The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Off the Cuff lands in 2026 as Jusbox's love letter to improvisation, the principle that the best music happens when nobody's reading from a page. Bruno Jovanovic called the brief and translated that loose, spontaneous energy into scent: bright citrus up top that sounds like a cue, a dry, resinous heart that feels like a riff nobody planned, and a warm, woody close that lands where the song was always going. The opening is a quick, confident gesture, the bergamot and lime lifting off the skin with a clean snap before settling into something quieter and more textured. As the composition breathes, the heart reveals its character through cistus and cypress, a pairing of sticky warmth against dry green that keeps the midphase grounded and alive.
The vinyl record accord is the conversation piece, and it's doing more work than a novelty name suggests. The fragrance uses a NaturePrint version of actual vinyl record material, capturing the warm character of a spinning LP rather than approximating it with a generic woody amber and calling it done. Combined with cistus's sticky, amber-ish depth and the dry green snap of cypress, the heart phase builds a texture you can almost hear, and that specificity separates Off the Cuff from a dozen other woody ambers with a 'creative' concept bolted on.
The evolution
The composition begins with a sharp citrus flash, bergamot and lime split open like a needle dropping into a groove. Within minutes, the vinyl record NaturePrint accord surfaces, carrying a warmth that reads more like texture than note, something unfamiliar and quietly compelling in the way it sits against the skin. Cistus and cypress arrive next, anchoring the composition in a dry, resinous heart that holds with real conviction as the hours pass. As the citrus recedes, the cedarwood, styrax, and sandalwood base assembles into a warm, woody close, each wood contributing its own grain to the final picture. The vinyl accord softens gradually into a clean amber warmth, eventually yielding center stage to the cedarwood, which emerges as the most recognizable signature on skin.
Cultural impact
Off the Cuff takes a specific kind of cultural object, the vinyl record, and places it inside a fragrance pyramid as a named accord. The vinyl record NaturePrint is doing real work in the composition, not just serving as a label on the box. It gives the fragrance a tactile anchor that most woody ambers simply don't have, replacing the usual abstract warmth with something that feels grounded in a physical object. For wearers who gravitate toward concept-driven scent and want something that earns its premise through structure rather than through storytelling, Off the Cuff offers an unusually literal translation of its idea.
The House
JusboxJusbox Perfumes is an Italian niche house that translates music into scent. Each launch references a musical genre, era or icon, turning rhythm and emotion into olfactory stories. Based in Milan, the brand operates under the Beauty San spa Group and positions every bottle as a tribute to the soundtrack of culture, offering collectors a curated playlist of aromas.
The Creator
Bruno JovanovicJovanovic works toward a signature formula that communicates with clarity and instant recognition. He limits the number of raw materials he uses, preferring fewer bases that do more work.
