Jil Sander Man
Feeling Man
1989 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1989
Jil Sander Man (1989) / Feeling Man (Eau de Toilette) by Jil Sander
Bottle Design Peter Schmidt
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8.4 / 10 156 Ratings
Jil Sander Man (1989) is a popular perfume by Jil Sander for men and was released in 1989. The scent is spicy-woody. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy
Woody
Sweet
Fruity
Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
TarragonTarragon BergamotBergamot LavenderLavender AniseedAniseed FruitsFruits Green notesGreen notes
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Balsam firBalsam fir JasmineJasmine Orris rootOrris root RaspberryRaspberry CyclamenCyclamen GeraniumGeranium
Base Notes Base Notes
OakmossOakmoss Tonka beanTonka bean AmberAmber CedarCedar MuskMusk PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood TobaccoTobacco

Perfumers

Ratings
Scent
8.4156 Ratings
Longevity
8.3124 Ratings
Sillage
7.4112 Ratings
Bottle
7.5116 Ratings
Value for money
7.221 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 22.03.2024.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
8
Pricing
10
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Axiomatic

21 Reviews
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Top Review 38  
The nibbled man
1989 wasn't exactly an exciting year, more like a miserable farewell to a loud and hedonistic decade.
As if you had crawled quietly into bed with a hangover from the shrill party.

Raspberry red, these eccentric years were to close their photo album and inadvertently set a huge new trend.

Shall I sniff the neck of the youngster in the picture?
Hiss!

Dear Alain Alchenberger, your congenial nose should point the way avant-garde.
Hats off to you!
Your collage of fougère, fruits and oriental base brought the turning point in the year of change.
And it will serve as a model for many successful descendants.
Let's hear it for your skill and foresight!

Peter Schmidt poured the perfect and minimalist bottle into shape. A small notch on all sides loosened the base like a needle.
The theme could not have been designed more appropriately: the breaking up of the rigid straight line.

The fragrance progression is unusual.
There is no pyramidal effect here, it is transparencies of different directions that are overlapped.
Like the video art of the time.

Of the fougère, lavender and the herbs tarragon and aniseed, which were so popular with Jil Sander at the time, are clearly discernible.
Some pine and a mossy base waft around in a classic way.

But now everything suddenly turns reddish.
The second foil contains fruity notes, above all raspberries.
A tension chord threatens to span between tart, herbaceous green and gently sweet and sour raspberry red.
Here it is, the incomparable character of the fragrance, no confusion possible.

Tonka will brush the whole thing with a conciliatory overcoat. This third film drifts towards the Orient.
Warm and comforting with sandalwood, slightly ambery.
I won't deny that the overall impression is somewhat dull, yet the herbs pierce through this invisible blanket.
Another reference to the interruption of the base of the bottle.

The composition is somewhat peculiar.
For the entire duration, the brain tries to break up the tension chord.
Sweet?
Aromatic?
And back again!
You look at each other in the divan...

A band from Hamburg made a name for itself indirectly matching the scent.
The Jeremy Days.
These five guys embodied the zeitgeist of the time in the most subtle way.
Perfectly coiffed, elegant understatement in fine fabrics, high-quality glasses.
The yuppiesque advertising industry of the Hanseatic city is finished.
One of their pop songs even reached eleventh place in the charts in 1989.
Brand New Toy.

If you watch the video, you'll understand the fragrance aura better.
Dirk, the singer, is haunted by an angelic, female figure.
He is deliberately filmed against a red background, similar to that of the packaging.
The following contrasts:
Boys in designer clothes, the Hanseatic flair for dark shades of color.
The female angel draped in white gold like a baroque forbidden fruit, her lips raspberry red.

Well, chord of suspense?

I find the idea of showing sexy Dirk in his underwear amusing. This is, with respect, very "sweetly" tailored.
Let's cuddle up!
And the young boy in the picture unfortunately only allowed himself two bottles of the soulful man at the time and probably contributed to the quiet setting of this work of art.

But fortunately, experiences cannot be adjusted.
37 Comments
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Pricing
8
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Jackcx

1 Review
Jackcx
Jackcx
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Fabuleux...
J ai eu la chance de posséder toute la gamme de ce fabuleux parfum.
Quel regret de ne plus le trouver en vente .
Il me fait cruellement défaut au même titre que les : Borsalino, Fendi uomo ,Revlon french line ,Pencaldi uomo . Ah les belles années 80 et 90 , l époque où les parfums tenaient une éternité...
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Statements

1 short view on the fragrance
Topfpflanze3Topfpflanze3 3 years ago
7
Bottle
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Timeless classic mens scent. Fresh woody with a slightly mature aura but not too bad. Balanced and for every purpose
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