Jubilation for Women Amouage for women

Jubilation 25 demonstrates the richness and time evolution I associate with classical, French perfumery, but its twist is that it screws with traditional categories. To call it a spicy, floral, oriental, herbal, fruity chypre does capture a lot of the ground this fragrance covers, but it doesn’t really narrow things down. Part of this is the way it plays out over time. Its top notes are a rosy frankincense & myrrh---and is that cardamom? Cumin? But even before that, its tippy-top notes include a licoricy tarragon, and have a tingly feel similar to aldehyedes. But as soon as I got the tip-top, they faded. Its expansive opening reminded me of Tauer’s Incense Rosé, but the top really just ushers in a balsamic, woody set of notes that have a choral hum to them that gives warmth. The fruit starts to kick in here, but it matches the woodiness. The fruit is broad and rich, but not sweet. It’s sort of an interesting fruit, too. You know the way classic white florals suggest abstract floral qualities without seeming like any particular flower you’ve ever smelled? Similarly, this is an idealized fruit. It’s a plumy, peachy scent. I think its success here is that it has both the scent of the skin of a fruit before you’ve bitten into it and the ripe flesh. Not over-ripe. I know I’m dwelling on the fruit here, but it’s the key. This is ripe in that it has a strong ‘flavor’ to it, but doesn’t have that feeling of fruit that’s started to turn (Diorella, Femme.) Fruit is the component that ties this scent’s upper register with its drydown.

Disclosure: I love fruity chypres. Y, Diorella, Mitsouko, Cristalle, Chanel pour Homme, Chinatown. I find fruity chypres exceedingly expressive and balanced. They can emphasize green, mossy, sweet, bitter, herbal and still remain true to that spectacular feel of the chypre chord.

Fruity chypre is where Jubilation 25 winds up. When the dry fruit enters, the moss comes on slowly and overtakes the woodiness and instead of harmonizing with the fruit, plays a counterpoint to it. Everything I love about the drydown of fruity chypres, Chinatown in particular, is here, but Jubilation 25 keeps its own identity. If there’s amber in the drydown, I’m mistaking it for a whisper of the frankincense. Dry and confidently stark. This concise drydown makes me feel like the circus-like opening belonged to another fragrance entirely, but one that I’d love to try again.

Had high hopes for this one. When I try it all I get is memories of yvresse/champagne by YSL. Not what I was expecting. Maybe it's my skin. Lasts long. Try it you may find what's written in the other reviews. I didn't :(

Edit: Compared Jubilation with yvresse. It starts out similar but with yvresse is a little sweeter and has a little more fruit. The middle is similar but Jubilation is a little soapier. The dry-down is very much alike.
Yvresse is so much cheaper and lasts just as long, personally it's the one I prefer.

Maybe my olfactory is playing with me but I'm surely detect pepper and cloves in the opening.This notes fades away so quickly and the drydown( what a surprize!) is exactly Caron Beloggia on me but much powdery and musky then Beloggia!!!The situation is the same as I wrote in my another rewiew( Amouage Epic), Jubilation has no edgy notes but the another perfume has it.

absolutely one of the most gorgeous golden rich fragrances i have ever had the honor of wearing. if you like patou's sublime or moschino donna, you must try this perfection.

This is a dark, intoxicating rose/vetiver/myrrh, rather sombre, and totally unsuitable for wearing anywhere public. In the bedroom, well it would be just overwhelming I would think, and I could even picture it on either a man or a woman. Lasts forever. Complicated, assured, and way too expensive for the likes of little me.

I enjoy this fragrance which has a very long lasting scent of all the notes. It is for the fall/winter night time.

@meadowbliss: why you are reviewing here the male version ????? confusing!

this perfume to me smells like stepping into a little dusty room of an eldery gipsy tarotcard reading lady wearing big, bold gold earrings and bracelets.
the room is overloaded with oriental nippes, the air filled with incense, myrrh and a sharp smell of her patchouli oil, which she's used to dab way too much to her wrist and neck in the morning.

well this was my impression with the sample i got and testing right now.
i was quite afraid to try this perfume because i expected something like it was effectively.
the first blast with the sharp spicy opening is very pungent. my eyes become wet and i could hardly resist to wash it off... by reading here it will calming down quickly i waited, but i'm still strongly displeased about the sharpness.

... after a while, 30 minutes now, it becomes nicer, mutch softer, warmening ylang-ylang and a strong (turkish?) rose shining through earthy, mossy woods with incense and a good amounth of patchouli...

