Man Pure Jil Sander 1981 Eau de Toilette

Man Pure (Eau de Toilette) by Jil Sander

Bottle Design Peter Schmidt

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8.5 / 10 228 Ratings

Man Pure (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Jil Sander for men and was released in 1981. The scent is spicy-woody. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Leathery

Animal

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Basil

Clary sage

Oregano

Lemon

Heart Notes

Carnation

Geranium

Patchouli

Cinnamon

Base Notes

Labdanum

Oakmoss

Castoreum

Cedarwood

Nutmeg

Perfumer

Jacques Artarit

Ratings

Scent

8.5228 Ratings

Longevity

8.5183 Ratings

Sillage

7.9189 Ratings

Bottle

7.8195 Ratings

Value for money

7.336 Ratings

Submitted by Megantic, last update on 14.02.2024.

Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/09/2019

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Can777
121 Reviews

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The aesthetics of nothingness

The perfect cut. Silhouettes. Sharp and soft at the same time. The art of minimalism. The perfection of simplicity in perfection. No one ruled it like Jil Sander. She made a lot out of little. The fashion she created was for women and men with self-confidence and character strength who filled her creations with their own self. Clean, pure and simple. Although her fashion was very similar to minimalism, her perfumes weren't always the same. Her perfumes were not meant to underline her fashion, but the wearer himself or herself. In the cosmos of the Sander women and men have always been equally in
Self-confidence, strength of character and style equal. What she did for women, she did for men as well. So she created Jil Sander Man Pure in 1981. So she measured the man and created him an aura of perfect molecules. The molecules of pure masculinity, sovereignty and elegance. Jil Sander Man Pure

The fragrance
As apparently cool and distant as Jil Sander's fashion, the fragrance also begins. Cool and almost static Mediterranean herbs open the top note. Slightly citric underlay and metallic-herb. Comparable to a precise, sharp silhouette through fabric. Floral and spicy notes are added. Significantly carnation and rose geranium. The most manly flowers I've ever seen. They run through the heart note like a fine and stylish seam. The seasoning and the herbaceous-herbal course gradually become deeper and warmer through nutmeg and fine chords of cinnamon. All transitions to the individual notes are perfectly coordinated and as flowing as the pinstripes on a perfect tailor-made suit. As far as the base is concerned, Jil Sander Man Pure is pure perfection. She sews together, so to speak, the individual notes or almost cut pieces. A deeply warm and leathery castoreum releases the deepest animal warmth and fuses with a smoky, soft and protective oak moss.

Conclusion
With Jil Sander Man Pure, Jil Sander has given the man a silhouette of sharp and at the same time soft contours. You could be naked with this scent and still be perfectly dressed as a man. This perfume may look cool, fresh and sterile at first contact with the skin, but it's a big mistake. After a short time Jil Sander Man Pure spreads a deep, sensual and sovereign aura of warmth and infinite serenity. And this for many hours. This perfume is minimalism in its most exorbitant form. The olfactory formal language of male aesthetics.
The modern man does not need to know much about fashion, but have the sensitivity to feel a good cut.
-Jil Sander-

In my opinion this also applies to perfume in another form!

01/10/2024

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Axiomatic
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Axiomatic

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The imaginary man

1981
Difficulties at the start of the decade, as certain burdens of the 1970s have to be overcome.
The second oil price shock, gigantic interest rate hike in the USA as an insane countermeasure, stagnation of the German economy and rise in unemployment.
New technologies conquer the production process, create innovative freedom in the entertainment industry.
In the fragrance sector, the ultimate hits of the year show that countermeasures had to be taken in the face of declining consumer sentiment.
When Greek heroes, the black Antaeus Eau de Toilette and the white Kouros Eau de Toilette duel in Paris, people in Hamburg remain calm.
One observes very closely how the individual quietly becomes aware of himself and how social interaction is thrown into disarray.
The analog has danced itself out.

Insight.

Jil Sander showed flair and foresight when she was able to win Jacques Artarit for two of her legendary fragrances.
Also on board is Peter Schmidt as the designer of the flacons according to the Bauhaus style. He will show with bravura what form means.
Two cubes as a container, a cylinder as a cap.
The basics of sober elegance.

