Pepper Jasmine Gaiac Wood Passion Fruit Korres for women and men

A unisex fragrance but more feminine i think.
When i spray this on me i get a lot of alcohol and a strage-weird blend, spicy blend which i don't like it at all.
But after 2-3 minutes the fragrance becomes more and more warm,soft,creamy and oriental.
Its a good fragrance totally unisex.
I like to spray it on me when i wake up in the morning, drink a cup of hot coffee in a sofa and feel this warm oriental creamy gold touch of this fragrance!

best out of the collection.. cozy and has all the good flavors

Impressed from beginning to end!

Beautiful for fall and cooler months. It makes me think of rum soaked raisins in a spiced apple cider. Tart, yet not sour, sweet but without the toothache, and beautifully blended with spices for the perfect balance. An autumn cocktail to warm the soul. I can picture cinnamon sticks and star anise floating in my cup too!

I realize that none of the notes I mentioned above are what are listed in the fragrance, but that is the impression I get.

It's woody, creamy, and delicious. A very unique gourmand. And full bottle worthy. It's going on my list of Loves!

Beeeea-uuuu-ti-fullll! Love at first wear - I could hardly move my nose from my wrist.

Like others, I have put off reviewing this fragrance because it is hard to pin down such an ethereal scent that seems to convey such a wealth of feelings to its wearer.

Rebella describes a "golden aura & feeling" - it really has this wonderful, rich glow. SCJS describes it as "haunting" - quite so!

Kastehelmi speaks of a "velvet cushion". When I first sampled PJGWP an image flooded my mind - a large crystal glass of ruby-red wine spilling over grapes & purple fruits on a silver salver atop a rich dark wooden table before the juice dripped & tumbled over a burgundy velvet cushion with gold silk piping. It would, indeed, be fit for "fantasy creatures".

In terms of notes it is hard to separate the threads from which this esquisite cloth has been woven. A rich, mellow red-fruit opener studded with pepper somehow remains mid-weight, fluid & free from the fashionable "froootiness" that sickens other scents.

There is a mellow muskiness that makes itself known right from the start - yet it, too, is a strange beast. This musk is not clean, soapy or animalic. It is like a cloud or a sigh in a forest.

Whirling & swirling around the soft fruits are wafts of sweet cherry pipe tobacco, oh-so-smooth woods with that resinous spicey kick of guaiac & a vanilla hug. It ages gracefully leaving you with whispers of itself many hours after your first encounter.

Although I find it a very womanly perfume there is a male element that makes me think of old B&W pictures of gals dressed as guys in top hat & tails....quirky, unusual yet very alluring.

It is a languid look from under heavily fringed lashes. It is a reclusive eccentric artist. It is the pulse of blood under a pale ivory wrist. It is the music of a silent forest. It is the dilation of a pupil in eyes of avarice. It is simply beautiful.

Surreal, harmonious and so very wearable. Want, want, want.

(Kastehelmi - thank you SO much for this introduction!)

I tried this on a few days ago, and today I had to run back to get it since it has been haunting me. It's not like any other perfume I've tried, either. With that said, the opening reminds me a bit about the woodier Chanel Egoïste (which is just as fantastic on me as this one, so don't hesitate to try Egoïste on simply because it's marketed as a men's fragrance) - they have the same tint of woodsy, sweet, burnt vanilla hiding under the sandalwood.

After three hours, I get a slight tint of cinnamon blended with the vanilla. It slowly unwraps the absolutely gorgeous white chocolate, which peaks about five hours after applying the perfume. Someone found the white chocolate "not sweet", but the chocolate notes are rather sweet on my skin. Luckily enough, they are not synthetic, girly girl-bubbly, though, but hidden in powdery, mature, burnt vanilla and delicately combined with a slight touch of pepper.

White chocolate-time is when I start to question the unisex label on this one... I can easily imagine this on a man, but he has to be old and sophisticated enough to pull it off, and wise enough not to combine it with the smell of deodorant, hair wax... or anything else. This fragrance needs its space. Oh, of course I might allow a whisper of tobacco smoke.

After seven hours I can still smell it close to my skin, and it's still beautiful, but almost silent and the white chocolate has turned the sandalwood (I'm afraid I can't detect the guaiac wood - I simply don't know what it's like) into an entirely different version of itself. Imagine the difference between a garden bathing in sunlight and the same garden during sunset. That's what the white chocolate does to the other notes.

A wonderful and complex fragrance that will change a lot from the opening to the last remains.

The way this plays on my skin doesn't suggest a unisex fragrance in any way. In fact, to me it's like a really mellow version of Burberry Brit.

I was expecting something a little boutique from my first Korres, and it seems from other reviews there's some exoticism there, but I get a lot of vanilla and sandalwood on opening, that develops into some light, indistinguishable soft flowers and fruit--no sweet, tart tang characteristic of passionfruit. I don't get any wood, pepper, greenery or chocolate either.

It's a nice, comforting fragrance, but the evolution of the scent on me doesn't live up to its name.

I just want to find it. I love it. Does anyone know where I can get it online? Seems it was a limited edition, and no longer in US.