Well, now I see why it's so expensive. It's my first sample from Amouage and this is marvelous. Well, as I'm not ylang-ylang friendly I don't think I could wear this, but the scent itself is such a gem. It's buttery ylang ylang, warm and rich, smells extremely expensive (and well, it is).
There is this magnificent cold rose now and then, the myrrh and vetiver gives this dry, green feeling to it and oh, I can't stop praising this.
This is classy. If you do love ylang-ylang and if you do have a chance - test this. It's elegant, feminine and suited for queens. Or at least ladies with long, elegant dresses in fancy, expensive parties.

BRAVO!

Amouage JUBILATION opens rather abruptly on my skin, with a dark and strong myrrh-incense note. After a couple of minutes, the composition seems paradoxically light. Clearly something is not developing right here, as I do not find this perfume very captivating or complex, though given the notes it should be. I do detect the ylang and a touch of rose, which are nice mixed in with the persistent incense and myrrh. The patchouli is very light compared to most recent fragrances containing that note (post-Angel).

I should disclose that I appear to amplify or magnify myrrh, which nearly always has a kind of sledgehammer effect, flattening everything else in the vicinity. It's pretty rare for me to fall for a myrrh-rich perfume, so anyone who tends to like both myrrh and ylang should definitely give this Amouage creation a sniff.

I am happy for those for whom JUBILATION works. Alas, I do not number among them! Désolée.

Just lovely- and generally I find many in the Amouage line too reminiscent of a spice market. Womanly, wears close to the skin with amazing lasting power as well.

I finally got a sample of this, along with the men’s version, which I'll be trying soon. Jubilation 25 starts out with a very faint odor initially, but within a few minutes it develops into a lovely light floral scent, predominantly ylang-ylang. Ylang is one of my favorite floral notes, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was used in what I expected to be a heavy oriental perfume. The overall impression is like a bunch of soft, fluffy salmon-pink tulle, a very feminine comfort scent that gently envelops without being overpowering. Somewhere in the drydown peaches appear, making the scent rather similar to Rochas Femme, another perfume that I like a lot. This isn’t a love-love-love gotta have it scent, but it’s one that I like enough to wear from time to time.

Several days later I can still smell Jubilation 25 on everything it contacted - the clothes I was wearing, the towel that I used when I showered after it supposedly had worn off ... this scent has amazing lasting power. Fortunately the lingering traces are pleasant.

On my left hand is Amouge Jubilation for Men. On my right: Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan. Oh, who do I love the most? I will not bore thee with top, heart and base notes, only that I cannot decide between my two current loves. I will tell you this: if you were to nestle into me and my shoulders were graced with either scent, I would have a third lover.

LEESEE...I agree with the boardroom & bedroom comment. You must be very confident & unafraid. I honestly wasn't expecting this. The word, Jubilation, to me, implies a fresh, clean, and sparkling fruit of a fragrance...but no! It's definitely NOT that.

This reminds me of Indian restaurants. When you first walk in, you smell the wonderful spicey aroma parading out of the kitchen. The rich flavors of the different currys, and the rose water they use to make their mango lassis (sp?). The base notes create such a marvelously sexy masterpiece...that it's hard for me to even think straight right now. How fragrant. How exotic. It's intoxicating and utterly delightful.

Jubilation opens with a fizzy, almost lightly peppered rose chord, and dries down to the smoke and shimmer of perfectly balanced flowers, incense and myrrh. The overall impression is one of sweetness: not floral sweetness, not vanillic sweetness, and not even a pinch of sugar. No, it is the sweetness of seemingly weightless resins, woods, and balsams that give Jubilation its distinctive allure. Its confident but far from pushy sillage never fails to attract compliments.

When I tried Jubilation from a carded sample, it had no staying power. However, I liked it so much that I decided to buy a small bottle. I am pleased to report that I applied it yesterday afternoon and can still smell it the next morning before my shower.

A lovely, must-try fragrance, Jubiliation sometimes serves for me as the ideal, sophisticated, light main course. On other days, it is the delicate appetizer that sends me to Tauer's less elegant but equally delicious L'air du désert marocain or Le Maroc pour elle for hearty main course.

Reminiscent of fine champagne chased by a single, ripe strawberry, this scent seems tailor-made for the kind of woman who could run a boardroom with the same silky ease that she rules the bedroom.

timelessly elegant for a lady who knows where she comes from and where she goes to.
spicy, rich and sophisticated.never harsh or invasive, yet not anonymous.
elegant daywear that may suit women who do not deny their strength in business life but neither their femininity