Here is the fragrance that should master the art of opposites and their interpenetration.

Sizzle!
The pure man opens green aromatic, slightly citrusy.
Very simple.
Apparently.
Because the oregano will contribute a very masculine spice, which is soothed by the basil and tartly drawn by the sage, slightly urine-like.
Add to this a citric base that almost drifts into the ethereal.
Chypre as a film negative.

Brain activated.

Next.
Let's not fool ourselves, the detached heart will analyze the flowers soberly.
No overreaction.
The rose geranium offers no Black Forest idyll, dry and tart, it finds its way into the big city without difficulty.
No love affair.
Only the true feeling counts.
The powderiness of the garden carnation falls like fine plaster from the concrete walls.
The precise ration of cinnamon colors the waves of Zen pebbles on patchouli floors.

Tadao Andō.

Sensual.
Castoreum and oakmoss falsify the unthinkable.
With warming nutmeg, a new sexual aesthetic breaks with old habits.
Cultivated, distanced and at the same time penetrating all the senses.
The perfection of physical desire.
Black and white clarity.

Robert Mapplethorbe.

Man - naked - as a seated sculpture on chrome and leather.
Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair breaks through surfaces, creates insights.
Chiseled torso.
Labdanum emphasizes with black leather, but does not cover.
Opposite the waiting couch - Cassina model by Le Corbusier - on wooden parquet.
Contemplation.
Silence.
Action.

Second sexual revolution.

Jacques Artarit has mastered the art of interpenetrating contrasts.
For where a strict fragrance progression should mark endings, he breathes an independent flare into the pyramidal sections.
If you think you are in the base, the tart green components of the top note suddenly reappear and the floral heart throbs softly as if behind a curtain.

Polar Bear by Grauzone provides the perfect musical backdrop.
The group consistently makes the break with the 1970s that was long overdue.
Minimalist and striking.
Not only the polar cold as a contrast to the retreat into the warm self reflects the contrasts, the confused interruption of the dance rhythm illustrates the indissoluble interpenetration of the fragrance levels, only to then allow the apparent solitaires to set the pace in the next section until the next shuffle.

The most convincing aspect is the countering of previous animalic ideas.
The oakmoss gives it a strange purity.
The physicality is discernible, but so dignified as if it were staged. Nothing is left to chance.
This oxymoron almost elevates the flesh to the realm of the imaginary.

The flowers are congenial.
The classic rose-patchouli theme is masterfully driven towards zero.
Rose geranium, always a shadowy companion to the magnificent rose in other fragrances, is allowed to present its tart beauty here all on its own in well-dosed doses.
Dry and with subtly pleasant emotional mastery, because it is by no means emotionally cold.
She has merely learned from the injuries of the previous decade.
And these are gently covered up with powdery garden carnation.

Labdanum as a fixative remains leathery, without immediately coming up with a whole mackerel of notes.
The balance between coarseness and sophistication.
A small piece of leather, very restrained, very intimate.

And here we have come full circle to the new leather chypre that has made history.

Pure perfection.

08/21/2020

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Siebenkäs
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Story time

