orange that refuse to soften the floral intensity. Rather than creating a fresh citrus opening, these top notes act as a brightness mechanism, a way to prevent the florals from becoming cloying. What's remarkable here is the absinthe wormwood in the heart; it introduces a herbal bite that cuts through the sweetness with genuine sophistication, preventing this from devolving into a gourmand fest despite the tonka bean and vanilla waiting in the base.
This is a fragrance for those who actually want to smell florals—not their whispered suggestion, but their presence. The ylang ylang and jasmine form the aromatic backbone, whilst the orange blossom adds a particular creamy indolence to proceedings. There's cocoa leaf too, which reads less as chocolate and more as a dusky, slightly bitter undertone that complicates the sweetness. By the drydown, sandalwood and amber provide a creamy, almost skin-scent quality, but the tonka remains present enough to acknowledge this fragrance's dessert-like tendencies without surrendering to them entirely.
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