Underrated Friday: Trussardi Jeans
Believe it or not, I’m reviving the Underrated Friday feature where I put in limelight, so to speak, perfumes I find underrated for one reason or another. Today’s pick is Trussardi Jeans. I won’t be a bit surprised if most of you have never heard of this fragrance. Donna’s post earlier this week on Absolu by Rochas raised a question of certain scents not being marketed in the U.S., and Trussardi Jeans clearly falls into this category. The same rings true for pretty much any other scent from the house of Trussardi (be it Skin, Donna, Uomo - they all rather quickly end up on the discounters’ shelves, such as Marshall’s or T.J.Maxx). Trussardi fragrances very much follow the chic, upbeat, and so very Italian trends of Trussardi fashion, with compositions often marked by a completely new take on contemporary scent.
In 2003 (the year it was released) I was on a summer home visit to Latvia. Every single perfume shop featured Trussardi Jeans. It was the “it” fragrance of the season. What first caught my attention wasn’t the scent itself but the bottle - a tribute to a jeans pocket, with orange lettering to represent the seam stitching. I thought it was pretty cool and very urban, and surely I’d love the juice. Not quite so. My first impression consisted of one very vivid, very dear to heart olfactory-gustatory image: buckwheat porridge. I could eat truckloads of it, yet wearing it on my skin all of a sudden didn’t seem so cool and urban. So I made myself smell it again, and again, and again… till I finally walked out of the store with a small bottle. It grew on me. The more I wore it, the more charismatic it seemed. When I look at Trussardi Jeans today, I see it as a charming sweet and powdery violet. It’s hardly a soliflore. The violet is mixed with lush tuberose, a good amount of chiffon-like heliotrope, and a certain bitter undertone reminiscent of almonds. I actually find it quite similar to Jour de Fete by L’Artisan Parfumeur - it has the same sweet, powdery bitter almond feel. Trussardi Jeans is just as appealing as it was back then, and I’d very much like to see it on Sephora shelves instead of all those numerous vanilla clones.
Trussardi Jeans features the notes of violet, tuberose, freesia, white lily, heliotrope, vanilla. It can be found on various online perfume discounters.
Image source: escential.co.uk
12 comments May 24th, 2007