Today I want to tell you how I felt the other day with the baby-
Sitten ergehen. Well - "baby" is not quite the word.
Max and Lottchen are four and five.
Not that you think I'm doing this for money - it's just that it's not ...for a purely ceremonial act of friendship. The parents are old
Friends and I was honestly a little honored;
that they turned to me. Especially since the two
are a little wild at times. (I mean of course Max
and Lottchen.)
After dinner (which, except for one torn out
Bonsai went smoothly) and a little bit of television ("Bauer
is looking for a wife") the two of them finally lay in their floor-
Crib.
"Tell us another story!" shouted Max from above "But a very long..." Lottchen agrees with him "All right..." I'll make myself comfortable on the edge of the bed "Once upon a time, there was a perfume..."
"What kind?"
"Easy, Lottchen. None from your mama. So - it was a
beautiful morning, the sun laughed and morning fresh and
...our Man Pure went out into the world.
That was his name. Lightly floral-powdery aromas
mixed with fine hesperides accompanied it, because the
were his own in his quite pretty, bauhaus-
inspired clothing.
"No armor at all.. "Not really, Maxie, but it's a great advantage adhesive robe. The sun rose higher in the sky...
"What company?"
"Quiet now! So - it became warmer and now they were moving
quite lively the elements and nature spirits of the green,
cheerful dwarf herb meadow. But behind - still good
hidden, a gentle but deep
Hum...
"Maybe my Zotti...?"
"No, Lottchen, no. It was a fine, mossy chypre-
Bass. Straight from the Enchanted Forest. Because in the gings now
lively forbass straight into it. And of course there are also >br /> some wild animals you can smell. But no
I'm afraid they're very nice. The deeper Man Pure into the forest
...the more you get. There's a goblin doing his
Little fires with wood and birch tar and all kinds of other things.
And some sweets are somewhere under mossy
Stones hidden, somewhere in the unfathomable depths
of the Sander Forest.
Of course, the good perfume also experiences a few
Adventure, but surely you are more interested in the
olfactory profile.
You don't have to think of the whole fragrance experience now as
imagine a big mess like in your room
before cleaning up. No, it's all in perfect harmony with itself-
understandable and easy with each other. The easy thing is, like you
you know, always the hardest. And there are angular transitions
it's not here at all. Everything is perfectly blended and
seems so effortless and natural. That something earthy,
of still real oakmoss and patchouli radiating
can our hero skillfully through almost bee-honey
Keep the labdanum in check. And this is typical for our
Man Pure - it keeps all the different traits
from fresh over spicy, floral, woody and earthy to almost
moulds in calm, well balanced.
Completely unsynthetic and sovereign. Typical sign of the zodiac
Scales, if you ask me. Interesting topic -
which sign of the zodiac have scents - don't you think?
But further in the woods - later it hits the evil fairy Ifra,
but I'll tell you about it some other time And as a result, it's... but let's not do that.
Nowadays perfume is only available for expensive money. To the
Example on ebay, with much, much luck in Mint Condition.
A strange ending for a fairy tale, but you know how it is also what Mr. Geiger says - overcome unbiased
the fairy tale the hurdles of our present consciousness
limitation of being, it knows for the eternal being of the
People, his entelechy, an "Once upon a time",
but leads him through a "here and now" into a
"Once upon a time" over. You should, by the way, more often
read fairy tales yourself. And in general - a lot, very
a lot of reading. It took me decades to learn things
that I could have read in 10 minutes.
So, next time maybe I'll tell you about the br /> Difference between the smell of molecular
Shapes and the perception of quantum-based
Vibration differences, kids. Kids...? Hello...
Maxie... Lotti..
Suddenly I realize how quiet it is. Just a
touchingly tender breathing and panting can be heard.
How easy it is to bring children to rest when
you just respond to them a little bit.
Very quietly and on tiptoe I sneak out
the room...

11/24/2020

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

DN1982
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Giant of fragrances

I haven't given a fragrance the full 10 for years - not even my all-time favourite Drakkar Noir. Always hoping that something will come along that will make me flash like never before. Now the 9.5 phase is finally history thanks to this milestone in men's fragrances. It's been a couple of months since I've picked up a few minis from the good Jil in a drawer, and they've been eking out a living in the back corner. It was Background and Man Pure. One of the Man Pure minis I had got rid of years ago because it wasn't quite kosher anymore. But I had a subliminal feeling that it was not unknown to me. And so time went by and then there was this little gem. I did not expect anything, because the other one was tilted as well, at least I felt that way at that time.

