Jaïpur Homme Fraîcheur
Boucheron (2006)

Lighter version of the original Jaipur with wood notes added. So light it practically disappears within the first hour. It was nice while it lasted but a neutral rating due to it's fleeting appearance.

Boucheron Jaipur Fraicheur is a great piece of dry-aromatic juice pour homme, equally exotic but basically less talky-heliotropic than its great "main brother" Jaipur Pour Homme (still a giant among the giants in my humble wish-catalog). Spices are still here but significantly subdued while opening is fresher (fraicheur) and more sparkling with its wet accord of bergamot and probably grapefruit lansting longer (unlike in the "original" version) along the following development. I detect a central stage mastered by orange-patchouli-cinnamon/nutmeg and green-spicy florals while dry down Is woodier (woody-powdery by cashmere wood) and decidedly less amberish (less talky/heliotropic) than in its more ethereal predecessor. Immortelle provides a sort of fresh-aromatic, vaguely minty-honeyed, spicy-floral, "agrodolce", curry-like twist with exotic facets. A quite well appointed woody-floral perfect for the mediterranean spring-summer time.

Opens with a bright cinnamon and bergamot with a hint of nutmeg, and after no great time the patchouli lends an orange-hued woodiness to the following stages. If this does in fact contain immortelle then it is but a drop in the bucket. The fraicheur iteration is less powdery and dandified than its parent. If Jaipur Homme and Jaguar Mark II had a child it would be this. Funny enough, this smells like Bogner's Deep Forest would if everything green had been removed. Not great, but certainly pleasant, and inoffensive in a way that should not be translated as 'boring.'

Not very interesting yet quite pleasant. The citrus-bergamot opening of the original version is here emphasized to give the "fraicheur" effect. Spices have been brutally smoothered to almost disappear. Lighter powdery drydown. Nice but unneeded.

Go for the original!

I purchased this at a discount retailer out of sheer curiosity. I was not disappointed and was pleasantly surprised. This version is not as powdery as the original Jaipur and it has a wood/cedar base. It lasts all day when I wear it at work, and lasts well into the next day. It smells expensive and non-synthetic. Floral, a bit of spice and a strong wood base. The middle and top notes distinguish this fragrance from the many woodsy offerings out there. And I enjoy the fact that there is a low chance anyone else will be wearing it when I do. This is a great office and formal scent for the 30+ crowd. I can't see kids wearing this at the nightclubs. Thanks, Boucheron.

Nice masculine woody notes but incredibly light; after an hour all the notes have evaporated...very disappointed