Collection Croisière

Jangala 2015

Jangala by Pierre Guillaume
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7.0 / 10 70 Ratings
Jangala is a perfume by Pierre Guillaume for women and men and was released in 2015. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production. Pronunciation
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Main accords

Spicy
Woody
Fresh
Green
Aquatic

Fragrance Notes

CardamomCardamom CoconutCoconut SandalwoodSandalwood Ozonic notesOzonic notes Thai spicesThai spices EucalyptusEucalyptus Ginger lilyGinger lily VetiverVetiver RosewoodRosewood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.070 Ratings
Longevity
6.959 Ratings
Sillage
6.359 Ratings
Bottle
7.362 Ratings
Value for money
5.812 Ratings
Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 27.08.2023.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the "Collection Croisière" collection.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions
9
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Bloodxclat

30 Reviews
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Bloodxclat
Bloodxclat
Very helpful Review 10  
Sibayak
06.55h, Berastagi, Central Sumatra, Indonesia:

A few steps out of the city, the fresh air is free. Out we go. A little bus, sacks of spices and herbs. A dusty brown track leads to the foot of Gunung Sibayak.

The sun's a little higher, it's getting hot. The moisture remains in the valley. A narrow steep path leads up the volcano. Meter-high bamboo plants form an impenetrable tunnel. Eucalyptus and old sandalwood trees protrude from the undergrowth. Red ginger blossoms bloom along the wayside. Countless green cardamom capsules hang deep hidden in the bushes.

The air becomes drier, more mineral, thinner. Chunks of volcanic rock line the paths. The thicket thins out, the path becomes steeper and stonier. The air is clear, hot and fresh.
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The topic jungle was not hit - but Southeast Asia can be well associated.
Very fascinating fragrance that has been on my mind for a long time.

The mineral, metallic rock note goes wonderfully with the spicy fresh eucalyptus and ginger. The citric of cardamom also looks fresh. The somewhat powdery sandalwood rounds off at the back. Coconut is luckily not available.

A nice PG that hasn't gained a foothold in the forum yet. Definitely worth a try! Neither classical aquatics nor coconut.
3 Comments
7
Bottle
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
9
Scent
Jilly

14 Reviews
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Jilly
Jilly
3  
Cool Barbados bar checker - holiday scent par excellence
Let's begin the journey:
We are on Barbados on the beach, a wonderful bar between palm trees, the sound of the sea in the background as musical background. A great and varied fruit bowl in front of us at the bar and around us many lightly dressed ladies in bikini, as well as palms as far as the eye can see - check. This is the ultimate scenery for this fragrance.
First of all: the scent is unisex - on a lady certainly also very nice to sniff out.
The first spray and Peng there falls already the coconut on the nose, this becomes however in the process more discreetly and moves into the background. Very fresh - the eucalyptus is also present there. A beautiful fresh and slightly fruity top note due to the coconut. In the course of time, however, the ocean becomes stronger. The aquatic or ozone chord comes to the fore paired with something sweet, that must be the vetiver. Really nice. So this is what holiday feeling par excellence smells like. The Sillage is in the good midfield one smells it also from somewhat larger radius. The fragrance also radiates for a good 5-6 hours. The durability is quite 7 hours, which I see as upper midfield.
That's what vacation feels like. Now unpack your shorts, take out your short shirt and head south to the beach bar.
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Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Taskphorce

55 Reviews
Taskphorce
Taskphorce
3  
Invigorating!
Incredibly invigorating...this fragrance opens with clean, crisp eucalyptus, coconut, and it captures the essence of moist jungle air! I can't stop wearing this one. It is perfect for warm weather....In the dry down, the coconut takes a back seat and the eucalyptus is met by vetiver and smooth sandalwood. The fragrance is light and it is nearly impossible to overspray this. I tend to go with 8 sprays (make sure to hit the clothing) and I can still detect a trail several hours later. If you are looking for a great addition to your summer arsenal, look no further. I would also recommend "Long Courrier" from this line...which is an attractive and versatile powdery vanilla.
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
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Almost!
And here’s the only other decent scent from this half-baked new line by Pierre Guillaume (the other was Long Courrier – which I honestly prefer way over this). Straight to the point, Jangala is decent at least for the first couple of hours, for two main and kind of obvious reasons: it smells nice until it can, and it is fairly creative. If making a “creative rewriting” of tropical-aquatic clichés was the aim of this new line, Jangala *almost* made it. Definition-wise this would be in my opinion a sort of green-fruity-woody scent with a mineral-watery texture, like pretty much any other of this line, but this and Long Courrier are basically the only ones able to add something to it - something I can’t honestly define. I think it simply “works” and succeeds in avoiding any “tropical shower gel/sun cream” effect. There is a bitter-sweet juxtaposition going on which makes Jangala really intriguing at first: something lightly sugary, plushy and pleasantly creamy (coconut, sandalwood) perfectly coexisting with a fresher, sharper, slightly pungent balsamic-citric sour top accord, both embracing a cozy and exotic “tropical” blend of ginger, herbs (that olive leaves thing), something floral, woods and fruity notes (I guess still coconut and the rest of the pyramid) with a decided ozonic-metallic and weightless “glassy” vibe that keeps it all on the fresh-watery and “grey-azure” side. Nothing overly exotic or weird, as it nearly reminds me of some ginger-woody masculine designers (from Envy to YSL L’Homme) with a brighter, coconut-balsamic-breezy twist. But still, fun and fascinating overall.

Besides working fine, I also like how Guillaume managed to keep the blend seemingly natural making a clever use of materials, at least for the initial phase (long enough to convince retailers and distributors at tradeshows to get some stocks, I guess). Sadly though, all of that you just read works for me for a couple of hours, before Jangala starts collapsing into a sort of cheaper, harshly pungent citronnel-infused woody-ozonic-herbal drydown *now* showing the actual quality of some components (in other words, smelling a bit more openly synthetic and flat). Still not completely bad, but well... Surely worse than it seemed at first for me. Despite this, personally I would still consider Jangala an interesting, decently creative and almost solid “watery balsamic coconut cocktail” with a disappointing – not hideous, just disappointing - drydown. Still surely among the best you can get in this genre – just keep reapplying it and avoid the crap drydown.

6,5/10
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