Jump Up And Kiss Me Ecstatic (2021).

Jump Up And Kiss Me Ecstatic arrives from the Addictive Arts collection, reissued in 2021 originally launched in 2017. The collection takes its cue from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a story of ecstatic enjoyment and hedonistic reckless abandonment, where desire clouds judgment and the night rewrites the rules. Perfumer Julie Pluchet translated that frenzied, dream-logic energy into a fragrance that moves in waves: bright citrus that electrifies, white florals that intoxicate, then a warm amber-vanilla close that lingers past dawn. The name says it all. This is not a quiet fragrance. This is the one you reach for when the plan changes and the night gets interesting.

What makes this composition stand apart is its sheer density, 219 ingredients packed into a single fragrance. The result is a layering effect where individual notes aren't so much listed as overlapped, creating something that reads as mood rather than inventory. The absinthe wormwood in the heart isn't herbal in the conventional sense; it's the bitter undercurrent that keeps the tuberose from becoming purely sweet. The cacao leaf adds a faint, dark edge that most tuberose fragrances never attempt. The suede note in the base is what separates this from a generically warm drydown, it keeps the vanilla and tonka from cloying, adding a texture that's worn, soft, and unexpectedly intimate.

The opening lands bright. Mandarin and bitter orange hit first, that citrus edge softened by pink pepper's subtle heat. Thirty seconds in, it smells like someone just walked into a room carrying a tropical evening. The absinthe wormwood is present, bitter, green, a little unsettling if you're not expecting it. But it doesn't linger. The white florals take over: tuberose first, then ylang-ylang joining in with that creamy, almost indolic richness, jasmine deepening the heart. The rose is quiet, more felt than named. On most skin, this heart holds for a full two hours before the base begins to assert itself. Then the amber and vanilla arrive. Warm. Powdery. Close to the skin but unmistakable. The tonka bean gives it a hay-like sweetness; the suede keeps it from reading as dessert. On fabric, this becomes a quiet, lingering presence that stays into the next morning, faint, warm, and impossible to pin to a specific moment. The sandalwood and vetiver in the base are the long game, settling in and staying.

Jump Up And Kiss Me Ecstatic belongs to the Addictive Arts collection, which Clive Christian describes as cult fragrances inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Shakespeare play that runs on desire, confusion, and the kind of hedonism that rewrites the rules. In 2021, the house reissued this fragrance alongside Jump Up And Kiss Me Hedonistic, both at 50 ml, responding to sustained demand for two fragrances that had spent four years out of production after their original 2017 limited release. The house's decision to bring them back says something: this is a fragrance people hunted. Whether that matters to you depends entirely on whether you were hunting it too.