I was about to buy it but when I realized it is a unisex fragrance I had to leave it back. The perfume is so sexy and rich and oriental in the way I like it but somehow a unisex perfume does not suit my profile... Yes, I am a victim of marketing but could not think of me wearing a unisex perfume bc the moment I red that on the box I started finding a little too masculine..
Mind games...

I think my expectations as for this fragrance after reading all those positive reviews and such delicious notes. I somehow expected to be blown away by it.

I think Korres's fragrances take a while to develop on skin, at first in all three cases I did not smell much. Then Pepper Jasmine Gaiac Wood Passion Fruit develops, but rather unpromisingly, as a linear, woody-almost-monoscent. There is lots and lots of sandalwood. And even more sandalwood. Did I mention sandalwood?

And this is where it ends as well. I was waiting for white chocolate and peach and vanilla, but it the air around me got dominated by a note of wooden boards, freshly planes, laying in a hot sun. You feel the heat, you can feel the texture of the wood, and it lasts a decent while. But among the woody scents, I have other favourites.

Totally agree with rebella. I would only add that this gives the same vibe as Imperial Opoponax to me. It is golden...it could be considered feminine or masculine. After wearing for hours, I am now surprised to add that I get a great tobacco essence from this...it is a sweet fresh green tobacco that is not heavy and will be perfect for summer for the person who is used to and loves heavy winter gourmands...this one works for warmer months.UPDATE: I now like this better than when I first purchased. It works really nicely in the summer. I was walking with DH while he watered the garden...he sniffed the air and then asked if I could smell pipe tobacco? Promptly put arm under his nose...yup that was it...said it smelled like sweet pipe tobacco...I agree.

I won't review this fragrance in an orderly concise manner-the name is too long, the scent is too new, my feelings about it are too mixed-mixed between sheer delight, groggy pleasure and finding it too luxurious to know what to do with it (my bottle, and my wrist!)
This fragrance is appropriate for:

Women
Men
Transgender
Fantasy Creatures


It reminds me of:
A pasticceria
A velvet cushion
A garland of jasmine

Passionfruit pulp-strange, sweet, not so juicy, but completely new-a slight tanginess-haphazard articial attempts at synthesizing this unusual note and not combining it with complementary ingredients and expertise could result in grotesque "fruitiness", like flankers by Escada, or even worse.

The pepper is perfect for me-not the pepperiness that makes me sneeze, nor the sharp abstract pepper-It's more like eating pepper-a pleasant tingle instead of a prickliness.

Gaiac wood-WOW!-What a wood....

I am no gourmand-lover, and not a fan of white chocolate. I'm happy to say this is not a sweet-candy annoying white chocolate smell-it's well-blended, as a nice supporting character, making me smell neither foodie nor unsophisticated...
But I would still recommend this to gourmand-lovers! And Oriental-lovers, people who love warm, spicy unusual scents-people who love dark scents as opposed to light scents (dark, not heavy)-I also recommend it to those whose idea of "exotic-smelling" is wide and uncharted-people who can appreciate slightly unusual as cozy, those who don't depend on the drawn boundaries of declared olfactory groups.

Great for: Valentine's Day in Antartica

Undoubtedly, this fragrance is extremely soft and comforting - just the right thing one needs for the cold winter days. I didn't get impressed by the top notes but the drydown is exceptional with the unusual mix of pepper and white chocolate which are both very detectable on my skin. It's a pity this scent is impossible to find in my country! A must-try for all lovers of oriental fragrances!

For sure this is a perfume giving you a golden aura and feeling. Really, I am not sure if I want to write this review since this is such a beautiful, glowing, unique and comforting scent, that I rather have it for myself.

This is a perfect scent this time of year, it has a late summer/early autumn feel to it. It´s spicy, woody, oriental but in a very soft, caressing and happy way. Not at all heavy, but kind of a silent power house anyway.

The top note are really beautiful, anise and orange and vanilla, reminding a little fo SLs Douce Amere, but a little fresher, happier.

The heart notes are gorgeus, amazing. Like imagine a jasmine plant with sprakling golden flowers instead of whites. The gaiac note is kind of subdued, more giving a deep to the jasmine and passion fruit than a strong woody note. Like I am smelling of some kind of super lush, fruity, mouth watering jasmine. The scent is really personal, different but also familiar and very easy to love.

The pepper note in it give the scent a little and interesting edge, just enough never to much. The dry down may be the best part tough, or... The dry down is so cuddly, soft, sensual and comfy. Anything about it is golden, glowing, creamy, delicious...

It is a woody, no a gourmand, no a comfort, no a floriental... It´s all this, without getting to much of anything in my opinion. It isn´t even so sweet on me, perfectly sweet.

Good sillage, not so long lasting tough, wich is the only minus in my opinion. This good I could smell forever!

Msut try for anyone looking for a personal, unique fragrance experience. I haven´t yet tried it on my husband, but I think it works well on men to. It should be interesting to find out how it smells on my husband, I suspect this one can be a shape shifter on different kind of chemistry.

Excuse me while I kiss my wrist.