No, the eau didn't break, this one was okay. Applied - it was like seeing an old acquaintance again whom you had not seen for a quarter of a century, like a rebirth in the early eighties. Man, I'm so euphoric I don't even know where to start. Okay, so let's start over: application, rebirth in the eighties. Sweet basil meets sage and oregano. Sage is one of the few spices that can act as either Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hide. I have this stuff in my garden and it's a difference like day and night whether you use it dried or otherwise processed or use it fresh. In the first case it can give off its typical (sweet-)sour kick or in the second case it can let the dirty stuff hang out and show itself urine-like and rotten like flower stems that have been standing in the same water for a week. In MP he shows the gentleman's part and together with citrus, clove, geranium and the patchouli a wonderful scent is generated: a fresh green-herbal soap. You moan because of the soap? I usually do too, because it always reminds me so much of cheap shaving lotions and Toni's hairdressing salon. Here it looks a bit different. Even though the soapy vein is the supporting part in much of the late top note and early heart note, nothing looks cheap here. It doesn't exaggerate anything and nothing goes under here, the right balance was struck here. So it doesn't bother that the soapy vein makes itself comfortable in the heart of the fragrance for several hours before the hitherto bombastic fragrance rises to the divine in the base. Oak moss in pure culture - of course, at that time it was still allowed, the allergies were only spun out later - with the earthy patchouli, the beaver's horny plays with the labdanum, the nutmeg unmistakably tart. The cinnamon, which rounds off the whole thing perfectly, dominates, but is never obtrusive.

But there was something else. Right, MP also has an animal vein and here Mr. Artatit did no less bad work, because it can't be 100% determined if it's just beaver horny. I say no, because at least there is still the sage hanging in there, which lets a little bit of the dirty pig hang out from under the spices here and thus also shows its other side. And I have a strong tendency to think that the labdanum has its fingers in the animalistic game, and here, too, the right measure was found to the thousandth part.

This fragrance, which had escaped my memories of the last 20 years, is one of THE fragrances of the 1980s! It shows a multi-faceted, clean freshness, herbaceous and spicy green, grounded and noble. It is beyond all doubt and at the same time it is damn sexy, not to say even a little bit wicked.
The fragrance is clearly perceptible in all its phases, the radiance is very high. This is one that you not only pull behind you, but also push in front of you, but always remains a gentleman due to its perfect composition. Whereas other fragrances from this era like to elicit a "Hey, you smell like daddy (or grandpa)" from the person opposite, a "Hey, you smell... You smell... Unfortunately cool!" come in.
MP could be heard well into the nineties, even omnipresent, in my opinion one of the few milestones of men's perfume and it's really a shame that it no longer exists. Yes, I know that allergenic and poisonous stuff or maybe it was just outdated - but hey, that was a fragrance that would have been really worth dying for. And it still fucking is, actually!

Unfortunately MP is not so easy to get today and it is already three times not cheap. If you want to have the DNA and are willing to do without a few percent of the finest details of MP, you should try Eclat 719. And if you enjoy the equally past Halston Catalyst for Men and don't mind an animal impact, you'll also get something you might like with MP or the 719.

07/26/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Landmann
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Heartbeat

Don't worry, it won't be a melancholy, transfigured or even unsparing review of the time of my growing up. No memories of the songs of that time, cars, motorcycles, motorbike parties, discos, concerts, no history, just so much - Man Pure was usually there. Everybody knew the scent and most liked it. 1983.

Today I feel my heartbeat when another package from Ebay is in front of me and I impatiently tear it open. Just the first splashes on my arm, this oily and resinous feeling that spreads on the skin and then -the first time smelling deeply...
Fantastic, not toppled over - not in spite of all the years, it's like 1983: Southern herbs and a clear freshness, the spices, the very, very light, clean soap smell, patchouli and cinnamon, this soft, unsweet, but extremely harmonious, almost oriental basis, which haunts you for days on end. 2020.

How many Dupes had I already tested and bought? All similar, but none even close. How many times I bought Scent 79, smelled sprayed, bunkered, the first version was still quite passable, the second one probably less, it's (only) homages, inspirations. Fine by me, also a 99% similar scent. Yes, with good will it will work.
Nevertheless- just beside it is also over! Always and with everything!

It's about feelings. It's about haptics, the aesthetics of this double-cube bottle, the removal of this cap and this broad, rich spray on the skin, the expectant heartbeat before inhalation and finally -and actually only- about...
..the scent!

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