Art Collection by Jacomo #02 Jacomo for women

This Fragrance ,transfer me in the Old Orient .
I feel there......Im there......
I can dream as a princess of the Thousand and One Nights:)
Jacomo Art 2 ist oriental balmy fragrance for me.
I cannot use it ,only smell it somethimes:)

Firstly, agreeing very much with NebraskaLovesScent, if you know/like anything by ELdO or Gorilla Perfumes at Lush (the old BNTBTBB) you will understand this one!

It's very strange, but also very beautiful. The opening is almost watery, briefly, before a spicy tea and play-doh rolled in patchouli (then wrapped in soft suede) affair happens. Imagine kindergarten in India. In 1937. It is linear - not much happens after 30 minutes - but the drydown is cozy and warm: a soft and dusty vanilla leather.

Jacomo #2 wears like a Bvlgari Black, ELdO Tom of Finland and Gucci Rush love triangle.

Probably not my choice for every day, but I can see myself becoming wholly compelled to visit it often! Well worth seeking out.


(My bottle came courtesy of the lovely Malia.)

For me it was the first 'NICHE' of some kind - like NLS siad: this is not your PERFUME of a usual kind, it's ART.

Where the other two are twisting around and combine "being different and nevertheless possibly wearable for the stream" - this doesn't even try to be easy. This is - PLAY-DOH ...

From top to down, with just slight nuances (like when wind blows slightly different wasps of scent around you), this perfume is imitating the modeling clay (which, as I was informed by a member of another community, has many types of smell - I wouldn't know) and just whispers lily, bergamot, and maybe even tonka and suede here and there.

For me it was a big one goo, and though I tried my hardest to stay open-minded and conquer this "niche" - I failed bitterly.
In the end I was getting slightly nauseous ( I mean I would have never tried to get the individual notes out of pLaY-DOH, and I tried only so hard because of my mantra:"It's perfume, it's art, get a grip!") from sticking my nose on hunting the notes, and have to admit my loss and defeat.
You can't always win with art + body-chemistry :)

WEll- la di da - IT IS a very unique, interesting brew JACOMO invented here, but for me it is TOO ARTSY, I'm sorry to say.
I still think that the aim of perfume is to make me smell good, and let me feel splendid, which this scent didn'T invoke in me.

But nevertheless: Thanks JACOMO for this experience! It was my initiator for trying myself more often on other unique ones, to further my horizons!

My favourite from the incredible Art series.

You would think that this concoction would be too quirky to be wearable, but after the initial mind-teasing opener #2 settles into a creamy, calm & cozy perfume that snuggles close to your skin like a cashmere jumper.

The artist in me loves the trip-down-memory-lane awakening I feel from first spritz...poster paints...dry, pasty, inky....modelling clay...cool, neutral, slate-scented, grounded.....playdoh....warm, putty, vanilla.....suede & wet earth....soft, nuzzly, expensive-beige & very settling.

It really is a scent to exercise your mind - even if you find it too queer to grace your skin on a regular basis, you must surely enjoy the olfactory work-out it offers. Quietly unique, #2 is a mid-weight, mid/low sweet, cozy scent which offers one of the best suede-vanilla dry downs I have tried. On my skin it lasts fairly well, but has little sillage tending to play peek-a-boo with the wearer as one moves.

I cannot agree more with NLS's & Jillzilla's reviews....if you like any of the frags NLS mentions, you MUST try #2.

The box's artwork is beautiful & the bottles are reminiscent of my favourite artist's inks - simple, abstract, balanced, unfussy & unique.

All-in-all, a true artist-scent: off-kilter, playful, uncompromising yet kind, warm & earthy.

Smells exactly as Jacomo describes: chewing gum, leather, and modeling clay. Really quite remarkable! But lasts no more than 1.5 hours on me, even when I'm bathed in it, so it's essentially a skin-scent on my chemistry. Still, I want to smell like this. It's very stabilizing.

ELDO. POTL. BNTBTBB.

If you know what these acronyms are, you're likely a true perfumista with an educated nose that appreciates uncommon scents. Art Collection #02 is a fragrance you'll want to try.

One of the American retailers that carries this scent describes the artwork on the box as "a mysterious girl who could have escaped Carlstedt's New York studio, leaving a trail of gum, leather and modeling clay scents in her wake." (From the Bigelow Apothecaries site.)

That's a pretty good description of the scent, too. It's a bit sweet in the beginning, with a prolonged "play-doh" stage in the middle, and a salty leather-patchouli dry-down that lasted me through an entire workday. Definitely not a traditional perfume, but pleasant and unique. You'll stand out in this one.

(If you're not familiar with the acronyms above, ELDO is Etat Libre d'Orange, POTL is People of the Labyrinths, BNTBTBB is Be Never Too Busy to Be Beautiful and you can read more about all of them here on Fragrantica.)