Speaking about Richard James, it is necessary to mention Savile Row street , 29 (it is the place, where the boutique of the same mark is situated) in order not to mislead it with British namesakes: the musician from Aphex Twin, the photographer, gallerier and the real estate agent, and also the namesake-American - the inventor of spring toy Slinky.
For the description of modern classics only two words are enough. For the figurative description of Richard James aroma - several pictures are required: James Bond, man’s suede cigarette case Piquadro, spicy Indian mixes of ground spices, a modest man’s buttonhole from Dior (a rose, a lily of the valley). The aroma is quite usual and it somehow reminds a lot of other things, as well as any classics do. But something really imperceptible is hidden here- it may be a style, either a breed, or tone, or just a shade - something that makes this easy and flower spicy perfume modern.
The fresh and bitter citron beginning of powder-flower tonality is freshened up to sharpness zinziber root and green tea. Light powder tonality is introduced for enriching Richard James with a chord of fresh ironed shirts. Fashionable nowadays flower notes (rose, a tuberose) in heart of aroma are opposed to flower notes of spicy cardamom and a coriander. So feminity is practically absent in it. From this time powder is replaced with the suede sounding on an octave below and less realistic. And the aroma becomes more confidently and lighter at once.
Savile Row Richard James (Yves Cassar, 2003). Bergamot, a tangerine, zinziber, green tea, a rosemary, a basil; cardamom, a coriander, a tuberose, a lily of the valley, a rose, a lavender; suede, patchouli, a sandal-wood tree, tobacco, ambre, musk, an oak moss.