Underrated Friday: Trussardi Jeans
May 24th, 2007
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.
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12 Comments Add your own
1. Flora | May 24th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I know of one shop that carries Trussardi, I need to try this. Their original “Donna” is very lovely as well. It has an unusual nutmeg spiciness which I really like.
2. Fragrant Funster | May 25th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Interesting and nice to see this fragrance mentioned somewhere. I tried this at TJ Maxx and got a definite Bois Farine vibe from it - maybe that same “porridgey” note or something. Not my note-set at the moment so took a pass, but definitely well worth reconsidering if I ever start jonesing for Bois Farine again.
3. Elle | May 25th, 2007 at 6:27 am
I confess it never occurred to me to even try this (the blue color made me think it would go the ozonic route), but it actually sounds like it has potential. Hadn’t thought of violets and heliotrope. Definitely will have to try it.
4. Marina | May 25th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Really? Buckwheat porridge? I’ve got to try it then, I LOVE buckwheat porridge.
5. newproducts | May 25th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Oh, this one sounds so good. I’ve never heard of it before. Is it hard to find, even online?
6. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Flora, I don’t recall what the original Donna smells like but I bet it’s lovely.
7. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Funster, yes, Bois Farine and Jour de Fete, along those lines. A bit sweeter on my skin, though. I don’t think I could wear it now, simply because it’s one of those memory scents I like to sniff once in a while and appreciate.
8. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Elle, it might be a bit too sweet for you but worth a try nonetheless.
9. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Marina, well, that was my first, unsophisticated impression back in 2003.
Today, it’s more than that, thankfully.
10. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Minsun, it’s not hard to find. Ebay has it, too.
11. Tommasina | May 25th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
I found it Bois Farine-y but also somewhat Sensi White Notes-y; but overall, strangely (think of the disparity in the notes), it was mostly reminiscent of Rykiel Woman. But then, that’s also my weird chemistry, which I have rehearsed so often here and elsewhere.
12. Ina | May 25th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Tommasina, I can see the similarity with Rykiel Woman, too. It’s that bitter accord.
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