The Story
JEKE 2022
Jeke focuses on three main accords: whiskey, ‘amber+honey’ and tobacco. The whiskey note comes from a booze accord I’ve worked on since 2014 (for those who have received prototypes of it over the last 8 years, this is the ‘Withnail’ perfume) that uses extract of whiskey along with a special rum material. These two materials pair up beautifully and are glued with a unique caramel note which buttresses up perfectly to the honey chord. To this boozy accord I added traces of a number of chemicals which add tones of reflective metal and ‘golden flinty’ notes. I wanted the vaporous boozy aspect to really sparkle in the air. I wanted to create something like a whiskey/rum aldehyde, but one that was rooted in something a bit richer and more substantive. Not the faint ephemeral suggestion of alcohol but a massive golden rum/whiskey scent that billows into the air like a smokestack. The liquor aspect of Jeke is not reserved. It is very much front and center. Next to this are the honey and tobacco chords which are based on actual pipe tobacco casing syrup recipes and utilize not just real honey and real tobacco but the full array of aromatic curing materials used by tobacconists to flavor and scent tobaccos. It is a perfect balance of sweet, spicy, smokey amber tobacco within in a thick golden halo of whiskey and rum notes. This is the version of Jeke I’ve always envisioned in my mind.
JEKE 2023
Slightly refined; perfectly dialed in. Best just got better.
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Description
JEKE 2022
Jeke focuses on three main accords: whiskey, ‘amber+honey’ and tobacco. The whiskey note comes from a booze accord I’ve worked on since 2014 (for those who have received prototypes of it over the last 8 years, this is the ‘Withnail’ perfume) that uses extract of whiskey along with a special rum material. These two materials pair up beautifully and are glued with a unique caramel note which buttresses up perfectly to the honey chord. To this boozy accord I added traces of a number of chemicals which add tones of reflective metal and ‘golden flinty’ notes. I wanted the vaporous boozy aspect to really sparkle in the air. I wanted to create something like a whiskey/rum aldehyde, but one that was rooted in something a bit richer and more substantive. Not the faint ephemeral suggestion of alcohol but a massive golden rum/whiskey scent that billows into the air like a smokestack. The liquor aspect of Jeke is not reserved. It is very much front and center. Next to this are the honey and tobacco chords which are based on actual pipe tobacco casing syrup recipes and utilize not just real honey and real tobacco but the full array of aromatic curing materials used by tobacconists to flavor and scent tobaccos. It is a perfect balance of sweet, spicy, smokey amber tobacco within in a thick golden halo of whiskey and rum notes. This is the version of Jeke I’ve always envisioned in my mind.
JEKE 2023
Slightly refined; perfectly dialed in. Best just got better.
