Hey Hey Olfactoria’s Travellers,
Portia from Australian Perfume Junkies and Perfume Posse
Last time I went looking for this lovely on the discounters they were everywhere and for next to nothing. My last bottle was from Birgit here at OT and I think I paid about $25 for my current bottle. I was getting a bit worried because there is quite a lot of air in the bottle so I thought I’d look for a replacement. Well, they are nowhere to be found. Both #8 & #9 are still around but #2 seems to have gone the way of the dodo except for the Jacomo Paris site and eBay. Well I better get in a review before it’s gone forever.
Art Collection #02 by Jacomo 2010
Photo Stolen Fragrantica
Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Bergamot
Heart: Lily, Tonka bean
Base: Vanilla, Suede, Amber, Patchouli
Before even spritzing I am in love with the bottle, it has heft, is cool, classy, designer and blackened glass so I don’t have to freak out about the light coming into my room so much.
Chewy is the word that jumps into my head whenever I spritz Art Collection #02. It’s a weird-assed amber that seems both salty and dry and many people compare it to Play-Do. I get the reference nowadays but when I was first wearing Art Collection #02 I thought they were all bonkers. The leather is not like the usual birch and iris offered to the modern leather enthusiast, here the leather is long worn, loved and super soft. The leather here smells like ladies driving gloves feel direct from the glovebox. It’s cool and pliable.
So if you had told me in my wearings of Art Collection #02 that it was also a patchouli fragrance I would have turned my nose up at you and disagreed but now that I read it in the notes I get patchouli as clear as day. An earthy, plastic and rubber patchouli. Interesting, now that I’ve found it I wonder how I could have missed it for all these years.
Photo Stolen Fragrantica
Lasting power is excellent and as we head towards dry-down I find the fragrance sinking into my skin and becoming a sheer patina over my skin. It smells beautiful and very appealing, much more so than my natural scent, and I can imagine it being something you would want to lean in close to get a really good whiff of.
From the Jacomo site:
#02 the most tactile of our art trilogy, illustrated by Cécilia Carlstedt
A feminine perfume with a floral note fashioned by modelling clay, tender, vanilla-scented and powdery, making it both addictive and regressive, well-known but mysterious, a little childlike but also terribly seductive.
Further reading: NowSmellThis and EauMG
Jacomo Paris still has 50ml & 100ml
Surrender To Chance has samples starting at $3/ml
What was your last great love that got the chop?
Portia xx
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“Weird-assed amber” and “rubber patchouli” – love it.
I bet Jin would disagree that this is better than you natural scent, Portia.
My favourite leather, Cuir de Lancome, sadly got the chop.
I don’t know Tara, Jin could go either way.
LOVE Cuir de Lancome. I have some too.
Portia xx
Hi Portia. This one sounds like a good autumn scent. A perfume I loved that got axed is your beloved Boucheron Trouble. That is one of the only ones I have truly mourned. Xo
Oh yes, though I don’t think I will run out in this lifetime, or the next three, of Trouble. There’s a drawer of it here.
Portia xx
This sounds interesting, especially the leather glove part. Love that note in Cuir de Lacombe. Donna Karan Black Cashmere (the original), Gold, and Christian LaCroix Tumulte for men are my most mourned perfumes.
Donna Karan Gold is heavenly. I love it also and have EdT and EdP. I think the world went through an anti BWF time for a while.
Portia xx
It’s not a great love but I’m pretty sad that Love,Chloe got the ax. The original Victoria from Victorias Secret is another I miss.
Hey Poodle,
You’re not the first person I’ve read lamenting the original Victoria’s Secret frag. I liked the bottle but have no memory of how it smelled.
Portia xx
Love the sound of this as I always gravitate strangely towards play-doh…….
I have a strange thing for Jacomo as well: their Parfum Rare is the richest, most Cleopatra-esque spicy floral chypre I have ever smelled. A brilliant scent. And the hefty, black onyx bottle……there is something quite secretive about their scents that I love. And Silences of course….perfect.
On the subject of vexing discontinuations though…whenever I like anything it is practically guaranteed to get the chop, cementing my feeling that I am a freak. Even when it’s something like Gwen Stefani Harajuku Lovers…..cheap as chips etc, the whole line of pear salad candy floss is still extant but my favourite, G, indispensable to me as a summer airy coconut perfume, has also said a thumb-nosed sayonara.
How have I never smelled Parfum Rare? GRRRR! You have me frothing at the mouth here. GAK!
Ahhhh Silences…..
I have a Gwen Stefani Harajuku Lovers G- Of The Sea. It’s in a Mermaid. FREAKING LOVE IT! Love you too Freaky-Boy.
Portia xx
Parfum Rare Rocks. Get looking.
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Did you mean to put that there? I put it in my browser & nothing?
I am a moron technologically. Sorry. I was trying to put in a picture of the divine Coeur De Parfum/Parfum Rare which is like Egyptology in a bottle.
I found pictures and one lonely sale on eBay. That is the current extent of available Coeur De Parfum or Parfum Rare.
One day I’ll come and try yours.
About 2ml of a decant. Wilkommen. You both should hit Tokyo sometime soon anyway just for the hell of it. Not so far from where you are.
All travel for 2016 accounted for but if you’re still there in 2017 we will.
Thank you for sharing. I’d like to try it. Hope to hear more from you.